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Obits @ Cake Shop NYC 2-12-10
Outside it was 20 degrees, upstairs an inviting 75. In the basement of the Cake Shop, where Obits was playing their first night of a two night engagement, it was probably over 100; oddly enough that’s just about the perfect temperature to see these guys. Obits isn’t big on theatrics....
Orginal Video: Nico Vega – Beast
If you haven’t yet allowed Nico Vega to assault your senses at a live show than now is as good a time as any. With a new tour just underway (dates below) there’s a good chance they’re coming to the ever-ambiguous “town near you”. If they aren’t coming within 500 miles of...
Hellbent Hooker – Rock Star Bar – Brooklyn, NY
The blood is real, the dick is not. The songs are sordid glam trash any GG devotee would fucking love if he weren’t so distracted by the skinhead drinking piss. The singer eating pussy. The surly bitch kicking him in the back of his head for objectifying the half-naked makeout...
Minus The Bear – Live @ The Belly Up – Nov 2
I needed a day off from guitarists who squeeze into tight black jeans. From lead singers wearing clever, size-too-small, t-shirts that I don’t understand. From drummers who look like their last hair cut was collaboration between Robert Smith and Flock of Seagulls lead Mike Score. More over, I needed a...
Rival Sons Live @ Hard Rock San Diego 10-30-09
If you haven’t seen the Rival Sons live you need to find their next tour date within three states of you, shake down your deadbeat friends for cash, and hit the road. Listening to Rival Son’s debut Before The Fire once you’ve seen them live is a completely different and...
Treasure Island 2009 – Flaming Lips – The Decemberists – Beirut – Walkmen
MGMT, Girl Talk, MSTRKRFT, Brazilian Girls, The Streets, Passion Pit and Murs all on the same day on an island in the San Francisco Bay? Sounds like Day 1 of the 2009 Treasure Island Music Festival, arguably the better of the several San Francisco summer music festivals. Only, Pinpoint Music...
Rodrigo y Gabriela – 4th & B – 10-10-09
Attending a Rodrigo y Gabriela show is like submitting your soul to a hot, sweaty musical threesome. Sometimes gentle and intimate, sometimes aggressive and raw it’s an experience that leaves your ears entirely satisfied while longing for more. Yes, they are a male and female classical acoustic guitar duo that...
Idle Warship feat. Talib Kweli @ Yoshi’s – San Francisco, CA – 9/19/09
There has been a void in hip-hop for the last, oh, ten years – somewhere in between the thuggy, chain-tugging, champagne-spraying, dollar bill-counting video porn and the backpack-wearing head nodders; the sexiness I think Justin Timberlake has been talking about, was lost. But guess what J-Lake (that’s what I call...
