Our friends at Sound Unseen are throwing a party for the premier of the great looking White Stripes concert film, Under Great White Norhern Lights, this Wednesday at The Trylon Cinema. Tickets for the Wednesday screenings are sold out but that doesn’t mean you still can’t come out and watch Gay Witch Abortion blow your faces off.
Plus, they just announced two additional screenings on Thursday, March 4 so if you weren’t able to score tickets before I suggest you get off your ass and do it now.
More information can be found on the Sound Unseen website HERE.
Guru of Gang Starr fame suffered a heart attack this weekend and is currently in the hospital in critical condition. He has surgery scheduled for later today. We’d like to send our warm wishes to a speedy and full recovery.
This is street punk for the current generation that follows in the grand tradition of The Business or Sham 69. Whereas in the 70’s the British bands were singing about race / class wars and Thatcher’s fucked up politics Bombshell Rocks write songs about suburban complacency. Songs about disenfranchised kids just trying to make it through the day in one piece. They weren’t exactly reinventing the wheel with lyrics like A Broken Soul / One among many in a beaten generation / A broken dream / One among many in a fucked up nation from “1.80 Down” and Sometimes I lose it / Lose every bit of faith / but just for a minute / Till I see the light of the brand new day from “Bright Spot” but the execution is better than most of their contemporaries.
This is the kind of album you want to listen to on the front steps of the first shitty punk house you ever rented with your best friends. The place that you spent all your time just getting fucked up and partying, barely having enough money to cover rent.
The singalong chorus from the album closer “Where We Gather” pretty much sums up the us against the world mentality of the whole record.
This is where we live it’s where we gather
This is where we see the days pass by
This is where we live it’s where we gather
This is where we live it’s where we die
I always felt that Bombshell Rocks got overshadowed by their similar sounding American counterparts like Swingin’ Utters, Dropkick Murphy’s, and the almighty Rancid and that’s unfortunate since they were, in my opinion at least, the best of that whole genre in the 90’s.
In Switchblade Comb’s neverending quest to bring you the best in Abraham Lincoln entertainment news, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter sees release this week, from the author of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.
Lincoln learns at an early age that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator. This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies.
Look for it in bookstores and in libraries and in the internet on Tuesday.
Apparently, May 25 is Geek Pride Day. It is, as Wikipedia says, “an initiative which claims the right of every person to be a nerd or a geek. It has been celebrated on May 25 since 2006, celebrating the premiere of the first Star Wars movie in 1977, and even has rights & responsibilities. Essentially, it’s the nerd equivalent of drinking on New Years.
Anyway, the Mounds Theatre is participating by having a night of fan films, surprise screenings, and a costume contest. And it’s free!
Tuesday, May 25
6:00 PM l FREE
That English Girl Tells You About Geek/Nerd Pride Day
Drunken Post is a feature on Switchblade Comb wherein Rich or The Joe gets wasted and posts nonsensical / non topical videos or musings at very early hours of the morning.
I ended up witnessing a karaoke jamboree tonight, and got pretty depressed when I discovered that Meredith Brooks had more than one song in the playbook and Coal Chamber had none. Nevermind how the evening ended up that way.
The only band I was ever in was of the high school variety, which was predictably called Syberwhore. I was brought in on drums to keep rhythm, despite having no background on them. The band lasted about four months and our only show was an open mic night at a Christian coffeehouse in Wisconsin. “Loco” was our cover song. They turned the mic off on our vocalist.
Interesting Coal Chamber trivia! Fear Factory was the band that originally championed their demo tape, and the “Loco” video (which I can’t find) was put at the end of Dee Snider’sStrangeland, one of those legendary 90s films that tried to explain the internet. They made a whole three albums, which was news to me. And there’s actually a Best of Coal Chamber album. Amazing.
Wait, you boys and girls do remember Coal Chamber, right?
While I was attending the spectacular documentaries Which Way Home and Burma VJ at Woodbury 10 last night, it was announced that they’ll be playing three of the five Best Documentary Short Oscar nominees. The included films:
Frederick Wiseman documentary La Danse was so popular during its original Twin Cities run at St. Anthony Main that they’re bringing it back for a second run.
Documentary master director Frederick Wiseman’s latest film eloquently follows the rehearsals and performances of seven ballets including Genus by Wayne McGregor and Romeo and Juliette by Sasha Waltz. In addition to these breathtaking performanc…es, the film artfully captures the collaborative effort of choreographers, ballet masters, dancers, musicians, and costume, set, and lighting designers.
Friday, March 5 (week-long run)
$5.50/8.50 La Danse – Trailer
