I have seen the Arctic Monkeys live a couple times, I'm definitely sitting this one out. They remind me of the first couple times I saw Oasis. Dull, dull, dull, but the songs were performed well and sounded fine. But at the end of the day, there's very little incentive to go back a third time. Death Cab is a band I actually enjoy seeing though. I'll be glad to check them out again.
Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
so……about the Dinosaur Jr show. Great opening act (would pay to see them headline again). And that's one of the better records for them to play, for sure. But Henry Rollins doing an interview with the band before the set? Seriously? Why?
StoneTheCrow wrote:
so……about the Dinosaur Jr show. Great opening act (would pay to see them headline again). And that's one of the better records for them to play, for sure. But Henry Rollins doing an interview with the band before the set? Seriously? Why?
Because he's Alt Nation's James Lipton, that's why.
Brian
Just out of curiosity, I searched google images for "Brian Wallace".
The second picture is closest to what I imagine our Brian Wallace looking like. The fact that the photo comes from a website connecting prison inmates with penpals is just an added bonus.
The second picture is closest to what I imagine our Brian Wallace looking like. The fact that the photo comes from a website connecting prison inmates with penpals is just an added bonus.
StoneTheCrow wrote:
so……about the Dinosaur Jr show. Great opening act (would pay to see them headline again). And that's one of the better records for them to play, for sure. But Henry Rollins doing an interview with the band before the set? Seriously? Why?
HR: SO JAY, ARE YOU READY TO GET INTENSE? I HAVEN'T BEEN THIS BLOWN AWAY SINCE COCK CHENEY SHOT ME IN THE FACE
JM: iunno mumble mumble i guess uh…. uh… mm. wassa'question again?
HR: FUCK YEAH! I HATE PEOPLE AND YET AM CONSTANTLY IN THE PUBLIC EYE!
JM: [weeps softly; pets hair]
HR: [gives birth]
ggw wrote:
Just out of curiosity, I searched google images for "Brian Wallace".
The second picture is closest to what I imagine our Brian Wallace looking like. The fact that the photo comes from a website connecting prison inmates with penpals is just an added bonus.
haha, this is hilarious ;D
StoneTheCrow wrote:
so……about the Dinosaur Jr show. Great opening act (would pay to see them headline again). And that's one of the better records for them to play, for sure. But Henry Rollins doing an interview with the band before the set? Seriously? Why?
Agreed, this seems silly. The only acceptable use of a question and answer segment in a show is Shellac, who seem to give the audience chances to ask them questions just to berate people for asking stupid questions.
Agreed on Shellac, but Thee Silver Mt. Zion have pretty funny Q&A's during their shows too.
ggw wrote:
The second picture is closest to what I imagine our Brian Wallace looking like.
#4 is my candidate for most brian-like. that pic also looks a little like rolllins.
Not when the subject of Vic Chesnutt comes up like it did last year
blipvurt wrote:
… but Thee Silver Mt. Zion have pretty funny Q&A's during their shows too.
Another crap band that my first indie rock girlfriend tried to get me to listen to in the 1990's. No thanks!
Vas wrote:
Archers of Loaf
Black Cat
8/5
on sale Friday April 15
I saw Archers a few times in the 90's, opening for other bands. They never grabbed me.
I secretly referred to them as Pinchers of Loaf.
I secretly referred to them as Pinchers of Loaf.
walkonby wrote:
just out of curiousity
who has been the most hated person on this board ever?
pretty sure dupek wins that prize.
Dupek by a long shot.
Is that person still around or under a differnt name ;D
sweetcell wrote:walkonby wrote:
just out of curiousity
who has been the most hated person on this board ever?
pretty sure dupek wins that prize.
evilsanta
I don't agree with the Arctic Monkeys analogy at all.
That being said, I am a HUGE fanboy and have been since their inception so my personal opinion can easily (and rightfully so) be seen as biased. I saw them their first time at the club. In all, it was incredible, beside the moshers during slower songs like mardy bum… they pissed the hell out of me (and being in the first row didnt help either. my nuts took a beating that night, and not in a good way). Missed their Favorite worst nightmare tour due to the fact that it took me a while to get into that album. Humbug's first single, "Crying Lightning" caught me completely off guard and I fell in love all over again. Loved the new album. Caught them at Rams Head and had a great time.
After falling in love with Favorite Worst Nightmare half a year before the rams head show, I can honestly say that they have been one of the more consistent acts in my life. I can always count on them to play a good show that me and my friends will enjoy.
This is why I will be there yet again come may. And after their recent release of the new single "Don't sit down cause I moved your chair", I can easily expect more of the same from the boy across the lake.
That being said, I am a HUGE fanboy and have been since their inception so my personal opinion can easily (and rightfully so) be seen as biased. I saw them their first time at the club. In all, it was incredible, beside the moshers during slower songs like mardy bum… they pissed the hell out of me (and being in the first row didnt help either. my nuts took a beating that night, and not in a good way). Missed their Favorite worst nightmare tour due to the fact that it took me a while to get into that album. Humbug's first single, "Crying Lightning" caught me completely off guard and I fell in love all over again. Loved the new album. Caught them at Rams Head and had a great time.
After falling in love with Favorite Worst Nightmare half a year before the rams head show, I can honestly say that they have been one of the more consistent acts in my life. I can always count on them to play a good show that me and my friends will enjoy.
This is why I will be there yet again come may. And after their recent release of the new single "Don't sit down cause I moved your chair", I can easily expect more of the same from the boy across the lake.
walkonby wrote:
i always enjoyed the days of when it was the spin way of thinking and the rolling stone way of thinking about music. to each their own and all that. i got a free subscription to rolling stone after buying tickets on ticketmaster recently. it seems to have changed in nature and slighted view. has spin remained the same because i never bother to read spin?
i've had free a free subscription to spin for some time now, as well as RS, both b/c of free offers that came with ticket purchases. actually, i think i'm now out of the "free offer" period for spin and they just keep sending it to me.
RS has had an evolution over the years because there has been some amount of substance to what they write - so there has been something to evolve. you can disagree with what they write but you can't deny that they have some good writers on staff who try, however meekly, to get beyond the surface of a story. then they have rabid left-wingers like taibbi who takes his watchdog role way too seriously (he does come up with some gems, tho). a problem they have is that they have become an institution, they are the status quo of rock journalism.
spin, as far as i can tell, makes no allusions about depth. they are the teenbeat/tiger magazine of music journalism. they report whatever the industry & its marketing machines gives them to report. nothing jarring, no negative lead stories, no horrible reviews. it can be a decent source of information on upcoming albums and shows, and i get some entertainment out of the interviews with artists, but it's pure cotton candy. every now and then they try running something beyond the marketing hype - "the problem with the music industry today" or "why does <insert city name here> have such a vibrant music scene?" - and invariably fall flat.
has spin changes over the years? i've only been reading it for 3 or 4 years, and from what i remember it's always been about the same… not that i've been paying close attention. hasn't been much substance to pay close attention to.
see . . . i'd knew you come through.
sorry, too lazy for a cat picture to accent the moment we're having here. picture one in your mind. hold it, hold it. there. isn't that better?
sorry, too lazy for a cat picture to accent the moment we're having here. picture one in your mind. hold it, hold it. there. isn't that better?
sweetcell wrote:walkonby wrote:
i always enjoyed the days of when it was the spin way of thinking and the rolling stone way of thinking about music. to each their own and all that. i got a free subscription to rolling stone after buying tickets on ticketmaster recently. it seems to have changed in nature and slighted view. has spin remained the same because i never bother to read spin?
i've had free a free subscription to spin for some time now, as well as RS, both b/c of free offers that came with ticket purchases. actually, i think i'm now out of the "free offer" period for spin and they just keep sending it to me.
I'll bet they're charging you for it. I think that's part of the agreement of getting the free sub with tickets. You agree to let them start charging your credit card after the "Free" period ends. Tricky.
has spin changes over the years? i've only been reading it for 3 or 4 years, and from what i remember it's always been about the same… not that i've been paying close attention. hasn't been much substance to pay close attention to.
Spin was great when it first started. If you were too lazy to bother with fanzines, it was the only place you could regularly/easily read about the likes of Sonic Youth, Husker Du, The Cure, etc. It was the first alternative rag to hit the major market. They never completely ignored the mainstream though. Madonna was on their 1st or 2nd cover. But as "Indie Turned Mainstream" ™, Spin went right along with it. I don't remember them doing much in-depth reporting as much as they just brought you bands you couldn't read about elsewhere. It was a pretty good mag in the mid-80s.