Yes. Ministry on The Mind is A Terrible Thing to Taste tour and Swervedriver at Maxwells on the Raise tour were the 2 loudest I saw. But everyone says MBVs holocaust section of You Made Me Realise takes the cake
A catchy number from (possibly) @The Jitty Slitter’s fellow countrymen suggesting that for better or worse, we’re all living in America…
The Plimsouls were criminally underrated in the 1980s and are essentially forgotten now. But nobody toured harder or wrote better Roots/Pop stuff than these guys
Playing Metal Gear Solid Phantom Pain has you collecting cassettes of 80s classics. Some of the usual 80s cliches, but they also have Joy Division. Also, Final Countdown will forever be associated with the Detroit Pistons to me. They play that track whenever they're in the playoffs. When they did so last season, I got goosebumps.
And yet, Peter Case's best material came after the band-- "Poor Old Tom," "Icewater", "Horse and Crow", "Put Down the Gun," "Entella Hotel," "Stolen Aeroplane..." For my money, about the best unrecognized career there is.
Looking it up (and relistening) "Stolen Aeroplane" is actually just called "Airplane..." One gets old, I guess.
@spejic I know a few. Part of it I'm close to her in age, part of it is I'm friends with a Swifite, part of it is because I've heard her music in bars, weddings, and such. Funny enough, I've never really gotten sick of her music unlike Adele, Lady Gaga (And I think they aren't bad). Anyway, Shake it Off is fun. Real quick you might have heard these three in the background. All three are from a different year. 2008, 2014, 2022. Which when you think about it, is quite impressive.
Speaking of female artists, Lambrini Girls (from Brighton) last weekend at Revolution Hall, pretty good. Definitely brought the punk rock energy, lead singer Phoebe Lunny, very vocal about the political shitstorm we're dealing with. And tonight, Amyl and the Sniffers (from Melbourne), amazing. Lead singer Amy Taylor is every bit the punk rock front woman...non stop energy, tight band, also had a giant FU for bozo...really fun show. Go see them if you get the chance.
They swung by here back in May for a festival, but I only went to the night with Yo La Tengo, DEVO, and (slightly disappointing) New Order. I couldn’t take off another night from the kids and drop another $100+.
@Kazuma piqued my interest in this band. They've just announced a bunch of tour dates for next month... Khruangbin Announces Intimate November Tour - Pollstar News "Khruangbin is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its debut full-length album, The Universe Smiles Upon You, with an intimate tour across the U.S. made up of club and theatre shows..."
Cameron Crowe on his Led Zeppelin interview for Rolling Stone when he was just a yoot: There was always something slightly forbidden about Led Zeppelin. They were darker than the other bands and they had a command of mystique. You didn’t see a slew of interviews with them; you barely saw any at all. They famously hated Rolling Stone. The rumour was that Jimmy Page and [Rolling Stone co-founder] Jann Wenner had tangled over a girl in London. The magazine trashed their first album. I had, however, interviewed Led Zeppelin for the Los Angeles Times. It was a kind of maiden voyage into the mainstream for the band, and two years later, as they were about to release their album Physical Graffiti, I was invited on the road with them by Danny Goldberg, the band’s publicist and an executive at the label they’d started, Swan Song. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...rowe-memoir-the-uncool-led-zeppelin-road-trip
If anyone has 2.5 - 3 mill lying around, Perry Farrell's house in Venice is up for sale https://www.fancypantshomes.com/cel...me-of-janes-addiction-frontman-perry-farrell/
I don't go to jazz concerts voluntarily. But I got dragged to see the Stephane Wrembel Trio and, holy shit, I'm happy I did. The thing about jazz that makes it unlistenable to me is that you have all these astonishing musicians playing notes, when I prefer songs. Wrembel doesn't totally escape that trap but the compositions (which I gather are either Django Rheinhart pieces or deeply influenced by him) are short and not entirely unpredictable. In other words, they're songs.