Le Grand Magistry Showcase, featuring Toog, Baxendale, Stars, My Life Story, and Momus, at Fez, New York City, NY on October 21, 2000. Concert review by Jason Feifer.

Desoto Records Showcase, featuring the Dismemberment Plan, Burning Airlines, Black Beetle, and the Eternals at the NYU Thompson Center in New York City, NY on October 20, 2000. Concert review by Julio Diaz.

Spoozys at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, NY on October 19, 2000. Concert review by Julio Diaz.

Front 242, with Cassandra Complex, at Irving Center in New York City on September 28, 2000. Concert review by Kiran Aditham.

If you or your staff sees fit, this can be posted as the ramblings of a fucked-up son-of-a-bitch……if you correct the spelling errors, of course (it is time for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and her boyfriend’s new show, Angel……no way I’m gonna check for stupid-assed grammar and shit while that piece of work is on the air).

Spending so much time in such a relaxed, non-confrontational atmosphere has somewhat dulled my killer instincts. And now, of all places to relocate to, I pick New York City. That’s right, the Mecca of all Western Civilization, as an old friend once referred to it (that old friend now sells drugs in Washington Square Park, among other horribly communist and leftist occupations). There is speed in the water in NYC. This is not a lie.