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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Crushing the Cenotaph: Maryland Deathfest 2009
A couple friends and I drove from Chicago to Baltimore in a car with leather seats and no air conditioning, blaring metal so loud we could hear it with all the windows open while doing eighty down the Pennsylvania turnpike. We took turns plugging our mp3 players into the tape adapter and playing songs from [...]
Posted in Concerts Tagged Abscess, Absu, Agenda of Swine, Antigama, Asphyx, Atheist, Aura Noir, Birdflesh, Bolt Thrower, Brutal Truth, Catheter, Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic Carnage, Complete Failure, Crowpath, Despise You, Destroyer 666, Devourment, Flesh Parade, General Surgery, Gnostic, Hail of Bullets, Hero Destroyed, Immolation, Jig-Ai, Kill the Client, Krallice, Lair of the Minotaur, Magrudergrind, Maruta, Maryland Deathfest, Mayhem, Misery Index, Napalm Death, Phobia, Pig Destroyer, Pigsty, Pretty Little Flower, Rotten Sound, Sayyadina, Sigh, Splitter, The Endless Blockade, The Red Chord, Trap Them, Triac, Unearthly Trance, Weekend Nachos, Wolves in the Throne Room, Yakuza 1 Comment
Deaf Description: The Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away
I’ve already let my nerd flag fly high when I trumpeted the announcement of the upcoming Fiery Furnaces record, but what I didn’t tell you at the time (because it wasn’t announced until the following week) was that the siblings Friedberger were asking their fans to submit “deaf descriptions” of the new album. That is, [...]
Posted in Experiment, Reviews Tagged Eleanor Friedberger, Fiery Furnaces, I'm Going Away, Matthew Friedberger 2 Comments
Friday Fix: Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy
Happy weekend, babies. Something else.
Chuck Berry, Live at Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room in St. Louis, May 13, 2009
I was shocked mostly by the size of his hands. They looked like baseball mitts — old, leathery, well-worn. It seemed inconceivable that they would fit through his shirt sleeves, let alone exercise the finesse required to move up and down the neck of his lacquered Gibson. And yet there they were, still playing the [...]
Posted in Appreciations, Concerts, St. Louis Music Tagged Chuck Berry, Rock & Roll, st. louis 4 Comments
Leonard Cohen at the Fox Theatre, May 9, 2009
A review of Leonard Cohen in Detroit, Fox Theatre, May 9, 2009
New Jens Lekman Mixtape: The Summer Never Ends
Oh Jens, is there anything you do that we won’t blog about? Sure, you may have publicly denounced the ukulele and admittedly broke our collective hearts, but as long as you keep filling our spring with unexpected treats we’ll keep running back with big cartoon stars in our puppy dog eyes. First there was the [...]
Friday Fix: Screaming Females (Opening for Jack White’s Dead Weather on Summer Tour)