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YACHT rocks

Posted by in Concerts, Music on 08. Mar, 2010 | 2 Comments

Photo via panicmanual YACHT—”a band, a belief system and a business”—is the kind of act that exceeds every expectation you might have of seeing them live. The dance-pop duo is making their living off of showboating, playing energetic shows masked as old-timey country revivals in small, packed bars.

Show and Tell: Weezer and Kenny G

Posted by in Music, Uncategorized on 03. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiIwgcrv4wU&feature=player_embedded] In an earlier post on here, Simon lamented that Weezer’s Lil Wayne collaboration was the equivalent of an ex-girlfriend you still have mixed feelings for “contracting Syphilis for the fifth time.” I’m afraid to ask what one would be with wussy soprano sax legend/running joke Kenny G? This video speaks for itself, but come on. This isn’t even funny [...]

Live: Rain Machine

Live: Rain Machine

Posted by in Concerts, Music on 20. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments

Kyp Malone and his band as Rain Machine (insert beard joke here) TV on the Radio is one of my absolute favourite bands. So when I found out that Kyp “The Beard” Malone, one third of the Brooklyn trio, was releasing a solo side project called Rain Machine, I was pretty excited. Malone—a singer and [...]

Born Ruffians

Live: The Born Ruffians, The Acorn, The Meligrove Band

Posted by in Music on 20. Sep, 2009 | 0 Comments

As I traverse the late stages of my twenties, I find myself starting to grow leery of all-ages events. I’m not old, don’t get me wrong. I’m merely old enough that the idea of being surrounded by teenagers taking pictures of themselves is usually enough to deter me from seeing a show. Still, I braved [...]


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