Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Posted at
07:42
by
Importer
Tsar photo:
Jim Lowney1. Go ahead and groan, but these kids have been around for a
minute, and what with
outsourcing and all, we always get
patriotic-like when some
fashionable American band capitalizes on all the hard work (and hard rock) that our
Swedish bretheren have suffered through all these years. We rocked the
Tsar advance in the Echo for our girls (ages: 2, 5) and they wrecked shop on their car seats like it was
Kidz Bop or some shit. Tsar is definitely
for the children.
Verdict: pure genius.
Stream a little stream:
Tsar, "Band, Girls, Money"2. What's with all the good rawk bands these days taking the titles of deposed royalty? Skeptics take note:
Louis XIV did the damn thing last night at MidEast. First words out of dude's mouth were
"bang a gong," but top highlight wasn't their straight-up
T-Rex homage ("Letter to Dominique") or even the
single -- but, instead, the non-album track "The Grand Apartment," which was fifteen kinds of Bon Scott goodness. Afterwards, we grilled
their manager on why that song ain't on
Best Little Secrets, and he admitted it had taken him a while to realize it wasn't a cover. "I'm not as up on the AC/DC catalogue as I should be," he sulked. Secondary highlight: hearing "Carrot juice, I wanna squeeze you away until you bleed," while a
tall glass banged her head on my right.
3. Back when local crypto-booty selectors
Plunge Into Death were just getting off the ground,
cartoonist-turned-
indie-rocker-turned-
Miami-bass-fiend Jeff
Czekaj emailed us looking for
Anquette's mid-'80s hit
"Janet Reno," from waaaaay back when Anq was running with
2 Live Crew and
Janet had just become a Panhandle baby-mama hero for
lowering the boom on deadbeat dads. Now the rest of you can hear it thanks to
Fluxblog.
Anquette, "Janet Reno" After downloading that, you
NEED TO go
here to listen to Czekaj -- a/k/a Mark E. Moon -- turn
Cassette,
U.V. Protection,
Big Digits, and
Squids into the Cambridge/Slummerville/Jay-Pizzle megamix of the year.
4. Our boy
Nick gets the big scoop:
Karen O left for a bag of leaves.
5. Stop the presses:
Axl fails to show up for tiny club gig.
