Scott Bernstein

Here’s your one reminder, then you’re on your own forever: Every Wednesday I scour the world wide web to bring you some of the best circulating torrents — both audio and video — that you may not have noticed floating around the information superhighway. Away we go with Vol. II:

The Breakfast – October 27^th, 2006
http://www.archive.org/details/breakfast2006-10-27.483.flac16

New Haven’s famed Toad’s Place on Friday hosted the 8^th Annual Fonghoulish Freakout. Recently The Breakfast parted ways with their keyboard player and became a trio, and at this show the band celebrated the great rock trios that came before them. Throughout the night they played Working Man (Rush), Angel (Hendrix), Welcome To This World (Primus), I Feel Free (Cream), We’re An American Band (Grand Funk Railroad), Synchronicity II (The Police), and Lithium (Nirvana). Stand-out originals include Gladys Pimp and Kangaroo With Me, as well as Taboo or Not Taboot.

Umphrey’s McGee played the first night of a two-show quasi-homestand at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom on December 30th, 2005, and that evening Brett Saul captured a great picture from the stage that has made it all around the world wide web.

Judging from the front rail alone, you can probably guess that this particular UM concert was an all ages show. We know, that’s not new, you’ve seen this photo before. But there’s plenty more to the story…

Welcome to the working week, where we feel your pain. But that’s why we exist, to help you slowly dip yourself back into the groove with these fine links: Omega Moos: Best

…now, if you would please, just leave us the fuck alone.”

That was basically the message from the official Genesis website this week as the band announced a reunion tour. Well, kinda…

The latest from Genesis: “An official announcement about the band’s plans for 2007 will be made on Tuesday, 7th November. Full details will be made available FIRST on this site at a time to be confirmed. No further information will be supplied until that date and we respectfully ask that people desist from sending emails, letters and making phone calls for advance information – this will NOT be provided until the official date. Thank you for your patience until then.”

Personally we like that level of feistiness from a band that hasn’t played in 10 years. Yet Genesis fans have suffered enough through “Groovy Kinda Love” and The Tarzan soundtrack for long enough, so patience isn’t exactly a virtue at this point…

Who doesn’t like to procrastinate on Friday? You…you’re lying, I see it in your eyes. To do our part, we’ll help out the “Do It Tomorrow” cause by jotting down

We’re all big fans of lists. Who isn’t? We Americans love Top Tens, and we love to categorize everything that can be filed away. So every week, in an effort to

You’re getting older, so that likely means no more candy on Halloween. But luckily for you, Tea Leaf Green and Sirius have combined forces to make sure you’ll still get

A bit of breaking news from the weekend to report: I walked by the side entrance of the Beacon Theater on Saturday morning to find an unusual amount of activity, especially for this early on a weekend. That’s when I saw Martin Scorsese walk into the building. Now that piqued my interest.

At that point I remembered reading that Scorsese would be filming the upcoming Rolling Stones concerts at the Beacon Theater. As I walked around the building I saw that the production team had blocked off a number of local blocks, and they were loading literally tons of equipment into the Beacon. On each blocked-off street, the crew members posted fliers explaining that Scorsese was filming a movie that “takes a behind the scenes look at the world of rock and roll.”

That’s the second thing that piqued my interest that morning, so I grabbed the signage from the post and did some classic investigating…