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by Sadaaf Mamoon

Boston-based quartet Tomboy boasts a name refreshingly devoid of false advertising (I got super excited about Girl Band, once upon a time, only to be burned). It's another project of Ali Donohue, formerly of Potty Mouth, currently playing bass in Perfect Pussy, and also fronting Potty Mouth's past tourmates Fleabite.

The band's debut album, Sweetie, is out now on Ride the Snake Records in both vinyl and digital forms. It's short but hardly sweet, rife with the gritty sass that makes Tomboy (really, any Donohue collaboration) such a brutally affective experience.

Stream it below...

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Brooklyn's annual Gigawatts Festival returns this year with a lineup that's bigger and more impressive than ever. The fest happens July 24-26 at The Wick & The Well, and artists playing include Black Lips, Braid, A Place to Bury Strangers, Liturgy, Swearin', Beach Slang, Cheap Girls, Chumped, Anamanaguchi, Pile, Ava Luna, Cerebral Ballzy, Amanda X, Potty Mouth, Mannequin Pussy, Heaven's Gate, Honduras, Laura Stevenson, Dan Friel and still more.

Tickets go on sale Friday (5/15) at 10 AM with a pre-sale starting today (5/13) at noon. To get tickets in the presale, use the password: savetheclocktower.

Check out the full day-by-day lineups below...

Continue reading "Gigawatts Festival 2015 happening at The Wick & The Well w/ Black Lips, Braid, APTBS, Liturgy, Swearin', Beach Slang & more"

photos by Greg Cristman

Juliana Hatfield Three @ Bowery Ballroom 3/1/2015
Juliana Hatfield Three

"Become What You Are" remains a solid, accurate snapshot of that brief, yet much-storied period of the 1990s when women playing dirt-smudged, yet catchy pop had a foothold on rock radio. (Hatfield pointed out early on in the evening that the trio's last show on their only tour had taken place on Feb. 28, 1994 -- almost 21 years prior.) Hatfield's guitar crunch animates songs like the menacing "Dame With A Rod" and the disaffected "Feelin' Massachusetts," but her self-aware yet vulnerable lyrics pack the real punch. "Spin The Bottle," which achieved minor radio notoriety (thanks in part to its association with the slacker rom-com "Reality Bites"), uses the titular game of romantic exploration to skewer the dating world and a shy person's place in it; on "President Garfield," Hatfield repeats the phrase "I'm sayin' somethin' really deep" so incessantly to make the listener wonder who, exactly, the song's narrator is trying to convince of that fact. - [Boston Globe]
The reunited Juliana Hatfield Three played their first NYC show since the '90s at NYC's Bowery Ballroom on Sunday (3/1) which was the third date of their tour which both celebrates new album Whatever, My Love and also has the band playing their classic Become What You Are in full. Hatfield and her band sounded like they picked up where they left off, and sounded great. The above review is from their Cambridge, MA homecoming show a few days earlier.

Openers for the show were Potty Mouth. Appropriate because they're also from the Boston area and clearly owe a sonic (and possibly lyrical) debt to Juliana Hatfield.  Unfortunately, the snow we got on Sunday turned their drive from New Hampshire into an 11-hour ordeal that had them not getting to the club until a half-hour after their scheduled start time -- at which point they basically jumped on stage, plugged in and started playing.

More pictures of both bands, and JH3's setlist, below...

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Potty Mouth (photo by Courtney Brooke Hall)
Potty Mouth

The Juliana Hatfield Three's first new album since 1993, Whatever, My Love is out now. You can order yours, and stream it in full and watch the new video for "If Only We Were Dogs" (dir. Caroline Jaecks), below.

The band's tour, which will have them playing 1993's Become What You Are in full plus other songs, begins this Thursday (2/26) in Portland and hits NYC on Sunday (3/1) at Bowery Ballroom. Since we last spoke, Potty Mouth (now a trio, new photo above) were added to the NYC show, making for a solid double bill. Tickets for that one are still available.

Updated dates are listed, with the album stream and video, below...

Continue reading "Juliana Hatfield Three album out now (stream it +++ watch a video); Potty Mouth opening NYC show"

tUnE-yArDs at ACL 2014 (more by Tim Griffin)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights...

Strand of Oaks @ Ace Hotel (5 PM)
Strand of Oaks made the switch from a somber folk singer to an upbeat folk rocker this year and it's boosted his career more than ever before. Last night the band played their biggest NYC show yet at Bowery Ballroom and tonight they hang around for a free one, part of Ace Hotel's 5 at 5 series.

tUnE-YaRds, Cibo Matto, Beep! @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
tUnE-yArDs dove further into their world of quirky, eccentric pop on this year's Nikki Nack, and Cibo Matto returned with their first album since 1999 which had them still in good form. Tonight's night 2 of their 4-night run at MHOW.

The Blow, Zambri, Cookies @ Glasslands
Tonight two bands  (The Blow, Zambri) who've graced Glasslands' stage many times over the years will say goodbye to the venue which closes at the end of the month. It's the first show in a long time for Zambri.

Flatbush Zombies, The Underachievers, Obey City @ Best Buy Theater
This is a killer double bill with two of NYC's finest drug-rap groups, Flatbush Zombies and The Underachievers. It wasn't too long ago you could catch either of those in smaller venues around the city, but tonight's co-headlining gig at the larger Irving Plaza is sold out.

Doomriders, Black Black Black, Humanless, Mammal @ Saint Vitus
Converge bassist Nate Newton's a busy guy these days. That band's touring next year, his band Old Man Gloom recently put out an album, Cavalera Conspiracy recently put out an album he played bass on, and the stoner metal band he fronts, Doomriders, are celebrating their 10th anniversary with a few shows this weekend. They're in NYC tonight.

The Randy Fuller Four, Andy Shernoff, The A-Bones, Daddy Long Legs, Miriam and Nobody's Babies, Bloodshot Bill @ Bell House
Tonitght's the Norton Records Holiday Spectacular, featuring Randy Fuller (brother of Bobby "I Fought the Law" Fuller) and the label's stable of groovy garage bands.

Richard Buckner, Jessi Robertson, Dan Abraham @ Union Hall
Long-running alt-country singer Richard Buckner may not have gotten as big as some of his Merge labelmates (you may remember one of Arcade Fire's earliest NYC shows was with him) or some of the people he's influenced (like Bon Iver), but he's consistently kept it, releasing his tenth album Surrounded last year.

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Antibalas, Charles Bradley and The Menahan Street Band @ Apollo Theater
Tonight's the second of Daptone's three-day holiday extravaganza, the "Super Soul Revue" at the iconic Harlem venue.

Philip Glass (The Etudes) @ BAM
Philip Glass' 20-years-in-the-making project is performed in full tonight with help from nine other pianists, including Nico Muhly and Timo Andres.

The Feelies @ Asbury Lanes
Hoboken indie rock legends, The Feelies opened for Yo La Tengo at Town Hall last night and decided to play another area show while they had their gear out anyway.

Single Mothers, Show Me The Body, Basic Bitches @ Baby's All Right
Single Mothers make angry, attitude filled punk that kicks right into full gear and never lets up on the aggression until they leave the stage. It may finally be getting colder out, but you're most likely leaving this one covered in sweat.

Foo Fighters @ Irving Plaza
Foo Fighters have a new stadium rock record out and their tour next year hits NYC for an actual stadium show at Citi Field. But tonight they're in town for something a tad smaller. You have to line up at the box office like the old days to get tickets. Good luck.

Lemonade, Cut Copy (Tim & Ben), JDH (DJ sets) @ Glasslands
Your chances to dance the night away at Glasslands are running out -- this is a good one, a tag team DJ event featuring members of Cut Copy and Lemonade.

Lagwagon, Swingin' Utters, This Legend @ Gramercy Theatre
Because you just can't escape '90s punk nostalgia, Fat Wreck Chords labelmates Lagwagon and Swingin' Utters both have new albums out this year and they're now celebrating them on a tour together.

Elvis Depressedly, Told Slant, Bellows, Yours Are The Only Ears @ Shea Stadium
Elvis Depressedly first began generating some buzz in the Orchid Tapes DIY scene (Alex G, RIcky Eat Acid, Foxes In Fiction, etc), and he's now made the move to larger label Run for Cover (Tigers Jaw, Pity Sex) who will put out his debut full length next year. The rest of tonight's bill is all in the family -- Told Slant, Bellows and Yours Are The Only Ears come from their own DIY community, a collective known as The Epoch, and frequently collaborate/share members.

Potty Mouth, UNiiQU3, The Guests, LADD @ Barnard College
This mutli-genre bill at Barnard College features indie/punks Potty Mouth, electronic producer UNiiQU3 and more.

The Waldos, Dogmatics, Heap @ Bowery Electric
If you're in the mood for some old school punk tonight, head to Bowery Electric where Walter Lure's band The Waldos plays. Before forming this band, Walter was a member of Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers.

Alberta Cross, Fly Golden Eagle, The Candles, Invisibleman @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar
Brooklyn Night Bazaar is open with a night of folk rock. It's free to get in and watch the bands, and there's plenty of not-free fun too like arcade games, shopping, good food, drinks and more.

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by Bill Pearis

Sex Jams

Austria is not a huge country and hasn't had that many famous musicians (Mozart, Falco, Belphagor...) but that hasn't stopped Vienna's Sex Jams from pursuing their dream of making shouty-punky rock for all to hear. A cassette compilation of the group's Austrian-released music, titled Hits, will be out next month via Old Flame which will be their first US release. We've got the premiere of "Queens Club" from it in this post.

Sex Jams are in NYC as we speak, kicking off a string of dates with Baltimore duo Ed Schrader's Music Beat. Both bands, along with Honne Wells, play tonight (10/1) at Cake Shop and Death by Audio on Friday (10/3) with White Rope on that show as well.

They'll be back in NYC for CMJ, including the Old Flame showcase at Cake Shop on October 25 with Potty Mouth, Dead Stars, YAWN, Girlpool, Girl Tears and more TBA. All dates are listed, plus the track stream and other from the cassette, below...

Continue reading "Austrian band Sex Jams releasing US compilation (streams), touring w/ Ed Schrader, playing CMJ, other dates"

The annual CMJ Music Marathon happens from October 21 - 25 at venues all over NYC. We've heard about a few bands who are heading here during that time (Slowdive, The Wytches, The Ocean Blue, Tom Vek and Courtney Barnett to name four) but CMJ threw an announcement party tonight (8/27) at Bowery Electric and the line-up is now out. In addition to those artists, The Kills, Bombay Bicycle Club, Protomartyr, Twin Peaks, White Fence, Shonen Knife OBN IIIs, Ultimate Painting, Yumi Zouma, and many more are amongst the 2014 CMJ performers. Badges are on sale now and the complete initial line-up is listed below...

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photos by Dylan Johnson, words by Andrew Sacher

Perfect Pussy / Joanna Gruesome @ Shea - 8/26/14
Perfect Pussy
Joanna Gruesome
Perfect Pussy

The stacked Perfect Pussy / Joanna Gruesome / Potty Mouth / The Love of Everything tour kicked off last night (8/26) with a sold out show at Brooklyn's tiny Shea Stadium. It was a great show all around, and packed almost the entire time. Pictures are in this post.

The Love of Everything, aka Joan of Arc's Bobby Burg, kicked things off with a one-man-band set consisting of Bobby's voice, guitar, bass, synths, and a crude drum machine all going through a loop pedal. In a way, Love of Everything was the odd band out on the bill. It was the only one that wasn't a "band" in the traditional sense, and the only one whose songs didn't revolve around briskly strummed distorted guitars. But what he did have in common with the rest of the bill is his music came from a place of rawness and passion, rather than a traditional idea of "technique," something Bobby is undeniably a veteran of.

The energy level began to rise when Potty Mouth followed with their set of poppy punk, but really rose once Joanna Gruesome took the stage for one of the best sets I've seen of theirs yet. Joanna Gruesome are equal parts twee pop and more aggressive punk, but the energy of the latter is what wins out at their shows. All band members thrash around the stage like a hardcore band while singer Alanna McCardle stands at the mic, commanding the crowd with ease. For one song during this set, she took her mic off the stand and gave her wildest performance of the night. The rowdiness of the crowd matched that of the band, at one point causing Alanna to ask them to chill with the moshing ("that's fun for about five of you... and there's way more than five of you here").

There was a pause in the show after Joanna Gruesome, because Perfect Pussy were running late. But once they finally got there, they ran up on stage without a soundcheck and got the room going as nuts as it was for JG. Perfect Pussy's sets are short, but they pack more uninhibited aggression in 15 minutes than many rock bands can in double or triple that time. Last night was no exception, as the band went hard with minimal breaks from start to finish, and it ended with noise guy Sean Sutkus making controlled feedback minutes after the rest of the band had left the stage.

The tour continues, and splits this Friday (8/29), as Joanna Gruesome return to NYC on their own to headline a free South Street Seaport show with Big Ups, and Perfect Pussy/Potty Mouth play Asbury Park. Potty Mouth will also be back for a Cake Shop (9/3) show next week.

More pictures from Shea, below...

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Perfect Pussy at Pitchfork Festival 2014 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)
Perfect Pussy

We already knew Joanna Gruesome and Perfect Pussy will be touring together this month, and in the fall they'll put out a split 7" together too, via Slumberland/Captured Tracks/Fortuna Pop. The songs on the split include a cover and an original from each band, with Joanna Gruesome taking on emo/screamo veterans I Hate Myself's "...And Keep Reaching for Those Stars" and Perfect Pussy doing "Leash Called Love" by Bjork's old band The Sugarcubes. You can stream PP's take on The Sugarbabes and JG's original, "Psykick Espionage," below. The split also comes with a cartoon made by Perfect Pussy guitarist Ray McAndrew's brother Phil, who's also a MAD contributor. "The heroine in McAndrew's comic is a 'split' between Joanna Gruesome front woman Alanna McArdle and Meredith Graves of Perfect Pussy, who battles misogynists, online trolls and haters everywhere." Check out a gif of the cartoon below as well.

The Joanna Gruesome/Perfect Pussy tour, which also includes Potty Mouth and the Joan of Arc-related The Love of Everything, hits NYC on August 26 at Shea Stadium. Tickets for this stacked show in a tiny venue are still available. Joanna Gruesome also play a free NYC show at South Street Seaport (8/29) three days later with Big Ups. That same day, Perfect Pussy and Potty Mouth play an Asbury Park show at Asbury Lanes.

Potty Mouth have other tour dates coming up after that, including a run with Aye Nako that brings them back to NYC on September 3 at Cake Shop. All of their dates are listed below.

Aye Nako also open the Glasslands (11/1) stop of the Ex Hex and Speedy Ortiz tour (tickets), and Big Ups open the Mercury Lounge (11/2) stop (tickets).

In addition to the Joanna Gruesome and Speedy/Ex Hex shows, Big Ups have other local shows coming up, including one with the reunited Fiasco, Heeney and Turbosleaze at Shea Stadium on September 4; and another opening the Studio at Webster Hall (10/16) stop of Dope Body's tour (one of three NYC shows for Dope Body). Tickets for the Dope Body show are still available.

All lists of dates, and the streams from the Joanna Gruesome/Perfect Pussy split, below...

Continue reading "Joanna Gruesome & Perfect Pussy releasing a split (streams); Potty Mouth touring w/ Aye Nako; Big Ups add dates"

by Andrew Sacher

Joanna Gruesome at BV-CMJ 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

We already knew punky UK indie pop band Joanna Gruesome were coming over to the US for LA's FYF Fest and a free Seaport Music Festival show in NYC on August 29 with Big Ups. Since we last spoke, they've expanded their tour which now also includes a much smaller NYC show happening August 26 at Shea Stadium with a STACKED lineup of Perfect Pussy, Potty Mouth and the Joan of Arc-related The Love of Everything. (It wasn't long ago that Perfect Pussy sold out two shows on their own around that size.) Tickets for what should be a packed, sweaty, and all-around very fun bill, are on sale now. All dates (including others with that same lineup) are listed below.

In related news, JG guitarist Owen Williams also plays in the band Grubs who recently released a new single, "Dec. 15 / Gym Shame." If you like Joanna Gruesome or other likeminded British indie pop bands, you'll probably dig this too. You can stream both tracks below.

Continue reading "Joanna Gruesome expand tour, add dates w/ Perfect Pussy, Potty Mouth & Love of Everything; Grubs released a single"

Fall Line Fest

Richmond's Fall Line Fest is returning for its second year on September 5 & 6 across various Richmond, Virginia venues. Like last year, there's a solid, diverse lineup of artists playing including Real Estate, The Hold Steady, Death, Matthew E. White, Fairweather, Tombs, Protomartyr, Priests, Potty Mouth, Tiny Moving Parts and many others. The full lineup as it stands is listed below, and there's still a few more TBA. In addition to the music, there will also be art events and food events, like the Fall Line Brunch Fest on 9/6 at The Broadberry from 11 AM to 2 PM.

TIckets for the festival are on sale now. Individual show tickets won't be sold. Lineup below...

Continue reading "Fall Line Fest 2014 lineup (Real Estate, The Hold Steady, Death, Fairweather, Tombs, Protomartyr, Priests, & more)"

One of our recommended July 4 options in NYC is the semi-secret Destruction Unit show at Silent Barn happening during Ascetic House's long Independence Day Weekend. D Unit are still not billed on the event page ("Lucifers Stoned Disciples" are though) but other artists are including Massachusetts band Tomboy (the other band of Ali from Potty Mouth), Emily Reo, Emily Reo collaborator Cuddle Formation (aka Noah Klein), Arm Candy, Alice (a new band) and Mute Benny. If "Mute Benny" doesn't sound like the name of a band you're familiar with, we don't think it will be too hard to guess who it is. That show starts at 1 PM and is $10 at the door.

The Ascetic House weekend also includes Destruction Unit at The Studio at Webster Hall on Thursday (tickets), Marshtepper and others at Palisades on the Fourth (tickets), Jock Club and others at Bossa Nova Civic Club on 7/6 (free), and "Lucifers Stoned Disciples" at Baby's All Right on 7/7, among others.

Speaking of secret bands and Emily Reo, Emily plays the all-day Exploding In Sound/Impose show at Secret Project Robot on July 12 with Big Ups, Pile, Alex G, Roomrunner, secret band "Muscle Car" and many more the same day as the free 4Knots Festival at South Street Seaport with Dinosaur Jr, Mac DeMarco, Speedy Ortiz and more.

Speaking of free shows on piers, the River Rocks series kicks off July 10 with Wild Beasts and Mutual Benefit.

And Alice just played with Mitski on Friday (6/27), who also plays an all-day July 4 show at The Ho_se with Hello Shark, Attic Abasement, Small Wonder, Told Slant, Crying, Old Table, Pill Friends and High Pop.

by Andrew Sacher

photo by Carter Gemerchak
Blessed State

Northampton rockers Blessed State are now just a week away from releasing their debut album, Head Space (due 6/24 via Safety Meeting -- pre-order), but you can finally hear the whole thing in this post. The record pulls from decades of punk and post-hardcore, sounding at times like Braid, Husker Du, Paint It Black and still more. These guys definitely sound like they've got a serious record collection, but it's not just showing off a list of influences, it rocks pretty hard too. Listen to a premiere of the whole thing below.

Blessed State will celebrate Head Space with a FREE record release show in New Haven, CT on July 9 at BAR with their Northampton neighbors Potty Mouth, Holyoke, Mass. noisemakers Neoteric, and New Haven's Oughts (not to be confused with Ought).

LP stream below...

Continue reading "Blessed State streaming debut LP (listen), playing free release show in CT with Potty Mouth"

Swearin' at Saint Vitus in February (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Grrrl Fest is a 6 hour benefit celebrating young women in the arts. This event will create a platform so that young women can be heard, inspired and empowered.

Crafts, Music, Dancing, Book Sale, Art Sale, Zine Sale, T-Shirt Making, African Beading, Button Making, Zine Workshop, Glitter Tattoos, Hair Braiding, Tarot Card Reading, Spoken Word.....and much, much more.

We already mentioned that Potty Mouth's tour with Fleabite would hit NYC on June 14 at Silent Barn (603 Bushwick Ave), and since we last spoke it was announced that their show is actually part of the the all-day Grrrl Fest. Other good bands are playing that too, including Swearin', Palehound, Shellshag and more. Advance tickets are available. Full lineup and more info below.

UPDATE: Though they are listed on Grrrl Fest's Facebook event and on the flyer, we're being told that Swearin' are not in fact playing the show.

UPDATE 2 (5/19): A previous version of the post said that Potty Mouth were playing Grrrl Fest and the late aftershow but it's since been cleared up that the day and night portion is all one show with Potty Mouth on last at 10:15 PM. Set times below.

Swearin' do have an upcoming tour which begins with a FREE NYC show this weekend at Brooklyn Night Bazaar (5/17) with related band Radiator Hospital, melodic local punks Aye Nako and Even Hand. All of their dates, including other shows with Potty Mouth, are listed below.

Continue reading "Grrrl Fest happening in NYC w/ Potty Mouth, Shellshag, more"

We recently mentioned that the Hopscotch Music Festival will return to various downtown Raleigh, NC venues from September 4-6, and now the initial lineup has been announced. It's looking pretty great as usual with Spoon, Mastodon, St. Vincent, Sun Kil Moon, Death, High On Fire, Jamie xx, Thurston Moore, Phosphorescent (solo), White Lung, How to Dress Well, The Haxan Cloak, Power Trip, Mutual Benefit, Deniro Farrar, Diarrhea Planet, Nik Turner's Hawkwind, SubRosa, KEN mode, Yvette, Potty Mouth, Ed Schrader's Music Beat, Ryley Walker, Eagulls, Krill, Axxa/Abraxas and many more. 3-day wristbands are on sale now and single day wristbands go on sale in June. There will also be individual tickets on sale soon for the shows happening at City Plaza.

Full initial lineup below...

Continue reading "Hopscotch Festival 2014 initial lineup (Spoon, Mastodon, Sun Kil Moon, St. Vincent, Death, High on Fire, White Lung & more)"

Potty Mouth at BV-SXSW 2014 (more by Tim Griffin)
Potty Mouth

Northampton indie rockers Potty Mouth have multiple tour dates coming up this spring, including legs with Waxahatchee, Swearin', Perfect Pussy, and their Mass. neighbors Fleabite. The latter will join them at their NYC show which happens at Silent Barn on June 14. All dates are listed below.

Fleabite will be supporting their new EP, Over It, which came out this week (4/15) digitally and on cassette via Puzzle Pieces Records. Their catchy noise pop should be a good fit with Potty Mouth, and you can check it out for yourself by streaming the new EP below.

Meanwhile, Potty Mouth are one of nine bands, including Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz, Bent Shapes, Levek, Radiator Hospital, Field Mouse and more, contributing movie/TV show fictional band covers to Father/Daughter Records' new Record Store Day compilation, Faux Real. You can stream Potty Mouth's cover of "Take Me Away" from Freaky Friday, Sadie's cover of "Pretend to Be Nice" from Josie and the Pussycats, plus the Bent Shapes and Levek covers, below. Full tracklist below too.

Continue reading "Potty Mouth touring w/ Fleabite, on RSD movie/TV covers comp w/ Sadie of Speedy Ortiz & more (dates, streams)"

photos by Tim Griffin; additional shots by Daniel Christiansen for Indiegogo; words by Andrew Sacher

Pains / Hold Steady
BrooklynVegan Day Show - Saturday @ Red 7 - 3/15/2014 SXSW
BrooklynVegan Day Show - Saturday @ Red 7 - 3/15/2014 SXSW

After Friday, which came after Thursday, which came after a night show on Wednesday, we said hello and goodbye to both of Red 7's stages one last time with our third and final BrooklynVegan SXSW day party at the 7th & Red River venue in Austin on Saturday (3/15).

Outside, despite the rain that plagued us that day, Palehound kicked things off with their noisy indie rock, and they were followed by the high-energy poppy punk of Cincinnati's Tweens. More poppy punk came from Northampton's Potty Mouth, and then came Mary Timony's (Autoclave, Helium, Wild Flag) riff-rockin' new band Ex Hex, who were one of the most fun bands of the day to watch. They were followed by Potty Mouth's Northampton neighbors Speedy Ortiz, who were great as always, and whose new stuff (like "American Horror") sounded great next to their older songs (like "Taylor Swift"). Wye Oak followed and previewed stuff from their upcoming guitar-less album (they did have their guitar on Saturday though), and the show closed with a super fun set from The Hold Steady.

Wye Oak
BrooklynVegan Day Show - Saturday @ Red 7 - 3/15/2014 SXSW

The indoor stage got off to a great start with Saintseneca, who had a tight blend of Fleet Foxes/Arcade Fire-isms, then it got weird for the UK's Fat White Family, who brought filth and fury not unlike  The Stooges or The Birthday Party. (They're in NYC this weekend.)  Quilt kept things trippy (but cleaner) after that, and Connan Mockasin was his eccentric self too (though he admitted he was recovering from the night before where he told everyone at Swan Dive to take their clothes off). Then came the art pop of Hundred Waters, a mostly-solo set from Braid frontman Bob Nanna which included Braid songs and some Jack and Ace action with his wife Lauren LoPiccolo, sneering Detroit post-punks Protomartyr, and finally a headlining set from the new lineup of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, which is easily their most powerful and fun to watch yet.

Tweens / Ex Hex
BrooklynVegan Day Show - Saturday @ Red 7 - 3/15/2014 SXSW
BrooklynVegan Day Show - Saturday @ Red 7 - 3/15/2014 SXSW

Shiner beer was on special and we gave away free Jameson. Veri organic soda was free, plentiful and was there to help you rehydrate. We let in 20 people each day who were taking advantage of Esurance's SXSW-wide #EsuranceAccess program.

Maybe you won a pair of Marshall Headphones? You may have if you tagged your Instagram with #BVMarshall (you may also see one of those Instagrams featured in this post).

All the music we played between bands can be found on our Nokia MixRadio SXSW playlist. Nokia MixRadio were the ones in the pink tent outside all three days.

Indiegogo was there too, though due to the rain, like Marshall, they moved inside on Saturday.

Special thanks to all of our bands and partners and sponsors for making this party possible.

Pictures from Thursday HERE. Pictures from Friday HERE. One set of pictures from Saturday is at BV Austin. More from Saturday below...

Continue reading "BV-SXSW Saturday party @ Red 7 in pics (Hold Steady, TPOBPAH, Wye Oak, Ex Hex, Connan Mockasin, Quilt, Saintseneca, Speedy Ortiz & more)"

UPDATE: Thursday lineup announced too

After a Wednesday night official showcase at the same venue, BrooklynVegan will take over both stages of Red 7 during the hours of noon-6pm each day on Thursday (3/13), Friday (3/14) and Saturday (3/15) of SXSW Music. All three day party lineups will be announced momentarily (update: Thursday is announced), but here is Saturday!

12:00 Saintseneca
12:45 Fat White Family
01:30 Quilt
02:15 Connan Mockasin
03:00 Hundred Waters
03:45 Bob Nanna of Braid
04:30 Protomartyr
05:05 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

12:00 Palehound
12:45 Tweens
01:30 Potty Mouth
02:15 Ex Hex (Mary Timony's new band)
03:05 Speedy Ortiz
04:00 Wye Oak
05:00 The Hold Steady

Please RSVP, and show up early to see all the bands and to ensure you get some complimentary drinks courtesy of Jameson (while supplies last).

We'll also have Shiner beer specials all day long, free Veri organic soda, and free popcorn at the Marshall Headphones booth where you can pose in our photobooth and where someone will win a pair of headphones every hour on the hour!

Nokia MixRadio will be on site educating us about their free music service. Indiegogo will be on hand to answer all your crowdfunding questions.

Again, this is one of three free BrooklynVegan day parties at Red 7 this year. Please RSVP once for entry to all three. SXSW badges are also welcome and be sure to stop by the Esurance Glove Box at the Austin Convention Center or their Fuel Lounge at 6th and Trinity to pick up an Esurance Access Pass. Then follow @esurance on Twitter to find out when and where you can hop the line for our party and others around Austin....

Continue reading "BrooklynVegan SXSW 2014 Saturday Day Party lineup (Hold Steady, Pains Of BPAH, Wye Oak, Speedy Ortiz, Hundred Waters, Ex Hex & much more)"

photos by P Squared Photography; words by Bill Pearis

Vivian Girls @ Baby's All Right 3/2/2014
Vivian Girls
Vivian Girls

Vivian Girls played their last two shows over the weekend in Brooklyn, saying goodbye at Death by Audio on Saturday (3/1) with Waxahatchee and Juan Wauters; and then Baby's All Right on Sunday (3/2) with Potty Mouth and Shellhag. Pictures from Baby's All Right are in this post.

Cassie Ramone, Katy Goodman, and Ali Koehler all have their own bands (The Babies, La Sera, Upset) which they have seemed more invested in than VG lately, but as one of the bands central to the Brooklyn DIY scene of the late-'00s, I really do think it was as much an End of an Era event as the closing of 285 Kent. (Whether you liked them or not. I did.) I went to the DbA show which, personally, felt like the real last show, as some of Vivian Girls earliest gigs were there and really embodies the spirit of the band. Vivian Girls hit most of their best-known songs (apart from "Where Do You Run To?" which was written by original drummer Frankie Rose), with not too much sentimental talk, though Goodman did say "I'm not going to cry" before launching into "All the Time." All three were in good moods, as was the crowd who coaxed a two-song encore out of them. But as they climbed out through the little window in DbA's stage wall, waving goodbye, it was definitely a little bittersweet. Video from DbA is in this post.

For their actual last show, Baby's All Right was decorated up with balloons (maybe leftover from Indie Pop Prom), and drummer Ali Koehler's mom was there as was former VG drummer Fiona Campbell who delivered shots to the band onstage. Ali's mom, Cassie's boyfriend, and DIY show promoter John Rambo also all came on stage at the end for a group hug. Pictures from Baby's All Right are in this post, and NYC Taper was there who'll have audio up over his way sometime soon.

Meanwhile, Pitchfork posted a feature article titled "When I'm Gone: Why Vivian Girls Mattered" today by writer Jenn Pelly:

Perhaps tellingly of that flash-in-the-pain indie pop era, when bloggers were all hungry for the next MP3 that would put them ahead of the curve, many of [Woodsist/Captured Tracks Festival's] other billed groups would subsequently fail to scratch the subterranean cultural consciousness. But across three LPs--2008's Vivian Girls, 2009's Everything Goes Wrong, and 2011's Share the Joy--Vivian Girls helped to architect a scrappy Spectorian sound and spirit for this tiny musical world; with their richly harmonized love-punk, they fused the 1960s aesthetic of girl groups with fast-loud Ramones rock and the doomy Portland punk of Wipers and Dead Moon....

...while it's up for debate whether Vivian Girls were the most aesthetically exemplary band of the 00s noise-pop boom, it is without question that they were its most divisive.
The feature also gets quotes from Pains of Being Pure at Heart's Kip Berman, Kathleen Hanna and more. More pictures from the Vivian Girls final show -- including one of the setlist -- and a video from DbA, below...

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Vivian Girls played their last-ever Los Angeles show back on Valentine's Day and the band's' final two shows are this weekend in Brooklyn, with the band saying farewell at Death by Audio on Saturday (3/1) and Baby's All Right on Sunday (3/2). Both shows have been sold out for a while but Baby's All Right announced that a few more tickets for their show with Potty Mouth and Shellshag (which is Oscar night, btw) will go on sale today (2/25) at noon.

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As discussed, Brooklyn indie trio Vivian Girls are calling it quits, but not before playing a few final shows, including two in NYC. Those shows are sure to be bittersweet, and the sweet side has just gotten even sweeter. Openers for their Brooklyn shows have been announced for both shows, and they're pretty great.

The first show, which happens at Death by Audio on March 1, will be opened by Waxahatchee (who could headline the place themselves) and Juan Wauters of The Beets. The second show, which happens at Baby's All Right on March 2, will be opened by Waxahatchee's Don Giovanni labelmates Shellshag and Northampton indie punks Potty Mouth. Both shows are sold out.

You can also catch Shellshag at the Don Giovanni Brooklyn showcases, and at DbA on 3/9 with Tuff Tits.

Juan Wauters (who is touring with Mac DeMarco but not listed for his Webster Hall show) also plays his own NYC show on 2/15 at Rough Trade (if it's open) with Household and Las Rosas (tickets).

Waxahatchee also have a ton of other dates coming up, which are listed, along with music from all four openers, below...

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Potty Mouth / Radiator Hospital @ Glasslands - 1/6/14
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Potty Mouth and Radiator Hospital kicked off their short run of shows together in Brooklyn at Glasslands last night (1/6), gracing the venue with a double dose of punky indie rock. Potty Mouth, fresh off a New Year's Eve show in NYC, headlined with a quick and enjoyable set that they split between new stuff they've been working on and choice cuts off their slacker punk debut LP, Hell Bent.

Radiator Hospital, primarily the project of Waxahatchee collaborator Sam Cook-Parrott, has played NYC solo in the past, but last night he was in full band mode (like the recent Suburbia show) with a four-piece that included Swearin' drummer Jeff Bolt and guitarist/backup vocalist Cynthia Schemmer (also of Heavy Bangs). Radiator Hospital's excellent 2013 LP, Something Wild, is something of a scrapbook of ideas ranging from scratchy pop punk to bedroom folk, but with a full band, Sam was even more consistently powerful than on record. The band delivered ripper after ripper (with only one solo song worked in), keeping the crowd bouncing the whole time and a bunch of people shouting along during "Our Song."

In related news, Swearin', who just cancelled a NYC show, will be back when their tour hits Cake Shop on 3/6 and Rough Trade on 3/7.

Waxahatchee also bring their tour with Cayetana and All Dogs to NYC on 1/21 at Mercury Lounge and 1/23 at Glasslands.

More pictures from the Potty Mouth/Radiator Hospital show (we missed openers Kissing Is A Crime) and the list of remaining dates, below...

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Dev Hynes / DIIV / Potty Mouth @ Baby's All Right 12/31/2013
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Attending a show might not be the worst way to spend New Year's Eve in NYC, but there's no escaping wasted revelers. The New Years Eve DIIV, Nothing, Ratking, Potty Mouth and LODRO show at Baby's All Right was packed to the brim with party people by the time DIIV took the stage to countdown to midnight (with bubbly), and subsequently delivered an hour-long set which was peppered with new material as well as a cover of Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone."

I didn't catch LORDO's set that kicked off the night, but Potty Mouth sounded good with their indie/punk jams and, as usual, Nothing was loud as hell. (Perfect Pussy were also originally supposed to play but ended up playing at Acheron instead.) It's a shame most people dipped out before Manhattan rap trio Ratking took the stage at 1AM, because those three teenagers packed a serious punch with their angry, energetic performance. The place filled back up at 2AM, though, for a surprise performance from Blood Orange's Dev Hynes who played a set  exclusively made up of songs left over from his Cupid Deluxe sessions. Pictures from the whole night are in this post.

How did you spend your New Year's Eve? More pics from Baby's All Right below...

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Perfect Pussy at NYU, 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

We mentioned a few weeks ago that Syracuse-based noise punkers Perfect Pussy were slated to play a New Year's Eve party at Baby's All Right, along with DIIV, Nothing, Potty Mouth and Ratking. For reasons unknown (the band hasn't issued a statement), they've dropped off the Baby's bill, and instead hopped aboard the lineup for the previously mentioned NYE party at Acheron, which features No Statik, Nomad, Grudges, La Misma and Creeping Dose. Perfect Pussy took a lineup hit as part of the switch; they're billed fourth to last at the Acheron as opposed to second to last at Baby's All Right, but they arguably fit into Ach's lineup a little better.

Tickets for both the No Statik/Perfect Pussy show at the Acheron and the DIIV/Nothing show at Baby's All Right are on sale.

Screaming Females at Bowery Ballroom in September (more by Amanda Hatfield)
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We've been asking around for artists to tell us their favorite albums of 2013, and the people at NJ punk/indie rock label Don Giovanni Records sent over some lists from a few of their artists. At the bottom of this post, you can browse the lists from label co-founder Joe Steinhardt (also an artist on the label as Modern Hut), DC post-punks Priests, eclectic Brooklyn duo Shellshag, Amherst sludge rockers California X, Wisconsin punk rippers Tenement, Hilly Eye, Lauren Measure's new pop punk band Worriers, and Marissa Paternoster, the shredder/vocalist of Screaming Females (and also the brains behind Noun). One major trend on the lists is that the self-titled debut from Radioactivity (the new band of The Marked Men's Jeff Burke and Mark Ryan) appears more than any other album. If you haven't heard that one yet, you can stream it below.

As discussed, most of the bands mentioned will be playing the Don Giovanni showcases happening in Brooklyn on February 6 at 285 Kent and February 7 and 8 at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Tickets for 285 Kent and MHOW (including a 2-day pass option) are still available.

Lists and streams below...

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And, sure, it may seem like the Seminoles feel more at home among the whir of the slots (excuse us, class II gaming machines) than the buzzing of the Glades, but they have a deep respect for their history and heritage. So to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary, the Seminoles are throwing a party  and youre invited! Head down to the Okalee Village at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino (1 Seminole Way, Hollywood) this Friday through Sunday for Rock with the Crocs. The three-day celebration will feature a live alligator show with Manny Puig, that crazy, bearded wildlife expert from Jackass and Wildboys, plus country rockers Little Texas and Ross Mathews of Tonight Show fame. Tickets cost $35 to $75, and include access to Okalee Village, where you can check out demonstrations on native life. Call 305-669-1360, or visit www.ticketmaster.com.
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Via Luna in Fort Lauderdale Features a French Chef Saddled With the Ritz-Carlton's Corporate Italian Menu

The halibut with risotto instead of fennel.
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In the movie version, our waiter would be played by Kevin James or some other likable funnyman. He made quick small talk that always ended with a punch line. He stopped by just when you needed him, not before. And his advice was spot-on, like when he suggested to sub the risotto for the fennel that was usually served with the halibut.

"I don't know why they changed it, but when they switched the menu a couple of weeks ago, they made it fennel instead," he explained. "The risotto is amazing. Get it with the risotto."

He was right, but his suggestion also brought up a bigger issue with Via Luna, the restaurant inside the Ritz-Carlton on Fort Lauderdale beach: What exactly is the Ritz trying to accomplish with this place?

It's not that the food is bad — in fact, it's quite excellent. But the menu and the concept seem straight out of a corporate conference call; it's as though some group of suits used spreadsheets to decide what South Florida diners are into these days.

Chef Christian Clair alluded to that kind of oversight when asked how he came up with his restaurant's menu. "They," he said, referring to unnamed Ritz higher-ups, "wanted comfort food because it's the trend in restaurants right now." Clair didn't say this as some rebuke of his corporate masters; really, he seemed to respect the decision. But by his answer and by the food Clair is capable of making, it's clear the Ritz ought to just let this guy cook.

The Ritz took over the location in 2008 from St. Regis hotels, which had called the restaurant Cero, a high-end seafood concept that was a favorite of restaurant reviewers. New Times printed a review in July 2007 that gushed: "If you really care about cuisine, pinch your pennies and go for a splurge at Cero... You'll learn how real food, carefully sourced and painstakingly prepared and presented, should taste."

The good reviews weren't enough to fill the cavernous, 130-seat dining room, so the Ritz bet on change. The hotel brought in Clair to oversee Via Luna in March. The Ritz didn't change the look of the place. For good reason: Diners voted the space best décor in Broward County in the 2010 Zagat Survey. Inside, tables feature large armchairs with comfy pillows. Huge, upturned lights cast a yellow glow on the marble floors. A wall of windows looks out onto a balcony, where a row of tables gets a full view of A1A and the ocean beyond. When it's full, the place looks like a 1920s-era hotel, with a massive painting of rolling waves over the handsome bar across the hall. When it's empty, though, the place feels soulless, akin to a cold museum.

A month after Clair arrived, he rolled out an Italian grill concept featuring old-school classics like orzo soup and rigatoni with Italian sausage. Clair admits he wasn't sure he was the right chef for red sauce. "When they changed the menu from Mediterranean to Italian, I was a little nervous about it," he concedes. "This was not the food I know." Clair is a native of France, and he learned to cook watching his grandmothers build flavors in the stews and sauces of the Champagne region. He's classically trained and earned his stripes as an executive sous chef at the Sofitel Water Tower in Chicago and at the Ritz in Laguna Niguel, California. Asked to name his favorite dish, Clair explains that he likes the halibut because "it's the most French dish on the menu."

The recent tweaks to the menu were simply to add in-season ingredients, Clair says, like the leeks in the halibut. But there seem to be some corporate-suit-style decisions here too. Gone are the pizzas, even though the Ritz had installed a special brick oven before the conversion to Italian. Decision-makers replaced the pizzas with more pasta and risotto dishes, including a Maine lobster ravioli, and removed one of the two burgers, which seemed out of place unless you consider the tourists who frequent the place.

All of Clair's training and all that time spent in his grandmothers' kitchens paid off. That was clear from our affable waiter's other suggestion, the arugula and beet salad ($10). It came out in something of a deconstruction, with piles of cherry tomatoes, sliced beets, and candied pecans. A pile of arugula with an excellent vinaigrette sat in the center, next to two breaded and fried chunks of goat cheese that looked like tater tots. Mix them together and you've got a tossed salad, or savor each one separately and you can just about taste the soil where the beets were grown.

Our waiter didn't suggest the meatball appetizer ($12), but with an Italian concept restaurant, there's no better test. It came out as an apricot-sized hunk swimming in red sauce with Parmesan and fresh basil over the top. For this dish, Clair, knowing he's no meatball expert, leaned on his chef de cuisine, Jason Coperine, who got the recipe from his Italian grandmother. It's a damned fine meatball too, tender and juicy with a long-simmered sauce in which the vegetables retain definition. But it's also not the best appetizer; shared among a table of diners, maybe, but otherwise even this excellent meatball and red sauce gets old without some ricotta or other counterpoint to break up the flavors.

Both dishes went great with a bottle of wine listed under the "sommelier features." We were glad for that suggestion, since a sommelier didn't seem to be present on that Wednesday night. And without those featured selections, the wine list is for experts only: It's the size of a coffee-table picture book and rings in at a hefty 46 pages. We went with the '04 Travaglini Gattinara blend ($70) that had enough spice of its own to hold up even to the meatball's red sauce.

The entrées arrived perfectly cooked and excellently seasoned. For the Atlantic halibut ($28), it seemed Clair doesn't add anything to the fish itself besides flour, salt, and pepper, but it's seared to a crisp on the outside and then fluffy as ricotta on the inside. The milky sweet pea risotto underneath also had a delicate hand, with just a bit of lemon zest standing out among the delicate flavors.

Clair's beef tenderloin ($35) was also simply perfect. The fillet is a dish often disrespected by chefs — a too-lean cut they see as flavorless, and therefore believe it should be served that way. Clair tops his with a maître d'hôtel butter, which he made with shallots reduced slowly in red wine. He pops the tenderloin under the broiler until it fuses with the meat, creating a savory crust. Underneath the charred fillet was a red wine reduction almost unnecessary with that topping and, to the side, al-dente barley with mushrooms and — the only miss of the night — a too-broiled zucchini.

Desserts also seem like they came from a corporate comfort-food checklist, like tiramisu and a Key lime lollipop. But at least there are hints of Clair's home, like the nutella that fills the beignets ($12). It's odd calling them beignets in a comfort-food-themed joint, considering that they look like doughnut holes. They're sided with a dark chocolate sauce, caramel, banana ice cream on top of a chocolate cookie, and a fried slice of banana for garnish. As far as comfort food, you don't get more out of a dessert than filled doughnuts with ice cream and sauce.

Following the dessert came a tray of four sweets that included a gumdrop and a tiny black and white cookie. It's a nice touch, really, giving out a tray of treats after everything else, although none of them stood out as something worth ordering on its own.

At the end of all this, our waiter offered one more suggestion: a plummy glass of the 2000 Warre's vintage port ($15). It was another great suggestion, a good glass to sip and contemplate what Via Luna could be. It has all the elements: a beautiful dining room and bar, a seaside view, and a chef who can seemingly execute any menu. Imagine what they could do if the Ritz let him cook the dishes he learned in his grandmothers' kitchens.

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December 02, 2012 at 01:55am by Scott   •  8 Comments »

The Bucs will celebrate the ten-year anniversary of their Super Bowl victory (and the last time they won a playoff game — true story) next Sunday during halftime of the Eagles game. There is a long list of attendees who are scheduled to make it, including Jon Gruden who has to get right back on a plane and get ready to call a Monday night game (and, apparently, not get introduced as the new Vols coach. Bite me, Chucky.) Sapp, Brooks, Lynch, Rice, Alstott, Brad Johnson, Pittman, Jurevicius, and over 40 more have committed to attending. One notable absence is Keyshawn Johnson, who, when asked, said that he had better things to do. I’m just kidding. No one asked because no one gives a shit about Keyshawn anymore.

They’ll bring the Lombardi trophy out and Gruden will hold it up like he did ten years ago and make a small speech thanking the team and the fans. It will be cool and all and I never get tired of seeing footage of that season, but man, it really reminds me that the Bucs haven’t even come close to that kind of success since then. I don’t think the Patriots had a celebration last year of their ten-year anniversary of the 2001 Super Bowl win. Why? Because they’re still going to Super Bowls.

Sorry, I don’t mean to go negative here. It’s been a frustrating day and I really just want to see this team back on top again. I think they’re on the right path and am optimistic. And even though it won’t mean much if they lose this game tomorrow, it will really mean a whole lot if they win it. It might salvage this weekend for me. And when you think about it, I think you’ll agree that it’s really all about me.

8 Comments to “It’s Too Late Tonight To Be Writing These Things”

manbearpig (December 02, 2012 at 11:42am:

Fuck Keyshawn. He looks like a giant 8 year old.

Louie (December 02, 2012 at 08:08pm:

Well, I could have done without that 2nd half.

Playoffs are getting real iffy with this loss and the Seahawks winning (thanks replacement refs).

I’d love to see this game played with the 10 Bucs players who are on IR and 2 new CBs. Next year, Bucs will be a Superbowl contender.

HAGEN205 (December 03, 2012 at 12:07am:

tough lose but if we win the next 4 we should be in if you think aout it

eagles are not that good this year

saints well they are the real only challenge lets just hope they quit by then

rams enough said lol

falcons will be sitting there starters or at least not tryong very hard

point is 4 wins straight is completly likely and i think 4 wins puts us in the playoffs

BaldBuc4055 (December 03, 2012 at 03:48am:

Don’t forget that the Bucs have had the Saints’ number in New Orleans in recent years. A four-game winning streak to end the season is a strong possibility.

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Mark S (December 03, 2012 at 09:21am:

I said it last week, that beating the Broncos in Denver would take a mircacle and that the next 4 games are all winnable. Predicted 10-6 but no playoff berth. Which is just fine, as they are way ahead of schedule. Next year, who knows, but I think they will be better. Some things we always know about next year: There will be key injuries, someone will get old, someone will improve and some new one will impress. We still need a WO, like Johnson. Need 2 CBs, a DT, an OT and OG/C (backups), TE and a relief back and better backups at LB. With this coach, I think the improvements will outpace the setbacks just as long as the team stays young.

avanderlay (December 03, 2012 at 02:13pm:

I’m starting to get a little worried about underestimating the Eagles or Rams – those games are setting up as classic traps the way I hear people talking. How many consecutive games can the Eagles drop? statistics would say that streak has to end sooner than later. Plus we always seem to get burned by QBs with very little game tape to study (Cody Pickett anyone?). Then the Rams are quietly playing competent football against the 49ers twice in 3 weeks… Hope I’m wrong, but the 2 home games are gonna be tougher than I think people are giving the Eagles/Rams credit for.

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worker b (December 03, 2012 at 11:22pm:

“I’d love to see this game played with the 10 Bucs players who are on IR and 2 new CBs.”

That’s 12 guys–you’d never sneak it past Peyton.

Meatmaster (December 04, 2012 at 12:58am:

Killed it worker b nice work. Fuck that big forehead asshole. Funny thing, one of my best friends looks exactly like the guy, same size and everything. Only like 200 million poorer. Fuck that guy and his lame ass penalties.

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Wood out indefinitely with torn MCL

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The news this time in the season for Eric Wood has been uncommonly bad concerning his health, and after leaving Sunday’s game with a knee injury that trend continued. Wood sustained a torn MCL and will miss anywhere from two weeks to the remainder of the season.

For the fourth-year center, this marks the third time in four seasons that Wood has seen his season interrupted by a serious injury.

“It’s so disappointing that when it happened I was in disbelief that I just played the next play. I was like, ‘Oh whatever I’m not coming out.’ Then I felt a little instability on the next play and thought I better go say something.”

The injury occurred on a 2nd-and- 6 play at the Bills 24-yard line with 10 minutes to play when Fred Jackson ran up the middle for a three-yard gain. The back side end for the Jaguars, Jeremy Mincey, came flying in to make a play and missed Jackson, but caved in Wood’s left leg.

“Looking at it on film it could’ve been a heck of a lot worse if I didn’t have a knee brace on,” said Wood. “That guy came flying at the line of scrimmage and just dove into my legs. It wasn’t a dirty play, just a stupid fluke accident.”

That left leg is the same one that was caved in on a run play his rookie season when he broke both the tibia and fibula at Jacksonville in Week 11 of the 2009 campaign. In 2010 Wood missed a pair of games due to a knee injury, and last season he suffered a torn ACL on a non-contact play when his right knee got stuck in the turf at Dallas in Week 10.

“It’s unbelievable,” he said. “You do all you can to prepare. You keep your feet moving on every play. You think of all the things that could’ve got you in the past and you try and improve it for this year and you have a guy blocked with my legs moving and a guy comes flying down the line of scrimmage.”

Bills head coach Chan Gailey has unfortunately become all too familiar with losing his starting center to injury.

“That’s always tough to lose a good player and he’s obviously one of our best players,” said Gailey. “We’ve gone through this before and hopefully we’ll continue on in the same vein. We’ll try and do the best we can.”

Fortunately for Wood no surgery is required this time.

“The MRI on my knee this morning and they said your knee looks perfect,” he said. “For an offensive lineman that had a tib-fib (broken tibia, fibula) on that same leg, I literally have no damage except for an MCL, which is pretty rare for an O-lineman. It’s not degenerative, it’s just stupid stuff keeps happening. I played 49 straight games in college and never got banged up and maybe my luck ran out then.

The Bills pivot man is hopeful that he recovers quickly to play again before the season is over.

“All I can do right now is hope to make it back for the last two games and we’ll see what they have to do from a personnel standpoint,” Wood said. “I understand moves that may need to be made but I’m going to go after it and try to get back for the last two.”

Gailey has a preliminary plan heading into Sunday’s game with the shuffling that needs to take place on the interior of Buffalo’s offensive line.

“The plan today is (Kraig) Urbik at center and (David) Snow at guard like we finished (Sunday), but don’t hold me to that. That could change during the course of the week.”

Urbik made five starts at center last season in place of Wood after he went on injured reserve with his torn ACL. Snow is another option, but being an undrafted rookie, it’s unlikely that he’ll be asked to shoulder the responsibility of the center spot this Sunday.

Hairston iffy for Sunday
Buffalo looks like they may also be without starting right tackle Chris Hairston, who left Sunday’s game with a right foot injury.

“It’s probably going to be tough for him to make it this week, but we don’t know,” said Gailey. “It’s a different type of injury. They called it more of a bruise than anything, but it’s a deep bruise. So how quickly that responds you just don’t know, but it’ll be hard for him to make it this week.”

If Hairston can’t play Sam Young would start at right tackle. He finished Sunday’s game there and has appeared at right guard in three other games this season.

McKelvin likely to practice Wednesday
The news is better for Leodis McKelvin, who left Sunday’s game with a back that locked up on him after his first and only punt return.

“He was better today,” said Gailey. “He loosened up a little bit and hopefully he’ll be fine by Wednesday and it’ll all work itself out.”


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His first order of business after getting dressed following the game was removing his sunglasses. Marcell Dareus made sure his supporters watching his postgame interview Sunday could see his eyes as he expressed sincere gratitude to the people who offered their deepest sympathies last week.
Dareus wanted the sellout crowd at Ralph Wilson Stadium to know that he heard fans giving him the loudest, warmest welcome when the Bills were introduced before the game. He could feel their open arms and extended hands after an incomprehensible, horrifying week in which his younger brother was shot to death.
In a hushed tone barely above a whisper after the Bills' 35-17 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, he was sure to acknowledge them.
"I felt like Buffalo fans were the greatest fans in the NFL," Dareus said. "They support us whether we're up or down, it doesn't matter. There's extended family here that made me feel welcome today. I really, really enjoyed it and I really needed it. Thank you. I want to thank my fans so much."
The death of a family member is always difficult, but it's infinitely easier to digest when the victim passes of natural causes or a car accident or even some other unexpected catastrophe. Dareus lost his father when he was 6, the grandmother who helped raise him when he was 13, his mother two years ago of congestive heart failure when she was 47.
But there was nothing natural about an alleged burglary gone wrong, escalating into violence and another senseless tragedy. How do you get your brain around murder?
Simeon Gilmore was 20. He was one of three victims gunned down last week in Pelham, Ala., just outside Birmingham. Authorities were still piecing together the details of the case, which police said started with a burglary. Another 20-year-old was charged with capital murder. In a flash, three lives were lost and countless others ruined.
"I have a brother, so I can't even imagine," veteran linebacker Bryan Scott said. "For Marcell to be back here today, my heart bleeds for him and his family. We let him know that he had 53 other brothers that are here supporting him and surrounding him. It was tough for him to come back."
It couldn't have been easy, but Dareus' mother, Michelle Luckey, long ago prepared her six children for life. She told each of them that the world owed them nothing. She reminded them to appreciate every day. She wanted her kids to overcome issues that didn't always make sense. Dareus was her second-youngest child. Gilmore was the baby.
Dareus returned to Alabama after the shooting and spent a few days with his siblings before coming back to Buffalo. They were there for him when he was growing up poor but ambitious, there for him when he blossomed into a dominant defensive tackle at Alabama, there for him when the Bills selected him third overall in the 2011 draft.
And they supported his decision to play Sunday. He will travel back to Alabama for funeral services later this week.
"Honestly, we're a close-knit family," Dareus said. "My mama raised us that way. No matter what, we're a unit and keep it together. I just want people to remember that my brother was just a good brother. He was a great guy. He was humble. We're just good people. We don't try to hurt anybody, but things come about that you can't control."
Dareus was a beast against the Chiefs, a key reason Buffalo recorded five sacks and played the kind of defense many expected before the season. Dareus had the first sack after running a stunt with Kyle Williams and dropping Matt Cassel for an 8-yard loss in the second quarter. Williams finished with two sacks. The D-line dominated.
The Bills would have understood if he stayed home and missed the game, but he was intent on being with the people who have been there for him since the start of his NFL career. He wanted to be with his teammates Sunday against the Chiefs. Football isn't life and death, but it's a major part of his life.
If there's one place that provides him with an escape from reality, it's the football field. Dareus didn't perform as if he carried the weight of the world Sunday. He played as if he was intent on channeling his emotion and unleashing his rage. He couldn't control what happened, but he could control the line of scrimmage.
"This is my relief from whatever is going on in the outside world," Dareus said. "I can go to the football field and take it out there, have fun and be myself. Just focus on the field and take everything out of my head. There are a lot of things going on in life that you just got to overcome. Football has always been my release."


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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Push the Sky Away

[Bad Seed Ltd.]

Rating: 4 stars

Nick Cave’s restless creativity has made him a moving target all these many years since he first emerged from Australia fronting the deliciously awful punk apocalypse known as the Birthday Party. With his Bad Seeds, Cave has crafted a handful of stone cold classics – “Let Love In,” “Henry’s Dream,” “The Boatman’s Call,” “Nocturama” among them. He’s led the side project Grinderman, with a disturbing fury that bordered on zealotry. He’s published two novels and two collections of lyrics and prose. With fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis, he’s crafted a few highly evocative movie soundtracks, to boot.

This relentless flurry of artistic activity has presented several Cave personas, and different factions of his fan base have their favorite. Yet, at heart, Cave remains a romantic poet, and a crafter of sublime, simple and indelible melodies. This is the Cave who sat at the piano and cranked out some of the most affecting ballads of his age with “The Boatman’s Call.” And it’s also the Cave who’s steering the ship throughout “Push the Sky Away,” the 15th album to bear the Bad Seeds imprimatur, and certainly one of the most moving.

“Push the Sky Away” is stuffed to the brim with some of Cave’s most achingly ruminative melodies and devastatingly beautiful lyrics yet. There is much space in this music for these melodic poems to do their damage, too. Without Bad Seeds guitarist Mick Harvey, who left in 2009, there is ample room for the variegated contributions of multi-instrumentalist Ellis and the spare but spot-on pulse provided by rhythm section partners drummer Thomas Wydler and bassist Martyn Casey. The music breathes with more assured elegance than anything Cave has done this side of “Boatman,” and Ellis, who co-wrote every tune, shares much of the responsibility for this sonic eloquence. His string arrangements for his own multitracked violin and viola add immeasurably to the tragic beauty of “Jubilee Street,” as does Cave’s lyric, a vaguely sinister tale of flawed love that concludes with the narrator intoning “I am alone now/I am beyond recriminations.” Similarly, “We Real Cool” crawls through the dust on hands and knees as a creepy primal blues, until Cave’s piano and Ellis’ strings help it to its feet and splash a little water on it. It’s not so much a song as it is an implied short film set to music. The same could be said for “Higgs Boson Blues,” a twisted take on the “meet the devil at the crossroads” tale that name-checks Robert Johnson and suggests familiarity with Bob Dylan’s recent multiversed epics. David Lynch could make a deeply disturbing movie out of this one.

At 55, Cave remains as fatalistic as ever. In his cosmos, love is doomed, though still worth striving for, and humans are deeply and incurably flawed. And yet, with “Push the Sky Away,” he makes such a fallen state sound desirable.

– Jeff Miers

Aaron Neville

My True Story

[Blue Note]

Rating: 3½ stars

Aaron Neville has needed to make a record like “My True Story” for several decades. As its title implies, this new record gives us the genuine Neville, the New Orleans soul man with the voice of a fallen angel whose roots are planted deep in the soil of gritty R&B, early rock ’n’ roll, doo wop and primal funk. Away from his siblings in the Neville Brothers, Neville has been treated poorly by producers, who for the most part have buried this national treasure of a voice in tired pop tropes and sickly sweet treacle. “My True Story,” instead, has sparse and subtle arrangements centered on Neville’s gorgeous voice.

Co-producers Keith Richards and Don Was can take the credit for this, surely. Not since Rick Rubin reintroduced Johnny Cash to Cash’s own genius back in the early ’90s has the choice of producer done so much to reconnect an artist to his roots. A core band featuring Richards and Greg Liesz on guitars, Bob Dylan band drummer George Receli, bassist Tony Scher, and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench keeps things delightfully simple, leaving Neville and his background vocalists more than enough room to cavort freely through a playlist of seminal R&B, rock ’n’ roll and soul standards from the likes of Curtis Mayfield (“Gypsy Woman”), Doc Pomus (“This Magic Moment”), Hank Ballard (“Work With Me Annie”) and Phil Spector (“Be My Baby”). Not a dud in the bunch.

Neville could sing the morning announcements over a high school public address system and still sound amazing, one suspects. That said, we owe Richards a tip of the hat for bringing Neville back home where he belongs.

– J.M.

The Slide Brothers

Robert Randolph Presents The Slide Brothers

rating: 3 stars

It was the Randolph family band that brought us the musical news about something called the “sacred steel” tradition in American gospel music – a whole different way of both playing and featuring the pedal steel guitar that bore no relationship to the whine and treacle so common among pedal steel players in country music. Suddenly the Randolph family let us in on the secret – that in the House of God, the pedal steel guitar was featured in music that rocked so hard it moved a lot of earth on its way to heaven.

The Slide Brothers – Calvin Cooke, Chuck Campbell, Darick Campbell and Aubrey Ghent – were huge influences on the Randolphs, especially Cooke, who has been called “the B.B. King of gospel steel guitar.”

What Robert Randolph says in the notes here is that “for 80 years this music has been hidden inside the churches and these older guys were not allowed to play anything else. Now we’re all hanging out with the Allman Brothers, Buddy Guy and B.B. King and can use gospel and mainstream music to tell our story.” And that, finally, is what the Slide Brothers do here, playing George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord,” the Allmans’ “Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’,” and Elmore James’ “The Sky Is Crying,” along with their own music and such traditional gospel fare as “Wade in the Water” and “Motherless Children.”

It would be a wee bit unfair to compare the horsepower of the unfettered Randolph Family Band with the Slide Brothers. The Randolphs, untrammeled, can just about blow the doors off any hall they’re in (their appearance on the TV show “Austin City Limits” became something of a legend). But their major influences are awfully good on their own, if not necessarily on their version of “My Sweet Lord” (the weakest selection on the disc, frankly), then their own songs and the great gospel and blues classics.

– Jeff Simon

Mark Winkler

The Laura Nyro Project

[Cafe Pacific]

Rating: 2½ stars

Once upon a time, everyone and his cousin Chauncey played, sang and recorded the sensitive songs of Laura Nyro (The Fifth Dimension, Three Dog Night etc.).

It’s been years, maybe even decades, since we’ve seen anything that even vaguely resembles a Nyro wave on disc, which is, without question, the most unusual thing about West Coast jazz singer Mark Winkler’s full disc of Nyro songs.

After the first two – “And When I Die” and “Stoned Soul Picnic” – you’re in pretty recondite Nyro territory, too – songs like “California Shoeshine Boys,” “Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp,” “Sweet Blindness,” “Emmie.”

“I am moved by both her music and her words. Her songs create their own vocal world,” writes Winkler. Which is true, and that makes jazz vocal versions of her own vocal world – from a singer whose previous disc tribute was to the more congenial music of Bobby Troup – both less apt and less original than those leaving them in the mainstream folk rock tradition where they belong. It has some of the same problems as Roseanna Vitro’s recent versions of the music of Randy Newman: jazz rhythms and piano accompaniments do precious little for this music but interfere with their wildly individualistic melodies and words.

– J.S.


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LOCKPORT – A Town of Niagara woman pleaded guilty Wednesday in State Supreme Court to a felony and two misdemeanors regarding crimes in Niagara Falls April 7 and 8.

Nita Snyder, 37, of Isherwood Drive, admitted to third-degree burglary, petit larceny and fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. said Snyder will remain behind bars until a bed is found for her in an inpatient drug treatment facility, where she will begin her assignment to the judicial diversion program.

Snyder admitted stealing a woman’s credit card April 7 and burglarizing a home on Bollier Avenue the next day. She must pay the victims a total of $1,270 in restitution, Deputy District Attorney Doreen M. Hoffmann said.


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Ryan Thorburn, Camera Sports Writer
Ryan Thorburn, Camera Sports Writer ( PAUL AIKEN )

Tad Boyle wasn't going to UCLA.

There was never really anything for Buffs fans to worry about.

But the Bruins put their minds at ease by announcing Saturday that Steve Alford, who recently agreed to a 10-year contract extension at New Mexico, is the next head coach of the Pac-12's most storied program.

UCLA basketball should sell itself to most coaches in the country.

John Wooden. Eleven national championships. Lew Alcindor. Pauley Pavilion. Bill Walton. Eighteen Final Four appearances. Reggie Miller. Forty-one conference titles (including 2013). And so on.

Despite the rich tradition, UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero had the door slammed in his face by VCU's Shaka Smart and Butler's Brad Stevens before luring Alford away from Albuquerque.

The grass-isn't-always-greener trend this generation of coaches has started is refreshing. Gonzaga's Mark Few, a close friend of Boyle's, is the poster boy for the movement.

Instead of leaving the Zags for one of the "major" programs that seemingly court him every spring, Few has built Gonzaga into a powerhouse that was ranked No. 1 in the final Associated Press poll.

Chris Petersen has done the same thing in college football at Boise State. Whether you love or hate the blue turf boys, it's hard not to admire and respect the Broncos head coach.

Few, Smart and Stevens have proven that you don't have to work in the ACC or Big Ten or live in Lexington, Ky., or Lawrence, Kan., to win big.

Boyle believes the Coors Events Center, which was a morgue before his 44-7 home record, can be as crazy as Cameron Indoor Stadium.

In three seasons at CU, Boyle is already fifth on the program's all-time wins list (69) behind Sox Walseth (261, 1956-76), Ricardo Patton (184, 1996-2007), Frosty Cox (147, 1936-50) and Howard Beresford (76, 1925-33).

Henry Iba is the most legendary coach CU has ever had. But he only stuck around for one season before moving from beautiful Boulder to Stillwater, Okla.

Boyle, the first coach to lead the Buffs to three consecutive postseason appearances and 20-win seasons, isn't going to make the same mistake twice.

After winning a state championship at Greeley Central, Boyle left Colorado to play at Kansas.

When the Jayhawks visit Boulder this fall as CU's marquee non-conference foe, Boyle's Buffs will have an opportunity to end a 19-game losing streak to their former Big 12 rivals.

The Greek online sports book has released odds for the 2014 NCAA championship. KU opens at 15-to-1, as does Arizona.

The wise guys have CU at 20-to-1, ahead of UCLA (30/1) as a futures bet to cut down the nets.

Clearly, Boyle doesn't need to move to Hollywood to write a winning script.

The Buffs, coming off back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances for the first time in 50 years, will likely be ranked in the AP preseason poll if Andre Roberson returns for his senior season.

With Los Angeles exports Spencer Dinwiddie, Askia Booker and Xavier Johnson, homegrown big men Josh Scott and Wesley Gordon, and a new wave of promising freshmen on the way, the 2013-14 CU squad might be the most talented in school history.

"We've put Colorado basketball on the map, but we've got a lot of work we need to do," Boyle said after the season-ending loss to Illinois. "I'm proud of what Colorado basketball is in the process of becoming. "

Alford is about to feel the chill of working in the shadow of the Wizard of Westwood.

In 20 years, Boyle could be known as the John Wooden of CU basketball.

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