So you like French stuff? And you like free stuff? And you're looking to book your December datebook with as many holiday soirees as possible? Then here's one for the calendar: Rickshaw Stop is hosting Bardot a Go Go's "Holiday a Go Go," a free shindig where DJs spin "French Pop, Northern Soul, Shagadelic Sixties, and Bubblegum-Psych," on Wednesday, Dec. 10 from 9 p.m. 'til close. (One of our regular scribes, Dan Strachota, is among the dudes on the decks that night.) Dress in your '60s best
Lady Sovereign: Smelt it, dealt it, one stinker of a showWe posted the video from Lady Sovereign's performance at Rickshaw Stop on May 24, but for those who want to skip to the highlights (or lowlights, as it were), she performed a whopping three songs, total.
She stopped her set two songs in to go on a rant about the sound, qualifying her harsh words by saying "I'm not being an asshole, I'm just honest." She then dragged out her complaints, adding, "I will never play here again, I swear that.
Actually from ATL: Deerhunter
Noise Pop week is once again upon us, and Rickshaw Stop talent buyer Dan Strachota has a secret he just can't keep under wraps any longer: a free, all-ages show Wednesday night by "two big-name NYC noise pop bands" (though one is originally from Atlanta).
One of those bands happens to be Deerhunter; the other, on their maiden SF voyage, is The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. As Strachota gushes, The Pains sound like "killer early MBV/JAMC fuzz," and if those
"Jonathan Lethem's last two novels -- 2003's Fortress of Solitude and 2007's You Don't Love Me Yet -- steered away from the sci-fi leanings of his early work. The talking kangaroos, post-apocalyptic telepaths, and alien hermaphrodites were replaced by flying children and mysteriously endowed songwriters. Okay, so pretty much everything the one-time local author concocts has some element of magic to it. Lethem's latest opus, Chronic City, is no different, offering up chocolate-scented fog, an
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