I don’t know about you, but the dog days of August are making me long for some levity. And what better way to bring in some hilarity than to think about the late Boots Randolph’s delightful “Yakety Sax,” a.k.a. “that Benny Hill Show song,” a.k.a. the best way to make any YouTube clip hilarious? Noted “Yakety Sax” enthusiast Jess Harvell and I put together a pair of lists related to the song—namely, a top 10 countdown of artists who need to cover the song soon, and a counterpoint list of 10 artists who should never get within a 25-mile radius of its implied hilarity, for fear of ruining it for all time. The countdowns after the jump. More »
So the Bamboozle, the annual spring/summer weekend where a bazillion tri-state kids would stand in a Jersey parking lot for a weekend watching Fueled By Ramen bands and bands trying very hard to get called up to the FBR bigs, started out as the world’s biggest mall emo festival. More »
In addition to their December reunion shows, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are “going into the studio to record three new songs, and they plan to release them (along with previously unreleased material and vinyl B-sides) on a CD called Medium Rare.” My plaid heart just skipped a beat. More »
In addition to their December reunion shows, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are “going into the studio to record three new songs, and they plan to release them (along with previously unreleased material and vinyl B-sides) on a CD called Medium Rare.” My plaid heart just skipped a beat. More »
Hey, commenter that made the Bim Skala Bim reunion joke yesterday, I’ll go you one better. Because “the ska-core-est band of all time” is back, according to the Boston Phoenix:
