Review by Reza Allah-Bakhshi
Papercranes, 8MM
Detroit Bar
January 27, 2008
Better Than: Watching Conan O’ Brien since he grew a beard and his writers went on strike.
Download: “What’s Left.”
It was definitely one of those nights where Detroit Bar was more like a lounge.
A lone DJ stood in the corner spinning remixed funk renditions of old classics like the Beach Boys' “Good Vibrations” while scattered patrons threw back a pint of beer or sipped on wine. It was all too fitting f
As we all (should) know by now, there's a lot more to Aimee Mann than "Voices Carry." She's released six solo albums, including this year's @#%&*! Smilers. She also just seems pretty cool; she was in The Big Lebowski, an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer back in 2002 and wrote a song specifically for Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!. She's released a handful of Christmas tunes, like this one, from 2005's The Forgotten Arm--here's her playing it at the El Rey.
Teehee, "Train tickets."At the end of the month, October 27 to be exact, Train--you know, "Drops of Jupiter," "Meet Virginia" Train--will release their first new studio album in nearly four years, Save Me San Francisco (named after their city of origin). Just two days before that, Train will play the House of Blues in Anaheim, and that's just one of several shows that Live Nation, in their latest "buy concert tickets! please!" promotion, is offering for 2-for-1 this Wednesday. (We joke about
