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pinkpiche:
I just want to say that I was at The Mars Volta show this Friday and I got my face rocked clean off! 2 and a half hour's worth of show, INSANE drum solos (their new guy is unbelievable), Cedric's singing was flawless and the whole place was packed. I was standing up on one of the balconys and I could see almost all of the stage. There were only a little bit of mosh and a tiny bit of stage-diving and someone threw beer at the stage (near Omar's effectboard), which Cedric (rightfully) bitched about. "This is my dance floor, and that down there is your dance floor". They played four tracks off of De-Loused (Haunt of Roulette Dares and Eriatarka!!! e.g) and a few tracks from Frances and the rest was Goliath. The new record is actually pretty great. Amazing night.

Lummer:
I'll go cry now...

TheFuriousWombat:
Saw Genghis Tron last night. The Austerity Program opened. TAP is a two person band so it's a guitarist/vocalist and a bassist with some complex drum machine programing and a ton of amps. It was loud, fun punk/screamo although, as usual in bands like this, I kinda missed a live drummer. I feel like having a drum machine live makes these kinds of bands lose something in the way of energy, especially considering often the machine was programed to simply sound like regular drums and considering the times when it had a synthier sound they were such that they could have been produced on a real drum set with proper micing. Still they were quite good.
Genghis Tron was pretty awesome. It's only three guys and there's no bass or drums. It's guitars, vocals and a bunch of keyboards and synths and such. They combined electronics with elements of grindcore and screamo and despite the fact that that sounds kinda awful they were actually quite awesome. The lack of a drummer was again a hindrance I think and hurt the set a bit but not too much. The trio still had a ton of energy and made some very cool and complex sounds considering the lack of instruments. Overall a very fun show and it's gotten me even more excited for Converge in April.

Ishotdanieljohnston:
i just got home after Okkervil River, and man, what a fucking show. i actually half want to go to a bad show so as I have somethign more unpredictable to say, but I'm on a real streak. They played everything you'd want them to play and with such ferocity and energy. You know you're watching a good show when they seem to be having as good a time as you. What can I say, it was sheer craftsmanship.

After I was having a few beers in a bar and the band wandered in, so I went and spoke to Will Sheff, came across as a really nice, humble man. We shook hands and i left him to the rather lovely looking lady who'd taken an interest in him.

My girlfreind took over 300 photo's so I might post a few of them in the next couple of days. Tommorow I'm seeing Broken Social Scene so I'll report back after that.

LucyStag:
I saw Against Me! last weekend, for the second time in my life. The show in '05 was amazing, this was less so. I wanted to like their new album -- as an added bonus of annoying people -- but most of it is just not exciting. Show-wise, it didn't help that they playe da short gig, were done by 10:00 pm and then the place turned into an under 21 nightclub and a bunch of God damn 15 year olds who needed emergeny pants transfussions started pole dancing.

That really didn't help me go out on a rock and roll, yeah!!!!! highnote. More like an urge to stab out my eyes, and the guilt that came with loathing those 15 year olds.

Wasn't I talking about music or something?

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