Kiss is teaming up with Eventful.com to have a fan-driven itinerary for their fall '09 tour: eventful.com/kiss
I want EVERYDAMNONE to vote Huntington. The internet is a weird place--Kingston, Ontario currently has the highest demand, so certainly Huntington deserves to be right up there.
For now, where does the Tri-State stack up? (not just Huntington, but other places we tend to go for concerts...)
#21--Columbus
#28--Cincinnati
#43--Louisville
#70--Lexington
#85--Charleston
#139--Pikeville
#151--Huntington
#335--Morgantown (WHOO WE'RE BEATING THE COUCHBURNERS)
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Rumors--2009 Virgin Mobile Festival
Those who know me well know this is my favorite concert (and indeed the only festival I've been bothered to spend money on!); I just saw a blurb at Consequence of Sound about this year's potential incarnation.
Bad news: it may not take place at venerable Pimlico, which may in fact meet the wrecking ball shortly acc. to the CoS guys (being based out of DC, their sources are probably a tick better than mine)! The rumor is that if it isn't at Pimlico, it will end up just outside Baltimore, at Meriwether Post Pavillion.
Good news: METALLICA MAY HEADLINE. Or at least that's one rumor. The lineups are very eclectic, but heavy on stuff that sells a zillion copies in England.
Bad news: it may not take place at venerable Pimlico, which may in fact meet the wrecking ball shortly acc. to the CoS guys (being based out of DC, their sources are probably a tick better than mine)! The rumor is that if it isn't at Pimlico, it will end up just outside Baltimore, at Meriwether Post Pavillion.
Good news: METALLICA MAY HEADLINE. Or at least that's one rumor. The lineups are very eclectic, but heavy on stuff that sells a zillion copies in England.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Kick my ass for March Madness
We've got our March Madness game going (printable bracket at the Real Rock Website) for gobs of fun Planet goodies, but if you want the extra thrill of knowing you're better at this stuff than I am, I'm in two free bracket games online: one at Yahoo ("HerdNation.com") and one at ESPN.com ("Fans of Marshall"). It's free to sign up (if you aren't already signed up), and if you want to razz me my bracket is very clearly marked. Let the games begin!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
While I have this 100-degree fever, let's talk about Lexington
A fantastic place. It's like Huntington if it actually applied itself--big-ass skyscrapers, an indie-paper worth half a damn, and--oh yeah, a 22,000 seat arena.
Highlights:
--Reevis recommended a place called Raising Cane's, and I will recommend it as well if you're heading that way--it's a restaurant that serves NOTHING BUT CHICKEN FINGERS. Great sauce too, I can't put my finger on the recipe but I think it shares a few things in common with Big Mac Sauce. Also got my first taste of Krystal.
--The show itself? Pretty damn good. A few things I didn't mention when I was twittering like crazy:
Highlights:
--Reevis recommended a place called Raising Cane's, and I will recommend it as well if you're heading that way--it's a restaurant that serves NOTHING BUT CHICKEN FINGERS. Great sauce too, I can't put my finger on the recipe but I think it shares a few things in common with Big Mac Sauce. Also got my first taste of Krystal.
--The show itself? Pretty damn good. A few things I didn't mention when I was twittering like crazy:
- they serve wine at the concessions stand at Rupp--$5 a glass (cheaper than beer!)
- Seether's show was by far the best; I like the whole "speak softly, kick a lot of ass" thing
- I saw a house that had been turned into a Subway. No, really.
Monday, February 16, 2009
My love of cars driving around in circles
Watched the Daytona 5oo yesterday, which was a bit anti-climactic (outside of the Big One of course). I'm not huge on NASCAR, but I will watch a handful of races: the plate races, Bristol, the May races in Charlotte (hell, night racing in general). My big racing interests are Indycars and F1, which makes me one of maybe a dozen people in this state... or at least it bloody feels like it. No big shake though, racing is racing is racing no matter what they're racing. I enjoy the hell out of it regardless.
Favorite driver? I have a few...
NASCAR: Tony Stewart can drive pretty much anything.
Indycars: I'd like to see Marco Andretti really take off this year.
F1: a fellow named Sebastian Vettel--won his first race last year, now driving for Red Bull's team.
Then there's this specimen of driving talent... who do you guys like?
Favorite driver? I have a few...
NASCAR: Tony Stewart can drive pretty much anything.
Indycars: I'd like to see Marco Andretti really take off this year.
F1: a fellow named Sebastian Vettel--won his first race last year, now driving for Red Bull's team.
Then there's this specimen of driving talent... who do you guys like?
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The pros and cons of ADD
I was going to post a big long thingy about sports, until this caught my attention: Seether recorded--and have made available via iTunes download--a cover of... GEORGE MICHAEL. Well Wham! to be precise, "Careless Whisper". The thought alone is frightening... blood-curdling... and... bloody awesome?! Behold, the greatest rock band to ever come out of South Africa, making mincemeat out of middle-of-the-road music:
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Grammy nominations are out...
...actually they've been out for a while, but I'm just now getting around to really looking at them. Since I'm typing this up for the digestion of you Planet peoples, there will be minimal mention of Coldplay (except to point out that Joe Satriani deserves three Grammy nominations*), but here, kids, are the people I and you actually give a rat's ass about, in the order that I find them on the Grammy website:
ROBERT PLANT: will probably not be on our airwaves for anything involving Alison Krause, but I think it bears mentioning that those two are up for several Grammys, including Album of the Year, Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Country Collaboration with Vocals, and Contemporary Folk Album--four nominations in three musical styles FOR THE SAME ALBUM. For this I hope they sweep theirs. That, and, ya know, it's ROBERT PLANT.
KID ROCK: "All Summer Long" is up for Male Pop Vocal, Rock and Roll Jesus is up for Best Rock Album (more on that later)
EAGLES: four nominations, for Pop Performance by a Group, Pop Vocal Album, Pop Instrumental Performance, and Rock Performance by a Group.
With that mention, we get to the ROCK GRAMMYS:
SOLO ROCK VOCAL:
John Mayer - Gravity
Paul McCartney - I Saw Her Standing There (live at Amoeba Records)
Bruce Springsteen - Girls In Their Summer Clothes
Eddie Vedder - Rise
Neil Young - No Hidden Path
I'm giving my (nonbinding) vote to Paul McCartney--over the objections of Mrs. Lenny, who would leave me for Eddie Vedder in a heartbeat--on the basis of his performance being done live at a secret show at a small record shop in LA.
GROUP ROCK VOCAL:
AC/DC - Rock and Roll Train
Coldplay - Vio--actually, ya know what? The rest of the nominees are Coldplay, the Eagles, Kings of Leon, and Radiohead, and the four of them combined almost have as much badassness as AC/DC. Score one for the Aussies.
HARD ROCK VOCAL:
Disturbed - Inside the Fire
Judas Priest - Visions
The Mars Volta - Wax Simulacra
Motley Crue - Saints of Los Angeles
Rob Zombie - Lords of Salem
Tough call, but I've always had a tilt toward Zombie, and Lords of Salem is such a bloody awesome track.
METAL PERFORMANCE:
Dragonforce - Heroes of Our Time
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Metallica - My Apocalypse
Ministry - Under My Thumb (yes, this is a Rolling Stones cover)
Slipknot - Psychosocial
The leak of "My Apocalypse" was proof for me that Death Magnetic was going to be nothing short of EPIC.
ROCK INSTRUMENTAL (my favorite category, because I'm a weirdo):
David Gilmour - Castellorizon
Metallica - Suicide and Redemption
Nine Inch Nails - 34 Ghosts I-IV
Rush - Hope (live for The Art of Peace)
Zappa Plays Zappa (w/ Steve Vai and Napoleon Murphy Brock) - Peaches en Regalia
Good lord, I have to pick one of these? Fine, fine, as much as I rave over Metallica's new stuff, and as awesome as every other one of these guys are, Castellorizon made my college radio days quite awesome (for those of you who missed my Marshall DJing days--say, '06 or so--I would play that cut straight into "On An Island", a 9 minute or so chill-out before I played something else loud and obnoxious).
BEST ROCK SONG:
Bruce Springsteen - Girls in Their Summer Clothes
Radiohead - House of Cards
Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart
Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire
Coldplay - Violet Hill
We've never played any of these on the Planet, to my knowledge, so I'll sum them up for you in single-word descriptions:
1--Boss
2--weird
3--creepy
4--sex
5--meh
I take Kings of Leon.
BEST ROCK ALBUM:
Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
Kid Rock - Rock and Roll Jesus
Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
Metallica - Death Magnetic
the Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
METALLICA.
Now we're out of the rock categories, and there's a few notables farther down the page...
--Stephen Colbert is up for Best Spoken Word Album
--George Carlin is up for Best Comedy Album
--Dewey Cox is up for Best Song Written For Screen ("I told them, no, you're gonna give me that giraffe")
--Metallica is also up for Best Album Packaging (yes, this gets its own category), and Rick Rubin is up for Producer of the Year not only for this, but also albums by Weezer, Neil Diamond, Ours, and Jakob Dylan (remember the Wallflowers? Yeah, it took me a moment to dig back that far too).
--Tom Petty and the Who are up for their only Grammys in Long-Form Video, for recent documentaries done on each of them: Runnin' Down a Dream and Amazing Journey, respectively
And that pretty well sums up the notables. A lot of space taken up for not that much; if not for the impending arrival of Lenny the IInd (proper name coming when we actually know what we're popping out), myself and Mrs. Lenny would find ourselves watching this and drinking until the awards got interesting (I may do this regardless).
*--to be honest I think this might be coincidence, because I don't think Chris Martin is cool enough to have Joe Satriani anywhere near his music collection.
ROBERT PLANT: will probably not be on our airwaves for anything involving Alison Krause, but I think it bears mentioning that those two are up for several Grammys, including Album of the Year, Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Country Collaboration with Vocals, and Contemporary Folk Album--four nominations in three musical styles FOR THE SAME ALBUM. For this I hope they sweep theirs. That, and, ya know, it's ROBERT PLANT.
KID ROCK: "All Summer Long" is up for Male Pop Vocal, Rock and Roll Jesus is up for Best Rock Album (more on that later)
EAGLES: four nominations, for Pop Performance by a Group, Pop Vocal Album, Pop Instrumental Performance, and Rock Performance by a Group.
With that mention, we get to the ROCK GRAMMYS:
SOLO ROCK VOCAL:
John Mayer - Gravity
Paul McCartney - I Saw Her Standing There (live at Amoeba Records)
Bruce Springsteen - Girls In Their Summer Clothes
Eddie Vedder - Rise
Neil Young - No Hidden Path
I'm giving my (nonbinding) vote to Paul McCartney--over the objections of Mrs. Lenny, who would leave me for Eddie Vedder in a heartbeat--on the basis of his performance being done live at a secret show at a small record shop in LA.
GROUP ROCK VOCAL:
AC/DC - Rock and Roll Train
Coldplay - Vio--actually, ya know what? The rest of the nominees are Coldplay, the Eagles, Kings of Leon, and Radiohead, and the four of them combined almost have as much badassness as AC/DC. Score one for the Aussies.
HARD ROCK VOCAL:
Disturbed - Inside the Fire
Judas Priest - Visions
The Mars Volta - Wax Simulacra
Motley Crue - Saints of Los Angeles
Rob Zombie - Lords of Salem
Tough call, but I've always had a tilt toward Zombie, and Lords of Salem is such a bloody awesome track.
METAL PERFORMANCE:
Dragonforce - Heroes of Our Time
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Metallica - My Apocalypse
Ministry - Under My Thumb (yes, this is a Rolling Stones cover)
Slipknot - Psychosocial
The leak of "My Apocalypse" was proof for me that Death Magnetic was going to be nothing short of EPIC.
ROCK INSTRUMENTAL (my favorite category, because I'm a weirdo):
David Gilmour - Castellorizon
Metallica - Suicide and Redemption
Nine Inch Nails - 34 Ghosts I-IV
Rush - Hope (live for The Art of Peace)
Zappa Plays Zappa (w/ Steve Vai and Napoleon Murphy Brock) - Peaches en Regalia
Good lord, I have to pick one of these? Fine, fine, as much as I rave over Metallica's new stuff, and as awesome as every other one of these guys are, Castellorizon made my college radio days quite awesome (for those of you who missed my Marshall DJing days--say, '06 or so--I would play that cut straight into "On An Island", a 9 minute or so chill-out before I played something else loud and obnoxious).
BEST ROCK SONG:
Bruce Springsteen - Girls in Their Summer Clothes
Radiohead - House of Cards
Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart
Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire
Coldplay - Violet Hill
We've never played any of these on the Planet, to my knowledge, so I'll sum them up for you in single-word descriptions:
1--Boss
2--weird
3--creepy
4--sex
5--meh
I take Kings of Leon.
BEST ROCK ALBUM:
Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
Kid Rock - Rock and Roll Jesus
Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
Metallica - Death Magnetic
the Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
METALLICA.
Now we're out of the rock categories, and there's a few notables farther down the page...
--Stephen Colbert is up for Best Spoken Word Album
--George Carlin is up for Best Comedy Album
--Dewey Cox is up for Best Song Written For Screen ("I told them, no, you're gonna give me that giraffe")
--Metallica is also up for Best Album Packaging (yes, this gets its own category), and Rick Rubin is up for Producer of the Year not only for this, but also albums by Weezer, Neil Diamond, Ours, and Jakob Dylan (remember the Wallflowers? Yeah, it took me a moment to dig back that far too).
--Tom Petty and the Who are up for their only Grammys in Long-Form Video, for recent documentaries done on each of them: Runnin' Down a Dream and Amazing Journey, respectively
And that pretty well sums up the notables. A lot of space taken up for not that much; if not for the impending arrival of Lenny the IInd (proper name coming when we actually know what we're popping out), myself and Mrs. Lenny would find ourselves watching this and drinking until the awards got interesting (I may do this regardless).
*--to be honest I think this might be coincidence, because I don't think Chris Martin is cool enough to have Joe Satriani anywhere near his music collection.
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