They Might Be Giants

In the late ’70s and early ’80s John L. was the keyboard player in a Providence-based band called The Mundanes. The band rehearsed in a “The Vault,” a structure actually built to be a vault in days of yore. It still stands in Providence, down the street from WBRU where TMBG performed on the air today.

One must have a mind of winter 

To regard the frost and the boughs 

Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

 

And have been cold a long time

To behold the junipers shagged with ice, 


The spruces rough in the distant glitter 

 

Of the January sun; and not to think 


Of any misery in the sound of the wind, 


In the sound of a few leaves, 

 

Which is the sound of the land 


Full of the same wind 


That is blowing in the same bare place 

 

For the listener, who listens in the snow, 


And, nothing himself, beholds 

Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

Employee Of The Month“>By our new friend Elliot Cowen 

There are no more tickets available to the 3pm family show, and tickets for the new “Every Album” late show are destined to be gone soon. Get ‘em here before they’re gone:http://lepoissonrouge.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=27590

Bishop Gene Robinson sets up the new prez with a great Inaugural Prayer

“>  

Carrying on with their Rend Party series in New York City, and in celebration of their recent Grammy nomination for best kids album, They Might Be Giants have added a special kids show loading in at 3pm to Le Poisson Rouge. Plenty of stroller parking, and a jolly time guaranteed for all. This is the show info http://lepoissonrouge.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=30437

Yesss. They Might Be Giants’ kids album “Here Come the 123s” has been nominated for Best Musical Album for Children!  Grammy voters-it’s Category 77! The ceremony is on Sunday, February 8 in LA!