5 Songs (Dedicated To London)

The Clash- London Calling


The Magnetic Fields- All The Umbrellas of London


David Bowie- Lady Grinning Soul


The Vibrators- London Girls


The Stranglers- London Lady

5 Songs (The Dandy Warhols) and 1 Good Video

Here are five from Portland, OR's Dandy Warhols in celebration of front man Courtney Taylor-Taylor's birthday.

All The Money or The Simple Life Honey


Bohemian Like You


Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth


The Last High


We Used To Be Friends

5 Songs I Am Into Right Now

Fools Gold- Street Clothes


New Order- Temptation


Black Lips- Drugs


Cold Cave- The Great Pan is Dead


The Ponys- Double Vision

Good Music Videos

Here is a new one from some very dear friends of mine...

MRNORTH- Polar Bear (Revelation 13)

Good Music Videos

So last week was mostly about Canada, this week is all about Chicago. Heading back tomorrow night for my sister's wedding.

Hey Champ- Silver City

5 Songs (+1 for Canada Day)

Yay Canada!

Metric- Help I'm Alive


Tegan & Sara- Time Running


Black Mountain- Stormy High


Sebastien Grainger & The Moutnains- American Names


Sam Roberts Band- Brother Down


Crystal Casltes- Untrust Us

5 Songs (The Trews)

Caught The Trews last night at Mercury Lounge with an old friend while we we both had another friend on our minds and in our hearts...

So She's Leaving


Poor Old Broken Hearted Me


Highway of Heroes


Tired of Waiting


Ana & Mia

5 Songs (Including Two Good Videos)

JEFF the Brotherhood- U Got The Look


The Black Angels- River of Blood


Elliot Smith- Alphabet Town


Japanther- Challenge


The Methadones- Bottom Out

5 Songs I Am Into Right Now

Them Crooked Vultures- Warsaw Or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up


A Place To Bury Strangers- Smile When You Smile


Mission of Burma- 2wice


TRex- Mambo Sun


The Cars- Sad Son0

Good Music Videos

This one is dedicated to Lebron James who predicted more than 7 championships for the Heat lost last night and said all his haters will have to go back to the real world and their problems while he is happy with his family. So once again, Lebron thinks he is bigger than people's regular problems since he offers a distraction from the difficult lives the rest of us little folk live.

Well Mr. Still Ringless King... Don't make statements you can't back up. Good luck gunning for number 7.

Pantera- Walk

5 Songs (Remembering Martin Rushent)

A (very) brief look into the career of producer/engineer and father of Does it Offend You, Yeah? guitarist, James Rushent.

Buzzcocks- Promises


T-Rex- Get It On (Bang A Gong)


Joy Division- Transmission


Shirley Bassey- No Body Does It Like Me


Human League- Don't You Want Me

5 Songs That I Am Into Right Now

Fujiya & Miyagi- Uh


Twin Shadow- Slow


Blonde Redhead- Harmony


Dax Riggs- See You In Hell Or New Orleans


LCD Soundsystem- All I Want

A Music Version of the Champions League Final...

Well sorta... Enjoy the game today! Who ya got?

Manchester Orchestra- Shake it Out


vs.

I'm From Barcelona- We're From Barcelona

5 Songs (Happy Birthday Neil Finn)

Chocolate Cake


Four Seasons in One Day


Fall at Your Feet


Its Only Natural


Don't Dream Its Over

5 Songs (Actually 6, Happy 70th Mr. Dylan)

Forever Young


Don't Think Twice; It's Alright


Subterranean Homesick Blues


Song To Woody


I Want You


Knockin' On Heaven's Door

5 Songs I Am Into Right Now (Deftones Edition)

To celebrate a great show I saw this weekend...

7 Words


Birthmark


Change (In The House of Flies)


Knife Party


Passenger

5 Songs I Am Into Right Now (Protopunk Classics)

The Stooges- I Wanna Be Your Dog


MC5- Kick Out The Jams


The Velvet Underground- White Light White Heat


New York Dolls- Looking For A Kiss


Television- See No Evil

Warner Music Group sells for 3.3 Billion!

‎3.3 billion for a music company? Really? If you want to piss away money, I am accepting cash, checks, travelers checks, money orders, itunes gift certificates and tacos.

Feliz Cinco De Mayo

You guys do realize Cinco De Mayo is bigger in the United States than Mexico right? Its only really celebrated in Puebla and no its not Mexican Independence Day.

Any way, here is a Mexican American singer doing good things...

Caribou on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic (NPR)

NBC: Osama Bin Laden Has Been Killed.

Good Music Videos

Friendly Fires- Paris

Good Music Videos

Here is my addition to today's Royal Wedding...

Silvesun Pickups- The Royal We(dding)

MTVHive.com Playlist - The Black Angels

"Entrance Song" Live from The Black Angels.... thanks MTV
You can get 3 more at
http://www.mtvhive.com/playlists/8ABA27020227BA8A00010227BA8A/mgid:playlist:video:mtvmusic.com:74839

The Black Angels
Tags:
The Black Angels, MTV Hive

Big Night For Chicago Sports

This one is for the Bulls and Blackhawks.
The Bulls playoff tagline has been See Red... well...

Minor Threat- Seeing Red

5 Songs (RIP Poly Styrene)

Here are 5 from X-Ray Spex... Rest In Peace Poly Styrene.

I'm A Cliche


Oh Bondage Up Yours!


Identity


I Am A Poseur


I Live Off You

Good Music Videos

Fujiya & Miyagi- 16 Shades of Black and Blue

For the NLD tomorrow and The Upcoming Weekend

The Clash- London Calling

Good Music Videos (Chicago Bulls Playoff Edition)

Dedicated to the Chicago Bulls and their soon to be MVP Derrick Rose.
Keep it going in the playoffs, gents.

Rage Against The Machine- Bulls on Parade

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Fujiya & Miyagi- Yoyo

"He who seeks beauty shall find it"- Bill Cunningham

The wife and I went to see Bill Cunningham New York last night at the Film Forum.  I had no idea who he was, had never been to an indie theater before and actually never even been to see documentary in theaters before.

I am not the biggest fashion guy in the world (I know what I like, thats it), but Bill Cunningham would tell me otherwise.  His whole view is that beauty is being different and know what you like.  Not what the designers shove down your throat.  Just be you! 

This was not only an interesting fashion piece but a wonderful human piece as well.  There were also plenty of laughs.  I highly recommend checking it out even though its running its last shows at the film forum today.

 

Get it on your NetFlix queue.

5 Songs (Time Killers)

5 Songs, just over 45 minutes of awesome.


Desert Sessions- Cake (Who Shit On The) (9:07)


The Black Angels- Call To Arms (9:37, this is a segment of the album track, there is dead time an another tune it on the album)


Curtis Mayfield- Move On Up (8:49)


Guns N Roses- Estranged (9:24)


Metallica- Master of Puppets (8:41)

Shows this past week...

Just saw QOTSA preform their self titled album from start to finish. The show was 4/1 at the Riv in Chicago. Great show but we got there late and missed "Regular John" and "Avon," which makes me ill to think about. After they played the album, they played a few favorites. Any way the show was great and I found this on YouTube. Thanks to Rickker for posting.

Also, check out Hopleaf for preRiv beers and eats. The beers and food were on point.

Little Sister


Next up, Black Angels at Bowery Ballroom.

Good Music Videos

You can keep your Katy Perry and Lady Gaga... gimmie Brody Dalle (and of course Emily Haines, but here is one from Ms. Dalle or Mrs. Homme or whatever)...




Spinnerette- Ghetto Love

Good Music Videos

Welcome back to My Chemical Romance... "Planetary Go!" from Danger Days: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys is the best I have heard from them since Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge.

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Because its going to be 70 degrees in New York City today

Caribou- Sun

5 Songs for St. Paddy's Day

Listen to these while you consume green beer. Clearly what is most important today is when you are out today, act like you have been out drinking before. No one likes the guy or girl who is not only not Irish, but is head to toe in green and puking all over himself.

All I'm saying is, don't be a jack ass. You will thank me tomorrow.

Tossers- Chicago


Dropkick Murphys- Kiss Me I'm Shitfaced


Flogging Molly- Drunken Lullabies


Against Me!- Pint of Guinness Make You Strong


The Pogues- Boys From The County Hell

5 Songs plus 1 (RIP Nate Dogg)

Here are 5 from the late Nate Dogg. There was a time when if you wanted a hip hop hit, have this guy sing the hook and you are fine. Here are 5 of my favorites he was part of.

Snoop Doggy Dogg- Ain't No Fun ft. Kurupt, Warren G & Nate Dogg


Mos Def- Oh No ft. Pharoahe Monch & Nate Dogg


Mark Ronson- Ooh Wee ft. Ghostface Killah & Nate Dogg


Snoop Dogg- Bitch Please ft. Xzibit & Nate Dogg


Fabolous- Can't Deny It ft. Nate Dogg


and of course....

Warren G- Regulate ft. Nate Dogg

5 Songs (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)

Congratulations to Tom Waits for being inducted to the Hall of Fame. Here are five songs celebrating the gravel voiced singer.

Goin' Out West


I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You


Downtown Train


Heartattack & Vine


Gin Soaked Boy

Good Music Videos

You owe it to yourself... Adele + Rick Rubin = pretty awesome things.

Its not official but it works for me.

Adele- Rolling in the Deep

Good Music Videos

King Khan & The Shrines - Land of the Freak

Could have been in with yesterday's post...

About the most insane minute and a half of anything I have watched in a while. If naked bodies and crazy violence offend you or if you have had seizures, this isn't for you.

Sebastian- Total

5 Songs (Noise Edition)

Sleigh Bells- Riot Rhythm


A Place To Bury Strangers- Missing You


My Bloody Valentine- Only Shallow


No Age- Glitter


Death From Above 1979- Romantic Rights

Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights

Lupe Fiasco knows do you...

Lupe Fiasco with the shout out to my favorite English football side in a freestyle found on World Star Hip Hop

Colin Smith - Love (#MonsterMondays)

Swizz Beatz tries something new by introducing Colin Smith's music on today's #MonsterMondays cut.

Colin Smith - Love (#MonsterMondays)

5 Songs (plus one for Valentines Day)

Songs that make me think of her...

Lou Reed- Perfect Day


Wilco- Walken


Queens of the Stone Age- In My Head


Buzzcocks- Love You More


The Smiths- There Is Light And It Never Goes Out


The Raconteurs- Hands

Good Music Videos

Sometimes things are just too rad for words...

Good Music Videos

Introducing The Dø... found this one while I was in France last month.

The Bridge is Broken

5 Songs I Am Into Right Now

Here are five from Does It Offend You, Yeah? who just killed it at the Bell House in Brooklyn this past week.

We Are Rockstars


Let's Make Out


With A Heavy Heart (I Regret To Inform You)


Attack Of The 60 Foot Lesbian Octopus


Epic Last Song

Black History Month Starts Today...

Death From Above 1979- Black History Month

Good Music Videos

In honor of both CSS and Death From Above 1979 both playing Coachella this year.

Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above

5 Songs (well just 1 really)

A good song for a snow day. The name of the band and Caribou and the jingle bells.

Good Music Videos

Another one from Rebelde Radio favorites, Metric.

5 Songs (Unknown Pleasures)

Going to see Peter Hook at Webster Hall tonight, where he will be playing Unknown Pleasures so why not have a 5 songs from the Mancs.

Shadowplay

She's Lost Control

Disorder

Day of the Lords

New Dawn Fades

Good Music Videos

Duck Sauce- Barbara Streisand

A Song To Celebrate My Post Thanksgiving Detox...

It will last until the weekend....

5 Songs (Black Edition)

Last week went to see Black Angels, an absolute current favorite and a bonus from co-bill Black Mountains

Manipulation

Prodigal Son

Call To Arms

Black Grease

Young Men Dead


Black Mountain- Stormy High

5 Songs (Halloween Edition)

Misfits- Hybrid Moments

New York Dolls- Frankenstein

The Cramps- Queen of Pain

Dax Riggs- A Spinning Song

Lou Reed- Halloween Parade

5 Songs

I am going to see The Vaselines at Webster Hall tomorrow so I figured the lets-take-a-20-plus-year-break Glasgow group would deserve their own edition of "5 Songs."

You may recognize a lot of these songs from covers from a certain Seattle based band.

Son of a Gun

Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam

Sex With An X

I hate the 80s

Molly's Lips

Good Music Videos

Plan B- Stay Too Long

The fact that its the same person singing and rapping is out of control.

Good Music Videos NSFW

This is may be the most insane music video I have ever seen.

El Guincho- Bombay

Good Music Videos NSFW

Cee Lo- No One's Gonna Love You (Band of Horses cover)

Cee-lo "No one's gonna love you" from Starr Whitesides on Vimeo.

5 Songs (Let's Dance Edition)

Caribou- Leave House

From the album Swim(2010)

Midnight Juggernauts- Ending of an Era

From the album Dystopia(2007)

Crystal Castles- Vanished

From the album Crystal Castles (2008)

Death From Above 1979- Sexy Results (MSTRKRFT Edition)

From the album Romance Bloody Romance: Remixes & B Sides (2005)

Justice- Phantom Part II

From the album † (2007)

Good Music Videos Song of the Year Take 2

Here is the official video for Fuck You.

Good Music Videos

Raphael Saadiq- 100 Yard Dash

Good Music Videos- Early pick for song of the year?

Cee Lo- Fuck You

Good Music Videos NSFW

Here is a video from rapper King Fantastic. I am really posting it because the video stars Kirstina Rose and she looks damn good in the process.

Why? Where? What? from King Fantastic on Vimeo.

Good Music Videos

The debut video from a dear friends new record...

Colin Smith- Love

Good Music Videos

Heading to Hartford to see these guys tonight

Social Distortion- When She Begins

Good Music Videos

Against Me!- I Was A Teenage Anarchist

Good Music Videos

LCD Soundsystem- Someone Great


LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Uploaded by epb21. - Explore more music videos.

hmm

Tosh.0
'What What (In the Butt)' Remix - Uncut and Unplugged
www.comedycentral.com
Web Redemption 2 Girls, 1 Cup Reaction Demi Moore Picture

This just pleases me

Good Music Videos

Two more great videos from Metric

Gold Guns Girls



Stadium Love

Good Music Videos

Japanther ft. Spank Rock- Radical Business Man

Good Music Videos (Stanley Cup Finals Edition)

For those of you who know me know that I am a big Blackhawks fan... Here is the video for the Blackhawks goal song.

The Fratellis- Chelsea Dagger

Good Music Videos

Teddybears ft. Iggy Pop- Punkrocker

Ian Curtis Decided To Leave Us 30 Years Yesterday

Good Music Videos

This song has been stuck in my head for about a week.

Arcade Fire- No Cars Go

Mike Ness discusses a new Social D record

Good Music Videos

Vital Signs - Midnight Juggernauts from midnight juggernauts on Vimeo.

Gets stuck in my head for days at a time...

Miike Snow- Billie Holiday

Good Music Videos

Doves- Catch the Sun

Check Out My Friend's Event For Haiti

The Kids Helping Kids / Performing Artists 4 Haiti charity event organized to benefit the victims of the Haiti earthquake will take place at the Bowery Poetry Club on Sunday, Jan, 31st, 1-6pm. $5 minimum suggested donation 100% goes directly to orphanages in Haiti.

1:30 - 4:00 PM KIDS HELPING KIDS
Family / Kids Programming: Hayes Greenfield & Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz, Niall 'Leary Dancers, Louise Rogers Band & children's chorus

4:00 – 6 PM PERFORMING ARTISTS FOR HAITI (see below)
The New York Neo-Futurists Theater ensemble
The award wining independent theater ensemble have performed hundreds of plays for downtown audiences, like Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind --visceral and experimental, embracing chance, change, and chaos! www.nynf.org

Music: For the Artists 4 Haiti portion of this event, NYC-based vintage reggae band The Hard Times will play their own short set, accompanied by some of NYC's most prominent world music percussionists including Salieu Suso and Papa Suso on kora, and Frank Marino. Following that, the band will serve as the house band for the rest of the event, backing notable New York poets and spoken word artists.

Poetry Producers Round
Hosts and producers of some of the most popular NYC poetry series bring their poetic energy and voices to the stage for what will surely be an electric experience with the spoken word.

Poets include: Bob Holman, Nick Power (NYC College Slam), Evie Ivy (Green Pavilion), Angelo Verga (Cornelia Street Café), George Wallace (The Beat Series) Lee Kostrinsky (Smalls Jazz Club), Mike Graves and Susan Scutti (New Phoenix), Kyle Spencer
Featured New Phoenix poets: Michael Graves received a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation for 2004 and is the author of Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard 2006). Sally-Ann Hard's work has been published in places like The Gwendolyn Brooks Journal of Black Thought & Literature; Turning Wheel, and Salamander. Joe Fritsch's work explores
the etymological sense of poet as "maker."

OPEN MIC
Producer poets tag team hosting, bring your poetry! Hit the stage!

Support the children of Haiti!

For more information on the benefit:
Contact: Christine Timm bowerykids@yahoo.com
Or Bob Timm / The Hard Times
hardtimesreggae@gmail.com
Links:
http://bowerypoetry.com/
http://www.myspace.com/hardtimesreggae

Jukebox the Ghost Almost Done With A New Album

Good Music Videos

Lion of Ido- Hard To Love

Good Music Videos

Ok Go- WTF?

OK Go - WTF? from OK Go on Vimeo.

just read it.

Good Music Videos

Metallica- All Nightmare Long

The first time I saw this was in my cabin on the Rock Boat. I couldn't look away. I am also going to see them in about two hours.



Metallica - All Nightmare Long

Metallica | MySpace Video

Preview the first Them Crooked Vultures track

"New Fang"
Album in stores 11/17

New EP from Cold War Kids

Indie rock darlings, Cold War Kids are releasing a new 4 song EP entitled Behave Yourself. The EP will be available on 1/19/2010. The earliest exciting news of the year.

Tracklisting:
1. "Audience"
2. "Santa Ana Winds"
3. "Coffee Spoon"
4. "Sermons"

Good Music Videos

Midnight Juggernauts- Into The Galaxy

CMJ Music Marathon (Shows This Past Week)

Megaphonic Thrift

The Suffolk Back Room

http://www.myspace.com/megaphonicthrift

Norwegian alt rock in a Sonic Youth meets My Bloody Valentine meets Smashing Pumpkins- Gish era sound.

Japanther

The Suffolk Back Room

http://www.myspace.com/japanther

Loud and distorted bass and drums.  They seemed to pick up where Death from Above 1979 left off... and thats a good thing.

Midnight Juggernauts

Bowery Ballroom

http://www.myspace.com/midnightjuggernauts

Was looking forward to this show all night only to have them get cut off by the 1am curfew at Bowery Ballrooom... lame.

Fools Gold

Bowery Poetry Club

http://www.myspace.com/foolsgold

LA based band creates a wonderful combination of folk leaning indie rock and some latin/world sounds.

CMJ Music Marathon

CMJ is this week in New York City. I love it/I hate it. Its fun to go to shows, its fun to see some friends from out of town but its exhausting.

Check out the show schedule here. http://cmj09.sched.org/type/showcase#

I am speaking as a mentor on Thursday the 22nd, so come down to the panels on Thursday at 3 if you are interested in learning about online marketing.

Shows This Past Week

Datarock

Highline Ballroom

http://www.myspace.com/datarock

This was a really fun show as you would likely assume. A wonderful blend of cheesiness and dancing... and neither one of them stopped from the time it began until it ended. If you aren't aware their sounds a dance rock/electronic that takes a plenty of leads from the 80s including a shout out to Revenge of the Nerds in the song "Computer Camp Love." Solid references for a group of Scandinavian guys. The show included all dancing all the time including having members of the band doing the worm on stage, dancing among the crowd. It was lively and fun but I think it was mostly due to the small room. I don't know how it would have translated in a large room. The sounds aren't big enough as in a Justice or MSTRKRFT way. It was a lot of fun, if they are in a small venue in your town you may want to give'em a shot.

Non Music Related High Point

A show that has fun with itself is always fun. Its a treat when the bands (and fans!) don't take themselves too seriously... especially in New York.

The Lovely Feathers

Bowery Ballroom

http://www.myspace.com/thelovelyfeathers

I have seen this band a few times (including the opening for Metric the first time I saw them). When I walked into the Bowery Ballroom, my friends I was meeting were all sitting around one of the downstairs bar room tables with the band. They are here promoting a new record called Fantasy of the Lot. These Montreal indie rockers have changed lineups a few times since I saw them the first time, but their front man remains the most important piece as well as the showman of the bunch. They band borrows guitar riffs from the Clash at times and has a keyboardist that is not afraid to ad some highly feminine vocals. He is good at it though. I didn't stick around for the bands after them but these guys were great. I would also say don't miss them when they come to your town.

Non Music Related High Point

As I mentioned before, my friends were sitting at a table with the band before the show. They asked them what songs they wanted to hear and were saying "yes" or "no" to each request. Then when they played the song that everyone agreed on, he actually said "this is for my boys from Hoboken." I see hundreds of bands year, not once have I gotten a request to their friend in the East Village.

Check'em Out

Check out Philly/NYC electro dance rockers Tigersapien.

Try the song "Luxury"
http://www.myspace.com/tigersapien

Not only are the songs tight as can be, but they have some of the coolest art work I have seen in a while.
NSFW!
http://i41.tinypic.com/2wckuww.jpg

EPSN's Mike & Mike on Football Player's Misuse of Twitter

Good Music Videos

Datarock- Computer Camp Love

Good Music Video (fan made)

Fan video from Psychostick's fans... and you wonder why they call their street team The Dumb.

Good Read From Lefsetz

If you actually read this you likely get these letters anyway, but I thought I would share it nonetheless.


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It could be in a polo field, like Coachella.

Or in one city, a three day event, like Lollapalooza in Chicago.

Or even a month long event in a metropolis that wanted to drive tourist business.

The rage in concerts these days is the performance of complete albums. Bruce Springsteen is even going to do "Born To Run" in Nashville. Why don't we have a festival where every act performs a complete album?

It could only be classic acts, the ones who most embody the album concept. Or, it could be everyone from old to new, inspiring young acts to record full opuses, and the audience to listen to them.

The live business is hurting. The old acts have burned out their audiences, delivering the same music at high prices. Thus, the album performance concept. A way to get people to pay one more time. And they do. And will. They want to relive that great record, the one they played every day in high school, or college.

So maybe it's in Vegas, especially if it's old acts. Because oldsters don't want to camp. Headliners are stars like Paul McCartney, doing "Band On The Run", or the aforementioned Boss doing "The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle". To add a dimension of hipness, get Lou Reed to do "Loaded". Yes, it's great to have the original band, but in many cases they're not alive, or speaking to each other, so if you get the key player/singer, that will suffice.

Roger Waters toured "Dark Side Of The Moon". He can do that, or "The Wall".

All those acts past sixty, who are playing to ever-dwindling crowds... Loggins & Messina can do "Sittin' In", their exquisite debut. The Youngbloods can even do "Elephant Mountain".

And Roxy Music can do "Avalon". And Pearl Jam can do "Ten". And Air can do "Moon Safari". And, as a closer, an unannounced jam, everybody can hit the stage and do "Sgt. Pepper".

Of course Phish gets a slot, if we're skewing younger or broader, they've covered everything from "Quadrophenia" to the White Album. And Dave Grohl can merge the Foo Fighters and Krist Novoselic, to do "Nevermind", or "In Utero".

Imagine the press. Imagine the excitement. This is truly a one time only event. Sure, maybe these acts will ultimately tour these albums, but you won't be able to see them all at one time.

Furthermore, there will be Internet voting, where fans will demand their favorite albums. The promoter will start with the top, trying to get a group to perform (or even reform!) the album!

Sure, tickets will be expensive. Which is why maybe it's a festival at multiple venues, each with its own entrance fee, over a series of nights in one city. Each gig being self-sustaining. But why not utilize the modern festival concept? One sum buys you everything. And, like modern festivals, you can't see everything. Do you catch the number one album on the main stage, or 10cc doing their debut in the tent?

Next year, completely different albums. So, if you miss this one...

The acts are ready, the audience is eager. We're in a lull, waiting for the next big thing. Let's celebrate our past, what we all love, before the moment evaporates.