Friday, August 01, 2008
buzz-in
The high points were still ridiculously awesome though.
Lair of the Minotaur started the evening off. Nothing to write home about (pretty generic metal), but they weren't bad either.
Pitchfork just raved about Torche, which blows my mind, because I thought they were god awful. Actually, I take that back. Sometimes they were pretty great, but they also had songs that would cozy up nicely between Three Days Grace and Seether on "modern rock" radio, and the highlights weren't close to making up for the Fox Seeds moments.
Baroness, Genghis Tron, and Bison... err, I mean Bison BC are at Pat's on February 10th for this year's Exclaim Aggressive Tendencies Tour.
Jason Collett is at Richard's on November 1st with Rock Central Plaza.
No Gold is on the bill at the Peanut Gallery tomorrow, making one hell of a show even better.
Jeremy Jay, Terrorbird, and Cosmetics, originally scheduled for 340 on Monday, is now at the Sweatshop, which is great, considering what went down at 340 this past week. Here's hoping that 1/2 Alive will be migrating soon as well.
Barn Owl is at Hoko's on Wednesday with V. Vecker, ahna, and Aerosol Constellations.
Guns N Bombs are at Lotus on August 30th with Expendable Youth and Ollie Ple.
The Parallels and Dead Ghosts are at the Astoria on August 15th.
And tonight, the Whitsundays aren't on the Sweatshop bill (theybroke up lost their drummer), but their might a surprise opener to fill in. (that was Edo's fault, by the way. ha.)
buzz-in
I was really psyched for Boris on Wednesday at Richard's, but I was a little disappointed. First and foremost, the sound sucked. It was brutal during the opening bands as well, so it wasn't just the fact that Boris plays at such a ridiculously loud volume that threw things off. I was also kind of bummed that they leaned pretty heavily on lower tempo, drawn out tunes, rather than short, we-are-going-to-blow-your-head-off songs... but that's more personal preference. It's the sound that really put a damper on things.
The high points were still ridiculously awesome though.
Lair of the Minotaur started the evening off. Nothing to write home about (pretty generic metal), but they weren't bad either.
Pitchfork just raved about Torche, which blows my mind, because I thought they were god awful. Actually, I take that back. Sometimes they were pretty great, but they also had songs that would cozy up nicely between Three Days Grace and Seether on "modern rock" radio, and the highlights weren't close to making up for the Fox Seeds moments.
Baroness, Genghis Tron, and Bison... err, I mean Bison BC are at Pat's on February 10th for this year's Exclaim Aggressive Tendencies Tour.
Jason Collett is at Richard's on November 1st with Rock Central Plaza.
No Gold is on the bill at the Peanut Gallery tomorrow, making one hell of a show even better.
Jeremy Jay, Terrorbird, and Cosmetics, originally scheduled for 340 on Monday, is now at the Sweatshop, which is great, considering what went down at 340 this past week. Here's hoping that 1/2 Alive will be migrating soon as well.
Barn Owl is at Hoko's on Wednesday with V. Vecker, ahna, and Aerosol Constellations.
Guns N Bombs are at Lotus on August 30th with Expendable Youth and Ollie Ple.
The Parallels and Dead Ghosts are at the Astoria on August 15th.
And tonight, the Whitsundays aren't on the Sweatshop bill (they
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