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It looks like Your Friendly Neighborhood Bingo! Show is going to be taking a bit of an Evac-ation. Here's hoping all of our New Orleans friends and family find high ground and make it back safe and sound. And soon.

We'll keep ya posted.

In the meantime, a distressing radar image:
All of our love, Bingo! buddies.

We'll be back.

(Again.)

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Bingo! Parlour Profile #4: ROTARY DOWNS [10.25, 4:45-5:45pm]

Salty Lays and Sweet Leaf: The Story of Rotary Downs

Rotary Downs began in a closet circa 1999, experimenting with a new mind-expanding beverage called "beer" and exotic inhalants they quickly dubbed "cigarettes." The first record was then recorded at the Mermaid Lounge, a dark and dank concession under the interstate. It was here that the great _______ Salon was formed, a fin de siecle think tank whose tenets were not dispersed much, as they could barely be remembered. A mostly nostalgic album emerged.

The twentieth century was ushered out with a pat on the butt and a sympathetic smile. The group, reassembled, found itself recording in Tennessee two years later, laying down the songs that would make up Long After the Thrill. Much of this music was written around the recent addition of pedal steel guitar, and viola would also figure more prominently into the mix. The band stayed at the Econolodge by the Memphis airport, which soon became known as "Econopube" (due to a lone hair affixed to the hot/cold sink knob that was observed upon arrival). No Salon was formed and few ideas were exchanged. Showers were taken separately. The local pigmeat made available to them was deemed excellent. On the advisement of the engineer, Msgr. Easley, they pursued the deadest sound possible. Sessions began with Irish tea and ended with Canadian Whiskey. A puppy was discovered on the exterior premises and befriended. A sprawling set of songs results, some dreary, all deadly as predetermined.

Summer of 2003, back in New Orleans to record Quitters EP, the band hurled forth six random nuggets in the general direction of the tape machine and its operator, Goat Gilchrist. Four of the tracks were finished on the spot, with the cajoling of dubious/confused band members and a determination to fill the purchased tapes. Significantly different from the previous record, (as much as that one was from the first one), Quitters EP was a sweeping out from underneath the couch cushions. The completion of this eclectic handful marked the end of one phase and the beginning of another.

Shortly after the completion of Quitters EP, the band's rhythm section was kidnapped by a brutal international terrorist network known as "women" (but more officially referred to as "chicks"). The remaining members were never able to meet the outlandish demands of these "women," and the usurped drummer and bassist remain locked away in undisclosed locations to this day. Soon, however, new band members were recruited, resulting in more drums, more bass, and more keys. In October, Rotary Downs presented its latest full-length album Chained to the Chariot that began in New Orleans but was blown westward by Hurricane Katrina and, ultimately, completed in the psychedelic swamplands of Lafayette, Louisiana. Currently, the band prepares for its tour of the now well-rinsed Dirty South.

And now for a helpful instructional video...

Wanna know more?
Rotary Downs' Website!
Rotary Downs' MySpace!
Rotary Downs' Wikipedia!

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Video Shenanigans: BEACH PARTY AT THE THRESHOLD OF HELL

Didja know about this one?

It's the year 2097, and the great land that was once America is now an apocalyptic wasteland. Enter Tex Kennedy (Kevin Wheatley), a bold, orphaned bunker resident determined to unite the downtrodden survivors of the world to forge a new nation -- a New America. Written and co-directed by star Kevin Wheatley, this hilariously bizarre journey through dystopia is presented by the one and only National Lampoon.

Not to mention musical contributions by The New Orleans Bingo! Show and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band! Tell me that ain't worth Netflixin'...

Bingo! Parlour Profile #3: MAN MAN [10.24, 7:10-8:30pm]

Gotta tell ya, folks... Your New Orleans Bingo! Show is pretty excited about this one. You could mine the national music scene for months and not come up with a more fitting band to crash-land smack dab in the middle of The New Orleans Bingo! Parlour. As far as telling you about the group and their sound, there's probably no way we could possibly do it better than their already extensive bio. So here we lay it on you in their own words. They are Man Man:

Before the beginning...

Before the world came into existence, all was a chaos, unimaginably limitless and without shape or form. Eon followed eon, particle became mass: then, lo! out of this boundless, shapeless mass something light and transparent rose up and formed the heavens. And from the heavens fell five shapes, loud and heavy and jumbled, and from these rough forms were shaped and sculpted the first firsts: Honus Honus (the High-August-First-Voice), Sergei Sogay (the Divine-Center-of-Four-Strings), Pow Pow (the August-Beat-Divinity), Critter Crat (the Divine-Twang-and-Everything-Else) and Chang Wang (the Other-Twang-and-Wondrous-Everything-Else).

And they set out to fill the yawning void that gripped the earth, and they crammed the emptiness with sounds, of voices and guitars and drums, yes; but also with squeaky toys and pots and spoons and cap guns and chopsticks and old shoes and fruit and stuffed frogs. And such was their exuberant good time, and such was the mess they made, that they did not see their jealous creator, envious of their ingenuity and novelty items, sneaking up on their ebullient pandemonium and casting them out...

Today...

In their lost divinity, Man Man took up residence in Philadelphia, perhaps because of the Sweet Philly sound, Noam Chomsky, the water Sun Ra was drinking, Charles Barkley's elbows, the excellence of the Philly lacrosse team or Rocky or Betsy Ross or John Coltrane. Or maybe it was it's close proximity to south Jersey.

Never you mind. The point is, Man Man keeps on keeping on, filling the blankness with their weird/beautiful, esoteric/heart-rending, profound/hilarious sounds. There is so much lovely commotion to be made, Man Man famously does not break between songs during their live shows, but rather moves, revolving-door fashion, from one song to another, commandeering and discarding any of number of the instruments lying at their feet as the mood strikes and the music dictates.

Comparisons to the usual avant-garde forefathers - Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits - persist, but Man Man are decidedly not identity thieving or even overtly referencing these spiritual godfathers in their music, but rather are acting as torchbearers of the unusual, the spontaneous and the plainly fucking funny in an increasingly homogenized world. "I'm just making the songs I know how to write," says Honus. "The one thing I want to clarify is that this is an organic project -- who we are, the kind of lives we lived before we met each other, and the lives we have together. [That's] what makes this band and this music what it is. I would say being broke is one of my biggest influences. That and being in and out of relationships. Those are bigger influences than listening to a Beefheart record."

With Rabbit Habits, their Anti- Records debut, and the natural extension of their body of work begun with The Man In A Blue Turban With A Face and continued with Six Demon Bag, Man Man bring their incomparable vision to bear. Successfully capturing the raw spirit and essence of a Man Man live show, Rabbit Habits is the end product of the efforts of a band who are earnestly saying something important, even if you can't always make out the words over the blare of the sousaphone.

So there ya have it. Anti- Records. Crazy instruments. A flair for the dramatic. And this lovely music video from their new Anti- Records release, Rabbit Habits:


Wanna know more?
Man Man's Myspace!
Man Man's Facebook!
Man Man's YouTube!

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