Friday’s Leftovers: Never Mind the Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols kicked off their reunion tour in Brixton last night during a raucous gig that lasted a little over an hour. Lead singer Johnny Rotten relied on a crib sheet to remember some of the lyrics he screwed up during the band’s recent warm-up gig in LA. We can’t imagine seeing a bunch of rich 50-year-olds play angry punk music would be any good, and according to early reports, we’re right.
- Radiohead denies reports that 62 percent of people who downloaded In Rainbows didn’t pay a cent (hey, Radiohead webcast today?)
- Rolling Stone finally gets around to featuring The Budos Band
- Rose Hill Drive plans to cover Aerosmith’s Toys In The Attic in Boulder on December 30th and 31st
- Ethan Iverson of The Bad Plus describes the making of Prog
- Brent Rolen talks to Les Claypool about his Electric Apricot flick
- Mikey G presents another terrific edition of Video Elsewhere
- New tourdates from Peter Bjorn and John and Girl Talk
- Mars Volta channel the Grateful Dead
- Katrina reviews Keller Williams and the WMD’s gig at the 9:30 Club
- Buckethead chronicles his early years with the release of a 2 new DVDs
- The Fab Faux bring Sgt. Pepper’s to Boston on Sunday night
And, finally, Umphrey’s McGee just announced their annual holiday shows in Chicago. Guitarists Jake Cinninger and Brendan Bayliss break out the acoustics at the Vic Theatre on December 7th, while Joel Cummins leads the keyboard holiday show at Schuba’s on December 21st. The band will also play the last three nights of the year at The Aragon Ballroom, but you probably already knew that.
Bonus video: Umphrey’s McGee NYE 2006 — My Old School cover
Bonus video: Umphrey’s McGee NYE 2006 — Countdown to NYE
Ace…do have any comment on this (from the Mars Volta article)? “The way I see it,” he says, “we listened to a lot of Slade. And I think that wore off on us.” Amen, hermanos, A-chinga-men!
Am I the only one that cringed throughout that entire Claypool interview? With interviews it’s always tough to find the right tone, but both the questions and the answers kinda made me uncomfortable. Just sayin’.
And Rose Hill Drive in New York City tonight…
first off, its about time the Budos Band got some atttention! Damn these cats are good. it’s like you’re in a CHiPs races scene every time you listen to them. Great brass.
Imagine Bonerama and Budos Band w/ Sharon Jones on the same ticket>>> that’d be hot!
also, read that Claypool interview. Good Stuff! A tad too much interjection on the interviewer’s part, but good stuff nonetheless!
Cannot wait to see Claypool w/ Skerik and Mike Dillon (via his Go Go Jungle) — all these cats are a tad on the ‘wierd’ end, so this trio seems so fitting!
have a great weekend! via goff.
No comment, Chilly. I don’t know them.
“first off, its about time the Budos Band got some atttention! Damn these cats are good. it’s like you’re in a CHiPs races scene every time you listen to them. Great brass.”
Ha, very well said. I gotta remember that description and steal it from you.
FYI, there are 50 cent tickets for tonight’s Rose Hill Drive show on Ticketmaster right now. Special password is NINE.