(11.26) What better place to find that special gift than POP: The Emporium of Popular Culture. This fabulous new addition to the vintage/art/music retail scene will be holding their 1st annual Holiday Bizarre this Saturday. (Facebook) New Art, Music, Refreshments Come buy gifts that will be appreciated…and have fun while you’re at it! 2pm to […]
The Emporium of Popular Culture is back. And this time the shop/gallery/performance space is up here in Providence. Proprietor Darren Hill is certainly an interesting character. The former musician was written up in yesterday’s Boston Globe in anticipation of the opening of the new POP Antiques & Vintage. Always a collector with an eye for
Local talent, the Lexingtons, will be in town Thursday night performing once again at AS220. (Good solid band name there . . . kind of retro without really summoning up anything specific. . . won’t embarrass their moms.) Songwriter Eric Warncke cites as influences the Beach Boys and Nilsson, as well as Canadian musicians the
[youtube]TnjwcKm83Ic[/youtube] Unless you’re really into the pop music of the sixties (or the name-dropping Portland indie band Parenthetical Girls), there’s a pretty good chance you’ve never heard of Ellie Greenwich. Surely you know some of the songs she wrote, though: “Be My Baby”, “Leader of the Pack”, “(Today I Met) The Boy I’m Going To
The Figgs are in town. (I didn’t mean to do a rhyme like that. It’s kind of corny but I think I’m going to leave it.) At any rate, a good friend recently saw the Figgs and told me she danced so hard she injured her neck. That’s pretty much all you need to know.
Part of why I am needed here at the Dose is to provide some ballast to the music end of the operation. The others seem to have the folkie-bedwetter/ska-nebbish scene covered, so I get the metal beat pretty much to myself. But now I have to admit… my ‘Best of 2008’ list didn’t come out
Remember that weird craze about ten to fifteen years ago when grown people thought it was totally awesome to wear ginormous white t-shirts with giant backwards baseball hat-wearing Tweety Birds across the front? Or maybe an image of the Tasmanian Devil wearing the uniform of your favorite NFL team? These are the same people who,
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