Weird Al Yankovic has just put up the video for his new song, "Craigslist." You'd know that if you followed his Twitter feed. It's not a straight song parody. Rather, it's one of his "style parodies," where the song is original, but sounds like a kind of style -- i.e., "Your Horoscope For Today" didn't parody any specific ska song, but it certainly sounded an awful lot like Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris, et al (it also happened to feature the Reel Big Fish horn section).
Much like that song, "Cra
So, if you attended Sunday night's Reel Big Fish/English Beat show at the Crossroads, you are probably more than aware that it poured like crazy. Because of the rain, Reel Big Fish wasn't able to go on. My friend Sarah was kind enough to provide me with her take on what happened:
James Perou"The reason why we were even at the show that night, Reel Big Fish, was not allowed to take the stage because of some code in Missouri that says that a band can't perform if the stage is wet. That did
Sunday was kind of a wash for intrepid Pitch photographer Scott Spychalski, who came downtown from his Raytown wigwam in hopes of shooting Crue Fest and Reel Big Fish.
Despite getting media credentials to shoot portraits of several of the bands opening for Motley Crue Sunday night at the Sprint Center, Scott Spy was not actually able to get into the show. (Being a regional altweekly, we just don't have that powerful SPIN-sized Kansas City Star pull. What, magazines are dying? Dailies, too? You
