Archive for November, 2006

CMJ Is Overrated For The Underage

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

As a music enthusiast, not in possession of that special little piece of laminated plastic which marks my birth date as somewhere before 1986, New York’s CMJ Festival presents a lot of problems. Half of the shows I wanted to see had sold out the month prior, or reserved their overpriced ticket sales until the […]

Honne Wells @ Bubby’s Pie Company

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

In preparation for the next collaborative Rocktopus roof party, the Rats Of NiMH are throwing a free ‘lil git-ter-gather at Bubby’s Pie Company in DUMBO. There are going to be a some old folk and blues performances (most notably by Honne Wells, the most snappily dressed throat-singer to ever dredge his guitar out of […]

 
We dream of un-confiscated forties, shit-cheap liquor off a plywood bar, smoking inside, bands in the backyard, in the basement, in the bathtub. Out of necessity, we do shows at venues that are pretty lenient by New York standards, but in a perfect world every show would happen at home (in this city of eternal roommates). To get to the nitty-gritty, if you have a space, and think music forcefully shoved inside might work for us both, drop us an email. We can use all shapes and sizes, from pretty little alleyways or back porches for an acoustic kind of good time, or an industrial-looking basement for around 100 kids to spazz the fuck out in…