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Gigs you've been to and your thoughts.
a pack of wolves:
I just heard that this tour will be their last, they're going to call it a day once they're done. A real shame.
pinkpiche:
Yes I heard that too. Too many good bands are throwing in the towel.
Efterklang, with Peter Broderick
I swear this show is in my all time top 5 shows-list! And I've seen Boris.
Seriously though, Parades didn't really catch my attention the first four or five times I listened to it. Didn't have enough RAWK. But god was I wrong. They rocked the stage off, while maintaining a tension that was almost unbearable at times. It was mostly tracks off of Parades as well as two tracks from their previous record, Tripper. They merged the brass section equally with a fantastic choir and their unique blend of glacial electronica, and still they rocked. It was amazing. They were wearing costumes as usual:
http://jp.dk/kultur/popmusik/concerts/article1171787.ece?showInfo=image&relatedField=picFrontpageArtTop
That picture doesn't really do them justice though. I think it was the most accomplished mix of music, graphics and "style" I've seen in a long time. Panic at the Disco can go fucking shoot themselves. Other than that, there wasn't ONE person not smiling the whole show through. Efterklang is a fascist-killing machine, for sure.
quietnow:
last night i went to the smell and saw the mae shi with few other bands, notably, old time relijun, whose drummer is really cute.
my thoughts? i need to do this more. it has been eons since i've been to a real garage-type show. even though the smell is a pretty popular place for hipsters, it is tiny, and independently run, and reminds me of an all ages club i grew up at in orange county. it has been probably three years since i've felt so HAPPY at a show, and i've never felt so INCLUDED. the only band that even comes close to this kind of feeling in my memory is against me!, who went and started making bullshit that doesn't have anything to do with me. maybe crass-era chumbawumba was also similar. the plus is that the mae shi aren't political, so you get all the fun without the sermon.
there was a canvas tarp that got thrown over the pit. about 78% of the show i had no fucking clue where the band was (except bill and whoever's on keys), because the entire fucking crowd was onstage, singing every song. in fact, it was the crowd that started singing their banger, run to your grave, at the end of their short set (like 4 or 5 songs?), and it was not like it was on the cd. it was how we made it. thee end.
they're playing like 15 shows at sxsw, so go see them. you won't regret it. http://www.myspace.com/themaeshi
Lummer:
Guys, Electric Eel Shock is THE BEST LIVE BAND EVER!!!!
Noct:
I just did a little personal bloggy-type thing about a little show I went to last night, so I guess I'll just paste it in here.
The Venue: Bordello is a little bar on the edge of little tokyo (I guess?) that, in an earlier lifetime, served as a legal and functioning brothel. The decor is consistent with its name and history; lots of red, heavy velvet curtains, black chandeliers, low light, etc. The sound in the main stage area was pretty good, loud, but not horribly distorted, and the mixing was pretty good. Overall, good little place.
Opening Band: I never did catch the name of the band that went on before LoveLikeFire. They mentioned it a couple times, but could never make it out. This is actually fairly indicative of their vocals which were not my favorite thing in the world. They had a couple interesting songs, but most of it was fairly same-y indie rock stuff. Didn't make much of an impresssion on me.
LoveLikeFire (http://www.myspace.com/lovelikefire): I've only been aware of this band for about a week but in that time I've really fallen in love with them, and their live show did not disappoint. Ann Yu's vocals were absolutely spot-on, go hit up their myspace and check out "From a Tower", her voice is absolutely perfect for this type of song. She is capable if singing more cleanly, but I love it when her voice has more of that quirky edge to it. She's also completely adorable whist rocking-the-fuck-out. It wouldn't have hurt if they pushed her vocals a bit higher in the mix though, I really would have liked to hear more. The upside to this is that it really drew more attention to their soaringly epic guitar work. Nothing overly complex, mind you, but it was a big and richly textured sound that's much more powerful than on their recorded work. The rhythm section was rock solid, sometimes breaking into a galloping western-themed beat, mostly keeping it fairly steady, always more interesting than your standard rock beat.
TL,DR version: They blew me away, and I hope these guys make it big. Go listen to them.
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