PrettyFakes

Those of you who have been quietly writihing in excruciating and faintly erotic agony since this website reviewed the then-unbuyable Cortez Del Mar debut album You Did This to Yourself can finally find sweet relief: their website is up and running, thanks in large part to the magic fingers of Dave Ashes, and you can click on over to buy the record.

Now, if you’re anywhere in the greater Baton Rouge area, you must make it a point to see Cortez this Saturday, May 20th, at Chelsea’s, their first stop on the way to total world domination. If you miss it, you’ll be sure to regret it twenty-five years from now when you pay 350 bucks for ozone-layer seats to see the two surviving original members of the group and four guys from Springsteen’s Human Touchera band play as “The Cortez Del Mar Experience.” Especially since the CortX, as they desperately but entirely unsuccessfully want people to call them, will be legally forbidden to play any of the songs from their widely lauded first three albums, those songs being lost in legal limbo until the Supreme Court finally hears Estate of Charles Lyons v. Ashley Olsen. With no lead singer and with access to the back catalog so heavily restricted, the Cort-X show will naturally rely on instrumental covers of songs in the public domain. And although you’ll buy a copy of A-Tisket-A-Tasket-A-Penny-For-A-Basket: Cort-X LIVE! and proudly proclaim it a triumphant return to form, even coming up with clever puns such as “This is a more cerebral Cort-X than we’ve heard before,” no one will believe you. Plus, you just know those t-shirts are going to shrink the first time you wash them.

So what I’m saying is, don’t miss this show. Come pick your way through the fragments of country-rock history at about 11:00. Saturday’s gig is also one of their last with PrettyFavorite Scott W, who will be opening a new franchise of his ever expanding Tantric Taxidermy shops in the greener and certainly more rolling pastures of Kentucky later this summer. And you don’t want to miss the chance to say you saw the “original line-up,” do you? That’s worth, like, 50 cool points. Just ask every third person standing in line at any Wilco show.

In other news: despite what you may have heard, Joanie wuz robbed.

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