8/8/08

FRIDAY

WHAT THE FUCK Coolio is playing in Apple Valley tonight. Apple Valley. Coolio, in Apple Valley. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck @ Bogart's, 15/18 bucks, 9:00. Why did I commit to a different show tonight? Why? Coulda been seeing Coolio in Apple Valley. Coolio, in Apple Valley. That'll teach me to make other plans without consulting the entertainment weeklies to see which hip hop superstars of the mid-90s are playing the suburbs. Good thing someone gave me the heads-up about Dre at the Pickle Park in October and I was able to procure tickets to that show. Phew!

OH JESUS CHRIST and are New Kids on the Block really playing the MOA rotunda in two hours (5:30)? Really? Coolio in Apple Valley, NKOTB back to play malls... is the rapture upon us? Something about all this feels really awesome.

888 Fest with Economy Team, Kill to Kill, Old James, The Guystorm, Geronimo!, Young Brides, Power of 2, Plastic Chord @ Hexagon, zero bucks, 9:00.

Another 888 Fest with The Marshall Fucker Band, Mevissens, Kent III, 22 Chemicals, PocketfulA Change, Facing the Plastic, Imaginary Jack and Neutral Ron Hotel @ Big V's, 5 bucks, 9:00.

And another one at Nomad. Cosmic Comedy, Radio On, Jason Shannon and Thomas Built the Wall @ Nomad, 3 bucks, 8:08 door. Har har har. Show up at 8:07 and maybe you can save your three bucks.

The Blind Shake, The Frustrations, Daughers of the Sun and The Retainers @ Turf Club, XXbuxxxxxxx, 9:00.

Kid Dakota, Haroh (CD Release) and His Mischief @ Uptown, 5 bucks, 9:00.

The Scorpions and L.A. Guns (sans Tracii Guns) @ Myth, 49 bucks, 8:00.

The Men Who Control the Weather, All the Way Rider, Max and the Marginalized (Los Angeles) and The Style Biters @ Stasiu's, 5 bucks, 9:00.

A "Slammin' Jazz Quintent" featuring Brandon Wozniak, Zacc Harris, Tanner Taylor, Jeremy Boettcher and Pete Hennig @ Rossi's, 3 bucks, 9:00.

Como Avenue Jug Band @ 331 Club, zero bucks, 9:00.

Le Cirque Rouge Cabaret & Burlesque 5th Anniversary Party @ Nick & Eddie, 6 bucks, 10:00.

The Idle Hands, Colonial Vipers Attack and Prairie Sons @ 7th Street Entry, 6 bucks, 8:00.



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