Thursday, July 28, 2011
Cream Calendar Sounds Like Summer Feat. Guilty Pleasures Tonight at Hard Rock
Posted by D. Patrick Rodgers on Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:57 PM
But if you are into the whole '80s covers thing, you should probably go ahead and buy a ticket. We've already concluded our caption contest, and scuttlebutt is that this thing may very well sell out. William Hooker wrote a Critic's Pick. Like to hear it? Here it goes:
Hard Rock Cafe, like Rolling Stone magazine, expanded its cache of cool for decades before metamorphosing from obscurity to ubiquity, and shedding its hipster cred in the process. Thanks to the Scene’s Sounds Like Summer concert series, there’s finally a movement to make Hard Rock hip again. After stellar performances by locals The Greenhornes and Turbo Fruits as well as Real Estate and Dent May, it may be time to don the institution’s T-shirts again à la 1989. This week features more local goodness: Guilty Pleasures, whose obscure-but-not-too-obscure cover catalog and venerable lineup are sure to stimulate the Hard Rock’s riverfront rock ’n’ roll renaissance. Whether it’s from Bangkok or Myrtle Beach, air out your old Hard Rock tees and come help Guilty Pleasures celebrate the most missed and foot-loose decade: the 1980s. —WILLIAM HOOKER
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