Honus Honus of MAN MAN to make an in-studio WRFL appearance
Honus Honus of Man Man will be making a stop by the WRFL studios on Thursday (tomorrow) during Dave Condra’s most excellent show The Belfry, 4-6 pm, before that evening’s show at Cosmic Charlie’s.
No word on exactly what time said appearance will take place, but Dave’s show is always worth a listen so just make sure you’re on it at 4 pm. If they can finagle a piano into the on-air room, he’ll be playing some solo piano tunes.
Lexingtonians and other central Kentuckians can pick it up at 88.1 fm on the dial; the rest of the world can stream it at wrfl.fm. In case you didn’t know, WRFL rules.
To win a pair of tickets to see MAN MAN tomorrow night, see entry below! Cheers!
Thursday Thursday Thursday!
Thursday is one of those days where I am truly hoping my attempts to clone myself will finally come to fruition: Man Man AND Growing are playing in Lexington on the same night (Cosmic Charlie’s and Al’s Bar, respectively).
Philadelphia pirate rock a la Man Man
THURSDAY MAY 13
MAN MAN at Cosmic Charlie’s
18+
$12 ($15 if you are under $21)
Man Man = one of the most universally fun bands to witness in a live setting, in all their beetnik-pirates-on-acid glory. Dark and upbeat, scary and funny all at once. No doubt this show will be packed to the gills and no doubt everyone will be having a glorious time. And Blueline has a pair of tickets for one lucky reader and a friend! Contest rules are very simple but you must follow these instructions or else you are disqualified – e-mail kyblueline@gmail.com with your name, phone number, and list something most people don’t know about you. Winner will be dran at random around lunchtime Thursday, and I will call the winner before 5 pm so be sure to check yo phone.
Word is that Man Man are to start at 9 pm sharp so get there early (their last Lex appearance sold out Buster’s, which is twice as big as Charlie’s).
ALSO THURSDAY, MAY 13
GROWING w/ Three-Legged Race and Palaks at Al’s Bar
All Ages
$5
Because I have seen Man Man a handful of times, and Growing has been on my To See List for
Experimental drone/dance/electro-ambience
I don’t have any tickets to give away for this one, but it is well worth your $5.
Three-Legged Race – solo electro-audio project of Robert Beatty (Hair Police, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, etc. etc. etc.)
Palaks – also local but don’t have any info on them, sowwy
P.S. If you’re COMPLETELY broke-ass poor, Sidecar (next to Al’s on Limestone) will be featuring the never-before-seen DJ duo Maggie Lanham and WRFL DJ/North of Center Music Editor Nick Kidd for free. 21+, beer only, usually starts around 9:30ish.
Sugar & Gold at Buster’s tonight!
Just a reminder…San Francisco glitter disco pop Sugar & Gold are bringing their dance dance magic to Buster’s tonight. Joining them will be Cincy purveyors of pop The Seedy Seeds and Lexington’s groovetastic Goldenrod. $7
Devo, She & Him, more than 70 other artists added to Forecastle line-up
Louisville’s FORECASTLE FESTIVAL (July 9-11) has announced a slew of new artist additions, including Devo, She & Him, Cake, Umphrey’s McGee, Against me! and Grace Potter and the Nocturnals to their line-up, along with lots of others. L.A. circus troupe Cirque Berzerk, said to combine aerial acrobatics with French burlesque and a punk rock aesthetic, will be making their first festival appearance outside Burning Man. Get your tickets now at CD Central, Shake-It Records, Ear-X-Tacy and ticketmaster.com.
After parties on the Belle of Louisville have also been announced (Big Gigantic and Ana Sia for Friday; EOTO for Saturday ~ after-party tickets on sale now).
More artist announcements to come.
The initial schedule:
FRIDAY JULY 9:
Widespread Panic
Manchester Orchestra
Cirque Berzerk
Drive-By Truckers
Lucero
Dead Confederate
Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s
All The Day Holiday
Light Pollution
Frontier Ruckus
Kinetix
The New Deal
Savoy
Treasure Fingers
Tony Desaro
Andy B
Garganta
Arnett Hollow
Adventue
Dangerbird
The Tillers
Yardsale
23 String Band
EOTO
The Disco Aliens
Ana Sia
Big Gigantic
SATURDAY JULY 10:
DEVO
Bassnectar
Cirque Berzerk
Cake
Umphrey’s McGee
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Cap’n Jazz
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Cloud Cult
Foxy Shazam
That One Guy
Bear Hands
Civil Twilight
Wax Fang
Mucca Pazza
The Tillers
Black Diamond Heavies
Lucky Pineapple
EOTO
Break Science
Mimosa
Two Fresh
Booty Sweat
Amtrak
The Disco Aliens
Willy Joy
Frontiers
Brett Eugene Ralph’s Kentucky Chrome Revue
The Doloreans
The Broken Spurs
Scanners
Madien Radio
Straight A’s
Bad Blood
Scott Mertz
SUNDAY JULY 11
The Flaming Lips
Spoon
Cirque Berzerk
She & Him
Minus The Bear
Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek
Dar Williams
Joe Purdy
Against Me!
Ted Leo and The Phramacists
Company Of Thieves
Paper Route
Jukebox The Ghost
Morning Teleportation
Death On Two Wheels
500 Miles To Memphis
Dawn Landes & The Hounds
Vandaveer
Pop Empire
Quinn Erwin
Boombox
Papadosio
Heavyweight Dub Champion
Greenskeepers
John Napier
Quantum 38
Sam Gracie
Paul K and The Weathermen
The Ravenna Colt
Parlour
The Fervor
The Pass
Whistle Peak
Lamis
The Commenwealth
Six White Horses
Just annuonced…Built to Spill to play Headliners August 29
Headliners (Louisville)
Adv $18 / Day 0f $20
On sale 5/14 @ 10am
Lyric Theater Community Meeting Next Monday
Jefferson St. revitilazation featured in Herald Leader
There was a nice article on Kentucky.com this morning about the renaissance on Jefferson St. over the past year or so, including new businesses Cuppa (a specialty tea & coffee shop); The Grey Goose (casual/upscale bar with a huge patio, pizza & bar food); Stella’s (which expanded its hours to include dinner in the past year); Wine + Market (which now offers BBQ cooked up by Johnny Shipley every Friday afternoon); Green Lantern (one of the best dive bars around); and other new businesses to open soon.
This revitalization has been rather quiet and seemingly completely organic, and all of these places seem to be doing really well so far. Be sure to stop in these businesses and show them some love if you are interested in seeing downtown and the surrounding areas become even more successful.
Check out the article here.
WRFL has lined up 2 final shows for the semester
WRFL has booked 2 great shows to close out a great school year of shows. Expect more where that came from next year!
TONIGHT – Wednesday, May 6 – Josephine Foster and Guilty Feelings at the Main Street Gumbo Ya Ya. Ms. Foster is a breathtaking singer-songwriter whose influences range from free-jazz to folk to opera to psychedelia to blues. Gulty Feelings is a new psych-folk group featuring members of Wretched Worst and ARA. Should be a spellbinding performance from both acts and it’s only 5 freakin’ dollars. 8:30 p.m., all ages, bring the kiddos.
Thursday, May 7 – Baby Dee at Niles Gallery in the Lucille Little Library on UK’s campus. This show should also be pretty spectacular. Baby Dee too draws from an eclectic group of influences, including chamber baroque and her experiences as a transvestite traveling with the circus. But her talent doesn’t draw from any sort of gimmick; it’s very pure and honest. Her shows have floored Lexington audiences in the past. Her last album was touted by Bonnie Prince Billy, who helped secure her a deal with Drag City. A rare acoustic set from Everyone Lives Everyone Wins (whose shows are usually loud as all hell) and a set by new folk duo Silverware (featuring WRFL’s own Ainsley Wagoner) will kick off the evening. Seating is very limited, get there early. $5, 8 p.m.
A partial list of shows that WRFL hosted during the 2009/2010 school year: Black Moth Super Rainbow, No Age, Mission of Burma, Lushlife, Faust, Atlas Sound, Os Mutantes, Black Angels, Disappears, Rachel Grimes, Kurt Vile, Psychedelic Horseshit, Tara Jane O’Neil, Mount Eerie, Peter Brontzmann, lots others……
May is Bike Month in Lex
May is Bike Month in Lexington, and Bike Lexington has organized all kinds of great bike-friendly events for practically every single day of the month.
Check out the Bike Lexington Calendar for more into on bike events this month. Some of the highlights from this week’s events include:
- Wednesday, May 5 – Bike Polo at Coolavin Park
- Thursday, May 6 – Thursday Night Live + Progressive Dinner
- Friday, May 7 – Halloween in May Alley Cat at Arboretum/karaoke after-party at Sidecar
Check out an informative piece by local cycling expert Brad Flowers, featured on Progress Lexington today. Also, Chevy Chaser and Southsider Magazines featured some nice pieces about commuter biking and bike safety (and I’m not just saying that because the publications happen to employ me).
Ticket giveaway : ROYAL BANGS at Buster’s Thursday
Blueline is giving away some tickets to this Thursday’s show at Buster’s, which features a pretty exciting line-up:
- Royal Bangs
- Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun
- Vicious Guns
- Brenn
The show is $10/ 18 + / 9 pm/ Thursday May 6. More info on all the bands can be found on Buster’s calendar.
E-mail kyblueline@gmail.com with MAY 6 TICKETS in the subject line for your chance to win. I’ll draw & contact a winner by 4 pm the day of the show. Stay tune for more Buster’s ticket giveaways in the near future, including GWAR, Clutch, Sugar & Gold and of Montreal!
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