Wild Beasts have been hyped for awhile. I tried and tried to get into them and I just couldn’t do it. The high falsettos were like an icepick being driven into my brain. I listened to each album a few times and moved on. But then I had friends start raving about them. And not
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Valentine’s Day this year was spent with a guy, at a Girls show. I was in San Francisco, about 1300 miles away from my wife. Luckily this is a city of good friends. The friend who attended this sold-out show with me at my favorite venue, Great American Music Hall, did not know Girls‘ music.
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After a day drinking beers at Valley Tavern in Noe Valley, I found myself at The Warfield for the first time since the remodel. For a Market Street institution, it was almost eerie how clean the place was. We went to the bar to order our first of many $10 drinks and then found our
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Every so often I will be posting under the ‘Derailed’ heading. This is for posts that are outside my normal comfort area…indie rock/pop. Last night P.O.S and ‘special guests’ brought their punk-influenced form of hip-hop to Denver’s Marquis Theatre. We missed Denver’s own The Pirate Signal, but got there in time to catch most of
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Every so often I will be posting under the ‘Derailed’ heading. This is for posts that are outside my normal comfort area…indie rock/pop When you think of hip-hop hubs, Minneapolis is probably not the first city to come to mind. But the Twin Cities actually have a pretty exciting scene. And now with Def Jux
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Just got back from the Nile show at the Bluebird. I still can’t hear so well, and the ringing in my ears is preventing me from sleeping. Nile is a death metal band from South Carolina, made up of Karl Sanders and Dallas Toler-Wade on vocals and guitar, Chris Lollis on bass and George Kollias
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Every so often I will be posting under the ‘Derailed’ heading. This is for posts that are outside my normal comfort area…indie rock/pop. Went to my first show at Cervantes last night. I saw The Devin Townsend Project and Cynic open up for Between The Buried and Me. I really liked the venue. The sound
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