Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Lebowski Fest documentary
Here is a trailer for "Over The Line," the long-awaited documentary about Lebowski Fest, which still may or may not ever actually get released.
Fiery Furnaces show in Louisville
With very little fanfare preceding them, indie darlings the Fiery Furnaces are coming to town for a show on Monday night.
Led by the sister-brother duo of Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger, the Furnaces will play Uncle Pleasant’s, 2126 S. Preston St.
The show starts at 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $10. As a bonus, former Louisvillian Jason Loewenstein has been playing bass for the band of late. Stop by and say hello.
Fiery Furnaces website
Led by the sister-brother duo of Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger, the Furnaces will play Uncle Pleasant’s, 2126 S. Preston St.
The show starts at 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $10. As a bonus, former Louisvillian Jason Loewenstein has been playing bass for the band of late. Stop by and say hello.
Fiery Furnaces website
New reviews
Check out reviews of Your Black Star, Joe Manning and Tyrone Stampley in the Nov. 1 issue of Velocity.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Rud R.I.P.?
A dire post on MySpace warns that the Rudyard Kipling is on its last legs. Posted by Janie, one of the Old Louisville bar/restaurant's employees, the missive states that the Rud might not be able to muster the cash to renew its liquor license.
"The Rudyard Kipling has been broken into A LOT this year. More than any previous year. Replacing windows, doors, locks, liquor, amongst everything else has been extremely expensive.
"There are many new venues in town (which, of course, is wonderful. We want the music scene alive and widespread throughout Louisville). We haven't been getting the business that you would need to sustain any bar or venue. The regulars that love us and are there often have been keeping us afloat.
"Our liquor licenses and taxes are due on November 1st. If we can't pay it, we can't serve alcohol. I know drinking orange juice or soda pop during a show sounds just lovely, but we'd rather see you all tipsy/plastered."
Is this the end for the Rud? Let us know what you know. Send any info to email@velocityweekly.com.
"The Rudyard Kipling has been broken into A LOT this year. More than any previous year. Replacing windows, doors, locks, liquor, amongst everything else has been extremely expensive.
"There are many new venues in town (which, of course, is wonderful. We want the music scene alive and widespread throughout Louisville). We haven't been getting the business that you would need to sustain any bar or venue. The regulars that love us and are there often have been keeping us afloat.
"Our liquor licenses and taxes are due on November 1st. If we can't pay it, we can't serve alcohol. I know drinking orange juice or soda pop during a show sounds just lovely, but we'd rather see you all tipsy/plastered."
Is this the end for the Rud? Let us know what you know. Send any info to email@velocityweekly.com.
House party
The best music in town isn't always in the clubs. On Saturday night, the Duncan brothers -- Daniel and Jacob -- hosted a Halloween shindig of epic proportions that featured basement performances from Nate the Viking Featuring Dave and Liberation Prophecy.
The former was a dead-on punk riot, culminating with thrown mic stands, broken drums and a virtuoso rendition of "The Loneliest Viking" from Nate Sturdevant, who came dressed as Ignatius J. Reilly from "A Confederacy of Dunces." The latter was a full on avant jazz romp as all nine members of the Prophecy performed a set that rattled the ductwork and provided all in attendance a perfect "I saw them in a basement once" tale that will be told years from now.
Links:
Liberation Prophecy
Nate the Viking featuring Dave
The former was a dead-on punk riot, culminating with thrown mic stands, broken drums and a virtuoso rendition of "The Loneliest Viking" from Nate Sturdevant, who came dressed as Ignatius J. Reilly from "A Confederacy of Dunces." The latter was a full on avant jazz romp as all nine members of the Prophecy performed a set that rattled the ductwork and provided all in attendance a perfect "I saw them in a basement once" tale that will be told years from now.
Links:
Liberation Prophecy
Nate the Viking featuring Dave
Hold Steady show announced
The folks at Production Simple have booked the Hold Steady to play Headliners on Dec. 9.
Tickets are a rather reasonable $10. You can get them via www.Ticketweb.com. Ear X-tacyt might have them, too. (Don't quote us on that.)
The Brooklyn band is touring in support of "Boys and Girls in America."
(You can hear samples of it here.)
Tickets are a rather reasonable $10. You can get them via www.Ticketweb.com. Ear X-tacyt might have them, too. (Don't quote us on that.)
The Brooklyn band is touring in support of "Boys and Girls in America."
(You can hear samples of it here.)
