I just started promoting a New York City funk / house / soul group called The Mark Point Six. They are playing a live show Friday, September 27th (tomorrow!) at 9:30pm at a bar called Opaline (located at 85 Avenue A between 5th & 6th Sts. in the East Village). There will be an open bar from 9-10pm. Afterwards, there will be more musical acts throughout the evening.
Mentioning my name at the door will get you in for $6; otherwise, admission is $10.
Please feel free to blog the event or forward this information to anyone who you think would be interested. Contact me if you have any inquiries about the band or directions to the venue, questions, comments, et cetera. I look forward to seeing you there!
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a friend of mine passed on to me a copy of the 1986 Wang Chung album, Mosaic. Over time, it got lost in my cornucopia of oft-neglected records, but tonight I decided to pop the baby into ye olde CD player. What did I discover?
This album is really, really good! Does that make me a total dweeb for saying so? Totally!
Speaking of the 1980s, I came across this quasi-manifesto tonight. I used to forward this kind of "We are the children of the 80s" tripe around to my friends circa 1995, but this one is rather well-written and even a little interesting, despite its 1) misnomer and criticism involving Debbie Harry / Blondie, and 2) declaration that A-ha is a "joke" band. Growl. A-ha fans of the world, unite!
Saw Das Experiment the other night, the German film based on the actual Stanford experiment, which divided a group of twenty male participants into role-play guards and prisoners in a penitentiary. Eerily, the subjects started to exhibit the violent behavior typically associated with the roles, hence, the experiment ending in violence and death for some. This film is genuinely disturbing to watch. I seriously recommend checking it out.
On a lighter note, I look forward to Chicago. Five bucks says bobs and 1920s-styled hair becomes all the rage as soon as the flick comes out. Like when Bonnie and Clyde was released in '67, the 1930s/1960s Faye Dunaway styles were hip. And when Jurassic Park came out, everyone started dressing like dinosaurs. Yeah. Remember that? That was cool.
Duran Duran, Pop Trash
Gary Numan, The Pleasure Principle
Cyndi Lauper, She's So Unusual
Alphaville, Forever Young
The Vaselines, The Way of the Vaselines
Juliana Hatfield, Only Everything
P.J. Harvey, Is This Desire?
The Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks
Frente, Marvin the Album
Destiny's Child, The Writing's on the Wall
The Cars, The Cars
The B-52s, Cosmic Thing
Duran Duran, Arena
The Doors, The Soft Parade Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
L7, Hungry for Stink
The Dandy Warhols, The Dandy Warhols
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Ace of Base, The Sign
The Waitresses, The Best of the Waitresses
Belle & Sebastian, Lazy Line Painter Jane
The Fad, The Fad The New Wave: Pop Music of the Early '80s
Goodbye Girl Friday, Mr. & Mrs.
Naked Highway, Hyperbollocks
Duran Duran, Pop Trash Classic Alternatives: '80s 12" Extended Rare Mixes
Phil Collins, Hits
Genesis, Turn It On Again: The Hits
Ladytron, Light & Magic
Ladytron, 604
The Go-Betweens, Before Hollywood
Beck, Midnight Vultures
Duran Duran, Seven & the Ragged Tiger
Abba, Arrival
The Cardigans, Long Gone Before Daylight
The Psychedelic Furs, All of This & Nothing
Air, Moon Safari
The Knack, Round Trip
Blondie, Parallel Lines
The Psychedelic Furs, Forever Now
The Donnas, Spend the Night
Nancy Sinatra, California Girl
Tatu, 200 KMH in the Wrong Lane
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation
John-Manuel Andriote, Hot Stuff: A Brief History of Disco
Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Jean Kilbourne, Deadly Persuasion
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
