Exciting Those Darlins News!!!
I’m not sure if you know this or not, but I am a pretty big fan of Those Darlins so when I received and email today from Oh Wow Dang you can bet your you know what I was going to post it! These three sassy ladies are going to be turning heads this year, and not just because of their looks!
I’ll be at their Cleveland show next week as well as be seeing them at Bonnaroo so expect me to be posting some more stuff about them soon!
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I’m aiming to ruin your day by showing you a video that very well will become stuck in your head. It may be funny at first but soon it will creep into your long term memory and you later will find yourself singing a song from this and hating yourself for doing so…
Why am I doing this? Because someone did it to me today and I still have the damn song stuck in my head.
Here is the one that is currently embedded in my head:
Enjoy!
It was a memorable punk rock event Thursday night at the Grog Shop thanks to The Bouncing Souls, The Loved Ones, and Black President. The three bands actually had just performed to a packed the house the night before as the bands made a two night stop at the well known Cleveland venue. Having not been able to attend both shows I am glad I was at least able to be at one seeing how great of an evening I had.
New Jersey’s The Bouncing Souls have taken this entire year to celebrate being a punk rock band for 20 years. To commemorate their success the band has been releasing a song a month for download available on their own label’s website Chunksaah Records for the entire 2009 year. The band also will be releasing a limited edition 7″ every third month of the year available online, at select music shops, and of course at their live shows. If that was not good enough for a festivity, the band decided to hit the road on a string of tours to select cities. Accompanying The Bouncing Souls were friends The Loved Ones and punk rock super group Black President.
The venue filled up quickly and featured all sorts of fans, many who were at the previous night’s show. Punk rockers of all ages hung out in the dark venue waiting for what was to come. I joked to my friends how old I felt seeing that I saw The Bouncing Souls open for NOFX in 1998. Still I refused to let age affect me and was excited to be a part of the evening as I had been looking forward to this show for weeks.
Black President started off the evening and pretty much set the mood for the rest of the evening with their energy. Formed in 2005 well before Barack Obama because his quest, a lot of ticket holders thought that the band name was created after the fact of our current president. The band consisting of some pretty important punk rockers like Charlie Paulson of Goldfinger and Dave Raun of Lagwagon did not get the full credit they deserved by all who attended from the start but the crowd seemed to warm up to them. I myself was enthralled the moment the band broke into a Motorhead cover of “Iron Fist” and then announced it was their first time playing the song live. Blasting through selected songs from their self titled debut release including “Last F#cking Hope” the band won me over and much of the crowd as well.
The Loved Ones, hailing from Philadelphia, may not have been around for twenty years but they took stage and played their hearts out to the welcoming crowd. This Fat Wreck Chords act has been a favorite of mine for a couple of years now so it was great to finally see them play the stage. Playing songs from their recent EP Distractions as well as former releases Build & Burn and Keep Your Heart, including the catchy song “The Bridge”, the band sounded solid and looked to be having a great time performing to the near sold out crowd.
Before The Bouncing Souls even took stage fans were screaming the trademark Bouncing Souls soccer chant “Ole” jointly. The moment the Bouncing Souls took stage and started playing the temperature rose a good ten degrees in the venue from all the movement in the crowd. With arms in the air, and some legs too, the fans were truly going ballistic for the main act of the evening.
Greg Attonito and crew were all smiles as they ripped through show starter “True Believer”. Classic tracks such as “That Song”, Here We Go”, Lean On Sheena”, and “I Like Your Mom” continued the set with almost all the fans singing along to. At times the lead singer looked more of a lounge act as he slowly graced the stage to the left and right and just seemed so at peace with the environment surrounding him.
Towards the middle of the set Greg Attonito grabbed an acoustic guitar and played a very chill version of the Misfits‘ “Hybrid Moments” which brought grins to the faces of all the real punk rockers in the crowd. I sang along with everyone else and for a brief moment felt like a kid all over again.
I was not at a Bouncing Souls show that night, I was at a Bouncing Souls celebration for them being a punk act for 20 years. Having been a fan of them for most of those 20 year I felt so fortunate to be a part of the festivities and enjoyed every moment of the evening. Openers Black President were a treat to see live as were The Loved Ones making for an ultimate night of punk rock fun.
I managed to take a couple of photos that night at the show but the Grog Shop has terrible lighting and I do not use a flash out of repsect for the artists performing. Here are a couple that came out that looked ok in black & white. I would have gotten closer for some shots but the pits for all three performance were pretty insane and I love my camera too much to risk damage to it.
(ok, I’m not going to lie…these pics SUCK. Better luck next time I guess…)
Here is a video of the acoustic version of “Hybrid Moments” taken from another venue:
Black President music video:
The Loved Ones music video:
While clearing some space off of my desktop today I found a certain WAV file I was sure I lost forever. Perhaps it was a sign of sorts that I found it today so I thought what better thing to do but share the WAV file with the world. The WAV file I speak of is actually a recorded interview with yours truly and NYC’s finest, the Beastie Boys.
The year was 2007 and I was just a freshman at this whole online blogging thing. I was just getting comfortable with reviewing CDs and live shows for the wonderful Blogcritics.Org. I was having a good time doing this and decided to try something a little more challenging, review a 2 day festival.
Somehow, some way I scored a press pass to the 2007 Virgin Mobile Festival and successfully covered the 2 days for Blogcritics.Org. The experience was a positive one and made me want to review more festivals from my perspective because I had so much fun doing so. You can read the review HERE but I never really got into full detail about the behind the scenes portion of my experience.
Just days before we (Matt, Rad-am, and myself) were to leave for Baltimore I received an email asking me if I wanted to interview the Beastie Boys as they were supporting their latest release The Mix Up by doing select tours and one of the stops was at the Virgin Mobile Festival. Having never interviewed anyone in person before I was quick to the accepting reply for the opportunity and was told I would receive further instruction.
Day one of the festival once I got situated I received a text message telling me to meet at the press tent to interview the Beastie Boys. I remember the girl and the guy coordinating it were super cool people and as we made out way through the VIP area I actually passed Virgin owner Richard Branson and gave a “what’s up” nod to the lead singer of the Fountains Of Wayne.
We kept walking till we got to a fenced off area where a couple of the Beastie Boys security members were seated in almost a outdoor living room canopied arrangement and were told that the Beastie Boys were situated inside the trailer next to them. Security told us to stand aside the fence and wait for our turn. I chatted with a couple of the guys standing with me and one of them ran an online Detroit radio program and the other was a reporter for MTV online. Even though I had no idea what I was doing or what to expect I felt good about the situation.
When it was my turn to approach the trailer John Norris of MTV cut me in line and made his way into the trailer. Time was passing now and I was not sure I was going to be able to interview them. I was sweating my ass off too as it was hotter than hell outside and the security guys would not share their canopy with us. No complaints from me though, I was still pumped.
I finally was told I had six minutes to interview the Beastie Boys and made my way into the trailer.
The first thing I noticed when I walked in the trailer were the three Armani suit wearing Beastie Boys all with smiles on their faces. The second thing I noticed was that the trailer was air conditioned… Score.
I was asked to sit down on one of those fold out chairs and I hit record on my digital recording device.
Here is what happened:
Beastie Boys Interview 2007
As you can hear I was interviewed more by the Beastie Boys but I did not care. The Beastie Boys are known for not being serious during interviews and I think if anything they really had fun chatting with me. I was not looking to perform the most amazing interview of my career anyways, I was just looking to hang out with a band I have been a life long fan of. Talking about LeBron James, breakfast bar buffets, and my Ween t-shirt just made the conversation all the more enjoyable.
I left that trailer with the biggest smile on my face and soon met up with Matt and Rad-am who were both wondering if I was ever going to come back to the festival grounds. Moments later the Beastie Boys took the stage and blew the three of us away.
When I hear myself speak I think I sound like an idiot but then again I was a little nervous and did not know what the heck I was doing. I never did so anything with the recording as I was unable to decipher some of the member’s voices from one another when I was transcribing it….then I lost the file (or so I thought I did).
Good times. I hope you all enjoyed the little WAV file I found.
Here’s a recorded interview I found that SPIN Magazine did with the Beastie Boys on the very same day.
Here are some more vids of the performancee in 2007:
Disney and Daft Punk? Seriously?
I guess it is possible. Journey after all did supply the first soundtrack to the sci-fi cult flick Tron. Then again Journey are not French robots….or are they???
I was/am a Tron fan so the news that a sequel to Tron is coming out got me all sorts of excited. I still have one of my Tron toys from the 80’s made by Tomy somewhere in my mess of a computer room. I loved that movie as a kid and recently was able to see it again in HD and loved it even more. I am very curious to see how TR2N follows the original and more importantly see how Daft Punk does with the score.
If you forgot or do not know, I am a huge Daft Punk fan. I think it would be awesome if Daft Punk made a cameo in the movie, after all they are not human.
Looks like I get the best of both worlds with this movie slated to release in 2011.
It kills me now to see this video of what Journey thought music from the 1990’s would sound like:
Related Links:
–Billboard.com talks about Daft Punkscoring the TR2N soundtrack
–Pitchfork.com talks about Daft Punk
