who too see tomorrow Paper Lions/Ex-Models or The Kills?

who too!

Ex-Models over the Kills in a landslide...

The Kills are fucking terrible live. Ex-Models all the way.

I'm seeing the Ex-Models tonite--saw 'em blow Les Savy Fav off the stage a couple months ago at the Mermaid Lounge. Very exciting.

Well the Mermaid tonight it is!

stay home

I should be there--most likely wearing my work uniform ("Audubon Nature Institute: Celebrating the Wonders of Nature!" Ugh.)--so say hi. Anyone know anything about these Paper Lions? They are on Kindercore, which is generally not a good thing.

Fuck staying home and I don't know anything about those bands, but the real deal is you should go see Caroliner Rainbow tonight!

see Caroliner Rainbow tonight!

The local indie-rock promoter-guy told me that he had trouble booking Caroliner--they wanted a $300 guarantee. New Orleans is not the kind of town where more than like 5 people would go see Caroliner. New Orleans is v little fun.

If I lived in New Orleans, I would've paid 'em $300 to play my house. Would be well worth it.

Here's the info on tonight's show, btw:

Northsix couldnt get approved to open for this week so the New York Caroliner Rainbow show has been moved to EUROPA NIGHTCLUB (europaclub.com), 98-104 Meserole Ave. (corner of Manhattan Ave.), Greenpoint, Brooklyn,718-383-5723.

Take G train to Nassau Av. walk one block north to Meserole and Manhattan avenue.

Please foward this info to everyone you know with interest on the gig.
Doors are at 8PM.
Everything else is still as planned and advance tickets are still valid, so come check it out:

THIS THURSDAY APRIL 10!
CAROLINER RAINBOW SPRING SKULLS SET OUT TO SWELTER

With:
Nautical Almanac (+Carlos Giffoni)

Angelblood
(members of no neck blues band and gang gang dance + rita ackermann.)

ORTHO

Caroliner, a black light augmented, go to hell and pump thunder band, was formed in 1983 in order to portray the cabin fever and ergot poisoned hallucinations of early America, namely the 1800s.

Caroliner is renowned for delivering an incredible live show, packed with irridescent dream-like (or nightmarish) props and amazing flourescent costumes. Its really more "like an angry painting come to life" than a band performing...but perform they do. The music is extremely experimental Country & Western/noise, a bit of old fashioned parlor music and a whole lot of energy....even after all this time.

It's been more than a coon's age since Caroliner has done a tour. After putting out 12 records, and touring Japan and the US extensively, they decided to sit back and let the tunes accumulate. A long hiatus finds these historians with a new stage set, shiny new costumes and a new list of antique songs that tell the tales of kettle bottoms dropping, of bug dust and Bilious fever. A recent show at The Great American Music Hall (the first in 3 years!) was extremely succesful. So successful in fact, that they have decided to pack up and hit the trail again in support of the new double LP "Wine Can't do it, Wife Won't Do."

http://www.freedom-from.com/caroliner

nautical almanac: www.heresee.com
carlos giffoni : www.monotract.com
ORTHO: www.ignivomous.org

If I lived in New Orleans, I would've paid 'em $300 to play my house. Would be well worth it.

I can imagine that having Caroliner play yr house would pretty much null any chances of getting yr deposit back.

maybe, but think of the hilarity that would ensue when you asked for it!

Ex-Models, f'real.

The Kills were The Worst Thing Ever when I saw them (with Jon Williams, actually.) As I recall, we left during their set, knowing full well that if we had stayed we would have been able to eat FREE CAKE.

I ended up skipping out tonight--trying day at work etc. Hopefully I did not miss anything too exciting.

I didn't see your uniform Adam. so the the wife and I tried to hold back the uncontrollable urge to ask "are you adam?" of several men who we thought were likely ILM posters!

Theres nothing like a real spastic high energy band playing to 25 people. It amazes me how these bands stay on the road at this rate

i really wish i had read this before i saw The Kills! Rubish, with production ills from start to finish. Us NOLA-ers should begin a "What's Cool To See" tread every week or something.

I saw the ex-models with the yeah yeah yeahs, they were crap.

or maybe I missed the ex-models and the other support band were crap.

yeah, it was ikara colt that were crap.

According to Turducken, DAMO SUZUKI is coming to NOLA in June. AWESOME. Also Peter Brotzmann is playing next month as is Evan Parker. This week there is v little besides Mike Watt--Xiu Xiu cancelled I believe.