Wednesday, July 18, 2007
An Indie Rock Road Trip
The travel section at The Washington Post recently had a story on indie rock and college towns. The author, Ben Brazil, focuses on three towns, Athens, Chapel Hill, and Charlottesville, with which dcat has more than a passing familiarity, though one might think that in terms of a confluence of music and universities, Austin, home of both South by Southwest and Austin City Limits would warrant mentioning, especially as Charlottesville, much as I love it, has as its claim to fame the Dave Matthews Band -- perfectly cromulent, but not exactly cutting edge infie fare. I'm sure others will have their favorites as well. The article is int he travel section, so the relative proximity of Charlottesville, Chapel Hill, and Athens was obviously a factor in its construction, but places such as Columbia, Missouri and Lawrence, kansas might warrant their own trip.
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Gee, this guy even made rubbing a man's tender nipple, into a frosty by a female stranger, seem boring. And really, isn't more about all the many bands that want, need to tour through those towns to perhaps be noticed by anyone, anything, and maybe get a few drinks and a lay.
He obviously was never in a band and probably, I'm willing to wadger, almost never went to rock shows during college that cost less the 25 bucks.
Yeah, no doubt -- this is not the guy to see a rock show with. And it goes to show that once a newspaper like WaPo or the Times smiles on you it gives you opportunities that a million guys would envy, which makes it even worse when half of my friends could write a better piece than this. Still, it's always fun to read about places you know and like and in some cases called home.
Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill (actually Carrboro) was always one of the great venues in all of rock music.
dcat
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