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Bed spins: The Erotics enjoy their heavy rotation. |
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WEST, YOUNG MEN: The Erotics will play their last local
show for a while at Valentine’s on Saturday, ’cause then they’re
off on a monthlong 14-city U.S. tour that will take them all
the way to sunny L.A. The hard-rock “gutter glam” cats recently
released 21st Century S.O.B. on Fast Lane Records to
raves, and they’re determined to spread the wealth with the
masses. Head on over to Valentine’s and wish them well, won’t
you?
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YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME BRYAN: Soul rocker Bryan Thomas
follows up his 1999 debut, Radio Plastic Jennifer,
with the newly released Ones and Zeroes—recorded at
his home-studio—and it’s available at online retailers CDBaby.com
and Amazon.com. According to the man’s press, “The sound reflects
a somewhat darker take on Thomas’ favored themes of sex and
race and art and God and the end of the world.” What else
is there?
I
LOVE ROCK & ROLL: Rob Skane, passionate purveyor of
garage, folk and rock & roll melodies, has been chosen
to play a showcase at this year’s North by Northeast—the Canadian
version of South by Southwest (twice the mullets, twice the
fun). The event takes place June 7 at Toronto’s Free Times
Café. In more Skane news, “How Many More Times,” a single
off his upcoming release, SelfNoise, hit no. 1 on the
MP3.com Indie Pop/Lo Fi chart recently. Join Skane in celebrating
the new arrival at the Ale House on June 22.
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SAW THE LIGHT: Ex-Clay People Mike Guzzardi (guitar),
Dan Dinsmore (drums) and Brendan Slater (bass)
have found themselves a singer in Dan Cohler, and the
quartet are calling themselves the Illuminati. The
group will tape a Sounding Board episode on June 2, and they’ll
make their live debut as openers for the Living Colour
reunion show at Northern Lights on June 16.
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Where the boys are: Jupiter Sunrise. |
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SUN ALSO RISES: Jupiter Sunrise are one-eighteenth of
the way through a U.S. tour that looks like it’ll never end.
The foursome played Valentine’s on Mother’s Day, after the
beginning leglet of their expedition that took them to Pennsylvania,
Connecticut and various New York state locations. The best
is yet to come, with stops planned in Myrtle Beach, S.C.,
Texarkana, Texas, and Albuquerque, N.M. The lads have been
playing shows with Dashboard Confessional, Piebald, Legends
of the Rodeo and the Conversation. July dates are
planned for the West coast.
POST
TIME: John Brodeur, one of the hardest working men in
show business (such as it is in our humble hamlet), is taking
his band, the Suggestions, to New York City club Downtime
tonight, and The New York Post saw fit to run a teensy
preview blurb on Tuesday (May 14), mentioning, “His Tiger
Pop is full of songs with an amusing take on matters of
the heart. It’s funny in a bittersweet way.” John Brodeur
and the Suggestions are working on an EP slated for a June
release.
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