Tonight is your night bro…

For some reason that quote has been resonating in my mind… It’s from that part in “Twins” when Danny Devito is getting ready for his double date with his twin brother Julius played by the Governator… but tonight is going to be an epic night, Sigur Ros will be playing the Paramount Theatre. The Paramount Theatre is the only venue in Denver that I have only been to once, the first time was seeing La Ley (sweet Spanish rock band from Chile). I will be prepared with my box of tissue and copious amounts of booze.

Local boys from Austin sound like the offspring of Drive by Truckers by way of the Brazos…I I really believe that all this rockabilly hee haw bizness may be on to something.

Okkervil River
Genre: Rock Hometown: Austin TX www.jound.com/okkervil
Showcase information coming soon… –>Saturday, March 18 12:15 a.m.Emo’s Annex (600 Red River St)
Okkervil River – No Key, No PlanDownload Stream

Okkervil River’s Black Sheep Boy is one of 2005’s best-reviewed albums. Writing in the New York Times, Kelefa Sanneh noted that “Will Sheff, leader of the Austin indie-rock band Okkervil River, writes like a novelist. His songs are full of elegant phrases and unexpected images that tell – or don’t quite tell – stories of characters trying to figure out if they need each other…The marvelous new Okkervil River album Black Sheep Boy should advance his cult further.” The Chicago Tribune’s Allison Steward added that “Wordy and dense, prone to murder ballads, full of soft strings and Wurlitzers, [Black Sheep Boy] manages to be both violent and bookish; it’s a striking, woebegone work that offers up its charms slowly…The album winds down with the nine minutes-long “So Come Back, I Am Waiting,” one of many Okkervil River songs that plays out like the strangest Cocteau movie you’ve probably never seen,” and Stephen Deusner wrote in Pitchfork that “Sheff never overplays his hand and always maintains control, which…makes him at once heartbreaking and somewhat humorous – more self-aware than Conor Oberst, more serious than Colin Meloy, more legible than Jeff Mangum.”

So there is too many bands, so I thought I would do two, maybe three if I want to.

The Rakes- This band is dismissed as a young UK post punk band 10 minutes late for the dance punk revolution that was ensued over the last couple of years, but I say off with their heads, dance punk lives…. No, seriously!! Their quick licks and snappy lyrics will reel you in no time…

The Rakes
Genre: Rock Hometown: London UK www.therakes.co.uk
Showcase information coming soon… –>Wednesday, March 15 1:00 a.m.Flamingo Cantina (515 E 6th St)
The Rakes – RetreatDownload Stream
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The Rakes consists of Alan Donohoe: a singer and vivacious reader who draws lyrical inspiration from unlikely places. Guitarist Matthew Swinnerton, whom producer Paul Epworth has called ‘a genius.’ Also calm, collected bassist Jamie Hornsmith and maniac drummer Lasse Petersen, whose notorious on-the-road antics were recently described as ‘unprintable’.

I am a hopeless Woody Allen fan, and it was refreshing to see that he changed the scenery on us by using London as the backdrop to this dark comedy/thriller. Scarlett Johansen (aka God’s gift to man) proved to be quite the muse for Woody because this is his best work since, like, yeah, you get the gist…but this movie scared the bejesus out of me. I have never been this affected by a movie since I saw “Creepshow 2” for the first time. I definately recommend this one!!