2008 Woodie Awards
Fat Tuesday at the Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Bang your head to the electric beat of a national band
Leslie Carol Boehms
Issue date: 2/19/04 Section: Flash
When my parents attended MTSU they were saturated with musical acts of Elvis stature every year. These days, Murfreesboro is lucky to get two good nationally touring acts a year. Therefore, it is important to take note when one of these two occasions arise.
On Tuesday, February 24 (a.k.a. - Fat Tuesday) is one such occasion.
The Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, a five-piece, avant-garde act from Oakland, Calif., will be performing what will be - without a shadow of a doubt - a performance that will go down in Boro musical history books for the indie rock kids of the future to drool at and dream over.
Best described as eclectic, dazzling, intense and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum are not the shy wallflower musician types when it comes to performing on stage.
Expect this show to be the biggest performance spectacle of the year. Also, expect it to be loud but beautiful, varied in time signature and vocal exploration, filled with an array of homemade instrumentation, as well as crowded with the best in Dada-esque lyrics.
Murfreesboro is not a city lacking for musical acts. We are often, however, a musically inundated city lacking for musical splendor. Every now and again, this city is graced with a presence so ridiculously splendid and haunted it outdoes any other mass of musicality available to the nearest eardrum.
That's the best explanation I can give for the amazement Sleepytime Gorilla Museum will offer. And if that isn't enough, well, I just don't know how to make you happy, do I?
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is scheduled to perform Tuesday at the Boro Bar & Grill,1211 Greenland Dr.
Open the show at around 9 p.m. will be Murfreesboro's own Juan Prophet Organization followed by Faun Fables. Cover charge is $7. For more info check out: www.sleepytimegorillamuseum.com.
On Tuesday, February 24 (a.k.a. - Fat Tuesday) is one such occasion.
The Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, a five-piece, avant-garde act from Oakland, Calif., will be performing what will be - without a shadow of a doubt - a performance that will go down in Boro musical history books for the indie rock kids of the future to drool at and dream over.
Best described as eclectic, dazzling, intense and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum are not the shy wallflower musician types when it comes to performing on stage.
Expect this show to be the biggest performance spectacle of the year. Also, expect it to be loud but beautiful, varied in time signature and vocal exploration, filled with an array of homemade instrumentation, as well as crowded with the best in Dada-esque lyrics.
Murfreesboro is not a city lacking for musical acts. We are often, however, a musically inundated city lacking for musical splendor. Every now and again, this city is graced with a presence so ridiculously splendid and haunted it outdoes any other mass of musicality available to the nearest eardrum.
That's the best explanation I can give for the amazement Sleepytime Gorilla Museum will offer. And if that isn't enough, well, I just don't know how to make you happy, do I?
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is scheduled to perform Tuesday at the Boro Bar & Grill,1211 Greenland Dr.
Open the show at around 9 p.m. will be Murfreesboro's own Juan Prophet Organization followed by Faun Fables. Cover charge is $7. For more info check out: www.sleepytimegorillamuseum.com.
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