people who only listen to rock music are poor suckers

i really can't emphasize enough how sorry i feel for the poor lonely guys listening to their 7"'s in their bed rooms, unhappy in love and HATING dance music, mostly because they can't tell good dance music from crappy dance music, and also probably because they have never dated a hot chick who is into good dance music, and also probably because they can't dance and they're just dorky, nerdy, guys who think "dance music sucks". no- it is you who suck, not the dance music, and if you can't be bothered to even try a new thing once in a while, well screw you. i've been dealing with guys like you for 15 years now, and all i have to say is "how's that working out for you?" do you like hanging around, glowering, at the casbah? is it fun for you? are you having a good time?


acid girls 2/15/07 Powder Room(Beauty Bar San Diego)
guns n bombs 2/22/07 Powder Room(Beauty Bar San Diego)
MSTRKRFT 3/4/3 Below(!)

acid girls mix tape from mid-january(ysi)

guns and bombs mixtape vol. 2(mp3)(YSI)

acid girls track listing:
-Patrick Adams - Disco Juice (AG intro edit)
-Spank Rock - Sweet Talk (beat)
-AG vs JT - Stab My Love
-Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger
-Basement Jaxx - Take Me Back To Your House (Speaker Junk remix)
-Missy Elliot - 4 My People
-Mr Oizo - Patrick122
-Jamelia - Something About You (Crookers rmx)
-J-Kwon - Tipsy (Radio Slave remix)
-Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks
-Solid Groove & Sinden - Red Hot
-Digitalism - Zdarlight
-The Gossip - Standing In the Way of Control (Soulwax Nite Version)
-Daft Punk - Around the World
-Tiga - Move My Body (Faex's notonly4erol edit)
-The Pixies - Velouria (Acid Girls edit)
-TTC - Quand Je Claque Des Doigts
-UNK - Walk it Out
-UNK - Walk it Out (chopped & screwed by acid girls)
-Klaxons - Golden Skans (SebastiAn 2.1.0 AG re-chop)
-Mustapha 3000 - Kongo Thong
-Armand Van Helden ft. Fat Joe - Touch Your Toes
-Patrick Cowley - Get a Little (Acid Girls edit)
-Spank Rock - Sweet Talk (beat)
-AG vs JT - Stab My Love (reprise)
-Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger (stab)
-Beastie Boys - Slow and Low on loop
-Crystal Castles - No Skin
-Basement Jaxx & Speaker Junk - Just a Beat

show review: fifty on their heels @ powder room

or should i say "soon to be discontinued powder room". What's up with that- they booked Flosstradamus, Paparazzi and GUNS N' BOMBS this year, so i don't know what the story is with the "last powder room" business. anyone want to tell me why guns n' bombs is the last powder room?

anyway- fifty played last night b/c it was Stefanie's b day. Stefanie is a member of "Vega Inc." and we all love her (some members of fifty on their heels more than others). most of you probably know stefanie as the door lady for transport and vega's nights @ the beauty bar san diego. or from her work at a salon, or her job at that burger place, or maybe from hPublish Poster studies at UCSD. she is busy, and, as of last night... 22. ha-ha. Happy 22nd birthday, Stefanie.

So basically last night was a special birthday performance. fifty on their heels played 2 new compositions. since we're not going to sxsw, we now have time to finish recording our full length. i was modestly pleased with the thursday night turn out. i think it's impossible to say whether powder room really has any momentum as a night, but they are booking great dj acts. i'm really looking forward to guns n bombs, and i'm wondering who is going to replace powder room. also i'm wondering- does vega book all the musical acts there or what? is he still offically working for the beauty bar- or does he just have a night or two? i find the business relationships of beauty bar san diego to be wholly impenetrable, which is saying something for a criminal defense attorney with experience in white collar crime and the music world. honestly, i would say the lack of clarity lends itself to a nickname like "the beauty bar mafia". not in the organized crime sense, but certainly in the organizational sense, since, like the mafia, the relationships and hierarchy are obscured by a veil.

I mean, let me ask you- who books the casbah? tim mays. who books canes? pamela johnson. A lack of clarity in the booking contact operates to the detrimnet of the venue, all other things being equal. i guess it's all a business/power struggle, but one thing is key- control of the booking calendar is ultimate control. every promoter should be shooting for that.

anyway, from what i heard last night, the songwriting for fifty has grown and matured. the new songs are more "post-punk" then "punk" and have a more ambitious feel to them. junior executed a near perfect spin move (been working on that one, junior?). and i was pleased to see real people mouthing lyrics to songs and enjoying themselves. the crowd grew larger during the set, which was weird.


some people sat at the bar during fifty on their heels set- like--- kid lighting aka jamal aka house of blues booker(?)- that's you in the expos hat? yes? hey man, that's cool. i just wonder what booking at the house of blues san diego even actually does, since 90% of their acts are booked nationally (on tours of other house of blues locations!). i dunno, the bottom line is that i've never met him, so maybe i'll just introduce myself next time. honestly, that probably just means he doesn't like fifty on their heels- i'm cool with that- it's like anya marina. i respect people who aren't afraid to let other people know that they aren't into their sound.

i actually caught his dj set before flosstradamus and i was really impressed- i heard some dj assault, and, i'm thinking- some dj funk, too. ghettotecg 4 eva (disco d rest in peace!). so the fact is, he was there, and he didn't watch the fifty on their heels set. that's all i'm saying. not a big deal, but noted.

like the folks who hang outside during casbah performances- it doesn't matter, all it means is that you don't give a fuck about the band that is playing, and that is the band's problem to deal with- not yours. it's just funny because at SOME shows- that doesn't happen (skull kontrol). the lower the percentage of people not watching the band, the cooler the crowd. how's that for a rule of thumb?

tonight only FIFTY ON THEIR HEELS v. BEAUTY BAR SAN DIEGO (did i mention it's TONIGHT?)

i promise this guy will be there.

fifty on their heels will be debuting some new songs they've been working on over the last couple of months.
dj paparazzi is there- richard oh?! from big stereo said that's he's good- so you should want to check him out.
and every single show fifty plays @ beauty bar san diego is utter fucking mayhem. so get the lead out-- and don't be a afraid to come up to me and say "hey- you do the cat dirt blog!" yes- yes i do.

sample follow up questions:
"have you heard the new fall out boy record?"
"are you going to sign another band to cat dirt records?"
"why are you so obsessed with that picture from fashion whore with that guy?"
"what's up with that guy from fashion whore?"

steve reich "six pianos" mp3 (live perfromance 1977)

i was scrolling through my hype machine rss feed(awesome!) when I saw this little gem- an mp3 of steve reich's seminal "six pianos" in all it's 18 minute glory. although reich is categorized as a "classical" musician, his experiments with overlapping sounds and reptition are a CLEAR forerunner of the move toward electronic music. he was undoubtably a direct influence on the early creators of modern "electronic" music and "kraut rock". Reich is from the San Francisco area, but his influence is international, and i don't think it's a stretch to call him the most important composer of the 20th century. hard to believe that is a performance from 1977, but there you go...

steve reich "six pianos" mp3(live, 1977)

new! Fox Rox video channel on You Tube

tv on the radio "staring on the sun"


fox rox video channel(you tube)

fox rox is finally heeding the advice i gave them six months ago and putting all its videos up on a you tube channel. brilliant! i'm not sure if a show that has been continously broadcasted on a network affiliate in a major market for several years can EVER qualify as "under rated", but if it can be- this is it. fox rox does a good job of balancing local acts with national touring acts, and the national touring acts are usually pretty cool. so check out the video channel on you tube- it's more fun then their own site, because you can repost the videos from your favorite local bands.

week in weeklies: uv tigers on a break or broken up?

from san diego city beat "local's only":

If you haven't seen UV Tigers around town lately, it's because they've taken some time off while frontman Gary Hankins writes new material. Guitarist Aaron Swanton is working on a solo album, with some promising downtempo rock-tronica songs featured on his MySpace page. www.myspace.com/ultraviolettigers, www.myspace.com/aaronswanton.

comment: that is not what i've heard. i've heard the uv tigers are over. i welcome any contradiction of the above statement.

from the reader:

Big in Norway While some local bands struggle to play outside the Southwest, the Bloody Hollies are planning their fourth tour of Europe.

"The first time we played Tromsö, Norway, we got there at noon and it was already dark," says guitarist Joey Horgen. "We sold out all of our merch two hours before we even went onstage." Overseas, they play venues sized "between the Casbah and a 2000-seat hall" and usually earn three times what they would make at a U.S. gig. A Holland-based agent puts the tour together. They travel with a road manager who speaks six languages and acts as a roadie, translator, negotiator, driver, and merch boss.

Horgen says the European hookup was made before he joined the band two years ago. Since 2001, the Bloody Hollies have played Holland, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Austria, France, Norway, and Denmark.

"They don't really receive a lot of bands over there. Plus, the name is a huge plus. It conjures up lots of visions. If I was some guy in Darmstadt, Germany, and I picked up the paper and saw the name Bloody Hollies, that would get my curiosity flowing."

Horgen says their gritty blues/punk/R&B style suits European taste.

"Europeans, in general, are open to a lot more different things. They don't even know what the word emo is. Europe is heavy into garage rock just as the U.S. is into manufactured pop."

The Bloody Hollies left for a 32-city tour of the U.S. on Tuesday, which includes a stop at SXSW on March 16. Their European tour begins June 1. -- Ken Leighton

comment: that is totally true- when i was in germany it seemed like rockabilly and garage rock was the only "underground" rock scene to speak of. also true that they just don't have a lot of punk/rock bands in europe.

cat dirt weekender(edit): grand ole party/the vultures/the muslims friday @ tower bar

um... i probably should have had this in my original friday listing intead of a show that was happening next week. oops

Grand Ole Party
The Vultures
The Muslims
TOWER BAR
$3/ 21+

i have received word that the atoms @ liars club is @ 7 PM, so that's a fairly obvious one-two punch.

holy shit does san diego have it going on right now.

mark your calendar: cat dirt major label show case @ the ken club on 2/23/07

is everyone signed up with upcoming.org? awesome little site, there. good for events promotion.

cat dirt major label showcase with fifty on their heels(san diego), the new mother fuckers(los angeles) and zerox(chula vista) 2/23/07(FRIDAY)

fifty on their heels is back; playing beauty bar san diego on thursday

i wouldn't call fifty on their heels performance at the beauty bar san diego "legendary", but "semi-legendary"; maybe. i mean, first on their heels played the first opening night of the beauty bar - december 30 last year, that was a fun night - chaos! whatever, you don't want to miss it on thursday... plan "A" for sheezy, my neezy(sic). last time they played the beauty bar was november 17 with teenage talking cars