Shitty music safe for foreseeable future
Budget cuts loom, and smart people are fleeing to Wellington, but at least we'll be able to read Melissa Ruggieri's 36th "Carbon Leaf is really on the verge of stardom this time" piece in a couple weeks. Richmond's least interesting rock band gets to pretend to be famous May 6 in the inaugural show of what promises to be an especially excruciating Friday Cheers season. From Agents of Good Roots to the Spin Doctors, from a Jimmy Buffett tribute band to a Blues Brothers tribute band, from the Spin Doctors to the Samples, Friday Cheers serves up a reliably depressing mix of "heritage acts" and local no-hopers, and Ruggieri (above, right) will no doubt be right there in the front row, toasting its artistic lowlights and wondering what it would be like to be reincarnated as Pat McGee's underpants.
Meanwhile, Fridays at Sunset persists in a separate location at the same time as Friday Cheers, because Downtown Presents still doesn't think white and black people can enjoy music together. I'm morbidly curious how a Faith Evans show might go, and kudos, guys, really, for landing Seal, but could this possibly be the last year we segregate our audiences? We have nothing to lose but Cowboy Mouth.
posted by Andrew Beaujon at 09:29
1 Comments:
though i appreciate Robert Earl Keen, i know what you're saying (perhaps i know it excruciatingly *too* well). question is, where do you fall on the Dismemberment Plan question. there's people i respect who are fans. nevertheless, when i heard Emergency and I, i took it as some kinda high-speed "indie" compromise with Dave Matthews Band (for me, a problem - i don't, for example, have much trouble with Radiohead's "David Gates fronts Pink Floyd" vibe).
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