Topic: You people go to shows, right? What future shows are you excited about? (Read 940872 times)

Johnny C · « **Reply #2350 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 13:24 »

gobble gobble! we opened for them once. what a weird dude onstage but what a perfectly nice dude when he gets out of the cape

Radical AC · « **Reply #2351 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 18:13 »

Okkervil River and Titus Andronicus goes on sale friday. I'm in debt from Sasquatch tickets but I must find a way. This will be the greatest musical summer ever...

imagist42 · « **Reply #2352 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 19:39 »

Hurrrgh. That's the day the EitS/Arcade Fire tickets go on sale, too. To complicate matters further, I found out Arcade Fire are playing here (at school) before the semester's up. Guys! I could see Arcade Fire three times in the course of a couple months! I have no intention of doing this but it just complicates the musical factors of deciding where to spend the summer that much further.

Scarychips · « **Reply #2353 on:** 02 Mar 2011, 19:58 »

I am taking a vacation of shows in March to let my wallet breathe a bit.
Coming back strong on April 1st with Shad ad then,
Toro Y Moi, with Braids + Adventure, April 8th.
Black Lips, with Vivian Girls, April 15th.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, April 29th.
Video Games Live!, April 30th.
Of Montreal, with Painted Palms + Braids, May 2nd.
(maybe) Tune-Yards, May 13th.
Friendly Fires, May 26th.
Yeasayer, June 8th.

Yup.

squawk · « **Reply #2354 on:** 03 Mar 2011, 10:10 »

Got my Okkervil River tickets for Fox Theater Oakland, yee

SWOON! at My Gravitas · « **Reply #2355 on:** 03 Mar 2011, 20:46 »

Wormrot + Tombs playing fifteen minutes away later this month

I need to go to there

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #2356 on:** 04 Mar 2011, 12:13 »

Okay so The Decembrists are playing in Glasgow tomorrow, and I have a ticket, but the guy I was going to go with has just bailed, which means less people to entertain me on the train journey over (although this isn't necessarily a problem, I can bring a book or something), but at the same time there are three flat parties here in Edinburgh I could be attending (one I should be attending, and will be going to once I get back from Glasgow either way) which might be more fun.

Anyone seen The Decembrists yet? Do they play stuff from their newer album (which I love) mainly, or is it a lot of stuff (which I'm less familiar with and enjoy less).

KvP · « **Reply #2357 on:** 04 Mar 2011, 12:33 »

You should ask Yelley, she got "married" onstage at a recent Decemberists gig.

scarred · « **Reply #2358 on:** 04 Mar 2011, 13:37 »

They played Sasquatch during their Hazards of Love tour and their set was basically that album in its entirety. That's probably not still true, though.

Scarychips · « **Reply #2359 on:** 04 Mar 2011, 15:26 »

http://www.setlist.fm/search?query=the+decemberists

KvP · « **Reply #2360 on:** 04 Mar 2011, 15:46 »

The Pitchfork festival just announced its lineup and it's pretty impressive.

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Animal Collective / TV on the Radio / Fleet Foxes
Cut Copy / The Dismemberment Plan / Deerhunter
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti / Destroyer / James Blake / OFWGKTA
Das Racist / Kylesa / Curren$y / Woods / Yuck / Sun Airway
more to be announced soon...

Tickets are on sale presently (pretty cheap at $110 for a three day pass) and are bound to go within days, if not hours.

scarred · « **Reply #2361 on:** 04 Mar 2011, 19:51 »

Fleet Foxes as a headliner? I know they're huge (and good) but they put on such a mellow, sleepy show.

Radical AC · « **Reply #2362 on:** 04 Mar 2011, 19:59 »

I saw them open for Wilco a few months before their album dropped (and subsequently got named pitchforks album of the year). Some guys next to me were trashing them, but I really enjoyed the set. They didn't have the most prodigious stage presence when I saw them, but this was before they could sell out concert houses as headliners.

valley_parade · « **Reply #2363 on:** 05 Mar 2011, 09:22 »

Quote from: KvP on 04 Mar 2011, 15:46

The Pitchfork festival just announced its lineup and it's pretty impressive.

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Animal Collective / TV on the Radio / Fleet Foxes
Cut Copy / The Dismemberment Plan / Deerhunter
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti / Destroyer / James Blake / OFWGKTA
Das Racist / Kylesa / Curren$y / Woods / Yuck / Sun Airway
more to be announced soon...

Tickets are on sale presently (pretty cheap at $110 for a three day pass) and are bound to go within days, if not hours.

You say impressive, I say I'm not paying $110 and airfare and hotel to see maybe three or four of those groups.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #2364 on:** 06 Mar 2011, 05:17 »

I do not know why I hesitated about The Decembrists, it was an awesome show.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #2365 on:** 07 Mar 2011, 10:38 »

Tobacco is playing at Chop Suey in Seattle in April. apparently it's a three-piece now, with a drummer

i probably won't go but i'm not gonna rule it out yet because Tobacco is the shit

scarred · « **Reply #2366 on:** 07 Mar 2011, 11:32 »

crystal castles tomorrow

fuck yeah

johnny5 · « **Reply #2367 on:** 07 Mar 2011, 15:48 »

lykke li is playing tonight in hollywood, free show. see you guys there?

http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/performances/hollywood/2011-march-07/lykke-li/artist.html

scarred · « **Reply #2368 on:** 07 Mar 2011, 17:25 »

jelly

sean · « **Reply #2369 on:** 07 Mar 2011, 20:52 »

sam yr not into owen? or is he not playing owen songs?

scarred · « **Reply #2370 on:** 08 Mar 2011, 13:25 »

Crystal Castles in 8 hourssssss

and I'm seeing the Dismemberment Plan for free on Saturday for KEXP.

I have not listened to them before, are they good? does anyone know

Melodic · « **Reply #2371 on:** 08 Mar 2011, 17:11 »

got my okkervil river ticket

fer free!

scarred · « **Reply #2372 on:** 09 Mar 2011, 01:10 »

touched alice. lost my glasses, found them again unbroken next to a full bottle of water. 2 encores. my body hurts

amazing

imagist42 · « **Reply #2373 on:** 09 Mar 2011, 13:25 »

soooo tempted to sink the $35 into tickets and plan on driving 12 hours to see bright eyes and death cab in oregon

dammit these are not healthy dreams

eyefielbad · « **Reply #2374 on:** 09 Mar 2011, 13:38 »

Is it this coming Tuesday yet? I cannot wait for this coming Tuesday. Some local production bro is putting together a music festival event type thing which is great, in and of itself, because I live in an area that does not get music festival event type things, but on the ticket (not counting the dozen other local bands):

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Toro y Moi | Baths | Cloud Nothings | Class Actress | Nite Jewel | Colour Revolt | Young Buffalo | Gobble Gobble | White Arrows

The ones in bold I am most looking forward to catching. Star Slinger was supposed to be there, too, but canceled.

It is also only $15. Which is not bad.

scarred · « **Reply #2375 on:** 09 Mar 2011, 15:40 »

I'd pay $15 to see Baths alone, he puts on a great show. Talk about getting your money's worth.

JimmyJazz · « **Reply #2376 on:** 09 Mar 2011, 18:13 »

This month I'm seeing the Mountain Goats, OFF!, and Jeff the Brotherhood

Totally worth sustaining myself on ramen the rest of the semester

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #2377 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 06:19 »

Oh man Iron & Wine was not at all what I was expecting. Extremely funky, with some very jazzy sounding extended solos.

Twas odd, but not necessarily bad. Didn't play Cinder & Smoke though (although I think that's okay, because all the older songs he played were really jazzed up and kind of unrecognizable except for the lyrics)

Vuk · « **Reply #2378 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 21:59 »

I really want to see Fucked Up again. Last time I saw them, it was one of the funnest shows I've ever been to, even with all the shit I broke lol.

sean · « **Reply #2379 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 13:19 »

Quote from: Sam on 07 Mar 2011, 20:54

Owen kind of blows, dude. Like a cannibal with no teeth gumming your arm.

man i disagree with this statement so much, but whatev i guess.

Inlander · « **Reply #2380 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 20:17 »

Tomorrow is Joanna Newsome day!

Also in the afternoon having coffee with a super-pretty girl, gonna be a good day.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #2381 on:** 15 Mar 2011, 17:40 »

there are no words to describe how jealous i am

joanna newsom is the epitome of humanity and i am completely in love with her

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #2382 on:** 15 Mar 2011, 18:57 »

Dilemma guys: do I see a screening of Nosferatu from 1922 with a live original score by Svarte Greiner and a cool sounding percussionists or do i see a show where Deaf Center opens for a performance of pieces by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki?? I can only go to one and both sound really, really great.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #2383 on:** 15 Mar 2011, 19:38 »

Nosferatu

Inlander · « **Reply #2384 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 05:45 »

Joanna Newsom was pretty good. She sure can play and so can her band. But it was the second of two nights in Melbourne, and part way through the set she admitted that entirely unintentionally tonight was the "rocking" set and last night had been the "mellow" set, and to be honest if that's the case I think I would have preferred to go to last night's show. It was great seeing her and her band play the hell out of a bunch of songs, and "Good Intentions Trading Company" in particular was terrifically propulsive with almost every member of the band banging on something percussive, but it's her quieter songs such as "In California"/"Does Not Suffice" that are the ones that really get me. The first song of her encore she played solo, just her and her harp, and it was the best song of the night (I can't remember which one it was, generally I'm not good with song names). Just that one performance was absolutely mesmerising - you know when you're so utterly transfixed by a musical performance that your head starts to feel like a balloon, all light and kind of bobbing about, and you start getting a bit dizzy and it almost becomes like an out-of-body experience? Yeah, I wish there'd been more of that than for just one song. I should report, though that most of the audience absolutely adored the show and gave her two standing ovation.

Still, I'm glad I went if nothing else then because it exorcises one of my great regrets of recent years (forgetting I'd bought a ticket to see her play last year until the morning after the show), and because the show was in the Melbourne Recital Hall the sound was absolutely stunning, which was necessary for such brilliantly played and carefully arranged music. (The band was Newsom on harp and piano, two violinists, a drummer/percussionist, a trombone player, and a guitarist/banjo player/player of some instrument I didn't catch the name of which was basically like a middle-eastern mandolin.)

Melodic · « **Reply #2385 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 08:27 »

sitar? i think you're thinking about a sitar.

Scarychips · « **Reply #2386 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 08:36 »

Or maybe an oud?

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #2387 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 09:59 »

It was a tambura actually, it's the instrument you can hear on the track Baby Birch and it's a darn beautiful sounding instrument/hard to play

pinkpiche · « **Reply #2388 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 10:30 »

Quote from: Vuk on 12 Mar 2011, 21:59

I really want to see Fucked Up again. Last time I saw them, it was one of the funnest shows I've ever been to, even with all the shit I broke lol.

Me too! I can't wait for the new album... Hope they tour Europe this summer.

Vuk · « **Reply #2389 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 16:53 »

Even though a lot of the new shit has been hit or miss for me, I'm stoked on anything that band does.

De_El · « **Reply #2390 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 17:41 »

Quote from: scarred on 09 Mar 2011, 01:10

touched alice. lost my glasses, found them again unbroken next to a full bottle of water. 2 encores. my body hurts

amazing

I'm jealous! I saw them last Friday and it was actually fairly disappointing. Teengirl Fantasy opened, and that was awesome, but by the time CC came on the crowd was ready to riot and it was impossible to stand. Like, it started to get crazy, teetering between bad-crazy and good-crazy, and then it tipped over into bad-crazy territory. I couldn't see, couldn't breathe, could barely pay attention to the music. It wasn't even a mosh pit; you just couldn't stand still because the crowd was too tightly packed together. Someone shoved someone else and the shove propagated through the crowd for like twenty five minutes. If I wasn't completely off-balance, stiff-arming someone in front of me to try and catch myself, I was being dragged down by a human undercurrent and struggling pull my leg out from between a clutch of five other people's legs. It just stopped being fun really fast. Spent the rest of the show up on the balcony behind a dense row of people, fuming and occasionally seeing snatches of the stage.

scarred · « **Reply #2391 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 18:06 »

Man, that sucks. How big was the venue where you saw them? Their Seattle show was at a converted warehouse, so there was plenty of room for the pit to hustle & bustle. I still ended up nearly fainting from dehydration twice and leaning on other people during the slower bits, but I'm into the whole "get exhausted by the end of the first 5 songs and then keep dancing because fuck that" mentality. I imagine if it'd been at any smaller of a venue it would've been a nightmare, though.

De_El · « **Reply #2392 on:** 16 Mar 2011, 23:37 »

The show was at the main room at First Avenue in Minneapolis, which has a capacity of around 1500. The show, of course, sold out. Outside the floor there was a little room to push past and like, circumnavigate the crowd, but I basically had to beat my way away from the stage to get ahold of myself.

scarred · « **Reply #2393 on:** 17 Mar 2011, 00:35 »

Yeesh. That's no fun at all. Times like those you feel like you're in the middle of a human meat grinder. MGMT was like that. They played at the Cap Hill Block Party, so it was literally a city street with a stage on it, but it was so packed with people that I couldn't move, and had to enlist the help of everyone around me to push me up over the crowd, so security could grab me and drag me out.

As a 6'2", 180 pound dude, that was difficult and I'm pretty sure I kicked some poor tweenage girls in the face trying to get out of there.

But MGMT ended up sucking live anyway. At least Alice, even with a broken ankle, still manages to create a pretty epic stage presence.

De_El · « **Reply #2394 on:** 17 Mar 2011, 15:06 »

Yeah, see, and I'm 5'7"ish and 118 lbs, so it was too much. But ah well. I'm seeing Rusko on 4/20, and that'll be so good it'll make up for all the remorse I have for CC not going so well.

JimmyJazz · « **Reply #2395 on:** 21 Mar 2011, 10:40 »

Saturday I bought an uber-pricey Godspeed ticket on Stubhub on a whim and went to them night last HOLY SHIT

Half the was band turned their backs to the audience and it was still one of the best shows I've ever seen. When they played "Storm" I nearly died of joy

Scarychips · « **Reply #2396 on:** 21 Mar 2011, 15:02 »

Oh man, I have to make a decision.
Either Black Lips with Vivian Girls, or Shad with I don't know who's opening.
Any help here?

valley_parade · « **Reply #2397 on:** 21 Mar 2011, 15:04 »

Same thing I said on Twitter:

We won't be friends if you don't see Shad.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #2398 on:** 21 Mar 2011, 15:30 »

go see Black Lips dude

if you somehow need more convincing, here's this:

valley_parade · « **Reply #2399 on:** 21 Mar 2011, 15:31 »

Shad > Dumb hipster mustache

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