Maybe the madness comes from that empty bottle of Absinthe laughing at us from the recyclable bin. Maybe it’s from knowing Syracuse has to run the table in the Big East Tourney to go dancing. Or maybe it’s knowing that Spring Training is in full bloom down there and we’re still stuck up here!

Read into it what you want…
On with the countdown. Click the shows link, will ya.

Every single year our web hits quadruple during the week of Valentines Day. The Cause? Millions of people go to Google and search for… wait for it… wait for it… ‘valentines’. Now, I totally expect that behavior from people this time of year - but what baffles the fuck out of me is that they all seem to locate our site in the search results (which is under “LovingYou.com” but above “BillyBear4Kids.com”) and click on the site before moving on to ACTUAL sites that have flowers, bunnies, and other cute shit on them.

Maybe we should sell something anti-valentines day this time next year.

Anyways, we’ve got some cool shit coming up this weekend - if you’ve got any money left after Thursday, that is…

Vitamin X will be here on Thursday, February 14th (hey, almost the weekend) - Straight Edge, Hardcore Punks from the Netherlands, with special guests Spread ‘Em / Mud Lark - and on Friday night The Americana Music Club presents Albany’s own Knotworking with Anders Parker / Ashley Pond / Tracy Morrow and the Magi Chippie.

What to do until then? Go post some snarky remarks on the Roger Clemens message board or something…

Just Announced - Wednesday April 2nd The Valentines will be hosting Murder By Death with special guests O’Death and Kiss Kiss. Tickets go on sale for this 16+ show at all Ticketmaster outlets on Friday, February 15th (thats next friday, for all you calendarly challenged kids out there).

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Whatever. Strap it on, here we go.

February… short ass month, lets get outta winter and start baseball season already….

We’ve got some cool stuff this month - brooklyn based INHUMAN is coming up this weekend - also, Americana Music Club presents KNOTWORKING, THE FRANTIC, BIG D AND THE KIDS TABLE is back once again too. Don’t forget PONY AND THE PANCAKE - if you’ve never seen them before, check them out, I can’t explain it here - funny sh*t.