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The Effigies with EDP - Maxwells (Hoboken, NJ) - Saturday, July 26, 2008
Aug 6I don’t want to have to wait another 20 years to see them again!
Nurse With Wound - Huffin' Rag Blues (United Dairies/Jnana)
Aug 3Steven Stapleton will cure you, and the method involves mutated jazz beats and a petrol-sodden rag.
Pitchfork Music Festival (Day 3) - Union Park (Chicago, IL) - Sunday, July 20, 2008
Jul 30KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES were just pure, animalistic, rocking garage punk fun!
The Heaters - The Great Lost Heaters Album (Salter)
Jul 30Using 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.
Pitchfork Music Festival (Day 2) - Union Park (Chicago, IL) - Saturday, July 19, 2008
Jul 23It 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 22Despite 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 22Boris and Torche leave a pile of rubble and tattered eardrums.
Elliot Levin Trio - Bowery Poetry Club (NYC) – Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Jul 16Levin, 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.
Jay Reatard with Dark Horse and the Carousels and The Tough Shits - Johnny Brenda's (Philadelphia, PA) - Monday, July 14, 2008
Jul 15I never got to see BAD BRAINS or D.O.A. in their prime, but this must be similar.
Sonic Youth with The Feelies - Battery Park (New York) - Friday, July 4, 2008
Jul 15Playing all of Daydream Nation last year must have really sunk in as SONIC YOUTH played nearly a third of that amazing record.
Devo with Tom Tom Club - Bank of America Pavilion (Boston, MA) - Friday, June 27, 2008
Jul 14The day the nerds won.
Devo with The School of Rock All-Stars and The Hold Steady - Festival Pier (Philadelphia, PA) - Saturday, June 28, 2008
Jul 6After DEVO got the ubiquitous “Whip It” out of the way early on, then we really got the good stuff.
Polvo with Birds of Avalon and New Radiant Storm King - The Middle East (Cambridge, MA) - Friday, June 20, 2008
Jul 6Polvo shake off the dust and return to form.
Mission of Burma with Versus - First Unitarian Church (Philadelphia, PA) - Friday, June 27, 2008
Jul 3VERSUS 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 1With 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.
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Week of May 4
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For Against – Shade Side, Sunny Side (Words on Music)
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Sloan – _Parallel Play _ (Yep Roc)
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The Replacements – deluxe reissues of their first four LPs (Twin/Tone/Ryko/Rhino)
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Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)
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Willie Nelson – One Hell of a Ride box set (Legacy/SonyBMG)
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Black Watch – Icing the Snow Queen (Eskimo)
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The Effigies – Reside (Criminal IQ)
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Secret Shine – All of the Stars (Clairecords/Tonevendor)
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The Libertines – Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (Libertines Music)
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The Wedding Present – El Rey (Manifesto)