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Midnight Music Movies at The New Parkway: Stop Making Sense

See Stop Making Sense Feb 8-9 at The New Parkway in Oakland

This weekend kicks off the Spinning Platters Midnight Music Movies screening series at The New Parkway in Oakland. When we decided that we wanted to curate a series of midnight screenings of our favorite music movies, one jumped right to the top of everybody’s list: the classic Talking Heads concert film, Stop Making Sense. If the name alone is enough reason to come to the movie, then buy your tickets here. If you want to know why this is the greatest concert film ever made, I’ll be glad to tell you. Continue reading “Midnight Music Movies at The New Parkway: Stop Making Sense”

Show Review: Tom Tom Club at Great American Music Hall, 10/8/2010

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How much would you pay to hear one song? What if that song was going to be played by the most accomplished one-hit wonder in the history of music? When that song is “Genius of Love,” and that band is the Tom Tom Club, the long lasting musical project of Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz of Talking Heads, then apparently that price is $26. This was, however, a 13-song set. So what about the other 12 songs? Were they worth the price of admission?

The short answer? Continue reading “Show Review: Tom Tom Club at Great American Music Hall, 10/8/2010”