Archive: 2008

Jersey City Councilman and wicked pissah Steve Lipski came out of hiding this evening to address the Jersey City council caucus where he read a statement acknowledging he is an alcoholic. He didn’t quite cop to pissing on his fellow Deadheads from the balcony of the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. at a Dark Star Orchestra concert, but he came pretty close….

Lipski Gets Perez’d

First and foremost I want to apologize to everyone who has been affected by this mess, especially my wife, the mayor, my colleagues on the council, my constituents, my students and staff at CREATE Charter School and fellow Deadheads. I am truly sorry. Against my attorney’s advice I have decided to give a brief statement about circumstances leading up to and following the incident at the Nightclub 9:30 on the night of November 7, 2008. I cannot and will not speak about what actually happened at the club because this matter is still under investigation.

On November 7, 2008, I, with two very close friends, one of whom I have known since kindergarten and had gone to Dead shows back in the ’70s and ’80s, drove to Washington, D.C., to see Dark Star Orchestra, a Grateful Dead cover band. Having had two years of sobriety, not having to drive, and being with two of my closest friends in the world, I decided to drink alcohol. This was my biggest mistake.

You see, I am an alcoholic, but I had not drunk for two years. I fell off the wagon. Flipped. Crashed. Burned. Whatever one might want to label it, I screwed up.

READ ON for the rest of Councilman Fuckstick’s statement…

Bob Dylan has long taken a decidedly unconventional stance toward his recordings so it should come as no surprise he’s demonstrated the same non-traditional tendency for his archive project. Notwithstanding the significance of landmark recordings such as The Royal Albert Hall Concert and Live 1964 Concert at Philharmonic Hall, the highlights of “The Bootleg Series” consist of Volumes 1-3 released in 1991 and now Volume 8, both of which are subtitled “Rare and Unreleased.”

Norman Cook, Talking Heads‘ David Byrne, Iggy Pop and Dizzee Rascal have collaborated on a project dubbed the Brighton Port Authority (BPA), and will release a debut album in the US this winter. BPA‘s debut is titled ‘I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat’, and is due out in the US on February 3, […]

A councilman from Jersey City, N.J., gave "pea-brained" a whole new meaning when he was arrested for allegedly urinating from a balcony onto fans below during a Dark Star Orchestra show at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club Nov. 7. Councilman Steven Lipski told reporters outside his home two days later that he’s "resolved never to touch […]

Funny guy Robin Williams provides a major update this morning, listing new dates for February and March. Stops now include February 11 in Santa Barbara, California, at Arlington Theatre; February 17 in Houston, Texas, at Verizon Wireless Theater; February 25 in Memphis, Tennessee, at Orpheum Theatre and March 14 in Norfolk, Virginia, at Old Dominion […]

Legendary South African musical treasure and GRAMMY Award winner Miriam Makeba has died. One of Africa’s best known voices and a champion of the fight against apartheid, Makeba died of a heart attack after a performance in Italy. She was 76. Makeba fell ill after a concert in the southern Italian town of Baia  Verde late […]

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Thom Yorke of Radiohead is offering a free download to one of his songs in honor of Barack Obama‘s recent U.S. presidential win.  The song is a remix of Yorke’s "Harrowdown Hill" which, appeared in its original form on his 2006 album, The Eraser.  The song is available on Radiohead’s website.

Ben Harper is recording an album with a new band, Relentless7, and will play a handful of club shows next month to introduce the material."White Lies for Dark Times" is due in May via Virgin and finds Harper backed by guitarist Jason Mozersky, drummer Jordan Richardson and bassist Jesse Ingalls, the latter two of the Los […]

Journey have become the band with the "biggest ever catalogue song on digital platforms". It means that the band’s track ‘Don’t Stop Believin” is the first song that was available in the pre-digital era to sell more than two million through iTunes. According to the Theguardian.co.uk, part of the track’s popularity is to do with […]