Tag Archives: Jon Stewart

Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes pays tribute to Dave Brockie on ‘The Daily Show’

Posted by on March 26, 2014

From the outside, the experimental drug-fueled alt rock of Butthole Surfers and the anarchic performance metal of GWAR aren’t all that close together. However, both bands started in the ’80s with punk as a common thread of their music, and were among the many bands that played Trenton, NJ’s City Gardens in the ’80s and […]

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Jon Stewart namedrops GWAR when talking bartending at legendary punk club

Posted by on February 21, 2014

Because we’re from New Jersey and aren’t kids, we got to experience some shows at legendary Trenton NJ shithole City Gardens. The Faith No More/Soundgarden/Voivod tour (with FNM and Soundgarden opening!) was epic, as was seeing Nine Inch Nails on the Pretty Hate Machine tour. Sadly, the club closed for good in 1994, but a with […]

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Quicksand Perform On ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’

Posted by on August 23, 2012

The last time Quicksand performed on TV before last night was in 1995, on the Jon Stewart show, a late night show that came four years before The Daily Show. So it was pretty exciting to see the reunited post-hardcore band tear it up last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The band played […]

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Ozzy Brings Fear To Jon Stewart And Stephen Colbert’s Rally

Posted by on November 1, 2010

For those who’ve been living under a rock, or just been partying extra hard for Halloween and didn’t notice, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held the Rally To Restore Sanity and/or Fear this past Saturday (October 30) at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The rally featured a lot of comedy and musical performances. But […]

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