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Thanks For The Good Times: A Eulogy For Maxwell's

Thanks For The Good Times: A Eulogy For Maxwell’s

The glory days of a legendary rock club are now gone. Popblerd’s Jim reminisces about Maxwell’s.

The Black Flag Reunion(s): A Tale of Two Flags

The Black Flag Reunion(s): A Tale of Two Flags

What to do when your favorite band has reunited…in two separate iterations.

We Saw It!: Kraftwerk At the Metropolitan Museum of Art 4/13/12

We Saw It!: Kraftwerk At the Metropolitan Museum of Art 4/13/12

I was way beyond amped for this one: Kraftwerk @ MoMA with one of my best friends flying in to see the show! We dutifully got on line at 9:20 (my friend was sent an e-mail confirmation for the tickets, which he had to bring with him, along with the original credit card used to purchase the tickets along with photo ID) and the doors opened at exactly 9:30. No hard tickets; everyone got a wristband, along with a concert […]

The Great Kraftwerk Ticket Scandal Thing Of 2012

Hipsters the world over were sent into convulsions when it was announced that Kraftewerk were performing in NYC in April. No, not like their previous visit in 2005 to the mammoth Hammerstein Ballroom……there were to be eight shows, each one where the band would perform one of their albums IN ITS ENTIRETY. And not just in any concert hall, in the atrium at the Museum of Modern Art. And not at exorbitant prices – $25 a ticket. Word spread quickly […]

R.I.P. R.E.M.: A Fan Remembers

I’m sitting here very bitter, sad & frustrated as I try to bang out this REM obit. Bitter about the idiots who took the time to post on Facebook how happy they were that REM had called it a day, sad because I’ll never see them in concert again, frustrated because I really didn’t care for them for the most part for the past 10 years, and now they’re gone. I always explained my love affair with REM this way: […]