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5/27/2004
EAR PLUGS
You didn't ask for it, but they did it anyway. Perhaps the funniest show of all
time, The Dong Squad:
http://www.degeneratepress.com/vault/dong_squad_2004/index.html
As if that weren’t enough Star Bar brilliance, we’re off to Bubbapalooza in a
few minutes. We have pictures from other shows we’re working on reviewing, but
we figured if you’re on this list you want the perverse stuff first, mundane
stuff later.
In other news, we headed down to The Cotton Club on Tuesday and missed the
opening act, who went on some time around 8:20, but caught the second act, VHS
vs. Beta (or maybe it’s Beta vs. VHS, we ain’t got time to fact check around
here.) If you really miss the early days of The Cure when you could catch them
in a club with a dozen or two other non-trendy people, make sure to catch Beta
vs. VHS. I have never heard a more true to life recreation of The Cure’s sound
(with maybe +5% New Order thrown in for good measure.) It was a truly intense
moment of déjà vu when I noticed the girl in the Cheap Trick t-shirt in front of
me while VHS vs. Beta cranked out incredibly archetypal 80’s tunes. They were
good at it, I have to give ‘em that, but I lived through that decade once
already.
The Von Bondies cranked out garage/punk stuff similar to all the other bands
from Detroit I like so much, from MC5 to The Stooges to newer acts like Modey
Lemon. If it weren’t a shithole, I’d be tempted to move there. But then if it
weren’t a shithole, it probably wouldn’t inspire such energetic art...
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