Ra Ra Riot is back in New York City playing two sold out shows tonight and tomorrow night. That’s no surprise. They put on a fun live show and their album, The Rhumb Line, is great. They are one of my favorite bands to see. If you’ve got the chance to go, GO!
If you can’t find a ticket, everyone’s favorite Queen tribute band, Dairy Qween, is playing tonight:
Just a final reminder that our Dairy Qween Live Tribute to Queen will be tonight at 9:30 PM at Ace of Clubs, which is located on the corner of Great Jones Street and Lafayette Street. It is downstairs from Acme restaurant.
You know I love Dolly. And Dolly Parton is everywhere right now. Yesterday, NPR posted a great article about Dolly Parton’s song, Jolene, detailing the origin and history of the song.
Parton says that she got the story for her song from another redhead in her life at the time — a bank teller who was giving Parton’s new husband a little more interest than he had coming.
Dolly released Jolene in 1973 and it didn’t disappear into some dustbin. A testament to the universal appeal of Dolly is the number and variety of artists that have rerecorded her music: Jolene has been covered by The White Stripes, The Sisters of Mercy, Olivia Newton John, and many others.
In related Dolly news, the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery DollyPOP exhibition closed this week. There are a lot of great pieces in the exhibition. Matt Dorfman’s piece above is one of my favorite. If you are like me and couldn’t go to LA to see the exhition, there are lots of pieces scattered across the Internet. Metro Pulse and LA Weekly have great slideshows. You can find out more about Matt Dorfman’s piece and see a few more over at Mammal.
LA must feel like the center of the Dolly universe right now with DollyPOP and the opening of the 9 to 5 musical. Enjoy it while you can LA, soon Dolly will bring her musical to NYC.
It’s been long time since I updated brontosaur.us. My freelance worked picked up dramatically recently and I haven’t had as much free time to work on Brontosaur.us. Enough of that. Here goes.
Golden Bones sounds like a bunch of guys sitting on a front porch in the Appalachian mountains singing and playing for their own enjoyment. (Thank you, Golden Bones, for recording your music and sharing it with the rest of us.) Surprisingly, this music comes from Brooklyn, and not some dusty, coal mining town.
My favorite lyric in the song occurs in the final refrains: “That boy needs me. His mother’s already gone.” I missed it the first few times I listened to the song. But that little detail adds so much context to the story.
Golden Bones is releasing their new album on Friday, October 10th. They’ll be playing a CD release party at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg. Check ‘em out. If you’d like to buy their CD, there is information their myspace page about how get your own copy. I look forward to hearing the rest of the album.
Mason Hedgecoth, A.K.A. Yojimbo, is playing the banjo for Golden Bones. Yojimbo has a lot of great songs in the same vein.
