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The Effigies @ Maxwells 7/26/08

The Effigies with EDP - Maxwells (Hoboken, NJ) - Saturday, July 26, 2008

Aug 6

I don’t want to have to wait another 20 years to see them again!

Nurse With Wound - Huffin' Rag Blues (United Dairies/Jnana)

Aug 3

Steven Stapleton will cure you, and the method involves mutated jazz beats and a petrol-sodden rag.

Boris @ Pitchfork Music Festival 7/20/08

Pitchfork Music Festival (Day 3) - Union Park (Chicago, IL) - Sunday, July 20, 2008

Jul 30

KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES were just pure, animalistic, rocking garage punk fun!

The Heaters - The Great Lost Heaters Album (Salter)

Jul 30

Using a combination of the original session tapes, demos, and newly recorded parts, near the end of last year the band put out a version conforming to their own sound rather than their producers’. Three decades on, the classic underneath the bad production has been revealed, proving that the excitement they generated in their home base of Los Angeles was not mere hype.

Jay Reatard @ Pitchfork Music Festival 7/19/08

Pitchfork Music Festival (Day 2) - Union Park (Chicago, IL) - Saturday, July 19, 2008

Jul 23

It started raining during JAY REATARD’s set, but it didn’t matter. In fact, it might have even made it that much more intense.

Pitchfork Music Festival (Day 1) - Union Park (Chicago, IL) - Friday, July 18, 2008

Jul 22

Despite being absent for “Bring the Noise”, FLAVOR FLAV emerged right before they were set to perform “Don’t Believe the Hype”.

Boris with Torche - The Middle East (Cambridge, MA) - Friday, July 11, 2008

Jul 22

Boris and Torche leave a pile of rubble and tattered eardrums.

Elliot Levin Trio - Bowery Poetry Club (NYC) – Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Jul 16

Levin, a grizzled veteran by now, has come to a distinctive style that, while certainly inspired by his predecessors’ work, is never obviously derivative of anyone in particular. Nor does it stand in one place; Levin is just as likely to play a melodic phrase as to unleash flying flurries of evolving patterns arpeggiated and/or scalar or soar into the altissimo register of his tenor in ecstatic exultation.

The Feelies @ Batter Park 7-4-08

Sonic Youth with The Feelies - Battery Park (New York) - Friday, July 4, 2008

Jul 15

Playing all of Daydream Nation last year must have really sunk in as SONIC YOUTH played nearly a third of that amazing record.

Devo @ Festival Pier 6/28/08

Devo with The School of Rock All-Stars and The Hold Steady - Festival Pier (Philadelphia, PA) - Saturday, June 28, 2008

Jul 6

After DEVO got the ubiquitous “Whip It” out of the way early on, then we really got the good stuff.

Versus @ First Unitarian Church 6/27/08

Mission of Burma with Versus - First Unitarian Church (Philadelphia, PA) - Friday, June 27, 2008

Jul 3

VERSUS was a reminder that the marriage of distortion and noise with super sweet melodies and quiet/loud dynamics will never go out of style.

The Oddball Lo-Fi Metal of Zurburus, Crystal Darkness and Splatorgy

Jul 1

With a little searching and a lot of luck, I found some bands on MySpace that not only fixed my metal jones, but also allow their songs to be downloaded.