FRIDAY:
>>> Yo, real talk: Autumn ‘07 is WORK. As in EXHAUSTING. The Rocktober Show Overload is now in full swing, so much so that there’s just general confusion about what is going on, with whom, where at, and when for. (Never mind the “why,” you’ll sleep when you’re dead.) But let us prevent whatever confusion we can: The Ponys are playing with Spoon (who are generally pretty boring, clinical even, live) at the Electric Factory, and Dave P is DJing between sets. BUT Dave P and Erol Alkan and New Young Pony Club all co-headline Making Time at Pure, and that, if you will pardon the pun, is a horse of a different color altogether. No, really: Dave P has rented white horses to parade through Pure tonight, and Red Bull has sponsored legendary graf artist Espo to paint these ponies to look like robotic dinosaurs made from Red Bull cans. (Actually not true, but you know what they say: Print the myth.)
>>> ANYWAY, The Smashing Pumpkins begin a three-night stint at the Tower Theater. No, this is not a late-in-coming Y2K glitch. The Smashing Pumpkins are playing three nights at the Tower Theater. In 2007. After the record industry has died, and yet they still live on like cockroaches you always knew they were. The world is a vampire.
>>> See below for info on our Q&A with director AJ Schnack, go to that early style, and then give him pills when you see him later at Making Time.
>>> Underdog party pick for the week: MySpace Slut Alumnus Oh My Todd’s new party JK LOL debuts at Silk City with Leslie & LY’s (you know, the Vice sweater lady), Lot Six and Turbo Station.
>>> Runners up: Sex Dwarf’s The Dark Side Of New Wave is totally reppin’ Memphis/Revival circa 1987 (sing this corrosion to me) at Fluid; and Spin The Bottle is And Dim Sum’s way of saying, “Aw c’mon, come to Second Street and laugh at the cubicle jockeys with us” at the Khyber. (And I have the nerve to frown when my mom tells me she does not understand a single word of the music stuff on Philebrity. Sigh. Mamaaaa, ooooh-oooh, didn’t mean to make you cry, if I’m not back this time tomorrow, carry on, carry on, because nothing really matters.)
>>> But fuck it: We just spent our whole student loan payments on tickets to see Kanye West and Soulja Boy at the Wachovia Center. Rocktober is really all about intimate momets like this.
SATURDAY:
>>> Knock Knock. Who’s there? Electro legends wearing Jason masks. Electro legends wearing Jason masks WHO? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, it’s MSTRKRFT!!! At Transit with Steven Bloodbath, Shawn Ryan, Emil, Do $ Dan the Swede vs. Jokers of the Scene from Ottawa. Leave early because you do NOT want to have to clean up after this mess.
>>> We heart The 1900s a lot, because we heart Fleetwood Mac even more. They’re at Johnny Brenda’s with ‘Fork faves The Castanets.
>>> And if you’re in NYC, stop by the CMJAWN at Piano’s whereupon Popped and Philebs present The Cobbs/The War On Drugs/Nouveau Riche/Rock Tits.
>>> Afternoon stylee: Tokyo punk rockers Gito Gito Hustler play on the sidewalk outside Sailor Jerry on 13th in SJ’s continuing effort to make BCO posters think that tattoos and chain wallets are still cool. How’s that working out for you, guys? 2pm, free.
SUNDAY:
>>> Do not ask us, Sean Agnew, Dave P or anyone else if they can sneak you into Justice at the Trocadero (moved from the Starlight due to the unpleasantness). They cannot. It’s way sold out, but the afterparty at Silk City promises raging as well, so just get their early and sip your Stella while you peruse your French-English dictionary. For this is just a tiny breather in the breakneck race that is… ROCKTOBER ‘07. Enjoy it, it’s later than you think.
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