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.

Ugh, sleepless weekend. MEN on Friday was excellent -- great crowd, killer tunes blended expertly, and somehow Gravity Lounge turned out to be a far more dance friendly venue than I would've expected. And then last night I ended up catching Invisible Hand at the Tea Bazaar while drinking chai and eating pumpkin cheesecake pie (thanks Michael!) for dinner, then missing Caninos at the Laundromat, trying to DJ the afterparty but the booze had dried up, then trying to relocate to another party where tunes were wanted only to find that the kids were less interested in bass than in blasting, uh, Sonic Youth, Hanson, and Blink 182 out of a busted stereo. After nearly giving up, Jack/Andy/Jack/Andy and our extended crew overran the place and by 2 AM we had a small but healthy dance party going. Justice, James Brown, !!!, Juan Maclean, Estelle, Wu Tang, Mary J. Blige, Tribe Called Quest, and a 50 Cent/Nine Inch Nails mashup got dropped before it became way too late and we all finally called it a night. Fun!

Now emerging to let you know that DBB Plays Cups is playing yet another set at The Box on Monday night alongside this Bmore band, Scary River. If you caught our set last week at Preston + 10th, you can probably expect a retreat from the gaping maw of noise and back into the simple comforts of tunefulness. No cover, as usual.

Friday:
MEN (ex-Le Tigre) DJing at Gravity Lounge for $5 at party o'clock. They were amazing when I first saw them a year ago (my only gripe was the DJ set ended at midnight) but tonight will supposedly last until 2 AM. Rockit.

Saturday:
You have two great options:
1) At the Laundromat (e-mail or call me for directions to this house which is hosting shows on the DL): Cinemasophia, Caninos, and The Fiends are playing. Then I will be DJing the party that follows in my first public DJing gig, which will hopefully rule. Expect Lil Wayne, Punjabi MC, the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song, Liquid Liquid, Arthur Russell, James Brown, and way more. Sweat.

2) OR, another great show: Extraordinaires, Invisible Hand, and Raquellos at the Teahaus. Probably a super cheap cover.

Sorry this is coming kinda late-style, I've been sick for the last 3-4 days and not really doing much besides eating soup and reading for pleasure/work. Anyway, show details:

Who:
See Goon See
Cortez! Cortez!
Caninos
Your Spirit Animal in the Unreal City
Where: The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative
When: 3/8/09, 08:00 - 11:00 PM
$$$ = $5
T-Rock's official description: Tyrannosaurus Rock and The Bridge PAI team up with Your Spirit Animal in the Unreal City and alt-country rockers Caninos along with touring bands Cortez! Cortez! and See Goon See for a night of rock, destruction, and desecration.

I'm gonna try and drag my sick self out there for at least two reasons: 1) Because Gary from Caninos played with DBB Plays Cups at our recent Gravity Lounge gig and I've been meaning to check out Caninos and 2) because T-Rock books great bands and does an awesome service for music in Cville so they deserve as much love as they can get.