Bells will be ringing, this sad sad sad news/Oh what a Christmas to have the blues/My baby's gone/I have no friends, to wish me greetings once again... Every year at this time, for as long as I can remember -- hell, probably since I first heard the tune when I toiled as "holiday help" at Musicland at the Northglenn Mall back in high school -- "Please Come Home for Christmas" gets embedded in my head and I can't shake it. It's permanently become associated with jolly old Saint Fatty and his holid
Photo: KMBC-TV, Kansas CityYesterday afternoon, the members of Savage Henry and Chris Blochinger from Potcheen Folk Band were involved in a bus accident in Lee Summit, Missouri. According to Samantha Hanson, Savage Henry's booking agent and former manager, the band, who was in between dates on a six-date Midwest tour, was on its way to a music store when the accident happened. Chris Blochinger, Potcheen's drummer, was driving his band's bus, which the Savage Henry guys had chartered for the to
Photo by Mark Manger.Rollin'.
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Today in Cafe Society:
• Up Close: Star Kitchen.
• A taste of Sudan at Restaurant 4580.
• Anthony Bourdain at an altweekly?
• Go help the Whole Planet.
• Our Weekly Bread: Summerhill Market.
• New Belgium's Sunshine Wheat gets canned.
Today in Backbeat Online:
• Members of Savage Henry involved in bus crash in Missouri.
• Last Night's Show: These Are Powers at Rhinoceropolis.
• U2 top seller at Black & Read.
• Fertility in fallo
Pictureplane gets a shout-out on Pitchfork and Nathaniel Rateliff gets written up in Billboard, while DeVotchKa kills it on Conan and Flobots throw down on Carson Daly.
Canadian twin sisters Tegan & Sara hit the road the last week in October in support of their sixth studio album, Sainthood, which drops on Tuesday, October 27. After European and Canadian dates, the sisters are slated to swing by the Ogden Theatre next year on Sunday, April 4. General admission tickets are $35.25. In the meantime, 30 Seconds to Mars, which features brothers Jared and Shannon Leto, hits the Odgen on Tuesday, December 1, a week before the act's forthcoming album, This is Wa
