6/23/08

6/23/08

Jazz Implosion with Face Candy and Dean Magraw @ Turf Club, 5 bucks, 10:00. Must stay home tonight and work on poetry final. Must stay home tonight and work on poetry final. Is it okay to go out if you're seeing this guy whom Wikipedia describes as a well-known freestyle battle CHAMPION whose favorite authors include James Joyce and whose interests include psychology, physics and yoga my point being that he is a rapping POET? Yes. Go for it. Fuck a poetry final. Thanks for getting behind me on this one. You are welcome. Now buy us a drink you fucking weirdo.

Whoa! Did Heath Ledger's face come back from the dead with a little help from Johnny Depp's stylist and go on tour to support an album chock full of delightfully poppy gonna-be-played-on-constant-rotation-in-the-juniors'-section-of-Nordstrom Top 40 hits? No - it's Ryan Cabrera with Ferras and Cory Lamb @ Varsity Theater, 20/25 bucks, 6:00. Twenty-five bucks to see this amazing transformation from teenybopper who dates Ashley Simpson to heart throb with total rocker credibility who dates Elvis' granddaughter? I call that twenty-five bucks well-spent. Right? Right.

Smoking Popes, The Fast Track and Melange @ Triple Rock, 12 bucks, 9:00. That man has a low voice.

The Brass Kings @ Famous Dave's, zero bucks, 8:00. This is my neighbor's band and he is a nice guy. I enjoy the pleasure of hearing him play his guitar out on his porch in the summertime. It makes me happy to be his neighbor. Famous Dave's serves their food on trash can lids.

Red Desert, Leeches of Lore (from Albukerkey) and Lungs @ Big V's, 5 bucks, 9:00. As a rule bands originating in the American Southwest are weird and good, with the exception of Jimmy Eat World from Tempe which is a band that is decidedly not weird.