Monday Music is a regular feature whose goal is to provide you with some music to get you fired up for another week of doing the yeoperson’s work of educating the citizenry. Requests welcome!
Who went to RiotFest? Know that I’m sorely jealous…
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The Harold Lounge 
Totally at Riot Fest……….shocked……can’t believe you don’t have this week’s video as a Riot Fest band.
Clearly I went on a different day.
KNEW you’d be there. Awesome. Who was great?
There were about nine bands/performers that were in the running for Monday Music–PE, Suicidal Tendencies, Bob Mould, the Femmes, etc., but since the RiotFest people headlined the Replacements, I thought I should, too, despite the fact that they put on one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen back in the late 80s, opening up for Tom Petty. Westerberg laid down on the stage for a good stretch of it. The crowd was booing and hostile. Awful.
I went to Riotfest on Sunday. The mats were freaking excellent. Here’s a nice glimpse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJQigMhmnMc
and here’s Jim DeRogatis’s way-off-the-mark review (I usually like his stuff): http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis/2013-09/return-replacements-sorta-kinda-not-really-108677
DeRo didn’t make many friends with that one.
What a great show. I ran into a few colleagues there. Many smiles.