Local Music

Published March 25, 2008

By Max C. Bookman

The winter is receding. It will soon be spring skiing on the mountains, spring fever in the dorms, and spring music in Burlington! Get ready, because your friends at The Water Tower will be covering some of the best shows this season has to offer. If you hit a dope show and want to write about it, contact us!

311 By the Numbers (March 18 - Memorial Auditorium)

3 bands banging: 311, Slightly Stoopid, The Urgency
1 super-long Will Call line
1 super-friendly concert staff (it’s not Higher Ground)
31 people over the age of 31
311 girls who look no older than 11 (plus makeup)
311 creepy townies who hit on girls who look no older than 11
3 people get caught crowd surfing
11 people know who the hell The Urgency is
311 people who pretend to know who the hell The Urgency is
311 lighters spark during “Amber”
311, 111 times “Jah Rastafari!” is yelled during Slightly Stoopid
311, 111 elbows thrown during “Come Original” mosh (11 phones smashed)

Higher Ground

The Water Tower is not a big fan of Higher Ground. Sure, we’ll give them credit for being the only semi-legit music venue in town, but that’s not a really impressive consolation. Straight up, the people who work at Higher Ground are grade-A assholes.

Take the account of sophomore Allen Roth, “I went to see Sound Tribe back in September, and when I got to the front of the line, they told me to go outside and sober up. I wasn’t drunk. I told the dude that I wasn’t drunk, but he just kept telling me to go out and sober up, or else the wouldn’t let me in at all. So I sat out in the cold in the Burger King parking lot for a half hour until they’d let me back in.”

Unfortunately for Allen and the rest of us, all sorts of sick bands are coming to Higher Ground this spring. We’ll just have to deal with their anal antics until a better venue opens. And make sure you appear sober when you’re on line. But don’t look too sober. Just ask Allen. A sampling:

April 1: Toots and the Maytals
April 2&3: The Disco Biscuits
April 9: The Roots
April 10: Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime
April 13: Jefferson Starship
April 13: MGMT
April 16: Umphrey’s McGee
April 16: TAPES ‘N TAPES
April 19: KRS-ONE
April 26: Twiddle

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