so, i've got may reduced to a small number of shows.
it seems like a slow month, but the virus has had an observer effect on the event listings, so it's hard to be sure if that's representative or not. that's just going to be even worse in june...
for may, this is what i've pulled out:
3rd: chopin's 2nd piano concerto (early) / xiu xiu solo set (late)
8th: slow magic
21st: harborlights
30th: ajj w/ xiu xiu
but, the truth is that it's all tentative.
i'm going to work out some mock reviews as the dates come up.
the dso was particularly disappointing this month; maybe it's not so awful that they canceled it.
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
this is something else that i'm absolutely certain i checked out last summer, before their aug 11th show downtown, and i was sure i posted a review of. but, there's a dead spot here over that period that seems very wrong. so, did somebody delete a bunch of posts from this blog over the week of aug 2nd-9th, perhaps while i was gone over aug 9th/10th?
i also remember posting comments about the show i went to on the 9th that aren't there...
*shrug*
i've said this before: i could grasp the media-intelligence complex editing or censoring my politics, but i don't understand why they'd delete my record or concert reviews, unless they were trying to set me up somehow, in a way i don't really understand. why do things keep disappearing, then?
what i remember thinking at the time was that the record was moderately interesting, but kind of light - and that the show might be a little slower than i'd otherwise like. i think i might have said something about the political presentation being more effective if they could thicken the sound up a little, but also fully realizing that that might pull the rug out from under them.
it was the same night as cherubs, which i had scheduled over them, but i didn't make it out at all due to crawling home early that morning on a two-nighter. likewise, i doubt i'd have made it out to hamtramck on a random tuesday, this may.
as before, i'm feeling that the record is thematically interesting, if perhaps a little bit musically light. would i still like rem if they showed up as a new band nowadays? it's hard to say for sure. but, maybe i'd get more out of this by listening to it at home...
https://summercannibals.bandcamp.com/
i also remember posting comments about the show i went to on the 9th that aren't there...
*shrug*
i've said this before: i could grasp the media-intelligence complex editing or censoring my politics, but i don't understand why they'd delete my record or concert reviews, unless they were trying to set me up somehow, in a way i don't really understand. why do things keep disappearing, then?
what i remember thinking at the time was that the record was moderately interesting, but kind of light - and that the show might be a little slower than i'd otherwise like. i think i might have said something about the political presentation being more effective if they could thicken the sound up a little, but also fully realizing that that might pull the rug out from under them.
it was the same night as cherubs, which i had scheduled over them, but i didn't make it out at all due to crawling home early that morning on a two-nighter. likewise, i doubt i'd have made it out to hamtramck on a random tuesday, this may.
as before, i'm feeling that the record is thematically interesting, if perhaps a little bit musically light. would i still like rem if they showed up as a new band nowadays? it's hard to say for sure. but, maybe i'd get more out of this by listening to it at home...
https://summercannibals.bandcamp.com/
from the deftones to touche amore, post-rock has long had a defining, if subtle, influence on a certain strain of contemporary punk rock, to the point that a discernible influence from the subgenre largely defines the strain of punk that has remained relevant in this century. so, i guess it was only a matter of time before the situation inverted.
that said, this isn't quite a post-rock band with influences from punk, either - it is certainly more directly in the lineage of a deftones or a touche amore than it is in the lineage of a caspian or a pelican. but, it flips the switch, nonetheless, and in the process often creates something that is maybe better described as "pink floyd goes doom rock" than using any kind of language i've previously deployed.
i'm still chewing on it, but bands that sound like this are the kind of thing i like to see in small bars, so i very well may have bit.
they have a few older records, but i'm not familiar with them. yet.
https://harborlightsma.bandcamp.com/
that said, this isn't quite a post-rock band with influences from punk, either - it is certainly more directly in the lineage of a deftones or a touche amore than it is in the lineage of a caspian or a pelican. but, it flips the switch, nonetheless, and in the process often creates something that is maybe better described as "pink floyd goes doom rock" than using any kind of language i've previously deployed.
i'm still chewing on it, but bands that sound like this are the kind of thing i like to see in small bars, so i very well may have bit.
they have a few older records, but i'm not familiar with them. yet.
https://harborlightsma.bandcamp.com/
they talk like it really matters.
what they should do is create a holographic projection of kim il sung, claim he came back from the dead, infer immortality upon him and just let the military stop worrying about it.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/28/kim-jong-uns-uncle-emerges-as-possible-successor-in-north-korea/
what they should do is create a holographic projection of kim il sung, claim he came back from the dead, infer immortality upon him and just let the military stop worrying about it.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/28/kim-jong-uns-uncle-emerges-as-possible-successor-in-north-korea/
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