The Rising

A brief concert note for readers in the Tri-State Metropolitan Area: If you're anywhere in the vicinity of mid-town Manhattan today, run, do not walk, to B.B. King's on 42nd street and catch a show -- 8 pm sharp! -- by the Pride of Plainview, New Jersey -- the (honestly) legendary Doughboys.



As you will have gleaned from the above video, said Doughboys (featuring power pop god Richard X. Heyman on drums) are the garage revivalists of your dreams; tonight they're opening for the reformed (and supposedly excellent) Electric Prunes, but if I was a betting man, I'd put good money down to the effect that the Boys will blow 'em away. The DBs also have an absolutely killer album out -- get yourself to the band link above and order it now. Seriously -- what the hell are you waiting for? Just do it!