#brad roberts

[thebowerypresents]

GWAR – Brooklyn Steel – November 6, 2024

Heavy metal outfit GWAR brought full costumes and their wildly entertaining shock-rock live show to Brooklyn Steel on Wednesday.

(GWAR play Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia tomorrow.)

(GWAR play The National in Richmond, Va., on Saturday.)

Photos courtesy of Silvia Saponaro | @Silvia_Saponaro

@silvialovesmusic

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Crash Test Dummies - “Silent Night” **

How to make “Silent Night” worth listening to?

Turn it over to Crash Test Dummies, set it to a country-gospel arrangement with steel guitar, piano and organ and hand Ellen Reid the mic.

That’s how.

Fans expecting Brad Roberts’ bass vocals over a dirge-like melody will be surprised by this uplifting, not sappy, rendering. It previews the forthcoming (Nov. 24) streaming debut of the Dummies’ 2002 Jingle All the Way holiday album.

Grade card: Crash Test Dummies - “Silent Night” - A

**Happy Thanksgiving; you may now listen to Christmas music that doesn’t suck

11/23/23

[maniacs-in-drayven]

The sensational and amazing "Brad Roberts"!

The Leader of the awesome Canadian Folk Alternative Rock band, the "Crash Test Dummies"! With deep, and soothing voice, he placates the desires to meditate in Zen.

The Crash Test Dummies are still one of the Best 90's profound acts.

[scamallach-1]

i love this old band; idk, everything about this dude’s vision in it vexes and charms me lmaoo

[olvaheiner]

[rahabq]

[katharinehepbrun]

The house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet and you bet big, then you take the house. OCEAN'S ELEVEN (2001) dir. Steven Soderbergh

[malavera]

I just had a random thought

it’s funny how we (or some of us) grew up watching these gents movie with our father / mother and how they used to be gushing over how talented they are and awesome the movie is and now as we got older…

we be gushing over them in a different way.. 😶🫢

notice how i use their old movie gifs? 😌

[madame-mortician]

Horror Hall of Fame (1990-1991)

[cleabellanov]

Six weeks of breathing clean air…

I still miss the smoke.

[staud]

hbo war protagonists + dolly-in shots

[1976desire]

bob dylan, robert de niro, (and sally kirkland in second photo), hollywood, 1976. photos by brad elterman

[krispyweiss]

Album Review: Crash Test Dummies - Jingle all the Way

Ellen Reid is the savior of Crash Test Dummies’ Christmas music.

Released in 2002 and getting the streaming treatment - the musical equivalent of a book’s arrival in paperback - in ’23, Jingle all the Way finds Reid helming peaceful, country-leaning holiday songs that contrast with Brad Roberts’ comical-but-not-funny counterparts.

So where Reid creates pastoral - and fresh-sounding - versions of such songs as “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and “Silent Night,” Roberts and his baritone go the bombastic route on “White Christmas” and “Jingle Bells.”

The contrasting approaches might’ve worked if Reid and Roberts’ spotlights had been grouped together. But the alternating sequence used on Jingle all the Way makes for a choppy holiday listen that requires ample use of the skip button.

Reid’s songs are prime pickin’s for a hip holiday playlist, however.

Grade card: Crash Test Dummies - Jingle all the Way - C

12/6/23

[teaganrae15]

I’m film lovers

[rolling-veins]

Blonde Americans and aviators

[eccentricallygothic]

I don't get why people shit on mustaches because I am the ultimate 'stache whore. They're so fuckin' sexy. Like. A man who looks stern and intimidating in THAT kinda way??? Pull me over your knee, sir. Thank you very much.