"Sure, Hell Gate has gathered the "best" bands comprised of city journalists - Lost Dog, Ghost Rodeo, The Monotone Assassins, Sui Moto and Reggie Mids & Friends - yet somehow managed to ignore Jimmy and the Jaywalkers, which is Streetsblog's house band by dint of its six albums of original music currently burning up Spotify (18 monthly listeners can't be wrong!)."
"All kidding front and center, Jimmy and the Jaywalkers is the only one of the aforementioned bands scheduled to appear that has a bona-fide hit, "Criminal Mischief," which has cracked the 1,000-streams threshold on Spotify. Not to brag, but if "Criminal Mischief" gets just 1.6 million more listens, Jimmy and the Jaywalkers will be in "Crazy in Love" territory. Look out, Beyoncé, the Jaywalking Legion is coming for you."
""We initially had Jimmy and the Jaywalkers on the bill, until an unnamed city official handed us a bag of Funyuns with $14 inside it and gave us explicit instructions to bump them," said worker-co-owner Christopher Robbins. "That said, we hope everyone who appreciates local journalism will be at Trans-Pecos on Wednesday night to watch some of their hometown heroes cut loose onstage.""
A boycott arose over Jimmy and the Jaywalkers' exclusion from Hell Gate's "battle of the journalist rock bands" show. Hell Gate assembled several journalist bands but left Jimmy and the Jaywalkers off the bill despite the band's six albums and a Spotify hit, "Criminal Mischief," which has surpassed 1,000 streams. Organizers reportedly removed the band after an unnamed city official allegedly handed a bag of Funyuns with $14 and instructions to bump them. The show will take place at Trans-Pecos in Ridgewood, with doors at 7 p.m. and advance tickets for $15.
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