The best band in the world is ...

... local Boston band Jim's Big Ego, led by folk rock singer Jim Infantino. They are without a doubt hands down the single greatest band alive today. Want to find out for yourself? Then go to their official website and go to their "Radio JBE" section, which pops up a little browser that plays essentially every song they've ever recorded. Find out for yourself why Jim's Big Ego are the greatest band you'll probably never see play live. If you live on the west coast like me.

The absolute BEST thing they ever did is not available anywhere anymore as far as I can tell. I've never seen them live but they used to have a handful of live mp3's on mp3.com and I had the fortunate luck to burn some of them right before the site went belly up. One of them was an incredibly AWESOME live sing they did where there was a guy inb the front row that had a shirt on that said "Johnson's Pharmacy" on it. Between songs, Jim noticed the shirt and just started singing "Come on down to Johnson's Pharmacy, you can get a lot of stuff ..." and then the bass player joins in, then the guitar player, then the drummer, and two minutes later they've sung a copmpletely ad-libbed song about drugs, scones, sucking, and killing Moby.

Jim's Big Ego. Pop for the unpopular.