Lately I've been thinking about definitive summer songs for a feature that will appear in the Weekly's forthcoming Summer Guide. One of the stranger specimens I'm leaning toward is Ween's fluke 1992 hit “Push th' Little Daisies” off the sporadically brilliant Pure Guava album. (It reached #18 in Australia's pop charts and aired on Beavis & Butthead—that counts as a hit, right?)
For some reason, I associate (some) archetypal summer songs with a sol-drunk wooziness that verges on stoned imm
Sticking with the summer-song theme from last week's Video Savant on Ween's “Push th' Little Daisies,” let's examine the gloriously snappy “Bra” by Cymande. Sampled to devastating effect by De La Soul on 3 Feet High and Rising's “Change in Speak” and used on the soundtracks to Spike Lee's Crooklyn and 25th Hour, this hugely uplifting track from Cymande's self-titled 1972 LP is one of the greatest examples of Caribbean-flavored funk on record. (Cymande's members hailed from Jamaica an
We told you earlier in the week about the Horrors coming to the Glass House, but, that's not all you've got to look forward to with the Pomona venue. It's the concert hall that keeps giving!
One of alternative rock's longest-running acts, Ween, is in town tonight at the Grove of Anaheim. They've been around 25 years, amassing a cult following while going virtually unnoticed by the mainstream; releasing playful neo-psychedelic albums like Pure Guava, Chocolate & Cheese and The Mollusk. But the way I know them best is the inclusion of their song "Voodoo Lady" in this relatively amazing skit from '90s MTV sketch comedy series The State. (I'd embed it if I could, but embedding wa
Andrew YoussefSince reopening this past May with a show from Gogol Bordello, the Fox Theater in downtown Pomona has continually impressed by netting top-flight shows: Wilco, the Flaming Lips, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Band of Horses, Girl Talk, Ween, Cake, Marilyn Manson. After tonight's Paramore (pictured on August 1 opening up for No Doubt at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine) show, though, they've got...not a lot.
