The Worley Gig

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Led Zeppole Anyone traveling across town on east 14th street at any time of the day or night will surely notice the crowd swell and line-down-the-block that stretches outside of the ridiculously popular storefront pizza joint, Artichoke Pizza. I haven’t actually eaten any pizza from Artichoke yet, because I can’t get my head around standing [...]

Shitty Screen Grab Courtesy of Photobucket! On This Date in 1978: KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, the made-for-TV movie starring KISS premiered on NBC. Despite the poor reviews, the film has attained a cult status. I remember watching this piece of crap with my parents in the same room and being beyond embarrassed by [...]

I’m not sure if you can, or would even want to, actually sit on it, but I sure do love the visual aesthetics of this spooky chair by Artist Keith Tyson, which is a part of his 2007 show Large Field Array. Image courtesy of Joanne Mattera Art Blog via a Hot tip from Modern [...]

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Photos By Geoffrey Dicker Last Saturday the CMJ convention was just getting started, in full swing, or just winding up, depending on how desperate you are to appear hip and in-the-know. And while everyone in the city was running around in the rain, laden down with bags of tacky swag, trying to cram in as [...]

Last year at this time, Worley Gig Dot Com celebrated the coming of Halloween with Skull Week, during which I literally blogged about nothing but skulls for an entire week. Scary! Skulls have somewhat reached their saturation point this year – what with the popularity of sites like Skulls and Bacon, I Want Your Skull [...]

Hey kids, can you believe it’s almost Halloween? The end of October means it’s also time for the December issue of Modern Drummer magazine to be arriving it the homes of all subscribers. This issue features a cover story on father and son drummers Max and Jay Weinberg, of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. And [...]

Ouch. Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of interviewing drummer Eric Green from old school punk band, Riverboat Gamblers. Their current CD, Underneath the Owl, is an exciting throw back to awesome punk bands like Social Distortion and The Adolescents, and it’s definitely one of my favorite albums of 2009. Last night I got [...]

“Let’s Dance, Little Stranger…” Here at The Worley Gig, we have been reminiscing about our punk rock roots just lately, and so would like to pay a bit of tribute today to the late Stiv Bators (Dead Boys, Lords of The New Church) who would have celebrated his sixtieth birthday (wow) today. Stiv (born Steven [...]