11/16/08 The B-52s / The 88 @ Club Nokia
http://goldenvoice.com/shows/details/?id=20308
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09004137AE6870EC?brand=goldenvoice

I can attest to the fact that Club Nokia has awesome sound (see our Beck review) and the B-52’s are only getting finer with age.   I have three pairs of tickets to give away, leave a comment below to enter to win!!

Club Nokia opened last night, and a lot of lucky radio listeners and LA bloggers got the chance to test out the bar VIP style.  The bar is very chic, somewhere I’d definitely feel out of place on a regular night (ok I did last night too) but the drinks were stiff and the place had a nice comfortable feel to it.

The venue is great, I heard two maintenance guys (well they were dressed like maintenance guys) talking and one said “it’s like watching a show in your living room.”  The sound was great, moreso for Jenny Lewis than Beck, but he does that marbles in the mouth vocal thing so you can’t really fault the sound system for that.

Really the best mix in the venue can be heard in the men’s room.. they pipe in the concert audio to the men’s room speakers, and I’m not sure why other places don’t do that.

The show was great, Jenny Lewis got things started with a down home acoustic vibe with her band complete with an Echos era David Gilmour looking “amplified acoustic” player.  Beck ignored all the rules of cool performance by opening his set with Loser, which told me that this was going to be a great set, and it was.  Lots of old, lots of new.  It’s hard to believe Beck’s been around as long as he has, and it’s easy to forget all of the great songs he’s written over the years, but it all clicks when you see him live.  He’s not doing the Odelay era white suit dance machine schtick, or the Mutations era folk singer bit, he’s doing the “used to turn on a leafblower on stage in Silver Lake slacker moonboots” deal that we all fell in love with in the first place.

A round of applause to Goldenvoice for putting this together, everyone looked like they had a great time.  Now if I can just get my hands on some STP tickets….

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Leave a comment below to enter to win 2 tickets to the 1st Annual Butterfinger Comedy Showdown at the Laugh Factory!!

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Nestlé Butterfinger is sponsoring the 1st annual Comedy Showdown on Wednesday, November 12th at 8pm at the world famous Laugh Factory in Hollywood, CA. The event will feature the two finalists from www.ButterfingerComedyShowdown.com vying to win the coveted “Big Shot” award and a chance to launch their stand-up career.

For the past two months, Butterfinger has searched the country for up-and-coming stand-up comedians. Contestants uploaded a one minute video of their best stand-up routine online at www.butterfingercomedyshowdown.com. Comedy giants Dave Hill, Wendy Liebman, Adam Williamson, Adrian Kulp, Jamie Masada, and Bruce Hills judged the first-round of submissions and whittled it down to the top five. The online public voted for their top two favorites who will be performing at the Comedy Showdown at the Laugh Factory on the 12th.

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The chicken’s have a chance to get out and spread their legs, but things just got a little tighter for California gays.  We’re going to have a lot to talk about on those high speed rail commutes.

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Is it just me or does Obama and Pepsi employ the same creative team….

By Greg Oguss

I saw Kevin Smith’s latest lackluster ode to shit, boobies, boners, cum, Star Wars and the average working slob on Halloween night in a luxury theater in Sherman Oaks where the crewcutted usher got us pumped for the experience by a little speech that ended in his hollering, not once but twice, “Okay, get ready for Zach and Miri Make a…what?” The portion of the crowd high on the Halloween spirit offered a mechanical “Porno!” yell after the first prompt. By the usher’s second prompt, the numbers had dwindled to the small minority who will look past the incompetent storytelling to snicker at the repurposed Clerks jokes that have been massaged to fit the digital age.

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A Quebec comedy duo, posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy, have successfully prank called Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin has unwittingly taken a prank call from a Canadian comedian posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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