August 19-25, 2004
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All of Your Failures Are Training Grounds.
Band of Constant Sorrow.
It's not the stuff of country ditties or Appalachian murder ballads, but there's probably a sad song somewhere in She-Haw's recent Web site troubles. Like any good cautionary tale, the story begins with a scene of touching human frailty: The band forgot to renew the rights to she-haw.com. "We had registered it for two years, and in that two years my stinkin' Internet service provider changed my e-mail and I failed to alert others to the change. I didn't get the notices," explains Amy Pickard. "OK fine! I forgot to renew it."
So the page was no longer up on the Web, for lack of a meager renewal payment. And the domain name was in what's apparently called "redemption" for 60-something days. The band could either wait until this period was over and buy the domain name anew for $6.95, or just bite the bullet and pay $150 to rescue the site from purgatory right away.
Pickard pondered her options. "Aha! I says to myself. No way am I falling for that scam! I'll wait patiently until my turn is up. Surely no one out there is really clamoring to claim she-haw.com."
Of course they got beat to it. "A company in India — where I imagine She-Haw is a very popular name brand — bought it and put up a search engine page," she recalls, baffled. "A She-Haw search engine page. A search engine page entitled She-Haw."
It makes no sense as a search engine name, but it's a common moneymaking scam: snatching up unrenewed domain names and selling them back to their deadbeat moms and dads. It happened to electricfactory.com (they switched to dot net for awhile) as well as thetraumaqueens.com (which was abandoned for thetraumaqueens.com; more on them below).
After a little haggling She-Haw was able to buy the name back from its Indian captors. "Now we have to wait for Google and the likes to pick she-haw.com back up," says Pickard. "It sucks 'em." Meanwhile, the band is hard at work on a third CD, to be released by Glaswegian label Shoeshine Records.
Long Live the Queens.
Fishtown garage rockers The Trauma Queens are back after a six-month hiatus and some lineup shifting. "The day we got back from Japan our old guitar player, Nick, informed us that he was tired of being persecuted for dressing like Marc Boland," says singer-bassist Jason Killinger. "So he decided to forsake Philadelphia in favor of San Francisco where a dude wearing a scarf isn't frowned upon." Then another guitarist moved to Baltimore.
So the band enlisted Mike Polizze — "He's basically a guitar god and will probably be the Jimi Hendrix or Peter Green of our generation," say Killinger — and is reborn as a three-piece (with Ben Leaphart on drums).
"We still play rock 'n' roll but now it's a little dirtier, sloppier and fuzzier," says Killinger. "It basically sounds like The Trauma Queens on acid."
Fri., Aug. 20, 9 p.m., $8, with Rifle Choir, Bona Roba and Les Sans Culottes, The Khyber, 56 S. Second St., 215-569-9700.
Regular Joes.
Hilliard's got a new CD — the rockin' Dinosaur Jr.-ish Inside Out -- and they want to show it off. So frontman Joe Lekkas plotted a four-week residency with pal Joe Melchiorre and his band Persona, who just rocked Farmfest last weekend. Lekkas is psyched about the mix of local (Jukebox Zeros, Canine 10, The Suspicions) and national (Rockets and Cars from NYC, Friends Like These from Minneapolis) acts he's assembled. The shows are on Fridays at Doc Watson's through Sept. 10. What can we expect? "A rock 'n' roll circus, complete with Marshall stacks, over-inflated egos, sex, drugs and debauchery."
Fri., Aug. 20, 9 p.m., $7, with Rockets and Cars and Colorfield, Doc Watson's, 216 S. 11th St., 215-922-3427.
Snails and Puppy Dog Tales.
With two bands to play with, Jayme Guokas barely has a minute to himself. When he's not making animal anthems with Men In Fur, he's down at the honeycomb hideout with The Snow Fairies, working on their self-recorded second full length. Like his other projects, The Escargo-gos makes all blissful, peppy pop music — just not very often. The show at the Millcreek will be, according to Guokas, "just me on acoustic guitar playing some songs I've written over the past four years." The Rose EP just came out on the Popgun tape label and there's a 7-inch out there somewhere, too. "I still say vinyl sounds better than CD — after spending an afternoon listening to Go-Betweens records."
Fri., Aug. 20, 9:30 p.m., $7, with The Black Piss and Kelly Slusher, Millcreek Tavern, 4200 Chester Ave., 215-222-9194.
Meet Area Singles!
Make this mixtape! Or playlist!
- "Mean Old Coot," Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer
- "The World May Never Know," Dr. Dog
- "Close," The Persona
- "Don't Say Nuthin'," The Roots
- "Boy's Club," Undergirl
- "We Can Pretend," This Radiant Boy
- "Boy Takes On Tornado," Bitter, Bitter Weeks
- "Cincinnati on Replay," Lefty's Deceiver
- "Take Your Clothes Off," The Snow Fairies
- "Crossroads Again," The Drop Scene
- "She Collided," Hilliard
Bonus Track: "Portions for Foxes," Rilo Kiley (not local, but don't you wish they were?)
Band of Constant Sorrow.
It's not the stuff of country ditties or Appalachian murder ballads, but there's probably a sad song somewhere in She-Haw's recent Web site troubles. Like any good cautionary tale, the story begins with a scene of touching human frailty: The band forgot to renew the rights to she-haw.com. "We had registered it for two years, and in that two years my stinkin' Internet service provider changed my e-mail and I failed to alert others to the change. I didn't get the notices," explains Amy Pickard. "OK fine! I forgot to renew it."
So the page was no longer up on the Web, for lack of a meager renewal payment. And the domain name was in what's apparently called "redemption" for 60-something days. The band could either wait until this period was over and buy the domain name anew for $6.95, or just bite the bullet and pay $150 to rescue the site from purgatory right away.
Pickard pondered her options. "Aha! I says to myself. No way am I falling for that scam! I'll wait patiently until my turn is up. Surely no one out there is really clamoring to claim she-haw.com."
Of course they got beat to it. "A company in India — where I imagine She-Haw is a very popular name brand — bought it and put up a search engine page," she recalls, baffled. "A She-Haw search engine page. A search engine page entitled She-Haw."
It makes no sense as a search engine name, but it's a common moneymaking scam: snatching up unrenewed domain names and selling them back to their deadbeat moms and dads. It happened to electricfactory.com (they switched to dot net for awhile) as well as thetraumaqueens.com (which was abandoned for thetraumaqueens.com; more on them below).
After a little haggling She-Haw was able to buy the name back from its Indian captors. "Now we have to wait for Google and the likes to pick she-haw.com back up," says Pickard. "It sucks 'em." Meanwhile, the band is hard at work on a third CD, to be released by Glaswegian label Shoeshine Records.
Long Live the Queens.
Fishtown garage rockers The Trauma Queens are back after a six-month hiatus and some lineup shifting. "The day we got back from Japan our old guitar player, Nick, informed us that he was tired of being persecuted for dressing like Marc Boland," says singer-bassist Jason Killinger. "So he decided to forsake Philadelphia in favor of San Francisco where a dude wearing a scarf isn't frowned upon." Then another guitarist moved to Baltimore.
So the band enlisted Mike Polizze — "He's basically a guitar god and will probably be the Jimi Hendrix or Peter Green of our generation," say Killinger — and is reborn as a three-piece (with Ben Leaphart on drums).
"We still play rock 'n' roll but now it's a little dirtier, sloppier and fuzzier," says Killinger. "It basically sounds like The Trauma Queens on acid."
Fri., Aug. 20, 9 p.m., $8, with Rifle Choir, Bona Roba and Les Sans Culottes, The Khyber, 56 S. Second St., 215-569-9700.
Regular Joes.
Hilliard's got a new CD — the rockin' Dinosaur Jr.-ish Inside Out -- and they want to show it off. So frontman Joe Lekkas plotted a four-week residency with pal Joe Melchiorre and his band Persona, who just rocked Farmfest last weekend. Lekkas is psyched about the mix of local (Jukebox Zeros, Canine 10, The Suspicions) and national (Rockets and Cars from NYC, Friends Like These from Minneapolis) acts he's assembled. The shows are on Fridays at Doc Watson's through Sept. 10. What can we expect? "A rock 'n' roll circus, complete with Marshall stacks, over-inflated egos, sex, drugs and debauchery."
Fri., Aug. 20, 9 p.m., $7, with Rockets and Cars and Colorfield, Doc Watson's, 216 S. 11th St., 215-922-3427.
Snails and Puppy Dog Tales.
With two bands to play with, Jayme Guokas barely has a minute to himself. When he's not making animal anthems with Men In Fur, he's down at the honeycomb hideout with The Snow Fairies, working on their self-recorded second full length. Like his other projects, The Escargo-gos makes all blissful, peppy pop music — just not very often. The show at the Millcreek will be, according to Guokas, "just me on acoustic guitar playing some songs I've written over the past four years." The Rose EP just came out on the Popgun tape label and there's a 7-inch out there somewhere, too. "I still say vinyl sounds better than CD — after spending an afternoon listening to Go-Betweens records."
Fri., Aug. 20, 9:30 p.m., $7, with The Black Piss and Kelly Slusher, Millcreek Tavern, 4200 Chester Ave., 215-222-9194.
Meet Area Singles!
Make this mixtape! Or playlist!
- "Mean Old Coot," Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer
- "The World May Never Know," Dr. Dog
- "Close," The Persona
- "Don't Say Nuthin'," The Roots
- "Boy's Club," Undergirl
- "We Can Pretend," This Radiant Boy
- "Boy Takes On Tornado," Bitter, Bitter Weeks
- "Cincinnati on Replay," Lefty's Deceiver
- "Take Your Clothes Off," The Snow Fairies
- "Crossroads Again," The Drop Scene
- "She Collided," Hilliard
Bonus Track: "Portions for Foxes," Rilo Kiley (not local, but don't you wish they were?)
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