Email Author Eric W. Saeger

2006 Stories by Eric W. Saeger

• Armin van Buuren

  published December 28, 2006

  Time once again to round up that favorite European-born friend-with-benefits (and funny teeth) and bop over to Space for whatever pops into Armin... More >>

• Buddha Gonzalez

  published December 28, 2006

  New Jersey hamster-wheel-metallers the Shake Up will headline Churchill's this Friday, and now this tip for bands: Remember the daydream you... More >>

• Oscar G

  published December 21, 2006

  No two words go better together than open and bar, which is one of the things you can experience at Space this Saturday. There... More >>

• Rhett y Los Borrachos Empeñados

  published December 21, 2006

  Genial Cuban-American four-piece Rhett y Los Borrachos Empeñados (Rhett and the Pawnshop Drunks) fills Jazid's air with retro-Latino this... More >>

• Phil Weeks

  published December 14, 2006

  Journeyman French DJ Phil Weeks will be inspiring the soiling and subsequent washing of your dirty laundry at Laundry Bar when he brings it for a... More >>

• Jive Collective

  published December 7, 2006

  In case we didn't get you to break down and check out Jive Collective at its last Jazid show, luck is with you, because the band will be there... More >>

• Ready and Able

  published November 30, 2006

  It's been awhile since Olivia Newton-John won a Grammy — 1984 actually — but crusading spirits do prevail. At age 58, she is prevailing... More >>

• Sasha

  published November 30, 2006

  Over at Space, a Digweed-less Sasha will light up his Mac for the up-all-nighters, hoping to wipe the been-there off of their faces via an... More >>

• The Moroder the Merrier

  published November 23, 2006

  The great cultural seesaw between New York and Miami tilts southward, sending one of the Big Apple's icons sliding into Twilo, fittingly enough. ... More >>

• Paul Van Dyk

  published November 23, 2006

  For all the disaffection you might feel over being spoiled with another Paul Van Dyk performance in Miami, one look at his roots is enough to see... More >>

• Tobacco Road's 94th Anniversary Party

  published November 16, 2006

  If Tobacco Road were a person, it would be pinching the nurses at Shady Pines and talking smack about Eliot Ness while it cackled its dentures... More >>

• What's Funny?

  published November 9, 2006

  These days everything punk comes in Sam's Club sizes — numbers of bands at shows, for instance — and at count-em-27 songs, drummer Marky... More >>

• Whitey

  published November 9, 2006

  Like the Teddybears, Whitey carries a beer-bar-danceable message from Europe, but where Teddybears want (and do, in fact, own) the TV-commercial... More >>

• Weird Al Yankovic

  published November 9, 2006

  Irony of ironies, Al is a well-established entertainment brand himself, fat and tough-looking nowadays, so when he gives "Dontcha," "Float On,"... More >>

• Frequency in Stereo

  published November 9, 2006

  In space no one can hear you be hip, thus it's probably a blessing that the Low Frequency cultured its sound in Haugesund, Norway, likely as close... More >>

• Unleashed

  published November 9, 2006

  No new hamster-wheel-metal earth scorched here, but the mixture is high-octane if anyone is still living and dying by this genre. Unleashed is a... More >>

• The Slits

  published November 9, 2006

  With the a-for-anarchy branding still legible on their pocked backsides after 30 years, the grandmammies of chick-punk return to... More >>

• Teddybears

  published November 9, 2006

  Of all the cameos on the Teddybears' Soft Machine full-length, Neneh Cherry's "Yours to Keep" read-through is the Abba-est. By the coda,... More >>

• Scandalously Hard

  published November 2, 2006

  Women are positioning themselves to stick it to men once and for all. Not content with bum-rushing the academic world by earning degrees, females... More >>

• Support Imbeciles

  published November 2, 2006

  It's not often you're handed the opportunity to receive some express dentistry while giving to charity. Spikefest is a gig to benefit Dirty... More >>

• Taught to Be Taut

  published October 26, 2006

  Taught to Be Taut Ska. Go ahead, laugh if you will. Much like a current genre label of the same length... More >>

• Totimoshi

  published October 26, 2006

  Even more bliss-driven than last year's Mysterioso?, Totimoshi's new record is reflective of the band's recent road haul, which probably... More >>

• Slow V and Retrospect

  published October 19, 2006

  Second-guessing the state of commercial hip-hop could become the next no-budget ESPN thing once Celebrity Poker buggers off. You'd need... More >>

• N. Phect & Dizplay

  published October 5, 2006

  When not obsessively scanning the surfaces of potato chips for holy likenesses of Phace, Cologne-based nuevo-funkers Sebastian and Henrik Wild... More >>

• The Changes

  published October 5, 2006

  There's only so much mileage the Changes will get out of the outraged buzz about how they were the only unsigned act at this year's Lollapalooza,... More >>