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Here and Loving Vegoose by amit

It was Saturday, 11:32 A.M. and sunlight bled through the almost closed curtains of our sub-par Vegas hotel room shared with six other people. Everyone was fast asleep (passed out), but I lay wide-eyed and delirious after a lengthy night of sitting around a green semicircle playing blackjack. Sitting up slowly I realized the line between business and pleasure was almost nonexistent when on assignment for C&V. But there was more to this trip than card decks of debauchery. There was music. There was Vegoose. After recovering the rest of the day I headed down to the Sam Boyd Stadium, a true oasis in the Vegas desert. Strewn across the sands rested giant circus tents, carved pumpkins and Halloween revelers trick or treating for some quality music and/or mescaline.

I arrived to the shows pretty damn late. The festival started around noon with Toubab Krewe, but I didn’t get there till mid-set of the Mars Volta around 8. I don’t know much about their music other than a few tracks I heard via iTunes, so don’t send us packages of dead animals when I tell you they sounded like banshees in heat scraping their banshee nails on chalkboards read by younger banshees. How bad were they? You know those Dyson vacuum cleaners that suck 5 times the force of gravity? Well, move over Dyson. You’ve got competition. Instead of harmonies, we got shrieking. There were no notes played here. All to be heard was the melody of an A.C. wall unit tumbling down an old rickety fire escape. Genuine noise.

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posted on 12:45 pm 11/06/2006
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C&V’s Going To Vegoose by amit

We’ve just learned Celluloid and Vinyl will be attending the second annual Vegoose Music Festival in the booze-filled oasis of the desert, Las Vegas. We’re sending two of our writers (as press) to drink, see The Killers, gamble, take shots with and interview Jack White, split aces at The Mandalay Bay, go backstage with Tom Petty, stay up till sunrise, pretend to be black with Jurassic 5, and maybe, just maybe, sleep amidst the Sin City shenanigans. Thankfully, whatever the hell happens in Vegas won’t stay there. We’ll have full coverage of the pre-Halloween weekend, the ballyhoo, and, of course, the music. The shows start Saturday, October 28th and tickets are still available. View the full line-up after the jump.

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posted on 5:45 pm 10/09/2006
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Gov’t Mule - McCarren Park Pool (Brooklyn, NY 9/9/06) by chad popular

We sent our NYC correspondent, also named Dan (pen name “Chad Popular”), to experience Gov’t Mule with opening band Wolfmother over the weekend. Here’s his review.

-amit

Gov’t Mule with special guest Wolfmother
September 9, 2006 @ McCarren Park Pool, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

Let me start this by saying that it was my roommate’s birthday the night before this show and I did not sleep the night before. I was hungover and tired and honestly, pounding decibal levels rattling my brain via my earholes was the last thing I wanted to experience. However, having been to the McCarren Park Pool before, I knew that it was an incredible venue - a drained Olympic-sized pool in which the audience literally stands. The band plays on an elevated stage above the deep end. I was in for an experience.

I had never really heard Wolfmother. They were just a cool new band that I had downloaded on iTunes in hopes that someone would come over and be like, “Dude, you like Wolfmother?”? and I would reply, “Who doesn’t?”? Any reservations I had about my mood and physical state were diffused as I entered the venue and heard the pleasing sound of what could have been a Black Sabbath reunion concert. But alas, it was the Australian band, Wolfmother.

They are awesome.

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posted on 11:13 am 09/12/2006
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Norm MacDonald’s “Ridiculous” by amit

Former SNL veteran and once star of his own ABC show aptly titled “The Norm Show” is now venturing into the world of sketch comedy albums. The album, “Ridiculous,” isn’t out till September 12th, but we’ve got an exclusive free download from the release. The sketch is a dialogue between Norm MacDonald and Will Ferrell (in his Harry Caray voice) as the first two gay guys in America. It’s introduced by Subway commercial figurehead Jon Lovitz. Enjoy.

Click here to jump to the download.

posted on 3:19 pm 09/06/2006
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“American Idol” Auditions - Memphis, TN by amit

On September 3rd at 5 AM, Richard and I set out to the FedEx forum in downtown Memphis in order to interview the thousands of misguided contestants hoping to be the next big thing. We met several interesting people who had no idea what the words “reality” and “hygiene” meant and a few others who could actually sing. Keep checking C&V in the next few days for the full video broadcast/podcast/YouTube of our epic behind-the-scenes access to the “American Idol” audition line.

To get your stomach growling, here are a few photos of the people you’ll meet.

posted on 12:51 am 09/04/2006
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