You Shook Me All Night Long!

On Saturday night my faith in music was momentarily revived by a band SO awesome, SO fun, SO completely committed to every move that they were able to transport me with ease back to an era that I was too young to even remember!

Rubix Kube is an 80s cover band that not only delivers every lick and every line of all of your favorite 80s jams, but also brings you all of the bad hair, the unfortunately unflattering (but somehow still totally awesome) outfits, and even all of that cheesy choreography that you can’t help but love! They performed at The Canal Room on Saturday night for a crowd of a good 300 people, all wearing headbands, sunglasses and so much neon that it actually made the sunglasses more of a necessity than a fashion statement.

I was quite possibly the only sober person in the room….but this sad fact did not hinder my enjoyment of this completely rockin band! This is one group that you actually don’t need to be drunk to enjoy (although being drunk certainly doesn’t hurt)** Normally, I might think it to be a bit of a sham to see a band with no original music…but Rubix Kube’s strength is their superior performance ability and the fact that they are delivering something unique to an over-saturated music market that continues to flood itself with mediocre, generic songs. Rubix Kube, however, performs the best of the best from the 80′s…all those songs that you want to scream along with and dance to without any of the extra crap that most bands try to extend a set with. But most importantly, they are true musicians! Every guitar solo was played with perfection by Eric Presti. The sax, synth, piano and string hooks that you remember from all your favorite songs were played note for note by their keyboardist named Sky (an incredible feat for a show of over 40 songs) and the two lead singers, Cherie Martorana and Scott Lovelady, delivered powerful vocals that would make Pat Benatar, Bon Jovi and White Snake proud! Rubix Kube even goes so far as to project music videos and band photos for all songs they perform on the wall behind the stage. One of my favorite moments of the night was marveling at how much better Brett Michaels looked before years of drinking, doing drugs, over-eating, and being stripped of all self-respect by VH1′s, The Rock of Love turned him into a middle-aged wash-up clinging to his former days by wearing eyeliner and paying trashy girls to date him.

The only downside to the event was that the room was so crowed with drunken buffoons that for a moment I wished I had
brought my slingshot! But even that was not enough to stifle the fun that Rubix Kube was dishing out like Santa Claus on Christmas morning!

Tickets for Rubix Kube at Canal Room: $15
2 drinks for my boyfriend and I: $20
Watching said boyfriend pour his drink on some drunk hoe in neon who kept trying to kiss him: priceless!

Check out Rubix Kube online at http://www.rubixkube.com. They play regularly at The Canal Room and I highly suggest putting on your high tops and legwarmers and dancing your ass off to songs from The Culture Club, AC/DC, Def Leopard, and many more of your favorite 80′s bands!