After an accidental fire got them booted from their former warehouse, the NIMBY East Bay artist workshop/collective was forced to relocate. Several months (not to mention many thousands of dollars) later, the crew has finally set up shop in their new location at 8410 Amelia Street in East Oakland. That means it's time for a party. Among the live performers at this Saturday's shindig are Sesame Street metalheads Cookie Mongoloid, post-punk howlers Turks, the Cyclecide house band Los Banos, all-f
I'm not a huge fan of mashups, but this Muppet Mashup site is kinda cute, mainly because it ferrets out a lot of songs otherwise lost long ago from the memory banks. DJ BC's remix of "Scooter and the Computer Worms" is a particularly silly techno rave up of a silly ditty about the "new sound so deep down in the ground" made by worms. Generally the songs that work best here keep the whimsical humor of the original tune intact, chopping it down to a couple memorable phrases and adding extra bounce