Personally I can’t wait to dine at #1 bro Guy Fieri’s new establishment. I love mall food. I stole this from Gothamist, credit where it’s due and all that.
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FREE BOOZE!!! + Candidate Show Thursday May 17th
THURSDAY MAY 17TH Trash Bar, an establishment clearly run by geniuses, has an open bar from 8 to 9 with free PBR and well drinks with admission to the show. The show is $7, the first band goes on at 8, and there are five–count them, five–that’s an entire hand’s worth of bands. We go
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Comments Off Let the Countdown Count Me – The Fanged Robot
A miracle has happened in the world. Robby Cosenza has made a facebook page for his wonderful band, The Fanged Robot. Go “like” it now. I assure you that you will actually like it. Fanged, as the kids call them, has an album done. They were recently featured in Paste Magazine and the author of
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Comments Off Buzz Chips Presents…An Awesome Show!
Tomorrow, Thursday, we have the distinct pleasure of playing a showcase put on by buzzchips.com. The forecast for tomorrow is supertight jams and chill grooves. Just kidding. Do not use chill as an adjective. You’ve been warned. Sadly, despite my multitude of degrees and years of writing experience, I am conspicuously lacking the ability to
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Comments Off Candidate…So Brave
While I am somewhat sympathetic to the mainstream media’s complaint that the Occupy Wall Street movement’s chant might be “What do we want?!?” “We don’t know!” “When do we want it?” “Yestermorrowday,” all of us at Candidate HQ are ready to take a brave stand against greed and corruption. I know, right? We’re so brave.
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Comments Off The Greatest Song Ever?
Is “More Than This” by Roxy Music the greatest song ever? Some days I think so. If you don’t know, prepare to have you mind blown.
Comments Off A Love Letter to the Assassin, Ian Cohen
Every couple days I head on over to the opinion and news emporium, Pitchfork Media. Generally, I scan the news and, if I’m feeling extra inquisitive, I browse the reviews. Over the course of my years of reading the site, I have been trained to read the “by line,” for there are but three words
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Comments Off How Do You Break Through All This Noise?
It should come as no surprise to the Candidate devotee–all four of you –that I am quite a student of do it yourself band marketing. Laurence and I spent literally hundreds of hours promoting LP1. It seems that is paying off a bit now, because “April Again” was downloaded about 6,300 times from our website
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