over at said the gramophone

rock garden. 7pm. all ages. $5

Risky Business
Envision - we’re back!
CI - up tha punx
Malfunction - 1st damn show

We played our first show May 1996 with sHEAVY at the Star of the Sea Hall in St.John’s Newfondland, we will be playing our last show May 2007 at Junctions in St. John’s Newfoundland.

- from their MySpace blog

Final Halifax Shows
Friday March 30 (more…)

from i (heart) music. Includes a link to opening track, “Lovely Allen” which has Owen Pallett on it.

Interesting

The Cover:

The Story
Well the link to the story.

Pitchfork gave The Weirdness, the Stooges reunion album a whopping 1.0*

Funny thing is, I pretty much agree with all they had to say and I’m a big Stooges fan (I feel all reviews I’ve read to date were from actual fans too):

A big reason why the Stooges’ discography has aged so much better than, say, Jefferson Airplane’s, is that they avoided topicality and period detail, instead favoring a simple, provocative language– little dolls with cigarettes and pretty faces going to hell– that still simmers with deviant suggestion. The Weirdness, on the other hand, is practically begging to be dated

That the Stooges can ably relive past glories onstage only reinforces the sobering realization that one of rock’n'roll’s most infallible discographies has now been saddled with an unwanted stepchild.

From another review elsewhere:

“Rock critics won’t like this at all,” Iggy boasts at one point. Fair enough. Thing is, neither will anybody who’s been a Stooges fan their whole life.

Sales to date seem to be about as positive as the reviews.
Sad.

* Jason MacIssac seemed to take great pleasure, maybe too much, in posting this. haha - probably the first hint I’ve ever seen in him of an “evil” side.

Ignore my last post where I was so proud of myself for being a day early….

This was left in the comments on another post as well:

We also are putting on a midnight movie for the guys of terratomb, the showing is April 6th at the oxford theatre and costs $5 and the movie is Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke so it should be a good time!

I don’t know of they picked up in smoke for a joke or what, but as noted, it should be a good time and for a good reason.

I’m impressed with myself [screw the band] on this post. I’m posting not the day of, last minute or even after the show has started but a full freaking day before the show!!!! [show poster at end of post] (more…)

The awards were handed out last night at the Attic in anticipation of today’s issue. Congrats to all the winners.

Their Majesties were runners up in 3 categories:
2nd runner up for Best New Local Artist [I’m not so sure I’d consider the guys new, but but sure, why not]
1st runner up [to the Stance] for Best Dressed Local Act
1st runner up to In Flight Safety for Best Local Album

You can read all the results online or pick up a copy out now.