The Social, in Orlando, has been frequently offering two-night residencies to bands that can easily sell out the small venue. Booking the bill with big talent and odd packaging, these shows are usually a hot ticket and always memorable. For a holiday treat in December, Bouncing Souls were the band in big letters with hefty support from The Street Dogs, Whole Wheat Bread and World/Inferno Friendship Society. Jen Cray was there for the mayhem on night #2.
As Saddam Hussein swung from the gallows today, Shelton Hull found that it placed a question mark, and not a period, at the end of the dictator’s grim legacy.
Chris Catania, like Rock En Espanol’s author, Ernesto Lechner, was slow to warm up to the emerging sounds of the Latin alt-rock movement, but both now agree that the bands profiled in these pages hint strongly at the future of popular music.
A struggling thrift shop owner turns to a loan shark after her boyfriend embezzles her money, but reunites with her annoying preteen daughter.
Shelton Hull takes a last look at the legacy of President Gerald Ford and finds much to praise. Sadly, there is nary a pratfall in sight.
Sleep Inside This Wheel (I Eat). Review by Aaron Shaul.
I guess we invaded to get more dope. – posted by James Mann on December 28, 2006 07:18
Gerald Ford – posted by James Mann on December 28, 2006 06:59
M83 – posted by James Mann on December 28, 2006 06:49
The Best is Yet to Come (Skipping Stones). Review by Aaron Shaul.
A few words on James Brown – posted by James Mann on December 27, 2006 09:56
James Brown passed away on Christmas Day. Or did he? James Mann ponders the Godfather of Soul.
20 months for sound warfare – posted by James Mann on December 27, 2006 06:58
Where did Lohachara island go? – posted by James Mann on December 27, 2006 06:51
From Ted Rall – posted by James Mann on December 27, 2006 06:40
The annual O-Rock 105.9 No Snow Show had AFI in top billing with heavy support by Taking Back Sunday, Angels & Airwaves, Buckcherry, Sugarcult, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Kill Hannah. Reporting deep inside the very unwinter weather was Jen Cray.
Run All Night (Q Division). Review by Aaron Shaul.
JB, RIP – posted by James Mann on December 26, 2006 06:50
Teddy Bear filmmakers can return to school – posted by James Mann on December 26, 2006 06:47
Ho Ho Ho…We’re broke – posted by James Mann on December 26, 2006 06:42
When I Was a Writer (Pravda). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Georgia alt rockers Collective Soul wowed the crowd including Michelle Wilson at the Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival Series 2020 opener.