If you don't go see the Artist Formerly Known As Donna Summer, AKA Jason Forrest, and Duran Duran Duran, well I'm taking away your membership card. Last night they came, they rocked, they pummeled the citizens, they dropped the bomb, and then they did it all over again.
Duran Duran Duran proved once again that breakcore is the vanguard of creativity in electronic music right now. He started off hard and manic, where less fearless musicians might hold back something to build up to, but then he just kept piling on the breaks, getting more intense. Jason -- well, if you want to know how you can play a laptop set that actually engages and amuses and rocks, I've got two words for you: air guitar. Well, and two more words: iBook Cozy. His M.O. is to pick apart hoary 70s prog and rock classics, then reassemble them with all the parts that RAWK piled together. I heard Blood Sweat and Tears, the Beatles, J Geils Band, and many, many more go into his cuisinart and come out as a million thrashy pieces. And the new Cock Rock Disco CDs and records are sweet. And much respect for putting together a tour of all those towns the hipster acts ignore. Des Moines? Buffalo? Lansing? F*CK YEAH. 3/23 Des Moines, IA Vaudeville Mews 3/24 Chicago, IL Subterranean- With DDD and Stunt Rock 3/25 Grand Rapids, MI Urban Institue for Contemporary Arts 3/26 Lansing, MI Temple w/ Blowfly 3/27 Detroit, MI Magic Stick 3/28 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop 3/29 Buffalo, NY Soundlab 3/30 Toronto, ON Sneaky Dee's 3/31 Montreal, QB Friendship Cove 4/1 Boston, MA Bill's 4/2 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's 4/3 Brooklyn, NY Northsix 4/4 Philadelphia, PA Khyber/R5 4/5 Washington, DC Warehouse Next Door - W- Food For Animals 4/6 Richmond, VA TBA 4/7 Charlottesville, VA Satellite Ballroom 4/8 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
