:: rock the tropics ::

One. A possible correction.

The Dashboard Confessional date I had listed as December 16 at Freez is highly questionable. It is no longer listed on the D.C. website, so for now let's strike it from the record.

Dashboard is playing in South Florida, however: today, Tuesday, December 11, at the Millenium Club in Pompano Beach. In the meantime, I'm going to do a little research and figure out what happened to the Fort Lauderdale date.

Want more Dashboard news? Read this article, published in last Sunday's Miami Herald.

Two. Big big show news.

Conor Oberst, frontman of the ever-popular Bright Eyes, is on tour with his brand-new hardcore ( yep, you read right: hardcore ) band The Desaparecidos to promote their forthcoming album, Read Music / Speak Spanish, which is scheduled for release in January.

The Desaparecidos will be playing with Now It's Overhead on Friday, February 1 of 2002 at Revolver. Not to be missed.

Three. Did you make it to last Friday's show?

If you did, you know Miami's See Venus put on a tight, lovely performance, and that Maryland's OXES completely stole the show by putting on a fiery set. The three-piece's two guitarists perched on their respective amps on opposite sides of the stage, and every so often leaped into the crowd to prance around or straddle audience members' legs, all the while freakishly focused on their instruments. In the meantime the drummer, who'd previously been lounging onstage in his undies ( um, p.s., not to be crude, but -- was that real? hotdamn! ), held the sound together. It was a beautiful sonic assault, and purely instrumental aside from a punctuating yelp here and there. We ate it up. We want them back.

After the blistering rawk, Georgia's Of Montreal was almost . . . what, picturesque? They played a strong, sweet, and interesting set, but I personally was recovering from OXES and didn't get to enjoy it as much as I would've liked to. Trans Am, the night's pièce de resistance, got the crowd back on its feet, for the most part. ( I'd had too much cheap bourbon and put in long hours at work the day before, so by then I was sitting by the soundboard and listening from afar ). What Trans Am were lacking in the soul department, they more than made up for with an energy that was sorely missing from The Faint's similar robo-pop set back in October. ( October, was it? ) Good, sweaty, nouveau-encore New Wave. Unfortunately, four fantastic bands in one night is a little too much to take in at once. Exhausting. But more than worth the fifteen bucks. Thanks to Aramis and PopLife for putting it all together.

Four. Reminders.

Friday, December 14 : The Velvet Underground Tribute : [ permalink ]

Saturday, December 15 : Bling Bling CD Release and Holiday Party : [ permalink ]

And that about does it for now. Got updates, questions, suggestions, news, offers to fix Rock the Tropics' archives, or just something to say? Drop me a line.


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