OK, if you're going to name your festival the On The Waterfront Festival, you can't expect me not to make a bad movie reference, right? (Oh, I see I made the same joke last year. So predictable.)
Aaaanyway, the four-day fest features a nice little lineup of local and not-so-local acts for the kids interspersed amongst a much larger set of bands. Might be worth a trip if you're in the area Labor Day weekend.
Saturday Aug.30th
Mindy Hester (who I don't see listed on the schedule at the moment, but I've been told is playing)
The Deeedle Deedle Dees
Sunday Aug. 31st
The Chickadees
Jim Gill
Afterschool Special: The Terrible Twos in Concert (Presented by Zooglobble)
The Terrible Twos are releasing their new album Jerzy the Giant next week (have you heard it yet?) and to mark the occasion, they're doing some touring the next couple months. At the same time, chief Two (Number One Two?) Matt Pryor is also releasing his first solo record, Confidence Man and to mark the occasion, he's doing some touring the next couple months.
Coincidence? Who cares! There's a show in Phoenix! Presented by Zooglobble (a phrase which I still can't say without chuckling a little). On Wednesday, August 20th, at 6 PM (doors open at 5:30) at downtown Phoenix's Modified Arts, you'll get to see the Terrible Twos in a special early show. It will be energetic, fun, and no small party. Tickets are $5, $3 for the kiddos. Other Terrible Twos dates after the jump.World Premiere: Stream the New Terrible Twos (Jerzy the Giant)
Oh, boy, am I geeked about this.
The Terrible Twos' great new album Jerzy the Giant is out next Tuesday the 29th on Vagrant Records and if you don't want wait for my review, or want to see what the fuss is all about, or just want to listen to the album, have I got a deal for you.
Vagrant Records is allowing me to world premiere the stream of the entire album, and I wouldn't have said yes if I didn't think a lot of you were going to love it. Just click on a song track below to get started. Might I suggest #1 ("Old Man Miller")?... (And go forth and explore that player, it'll even allow you to post it on your own website -- or your kid's if you're that type of family.)
You can preorder the album here or here.
You can preorder the album Back To Austin
It's true, folks, we'll be heading back to Austin in late September for this year's Austin City Limits Festival, and in particular, the Austin Kiddie Limits stage. Now I can engage in my own schedule-balancing as I try to figure out how to maximize my time at the AKL stage while not missing good shows elsewhere around the festival and simultaneously making sure my daughter is having a good time and not getting too tired.
That's right, Miss Mary Mack will be joining me again, and I'm hoping she'll help her dad out a little more this year, what with her new-found experience as a returning festival-goer.
We'll be staying with the Official Brother, Sister-in-Law, and Nephew of Zooglobble, since the Official Mom of Zooglobble will be out of town that weekend. We'll also be flying into Austin instead of Dallas, thereby saving us 3 hours of driving each. Yay!
And, no, I am not the secret replacement for Brian Eno in David Byrne's set (probably my most-anticipated non-AKL set).
But wait, there's more!
And Away They Go...
So Daron, Jack, and Drew are off on their million-mile cross-country Recess-Monkey-ish ciruit of the United States, and it turns out that if you head on over to Spare the Rock occasionally you'll get to hear the boys blogging their way around the country. No word if they'll eventually produce Hamlet at random, but at the very least you'll find out about their adventures as they make their way to Phoenix.
That's right! Phoenix, people! Remember? I told you they're playing Phoenix -- Sunday, August 3rd, 3 PM. Modified Arts in downtown Phoenix. Do not miss this show! Don't make me use more exclamation points!
A Bad Day, Indeed
So by now I'm sure most of you have heard about Barenaked Ladies' guitarist Steven Page's, erm, difficulties. I thought about posting something, then decided against it, mostly because although you, the comfortably adult reader, probably had heard about it, your kids hadn't, and probably wouldn't. So it didn't really seem to, you know, affect you.
But I thought the band pulling out of their Aug. 22-24 appearance at the Disney Music Block Party Tour at the Nassau Coliseum merited at least a mention...
