DOWNLOAD: Minutemen - "Anxious Mo-Fo" (Live @ The Blue Note, Columbia, MO 5-12-84)
DOWNLOAD: The Minutemen - "Political Song for Michael Jackson To Sing" (Live @ I-Beam, San Francisco, CA 9-23-85)

Double Nickels on the Dime came out during my college radio days and was a playlist staple so I'm starting to feel really old now that there is a 25th anniversary celebration of the disc's release this Saturday.

Bowery Poetry Club and Three Rooms Press are hosting a tribute to The Minutemen this Saturday with live performances, spoken word, rare videos and more. This is an early show with doors opening at 7:30PM; Admission is $10.

Double Nickels on the Dime was originally released in July of 1984 and allmusic describes the double-album as "the finest album of the Minutemen's career, and one of the very best American rock albums of the 1980s." The disc combines punk, funk, jazz, spoken word and country; lyrically, it deals with themes that include racism, war, class structure and outsider status.

Performers at this show include Mike Watt (bassist for The Minutemen), Michael T. Fournier (author of the 33 1/3 book "Double Nickels on the Dime"), indie rock band Tweede Kamer, Minutemen cover band Pillowman, Corndogs, punk bassist 'The Bass Player from Hand Job', electro-poetic mistress Jackie Sheeler, jazz piano cabaret duo Peter Carlaftes & Kayo, and punk poet Kat Georges (author of Punk Rock Journal).

Links:
Bowery Poetry Club