Awesome flier for a hardcore show that took place at The Rat in Boston. Check out the reverse side of the flier below for a look at the other upcoming shows.
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Flier from an early 90s hardcore matinee that took place at Club Babyhead in Provience, RI.
Flier from an early 90s hardcore matinee at The Rat in Boston Mass. Reverse side of flier after the jump.
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Thunderheads storming across the prairie, outraged students taking to the streets, migratory herds stampeding along the tundra–any number of images could describe the grandiose scope of Red Sparowes’ lush vignettes.
Damn right. One of my favorite anthemic metal bands of all time is scheduled to drop their album The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer on April 6, 2010 (5 days before my birthday) via Sargent House. I’ve been waiting for some new Sparowes stuff for what feels like an eternity, and based on the snippets below, I reckon that this could be one of the few records I’d ever consider pre-ordering due to a lack of patience. No live dates are set yet, but their shows NEVER lack for a seriously mood-appropriate audio visual component. So there’s that to look forward to as well. A trailer video for the album, the track listing, and a bit more info after the jump…
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Anyone who knows me knows that I am a rabid fan of Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job. And anyone who knows that, knows that the Steve Brule For Your Wine sketch is the first sketch I recommend to any T&E newbie. For me, that sketch is important in that it is a prime example of Tim and Eric’s absolutely absurd sense of humor and because it introduces the newbie viewer to one of T&E’s most amazing recurring characters, Dr. Steve Brule. So imagine my glee and my sadness when I heard that T&E are doing a benefit for Haiti show at the Silent Movie Theater in LA on January 26th. This already sold out show will feature a sneak peak of the new series Check it Out with Steve Brule, as well as two episodes of the forthcoming 5th Season of Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job. Then there’s Q&A with Tim, Eric, and John C. Reilly (Brule). Fear not my LA friends. A second show is being added (date and time TBD)! Flier below.
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It’s been a super busy day at work, and the first thing I saw when I got back to my desk was this. But with the internet and all its hasty news reporting, tweets, malicious teenage commentors, and the fact that the net is basically a medium for liars, I was made to think of this. But the more I poked around, the more I started to see things like this, this, and this. So at what point do I go from being a skeptic to just accepting that this might just be true? Well, I reckon at this point. His shows epitomized a classic rock and roll spirit with tons of singing along, boozing, and sweating. It was so much goddamned fun and I was really looking forward to seeing him again in the future. RIP bud
Gene Ween at Voodoo Fest 2009 (from patrickkennedy72’s flickr)
Gene Ween (also Gener) is the pseudonym for Aaron Freeman (b. March 17, 1970, New Hope, Pennsylvania), the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist for experimental alternative rock group Ween. Alongside his longtime friend and band mate, Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo), Gene helped assemble the band Ween. – Wikipedia
Gene Ween goes on these mini-tour jaunts quite a bit. This time around he’s got 7 gigs lined up over seven dates, including a single show on Friday January 29th at the Highline Ballroom. Tickets for his Evening With performance at Highline are on sale right now. The rest of the dates are below.
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I am really digging a new project by a band called Time Travel. Time Travel consists of Matt Walsh of The Forms on drums and machines, and Travis Morrison of Dismemberment Plan on bass and vocals. So far I’ve only heard the one mp3 (listen above), but the concoction of heavy, up-tempo beats, synthy melodies, and staccato feel creates a sound that is equal parts dancy and kind of dark. No word on when our ears will get a load of a full record or when our eyes will feast on a live gig, but I fuggin’ hope it’s sometime soon.
Here’s an unpublished review of a show I went to two years ago.
As a young metalhead in the late 80’s and early 90’s, my goal in life was to find the fastest and/or heaviest bands in existence (Earache Records played an invaluable role in this). Looking back, a lot of the bands I liked were just silly; they did little to push the death/grind genre into directions beyond status quo speed and heaviness. There were however a handful of bands that were sincere and devoted to the craft and pushing the limits of the genre. The sillier bands I outgrew, but the more serious ones I always kept a part of my life. The one band that epitomized the sincere, ground-breaking and genre-shattering ethic was Godflesh, fronted by Justin K. Broadrick. With only Justin, a drum machine, sampler, bass player, and occasional seond guitar player, Godflesh created some of the heaviest, most brilliant music to ever come out of the 80’s and early 90’s metal boom. His career since Godflesh is something I’ve always kept track of and with very few US appearances since the demise of Godflesh in 2002, I was pretty stoked to see his current project Jesu headline the Gramercy on 10/20 for CMJ.
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