The Audiozine

Two shows on Friday 04/17/09:

Early show:
DBB Plays Cups w/Caninos @ the Garage (250 N 1st St), show starts 9 PM, no cover.

Caninos play really upbeat pop songs with a dash of country and silly humor thrown in. DBB Plays Cups will feature Caninos plus myself as the backing band. This time you can expect me to mostly play keyboards (!!!) and, thanks to the Caninos, this show will probably be a lot more melodic, tight, and structured than the last few. I promised that last time, but this time I really really really mean it.

Late show:
Order, Buck Gooter, Accumulator Syndrome, La Mere Vipere @ DUST. Head to this one afterwards, it's guaranteed to be quite the opposite of the one we're playing -- loud, loud, loud.

Just so you know, two shows I'll be checking out Friday night (and you should too):

1) Robert Jospe's Inner Rhythm @ Gravity Lounge, $10, show starts 7:30 PM. Robert Jospe is the man who gave me a few years of amazing lessons on the drums, teaching me a variety of samba, calypso, rhumba, bebop, funk, and other rhythms and making me an infinitely better player than I used to be. He's an amazing drummer and strong composer in his own right (the dude used to take lessons from Tony Williams for pete's sake!). Yeah the show's pricey, but I guarantee that his group's blend of Afro-Latin rhythms and hot jazz improvisation will be worth the cover. Bonus points: my friend, Temi, is playing with the group too!

2) Fucked Up, Ultradolphins, Order @ Outback Lodge, $??, doors 9:00 PM. Still haven't really heard Fucked Up, but word on the street is that their latest album "The Chemistry of Common Life" is one of 2008's best. Supposedly a blend of hardcore punk and a variety of more progressive arrangements (horns, etc?). I'm going out of curiosity (their live shows are rumored to be really wild and strange) and because these "big" shows used to be shockingly common just a few years back so I feel like it's worth supporting such an event. Order and Ultradolphins are local heroes who bring the spastic ruckus every time. Bring earplugs.