2008

We’d like to welcome back Cock Jenkins to review Bonerama’s performance at Funk Fest III at The Parish in Austin, Texas…

In the self-proclaimed music capitol of the world there seems to be no shortage of musicians performing and interacting together in Austin, Texas. But when one music capitol of the world is invaded by musicians from another music capitol of the world (say, New Orleans for example), it’s safe to bet you’ll see some firepower. Or more aptly, funkpower as was displayed over the weekend at FunkFest III at the Parish on 6th Street in downtown Austin. Two nights of hard-hitting raw funk that leaned heavy on the grooves of today’s Austin and New Orleans best in funk brass and jam music including Stanton Moore Trio, The Greyhounds ftr Topaz, Flyjack and T-Bird & The Breaks. Headlining FunkFest III Saturday night was New Orleans’ new brand of horn heavy sounds, Bonerama who by all accounts either have a lot of trombones in the band or spend too much time online.

READ ON for more from Bonerama in Austin…

Jamtopia’s Todd Levy informs us that the release of Phish’s Clifford Ball audio/video package has been pushed back a week to March 3. The soon-to-be-reformed jam titans continue to put

Fleetwood Mac will reunite for their first tour in over five years in support of a new greatest hits compilation called Unleashed. The classic rock band have revealed the first

Thanksgiving dinner had not yet been cleared and TV stations across the land already had the Christmas movies queued up and ready to go. Between November 28 and December 26, you will only have about 147 chances to watch your favorite holiday movie. So here is a quick list of five Christmas movies well worth a couple of hours of your time in the next few weeks.

Christmas Vacation (1989)

It doesn’t get much better than “Shitter’s full.” The Griswolds bounced back in a major way from a somewhat lackluster trip to Europe to provide the straight up funniest of the holiday standards. It might not have the heart of A Christmas Story or the nostalgia of Rudolph’s bad claymation but Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo and the third installment of Griswold children, including an already-on-her-way-to-creepy Juliet Lewis, provide solid yuletide yucks.

Clark fights many battles in this one. Among them are taking on his neighbors, including a yuppie bitch played by Seinfeld’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus, fighting to get the Christmas lights working and being bitchslapped by his boss, played brilliantly by Brian Doyle-Murray. There’s also the gratuitous hottie, played by Nicolette Scorsese, who works in the department store (“Can’t see the line, can you Russ?”) and reappears in Clark’s poolside fantasy.

READ ON for the rest of Luke’s list of classic holiday movies…

Old HT favorite Marco Benevento recently announced details about his new studio album, Me Not Me. They keyboard wizard covers My Morning Jacket, Leonard Cohen, Beck and Deerhoof among others