“Love and Mercy” isn’t exactly a good biopic, but at least it’s historically accurate.
MONDAY >> If you’d like to see how infinity is treating them, Souls of Mischief, of the album ’93 to Infinity fame (released in 1993 of course), will bring mid-90s hip-hop to the Black Cat tonight. We assume they’ve updated their sound a bit since then, but quite frankly, we’ll take some throwback hip-hop any day. With DJ Lex, Icon the Mic King, Kaze and Zeph & Azeem. 9 p.m., $10. TUESDAY >> For our…
The early part of the week is looking a little light for shows, but after the Fourth things really get rolling through Sunday night. MONDAY >> After coming down with a case of “David Letterman throat” last week, Morrissey was forced to reschedule three shows, including his gig at Madison Square Garden in NYC. Right now it looks like NYC’s loss is our gain, as we just recieved an email from the staff at Wolf…
Saturday at the Rock and Roll Hotel. Dr. Dog with The Teeth and Hoots and Hellmouth. $12. Doors at 8:30, Music at 9:30. Depending on the circles you run in, Dr. Dog are either busy working a tired formula of lo-fi and late-period Beatles nostalgia or are one of a host of Philly groups artfully resurrecting the heady psych-pop era of the late 60s and early 70s. Both camps need to do themselves a favor…
If your parents have a record collection, or you’ve ever read a countdown list, or if you’ve seen Almost Famous, or if you’ve generally got a sense of rock history, you know that The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds is one of the most important, critically acclaimed, and talked about albums in music history. The album’s landmark 40th anniversary recently rolled around. In commemoration, the album has been re-released, featuring original and remastered versions of the…
While many current satellite radio subscribers signed up with XM or Sirius to join the fart-joking, stripper-exploiting bandwagon of Stern, Opie & Anthony et al. in their flight from the FCC’s fist of decency, I’m sure an even larger number are happily paying their monthly fees because it means they no longer have to put up with the programming decisions of corporate FM radio. It has been a little over a year since Infinity Broadcasting…
Hot Feet, the new musical with songs old and new by Earth, Wind & Fire making its world premiere at the National Theater, inevitably will be compared to its juke-box-soundtrack predecessors, from the Billy Joel-driven Movin’ Out to the Beach Boys bash Good Vibrations. And while those shows are frequently derided by the theater-snob community, Hot Feet’s curse is that it may not even connect with mainstream audiences: it lacks the guilty-pleasure infectuousness of a…
MONDAY: >> Watch a cartoon (and, according to reader comments, hipsters) come to life. Adding further cred to the notion that pop music is respectable as long as it’s from another country, the wildly popular duo Puffy AmiYumi bring their unforgettable show to the 9:30 Club tonight, with opener Adam Richman. 6 p.m., $20 TUESDAY: >> Because we love A Smokey Mountain Christmas, because the original version is always better, and because there’s nothing cooler…