In one week, I will host another Dionysium (this time featuring Catholic author Dawn
Eden, comedian Daniel Somarriba, and musician Hannah Meyers) – but TONIGHT,
at the very same location, come to the grand opening of the bar that shall host
the Dionysium: Muchmore’s, at 2 Havemeyer St. (just three blocks east of
the Bedford Ave. subway stop, the very first L stop into Brooklyn on the subway
if you ride from 14th St.).
Not only shall there
be one hour of free beer starting at 8pm, there will be multiple hip bands
afterwards for a trifling $5 (including Future of What, Dust Engineers, Ancient
Sky, and She Keeps Bees – which combined, sound more than a little like a plot
synopsis of Prometheus, which
Julian Sanchez makes a good – and very spoiler-filled – case for disliking,
though I enjoyed it anyway).
This week also
reportedly brings sci-fi-sounding new albums from Rush (Clockwork Angels) and, more hiply, Metric (Synthetica).
Hipper still, in a
few weeks, scads of bands perform in a
festival honoring the late punk-friendly club CBGB’s.
And on what some
might consider a less-hip note, I think my article about the conservative rock
band Madison Rising will shortly be in the July cover-dated issue of Newsmax –
but for Flag Day, here’s their
“Star-Spangled Banner” video.
On an intriguing but perplexing musical note, I notice that
Wikipedia’s entry on the Brown University-affiliated radio station WBRU (which
was the nation’s first professional alternative rock format station) says
something that is surely wrong:
Between April 17 and
April 21, 2006, WBRU played their entire music catalog by title from A-Z,
starting at 5:30 p.m. with "About a Girl" by Nirvana on the 17th and
ending around 11:15 on the 21st with "Zombie" by the Cranberries. The
songs ranged from new music (by such bands as Panic! at the Disco and Zox),
1980s and 1990s pop rarely played by the station (such as Right Said Fred's
"I'm Too Sexy") and classic punk (i.e., Sex Pistols and New York
Dolls).
And while I did find a news article claiming they played
their whole library starting on the
first date noted above, if they really ended
when claimed by Wikipedia, that's
only 102 hours of music. Surely they
have far more albums on hand than that.
Even if the “catalog” only means a few designated tracks
from each album, that short a span can’t be right, can it? I mean, even if it was usually just one track
per album, we’d only be talking about something like 1,000 or 2,000
albums. Heck, I knew individual Brown students with that many albums. But now I’m intrigued about what really went
down and when it ended – if indeed it has ended!
Shouldn’t someone at WBRU be editing that entry in between
mastering the station’s Twitter and Facebook accounts?
(At first, I suspected “their entire music catalog” here
merely meant “whatever they happened to decide to play during that alphabetized
four-day period,” which is definitely not that exciting a claim. But the news article definitely said they
played the station’s entire library –
though the news can be wrong. In
retrospect, by the way, I probably should have recorded the entire U2 library
when WBRU played that over the course of a day once back when I was there –
though I got a lot of it. U2 also gave
away an iPod, when those were still novel, containing all their songs, and it
was dubbed the UPod.)
One thing I
suspect is not being played at Brown often is this “redneck cover” of Ice Cube’s
“Straight Outta Compton” (h/t Andrea Pisani).
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