November 18, 2008
Black Gold
Text and photo by Jennifer Lynn Veal
Black Gold played the final show of their US tour with Polysics and Jaguar Love at the Glass House in Pomona, CA last Friday night. The room held a mix of costume-clad Polysics super fans and locals, out for a night of good music, who danced along with the Brooklyn , NY band from start to finish. The set list included “Plans and Reveries”, “Idols” and “ Detroit ” from their EP, Tragedy and Legacy.
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November 17, 2008
View from The Palms Hotel
By Jake Anderson
Oh, how we love to hate to love you, Vegas!
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November 17, 2008
By Jake Anderson
On Tuesday November 4, as America eagerly awaited the results of its presidential election—as well as the Senate and House races and hundreds of disparate propositions up for vote all across the country—Antics posted up at the Beauty Bar in Las Vegas for our special election night congressional caucus. Plus-sized television screens aired CNN’s holographic glory while party-goers flooded the doors, drooling at the mouth at the prospect of riding history’s coattails into Wednesday morning. Funny Faces Photobooth joined us, bearing a box of political masks—on hand were Hillary Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Abraham Lincoln, and president-elect Barack Obama. Later, Eagles of Death Metal took the stage for ninety minutes of ruby rock.
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November 14, 2008
By Kyle Lemmon
First thing’s first, San Francisco’s The Dodos have crafted one of great pop albums of 2008. That’s all fine, but their live shows truly try to take Visitor’s brand of shambolic guitar & drum clatter to the people. Last Saturday night at Los Angeles’ Echoplex the plucky Bay Area duo did just that, as they trolled through songs like the toy piano-flecked “Red and Purple” and the anthemia of “Fools.” As expected, it was mostly Visitor faire, but songs from their early career sneaked into the rousing set.
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November 12, 2008
Text and photos by Tal Rosenberg
Whew. It’s really all you can say after a night like this one, which was stuffed to the ears with such an absurd surfeit of entertainment that there’s really nothing you can do but pass out with giddy exhaustion.
The B-52s didn’t play all of their old tunes, but they did turn out “Mesopotamia” and “Private Idaho” and stuff off their new album and of course “Love Shack” to the sound of hundreds of shrieking, dancing fans. With few breaks in their set, the quirkily retro Georgians proved that they’ve lost little of the energy that characterized their early shows.
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November 10, 2008
By Jake Anderson
I’ve been anticipating the release of Rock Band 2 for over a month now and when Max held it up to me at the Antics office on Thursday afternoon I squealed like a piglet. I’d grown so sick of the inaugural Rock Band that the last half dozen Antics events had found me belting out Robert Goulet tunes to drown out the nauseating choruses of “Say It Ain’t So”. The only song I could still tolerate was Rush’s “Tom Sawyer”, simply because the drumming is near impossible. Neil Peart is a vicious beast!
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November 10, 2008
By Antics Staff
Brooklyn’s Black Gold is wrapping up its first full U.S. tour this week in Denver, San Francisco, and Pomona, CA, and to mark the end of a great tour, we have put together official guides to two of their favorite things - Mexican food and vintage gear! Get to know the duo better while they discuss the intricacies of huevos rancheros and achieving the perfect organic sound from a vintage Wurlitzer in these must-watch documentary-style videos.
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November 04, 2008
By Antics Staff
On Thursday November 6th, we’ll be combining the high octane fun of a Roller Derby with the madcap nature of an Antics event and setting the whole thing in Vegas sound like a heck of a party, right? Right!
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November 03, 2008
By Johnny Wombus
Greg Gillis – better known as Girl Talk – shook up the Fonda last weekend with a packed-house performance. The borderline between performer and audience was broken down and the stage transformed into a sort of VIP dance floor. In the center of the action was Gillis himself, poking away at his laptop and bobbing his sweaty mane along to the surrounding throng while a band of Hollywood girls danced against him on all sides.
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October 30, 2008
Omar Hassan
By Brian Brannon with photo by Pat McGinnis
Hats off to Darren Navarette for throwing THEE best vert contest in a long, long time. The Rumble in Ramona was so good, it shouldn’t be called a contest. Just a bunch of bros (who happen to be some of the best vert skaters of all time), hitting the halfpipe hard and heavy, just like in the old days, with $1 beverages, burgers on the grill, classic cars and even a burlesque style bikini contest to round out the session.
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