While we duke it out over the value of Devo, let the healing begin here with Dove (the band of love).
Apr 012007
Mar 312007
It’s one of those days when thoughts turn to baseball. Take your turn at bat, take a hack, see if you can get a hit!
By what date will Ken Griffey Jr. land on the DL (for the first time this year)?
What’s sadder, another year for the Cubs without a healthy Mark Prior or another year for the Cubs without a healthy Kerry Wood?
What, exactly, is the official location for the Angels this year?
Do Nationals fans have anything to look forward to in 2007 beside Ryan Zimmerman?
Couldn’t George Steinbrenner’s son-in-law have waited a few more years to screw up his marriage and ruin his chance to inherit the Yankees?
Will there be any joy outside San Francisco the night Barry Bonds breaks Hank Aaron’s career home run record?
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Mar 312007
In tribute to our very own Townsman Gerry Todd…
I quickly grew annoyed by this song…
The first time I heard it, here:
Mar 302007
See if you can read the fine print in the following ad, perhaps rock’s earliest ode to The Power and Glory of Rock!
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Mar 302007
“If The Bicycles have a sound it includes happiness, a little weirdness, catchy melodies, lots of harmonies, lots of parts, very short songs, and a kind of upbeat sloppiness.” (Dana Snell, Drummer for The Bicycles)
I first started hearing about the fun, quirky, and talented The Bicycles of Toronto, Ontario via my musical friend Dan Bryk who was working on a few different tracks they had recorded with him in North Carolina for their current album, maybe now well over 3 years ago. Apparently there have been a lot of big changes for the group since then, including adding new members, going out on tour with UK artist The Boy Least Likely To… among other highlights, such as making a video, working on a tribute album with Andy Kim, various side-projects and so much more…and I was so confused by the email announcement from my friend Maria’s label (Fuzzy Logic Recordings, based out of Toronto as well) for their recent release The Good, The Bad & The Cuddly that I actually thought that this was their first, second album! If that’s even possible!
Photo: Beth Hamill (rockpaperpixels.com)
Let me just say that it’s been a long time coming for this adventuresome group of B-B-Bicycles! I sent off some quick questions to Maria, and soon their talented drummer, Dana Snell, was able to answer the call and pop in for a short bit of interview Q&A…
First of all, I have to ask: who is the talented naked man dancing in the new Bicycles video?
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Mar 302007
Now in Throbbing-Gristle-O-Vision.
Mar 302007
I have some news that I forgot to mention, so I thought I’d post about it anyway because I usually get pretty frothy when they start renaming things in my community: I just heard yesterday at the agency I work at that Philadelphia’s The TLA is going to be renamed to The Fillmore Philadelphia… Cool, or not cool – thoughts?
