And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I provided a trusted colleague with the 16 artists who qualified and had him assign seeds--Lil Wayne you expect to go deep into a showdown like this, but Lucinda Williams? Some fantastic match-ups resul
Off Broadway
*Marshall Crenshaw, Thursday, April 2
*Lydia, Wednesday, April 8
*Michael Jonas, Sunday, April 12
*Hot Panda, Monday, April 13
*Joy Bus, Wednesday, April 22
*Richard Buckner, Sunday, May 3
*KRISTEENYOUNG, Tuesday, May 5
Pop's
*Dragonforce, Friday, April 24
*Twiztid, Saturday, May 9
Firebird
*The Educated Guess, Saturday, April 4
*Bad Veins/Eulogies, Monday, April 6
*Torche, Thursday, April 9
*Cursive, Friday, April 24
Friday, August 21
*Emily Wells, Luminary Center for the Arts
*STL Showcase, Mad Art Gallery
*The Jovian Chorus (CD release)/Making Movies/Humdrum/Hope and Therapy, Firebird
*Dread Zeppelin, Duck Room
*Leroy Pierson, BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups
*Madahoochi, Old Rock House
*Bunnygrunt/Used Kids/Tenement/Sex Robots, Schlafly Tap Room
*The Sunflower Split Release, Cranky Yellow
*Trigger 5 (CD release), Deluxe
*Dogtown Allstars, Broadway Oyster Bar
*Jobu, The Gramophone
*Asbury Park/Petty Cash Juncti
Wikimedia Commons"N" for Nickelback in ASLSo, it's no secret that we here at A to Z aren't the biggest Nickelback fans around. But after stumbling across this video of vocalist Chad Kroeger having fun with the sign language interpreter at Nickelback's August 22 show at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, I had to give him credit -- his fascination with her signs for expletives and self-deprecation, and her insistence on following everything he said, is pretty damn funny. Behold:
