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October 2008

Still Bad

DSC07512I never made it back to Knitting Factory tonight., but the hip-hop party came to me in the form of Miami vets (and 1st Ammendment poster children) 2 Live Crew, who are reuniting for their first album in 10 years. These days, it's only half of the original Crew - Brother Marquis and Fresh Kid Ice - but who cares when they're hitting classics like "Me So Horny," "Hoochie Mama," and "We Want Some Pussy," along with several other titles unfit for a family publication such as this. The crowd was filled with pale-faced kids who were probably in diapers when "As Bad As They Wanna Be" went double-platinum in  '89, but that didn't stop them from getting all nasty on the dancefloor. A wild finish to another CMJ. (More pics below.)

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Wait, is this SXSW?

Wait, is this CMJ or SXSW?While hanging around Santos Party House tonight, I bumped into my co-worker Steve and his wife Sara. They hail from Austin, so we spent the better part of an hour swapping stories about SXSW, ACL, and the various clubs on Red River. (They met at Club DeVille.) Steve told me I should stick around to check out Restaurant: a duo originally from Victoria, TX (they live in LA now) that he got to know while they were at UT. Good call: these guys stir up a mess of experimental roadhouse with nothing but a plugged-in acoustic and a junk heap of gas cans, license plates an old case of Lone Star banged on with a pair of 2 inch-thick dowels (that keep breaking). Singer Troy Murrah ranted something about staying at a Day's Inn in South Brooklyn, next door to a place that sells nachos. Mmm, sounds exotic.

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