Outernational Vs Long Island

Is it a good thing to have a band comprised of paunchy 50 somethings doing bad covers of Alice in Chains and AC/DC play right before a political punk band?? And to top it off somewhere in the south of Long Island?? When we pulled up in front of Village Pub South and saw dozens and dozens of American Flags everywhere I knew this would be an interesting evening.

There were a good number of kids there that night mixed in with many older bikers and cock rockers, which all paid $10 dollars to go to a local bar on a friday night to watch mostly local acts play. These people, I thought, must be desperate for recreation.

There were some acts of the ubiquitous numetal genre and some others of everybody's other omnipresent category of music, emo!! I never understood the inate human need to love and internalize art to such a degree that we copy and ape it instead of creating something new. Maybe it's not the love of art at all that makes us do this but the need to be accepted and admired, I guess that's what hipsters are all about..god I hate those fucks....

So on top of of all that muzak we had to endure (don't get me wrong, there was one band which I guess was kind of emo but at least it was played at a nice pace and even enjoyable) we had to watch a bunch of Ewoks and Chewys play their cholesterol filled hearts out to their favorite covers. Not only did this make for good giggling, it cleared out all the kids and left the "club" filled with the aforementioned cock rockers (Whenever I use that term I feel like apologizing to own cock, it is such an insult. I mean my cock hasn't done anything that merits it's name being used for the worst genre of rock there is, right?)

Outernational was pretty fucking good considering they almost left. The incompetent management at the bar didn't let us know that they were running almost an hour behind, so instead of Outernational rocking a good sized crowd of bored kids and selling some cds and getting their msg out, the oversized Ewoks cleared the place out. I shot some video and got a couple of good shots. I should have more shots of this friday's show in the cultural mecca that is Warren , New Jersey.

Check my out my new Mo Blog for the pics, posting pics on blogger is a pain in the ass.

Candombe Apertura 2:03 Dusminguet
Todos 4:59 Macaco
El Cantante 4:08 Sonido Acido
537 C.U.B.A. 4:23 Orishas
Boomerang 4:19 Daara J
DJalgaty 4:34 PEE Froiss
Richocet 3:50 Outernational
Blaw 3:44 Positive Black Soul
Voix Du Mali 5:29 113 feat. Oumou Sangare
The Hop 3:27 A Tribe Called Quest
4 Rent 3:40 Bicasso
Reunited 5:22 Wu-Tang Clan
Who's To Blame 3:13 Ozomatli Feat. Chaly 2NA
Remix Dub Style 3:37 Ojos De Brujo
quemalasuerte 4:29 Los de abajo
Sou Negrão 6:28 Possemente Zulu
Year 2000 4:12 Alphabet Soup

Enjoy, Ciao!!