Randomly stopped into Maxwell’s in Hoboken late last night. I was looking forward to checking out some bands- but similar to sweet-home-Harrisburg, North Jersey is littered not with McDonalds bags and Dunkin Donuts coffee cups, but with crappy cover bands in nearly every bar and venue.
Even the place across the street from my brothers apartment- although ’twas a pretty cool bar, they had some pretty lame acoustic duo from Long Island playing horrible Dave Matthews and Sublime covers. When they said “anything you guys wanna hear?” I belted out “Tenacious D!” – they chuckled and said “sorry man- don’t know any.” (I’m sorry, but if you’re going to play fucking covers all night, you better know one or two Tenacious D tunes.)
ANYWAY- went into Maxwell’s and really dug this band called I.D.K. Immediately thought of early Black Flag/Rollins – and the association is blatant- the lead singer covered in ink and pretty well built and has that same kind of go-ahead-and-try-it…I’ll-kick-your-ass attitude.
Apparently, the I.D.K was a pretty well received North Jersey Hardcore band for about ten years in the early nineties. Touring the country on their “To kill for the good of the fight for the right to be right” EP on Bush League records and followed up with one or two more. But they disbanded for some time from 1998 til today- and now are back again.
I knew nothing of these guys before wandering into Maxwell’s at the end of last night- but was certainly impressed, not only with their live set, but by the dedication and energy being thrown back to them from the forty or fifty kids in front of the stage.
Sort of looking at it as my unexpected good find of the day-
It’s been a loooong time comin’, but it looks like we may see a full-on reunion of Philly’s Brothers Past.
In an announcement on their website today, Tommy, Clay, Rick and Tom revealed plans for a special New Years Eve show at the brand-spankin new The Note in West Chester PA.
- Hey all. A few weeks back we played some music at a friend’s party and had a good old time doing it. From the looks of things, some of you did too. So …. we’re gonna do it again. But this time we’re gonna do it on New Year’s Eve, in West Chester, where it all began
Stay tuned for more…
[Here's a clip from the Fire Drill show at ABC- uploaded by the one and only Stony]
The first thing I thought of when my friend Dawn told me about this “hilarious new web-series” called Dr. Horrible was the They Might Be Giants song Mr. Horrible.
And strangely enough, the song Mr. Horrible would sync up perfectly with the theme of the new web-series Dr. Horrible.
It’s seriously one of those things that you have to give a few minutes to kick in…but it’s pretty damn funny.
Neil Patrick Harris (yup, Doogie Howser) plays a wanna-be evil superhero who meets his nemesis Captain Hammer and they wind up battling over the girl. (Spoiler: “The hammer is my penis”)
And it’s a great watch.
Act I is thirteen minutes long. Act II is about the same. And I simply cannot wait for Act III (which launches next week)
That’s what she said.