Do you like to yell?
Hands down the best live show I saw in 2006 in terms of intensity and insanity was Lightning Bolt opening for Boredoms. They stole the show from the dance floor of Webster Hall and drove my wife from the room. (Apparently earplugs make her dizzy; according to the internet this is [...]
Entries from October 2006
October 18, 2006
Lightning Bolt – Hypermagic Mountain & Wonderful Rainbow
October 17, 2006
Vashti Bunyan – Just Another Diamond Day and Lookaftering
There’s a lot of things to say about Vashti Bunyan, but most of all I’d like to say she’s a swell lady, a great performer and I really wish she were my mother-in-law. How sweet would it be to have someone who ran around Ireland and Scotland teaching music, living like a hippie, having babies [...]
October 17, 2006
Akron/Family – Meek Warrior
Akron/Family is one of those bands that lived in my backyard for some time, but I never quite got around to paying attention to them. Which sort of sucks, because it would have been nice to see them in small Brooklyn venues rather than medium-small Manhattan venues. I slept, and slept deeply.
October 1, 2006
Sleep – Volume One and Dopesmoker
By all rights, I should hate these guys. Potheads* are, by and large, usually about as interesting as moss. (*By this I mean people for whom marijuana consumption is a part of their identity rather than something they do, otherwise I’d have to burn my record collection).
October 1, 2006
Current 93 – Black Ships Ate The Sky (with bonus dhex 7″ – “Pitchfork Needs Homework”)
So Black Ships Ate The Sky is going to be Current 93’s breakthrough album. That’s my prediction and I’m sticking with it. Hell, I got a bunch of emails last week from various folk saying “Hey, have you heard of this Current 93 band? I think you’d like them.” Now, I’ve been pushing these guys [...]
