The Year That Was: Wrap That Shit Up, B

January (archives)

• 1/12: Get MC Skat Kat on the horn — Paula Abdul’s wasted on national TV
• 1/16: LivePhish offers up the long-awaited Headphones Jam to raise money for charity — the charity did not turn out to be the Big Red Legal Fund
• 1/21: Arcare Fire & Brimstone rains down in Montreal — America’s Favorite Canadian Band plays a supersecret church show
• 1/25: Break out the tight pants — news breaks of a 40-show Van Halen reunion
• 1/30: Reunions aplenty, The Police announce they’ll be reuniting at the Grammys

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February (archives)

• 2/5: Prince gives new meaning to Purple Rain at the Super Bowl
• 2/7: moe., apparently, believes the children are our future and subsequently sponsors an elementary school girls basketball team
• 2/7: Ron Artest prepares for String Cheese tour by malnourishing his dogs
• 2/8: Former Oysterhead sideman Trey Anastasio speaks at The Y
• 2/15: Internet Pioneer Al Gore announces he’s inventing a summer rock concert
• 2/23: Pitchfork reviews The Duo’s Play Pause Stop, only about a year too late
• 2/26: Kevin Kendrick’s A BIG YES and a small no throw down some Dope Pop

March (archives)

• 3/1: The local news awesomely picks up on the Dangers of Emo
• 3/2: The Knitting Factory celebrates 20 years of avant-garde noise
• 3/6: Bring out the gimp — Internet Radio continues to get fucked
• 3/8: Bob Weir breaks out the moves — ace power slide, cowboy
• 3/9-13: Langerado! Trey! Lots of bands! Photo galleries! Nonsense!
• 3/19: Now I can die in peace — Levon Helm dazzles at The Beacon
• 3/22: I Love Bad Music debuts on with Shine, Sweet Freedom
• 3/29: Trouble in Ashevegas — Hot Carl loves “the music RatDog”

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April (archives)

• 4/3: Wade’s World provides an inside view of the USTORM Benefit
• 4/5: More Fillmores; Live Nation CEO changes name to Bill Graham
• 4/6: Play it, Leo: The Chairman returns to the boards in NYC
• 4/8: Bernie with the Allmans — From one awesome Derek to another
• 4/13: No jail time for Crimson Dego; Trey (kinda) walks away a free man
• 4/17: We coined the term “Mariachi Metal” to describe Rod y Gab
• 4/23: The HT Baseball Preview concludes with Rob Salzer’s Mets
• 4/26: Ithaca, New York coulda been renamed “n00b City” for a day

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May (archives)

• 5/3: The Kidzz Are Alright — You Enjoy the Mall (with tramps and all)
• 5/9: Danfun kicks down a fantastic gallery of JazzFest photos
• 5/18: The most inexplicable double bill of all-time: !!! and Holy Fuck
• 5/20: A couple of aging Brits play Blind Faith tunes in the UK
• 5/25: Apollo Sunshine gets its rocks off on the Hudson River
• 5/30: Wade’s World provides an inside view of Summer Camp

June (archives)

• 6/1: Police Week ends with Stewart Copeland’s honest (and tough) review
• 6/5: Akon tosses a little white boy from the stage, Page McConnell gets mixed reviews from one guy and Wilco peddles Impossible Germany Car Company
• 6/8: Potato Waves Make Me Fries may just be the video of the year
• 6/12: The Year of the Cash-Grab Reunion continues with Genesis
• 6/15-18: Bonnaroo, motherfucker — check out Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Day Four, videos and the SuperJam rehearsal
• 6/20: The White Stripes play small ball at the Irving Fillmore Plaza Whatever
• 6/26: School’s in for summer — a full day of festival rock from the keedz
• 6/28: It’s gonna be a showdown between Van Halen versus The Other Half

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July (archives)

• 7/5: Rock Band offers us the first look at the future of video geekery
• 7/8: Hundreds of artists flew 220,000 (non-hybrid) miles for Live Earth
• 7/9: The impressive Dr. Dog streams 12 unreleased tracks on its website
• 7/12: That’s 77 phatty grilled cheeses and one monster drum circle
• 7/16: Whoa, who the fuck just played three nights at MSG?
• 7/19: Two words — INDIAN THRILLER (two more: Prisoner Thriller)
• 7/23: More reunions! Crowded House returns to New York
• 7/24: Havin’ a Bad Time — Girl Talk opens for Widespread Panic
• 7/31: Artist Jim Pollock opens his doors, Willa Wonka style

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August (archives)

• 8/1: Joe Walsh really needs to go away, but Sharon Jones can stay
• 8/8: Marco Benevento talks to us about his Live at Tonic release
• 8/9: The Beasties Boys light up a hot-as-fuck Central Park
• 8/13: A pox on Nels Cline’s house…or at least a pox on his body
• 8/20: Fuckfaces always ruin it for the rest of us; PNC bans tailigating
• 8/21: Get rich or die tryin’ — we can only hope it’s the latter
• 8/24: Ladies and gentlemen, the Hipster Olympics (genius)
• 8/26: Ted Nugent‘s officially batshit crazy, but we knew that already
• 8/30: When it’s the RIAA versus The People, we’re all losers

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September (archives)

• 9/4: Finally, some business acumen; Akron/Family knows how to sell
• 9/10: Processing a three-night Tea Leaf Green run at the Blender
• 9/11: Hey, Indiana Jones: Heady crystals, yo! (and ACL loses everyone!)
• 9/12: Farm Aid — nothing says “farm-fresh” quite like New York City
• 9/15-18: I made it to Austin City Limits, where the streets are paved with vomit — check out Day One, Day Two, Day Three, the Fire and some videos
• 9/18: God Save Their Hips — another reunion, this one, The Sex Pistols
• 9/20: Suge Knight’s tired of fingering only his enemies
• 9/24: Meg White sex tape? Nah. But giving new meaning to Get Behind Me Satan
• 9/28: After months of build-up, Van Halen finally takes the stage (for real)
• 9/28: Ryan Adams does, what you all think he’s gonna do…which is just…

October (archives)

• 10/2: I Love Bad Music brings us the real 1, 2, 3, 4 (and a Winehouse joke)
• 10/8: LCD Soundsystem officially becomes my favorite band of the year
• 10/9: Ryan Montbleau sits down to talk Patience on Sunday
• 10/10: D-Day came and went — Radiohead’s In Rainbows caused boners
• 10/12: Dave Vann joined us, shooting up Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in SF
• 10/15: Dueling profiles on The Slip’s Brad Barr and Reid Genauer
• 10/15: Bruce Springsteen + Arcade Fire = Happy Webosphere
• 10/17-19: Echo Project in Photos: Day One, Two and Three
• 10/23: STS9 rejoices as international police shut down OiNK
• 10/24: Neeko joins the fun and HT goes all artsy bohemian poet

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November (archives)

• 11/5: Eric Clapton decides to reunite every band…ever
• 11/6: Les Claypool’s Electric Apricot falls way short of Spinal Tap
• 11/7: Not enough people “Lishtening to their Britney Shhpears records”
• 11/13: Langerado finally gets around to announcing a [killer] lineup
• 11/13: Exit Chambers — Tea Leaf Reed takes over for Ben
• 11/19: Stevie Wonder and his Bar Mitzvah band rock my shit at MSG
• 11/26: moe. is not so much kidding about the jingles
• 11/26: You know reunion season is fucked when The Jackson 5 do it
• 11/28: Prepare the tanks — The Northeast finally lands a festival
• 11/29: The B List counts off the 10 Least Dangerous Rock Stars

December (archives)

• 12/1: I Wish I Wasn’t There, ‘cuz I’m Not There kinda sucks
• 12/3: Andrew Bird kicks off his shoes at The Beacon
• 12/4: Deadspin linked to our post about the Deadicated golfer (is it too much to send this guy out with Mike Weir and Sergio Garcia?)
• 12/5: Stewart Copeland’s not going hoggin’ in South America
• 12/6: Hillary Clinton may have sold burritos in H.O.R.D.E. lot in ’93
• 12/10: Glide Magazine publishes its Top 20 Albums of the Year
• 12/10: Oh, the Humanity: Led Zeppelin’s back from the dead
• 12/12: Not quite Zep, but Plant and Krauss will play Bonnaroo
• 12/12: Chuck Myers takes on the increasingly lame history of a badass
• 12/13: The Ghosts of Wayne Fontes boys also join the staff
• 12/13: How did 2007 Robert Plant go back in time?
• 12/17: And how did some blogger jerk make it into a legit Year in Review?
• 12/17-18: Dueling reviews of Neil Young in NYC and Haynes’ Xmas Jam
• 12/19: Glide publishes its Best of 2007 from the Artists’ Perspective
• 12/21: American Babies breaks out the Abbey Road medley for Xmas

It’s been a great 2007, and we’d love to have you all join us next year — so don’t die tonight from choking on vomit, even if it’s not your own vomit. We should warn you: They can’t dust for vomit. So revel, but revel in safety. Happy New Year, folks.