It List: Monday 11/13/06

So I bet you're sitting around saying to yourself, "hey, I have 28 bucks to flush down the fucking toilet tonight, but what the hell am I going to do with it?" I guess one answer would be to go to Gypsy Tea Room and see Joan Jett and the Blackhearts with Eagles of Death Metal and Riverboat Gamblers. Can you think of a more annoying thing to do on Monday night? Whenever Eagles of Death Metal are BY FAR the best band in any given line up, I would suggest literally flushing your money down the toilet rather than figuratively doing so by going to the show in question. If you actually feel like experiencing a Joan Jett performance for whatever reason, I bet you can turn on VHI Classics right now and see one within the next 30 minutes... either way, I'd suggest not putting another 28 dollars in Joan Jett's jukebox, baby.

Tonight, the truly prudent music consumer would go to the always great and always FREE jazz night at the Amsterdam Bar and save their cover charge allowance for some of the good shows coming up the rest of this week.

AND I almost forgot, you can head up to Denton's SHQ tonight to check out a screening of the film Before the Music Dies, a documentary on the ways in which major record labels and corporate media have been destroying the music business over the past few years. The film was purposely held back from release at major theaters, and is instead being show through a network of independent and DIY hosts such as the good people at SHQ. Mike Seman and the SHQ crew will be hosting the screening, which takes place at 8pm. Its free, but they ask kindly for donations.