Why We Live Here Instead of There

Tonight's line-up at Bourbon St. is easily 2007's first worthwhile show, attendancer required. Green Bay's Pink Reason is venturing in to town with a little help from his trash-pop friends Times New Viking and Psychedelic Horseshit. In yesterday's Dispatch I had the pleasure to describe his music as a "loner vibe emanating from the darkest corners of the new weird American underground." Splice that with some Skip Spence psychosis and a gravitation towards electronic fissures, and you have this.

What I'm most excited about is the first showing in the New Year from Psychedelic Horseshit. The grizzled frontman now lives in a tent in my brother's kitchen, so here's hoping those conditions have inspired late-night moments of fractured brilliance. Of course I'm required by law to shout the praises of Times New Viking (they will not disappoint), but it's the element of surprise that has me pining for the 'Shit. My other brother lays out the details here on his new blog, but he has yet to link to my own award-winning crevice of the internet, so additional advertising is on hold.