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Posted in Contests | music | tour dates on February 15, 2008
Sam Champion, Drug Rug, The XYZ Affair, Salt & Samovar
That is the four-band mostly-local CMJ-like lineup at Bowery Ballroom in NYC tonight (Feb 15, 2008). Plus, DJ Awesome Goodtimes will be providing music betwen bands. Good times. I have two pairs of tickets to give away to the first two people who email BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM (subject: GOOD TIMES). Include your first and last name. Winners will be contacted and placed on the guestlist.
Sam Champion, Salt & Samovar and The XYZ Affair are also playing SXSW. Other tour dates below...
Drug Rug - 2008 Tour Dates
Feb 15 - Bowery Ballroom New York, New York
Feb 16 - Northstar Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Feb 17 - Great Scott! Allston, Massachusetts
Salt & Samovar - 2008 Tour Dates
Feb 15 - Bowery Ballroom New York, New York
Feb 18 - WDST - Woodstock Radio Woodstock, New York
Feb 29 - Red Square, Burlington Burlington, Vermont
Mar 3 - Knitting Factory New York, New York
Mar 6 - Letelier Theater Georgetown, Washington DC
Mar 12 - SXSW - KCRW Showcase Austin, Texas
Mar 14 - SXSW - After The Jumpfest Auston, Texas
Mar 18 - The Note Chicago, Illinois
Mar 19 - The Zephyr Kent, Ohio
Mar 20 - The Haunt Ithaca, New York
Mar 22 - Southpaw Brooklyn
Mar 24 - Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York
May 16 - Hotel Café Los Angeles, California
The XYZ Affair - 2008 Tour Dates
Feb 15 - BOWERY BALLROOM New York, New York
Feb 20 - Case Western University Cleveland, Ohio
Feb 21 - Mid City Grill Fort Wayne, Indiana
Feb 22 - Stonefly Tavern Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Feb 23 - The Nomad Minneapolis, Minnesota
Feb 24 - Beat Kitchen Chicago, Illinois
Feb 25 - Vaudeville Mews Des Moines, Iowa
Feb 26 - Bishop Seabury Academy Lawrence, Kansas
Feb 27 - Waiting Room Omaha, Nebraska
Feb 28 - The Hi Dive Denver, Colorado
Feb 29 - Kilby Court Salt Lake City, Utah
Mar 1 - Neurolux Boise, Idaho
Mar 2 - The Comet Seattle, Washington
Mar 4 - Hemlock Tavern San Francisco, California
Mar 5 - Howie & Son's Pizza Visalia, California
Mar 8 - El Cid Los Angeles, California
Mar 12 - The Cavern Dallas, Texas
SXSW
Posted on February 15, 2008 3:03 PM
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Ipod's rule.
http://www.myspace.com/djawesomegoodtimes
Posted by Anonymous | February 15, 2008 3:08 PM
I'm so excited for the DJ Awesome Goodtimes debut I've been shitting badgers all afternoon!
Posted by ricky botswana | February 15, 2008 3:24 PM
The Cobra rides tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Blade Center | February 15, 2008 3:27 PM
DJ Awesome Goodtimes, you say? Let there be booooooooooooooooondi! cloverboondi!
Posted by dj bombers | February 15, 2008 3:36 PM
DJ Awesome GoodTimes are going to be bigger than Justice!
Posted by Nehzeldorf | February 15, 2008 3:39 PM
20 dollars to the first person who pukes a cobra.
Posted by mr medalions | February 15, 2008 3:39 PM
4 more horrible bandnames
Posted by Anonymous | February 15, 2008 3:39 PM
DJ Awesome Goodtimes takes Plaxico Burress for $5, Giants Kicker for $7, and Ahmad Bradshaw for $1
rihdin ridin
Posted by tom petty halftime show bet | February 15, 2008 3:41 PM
sam champion is my favorite weatherman ever. i love that sam champion is his legit real name. i'll have to look into this band now.
Posted by Mandy | February 15, 2008 3:50 PM
DJ Awesome Goodtimes is swell stuff.
Posted by Ron Mwangaguhunga | February 15, 2008 3:50 PM
seriously, who is bringing the lo-fat guac and midgets?
Posted by Anonymous | February 15, 2008 4:09 PM
whats wrong with drug rug
what are you too cool for tripping on psychedlics
damn nerd
Posted by Anonymous | February 15, 2008 4:15 PM
i heard dj awesome's cobra was bigger than dj goodtimes. anyone know the over/under on that bet?
Posted by hot for cobra | February 15, 2008 4:30 PM
fagotty!
Posted by Anonymous | February 15, 2008 4:36 PM
I take the under on DJ Goodtimes' Cobra.....
$5......
Posted by Nehzeldorf : Medallion III | February 15, 2008 5:37 PM
Salt and Samovar are definitely worth checking out . . .Except for the lead singer who seems too eager to be someone, they really seem to have it together and are putting out a new kind of old-sound . . . The drummer rocks and the harmonies make it all work . . .
I also heard they may be special guests later in Brooklyn . . .
Posted by GRG | February 15, 2008 5:57 PM
"i love that sam champion is his legit real name."
How do you know it's his real name? People who work in the news biz and the like can have different names that they use professionally, too. For example, the real name of Dan Patrick (former ESPN sportscaster) is Daniel Patrick Pugh.
Posted by Anonymous | February 15, 2008 8:52 PM
The XYZ Affair is a great name for a band. Drug Rug, admittedly, is not. But all 4 bands were very good tonight. This is how bills should be put together.
Posted by Elwood D. Pennypacker | February 16, 2008 3:29 AM
This was a tremendous show. With four bands (for $12 total), I really thought they'd be cutting some of the earlier acts short, but that didn't seem to be the case. Lots of locals on hand to give XYZ a big send-off on their national tour (at what seemed, at times, to be a big party for the band -- that couldn't stop smiling).
I enjoyed the first half of the Salt & Samovar set until they broke up that slow jesus-y song. They closed pretty strong though. Drug Rug seemed to shorten their set for some reason. Maybe the freaks up front scaring the crap out of Sarah?
And just an observation -- the photobloggers at this show were ridiculously rude, especially during Drug Rug's set. No, the Bowery doesn't use a barriacde, but that doesn't mean that comp'd photogs can push their way around the front to snap every freaking second of music from every angle, getting right in the way of paying customers.
Posted by Anonymous | February 16, 2008 4:07 AM
I couldn't believe that with the photographers. They were more obnoxious than the one jackass jumping up and down on everyone. How the hell did they get that gig anyway? Me, I just had my lil' camera, no flash, partially blocked by the tall Stephen Merchant-looking dude.
I would have been more aggressive, and even shot a full song on video, but the crazy bouncer was there (long haired white dude, looks like he had his days in the Slayer pits if you know what I mean) and last time he threatened to take my camera away and he's crazy so I said forget it.
XYZ Affair had the biggest crowd of the night by far. Sorry to say that Sam Champion actually attracted a nearly same-size audience as they played but then lots of people in the back started to leave.
Posted by Elwood D. Pennypacker | February 16, 2008 11:56 AM
people complaining about the photographers are stupid, everybody there gave them their space i was at the stage and they were walking around me for xyz and then i look back and theres a big arc of people giving them a buffer, thats your own fault, crowd them, who cares. the guys screaming for sarah were annoying i give you that though. nice set by xyz though, they were just having fun very relaxed but still sounded good.
Posted by Anonymous | February 16, 2008 2:46 PM
this show was sweet....Sam Champion definitely the band of the night!!!!
Posted by Anonymous | February 16, 2008 5:41 PM
Drug Rug rulez.
Posted by Nate Duval Dot Com | February 17, 2008 10:53 PM
- Salt & Samover were just OK, good guitar sound though.
- XYZ Affair had biggest (and girlie-cutest) audience, but the rest of their songs don't match up to their final song "All my Friends" (which is great - watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IerHOrDQKW0)
And that Earth, Wind & Fire cover was lame shit.
- Drug Rug smoked. Full of energy, spit and flame. They rocked it out. Good stuff.
- Sam Champion? So boring - boring band members, no interplay, boring songs - they looked more bored to be there that we were. Only polite applause. And their choice of bad early 80s cover was THEE worst.
Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2008 11:05 PM
Awesome Goodtimes
Posted by Awesome GoodTimes | February 18, 2008 1:22 AM
awesome goodtimes indeed. You guys nearly upstaged the bands
Posted by Anonymous | February 18, 2008 9:57 AM