Gnarlemagne- yesterday. oops! you missed it, sorry
funny story-picture yourself ( you are the drummer in this scenario) at a college house party. You are ballin, drinkin, being the smooth cat that you are. people are in your house dancing the funk, and up comes this lil blonde girl shaking for you. you hit it off and you bring her upstairs. you ask her to spend the night and she literally says..."only if you tell me what my name is". fast foward to the girl ticked off and walking out that night, and thus a birth of a song. listen and love it- these New Hampshire guys have such soul and funk its fantastic.
playing in Portsmouth, NH on Saturday night, played at the Precinct in Somerville last night (sorry again).
12.09.2011
12.05.2011
All right, son: roll them guns up, count the money, and put your seat belt on.
I have no other advice or concert news for you other then use today as your flashback day and spend it listening to the Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels soundtrack and get down to it. I have been a hermytit and put concerts on the back burner due to lack of funds/bills/booze.
check back for an awesome concert (Local! New Hampshire band! hairy...) coming up on Thursday at the PRECINCT BAR in Union square
cheers
check back for an awesome concert (Local! New Hampshire band! hairy...) coming up on Thursday at the PRECINCT BAR in Union square
cheers
11.14.2011
beer to the head/ downstairs with WU LYF
So much to say but can't remember a whole lot of thursday's concert- WU LYF @ the Middle East downstairs- the one i've been talking about endlessly since September. It may be from the massive headache i received at the end of WU LYF- thankfully someone threw a half empty PBR tall boy into the crowd and it enjoying itself all over my head and torso! Even though I spent the last two songs in the porcelain palace, WU LYF @ the Middle East downstairs was such a fantastic trip.
I can be critical of boston crowds because with alot of the smaller shows I go to-energy is weak and no ones dancing like I want them to (just fucking do it already). (side note-this doesn't include house parties, the Paradise or my bedroom-all those places move quite fantastically). Many times its been me in a drunken haze dancing in circles around my friends who stare at me like a fool (truth), and I know that the others in the corners who are doing the exact same thing as me are silently cheering me on. But for the others, the fence posts- I get it, you just want to stand there and not move, not tap your foot or nod your head- I get it. Just don't get in my way right? right?
The middle east downstairs, stuffed like a sausages/inlove every part of it, had a crowd that finally made me eat my words- everyone was in the same mind zone, all in motion and wording the garble that WL is known for.. dancing and jamming and fighting-everything that I wanted I got. Selfish, i know. I was just proud to have these guys in Cambridge-end scene. end hangover-bring em back.
cheers
11/10 @the Middle East downstairs
I can be critical of boston crowds because with alot of the smaller shows I go to-energy is weak and no ones dancing like I want them to (just fucking do it already). (side note-this doesn't include house parties, the Paradise or my bedroom-all those places move quite fantastically). Many times its been me in a drunken haze dancing in circles around my friends who stare at me like a fool (truth), and I know that the others in the corners who are doing the exact same thing as me are silently cheering me on. But for the others, the fence posts- I get it, you just want to stand there and not move, not tap your foot or nod your head- I get it. Just don't get in my way right? right?
The middle east downstairs, stuffed like a sausages/inlove every part of it, had a crowd that finally made me eat my words- everyone was in the same mind zone, all in motion and wording the garble that WL is known for.. dancing and jamming and fighting-everything that I wanted I got. Selfish, i know. I was just proud to have these guys in Cambridge-end scene. end hangover-bring em back.
cheers
11/10 @the Middle East downstairs
11.08.2011
crystalized my openers-aka the day ive been awaitin.
This thursdays concert at the middle east downstairs is the day i have been talking about (on this tiny imbecile blog) for months. i don't feel like talking about it anymore- because i'm fucking excited and thats about all i can say about it. the openers sound pretty good to me- we'll try to see them but we'll probably be attempting to climb the roof to T.T. The Bears before WU LYF comes on (backside story- a 70 year old basically homeless man told me he used to do this when he was young right before he shattered his beer on the floor and fell over trying to mop it up at Precinct in Union SQ)
I'm attempting to call this my Boston Vs. Brooklyn match up- the first and only show i've seen in new york was WU LYF and it was hell.a.good. The crowd was awesome, and I knew the band actually enjoyed being there. sometimes i get this itchy feeling that the crowds in Boston aren't the most pleeeeasing for up and comers/nobodies/(theonlygoodbandoutthere)- but it can be hard to read the face of the drunks on stage-so what can i really say. anyways, below is a rough cut from Crystal Antlers-i'll leave the best for thursday
cheers & beers
I'm attempting to call this my Boston Vs. Brooklyn match up- the first and only show i've seen in new york was WU LYF and it was hell.a.good. The crowd was awesome, and I knew the band actually enjoyed being there. sometimes i get this itchy feeling that the crowds in Boston aren't the most pleeeeasing for up and comers/nobodies/(theonlygoodbandoutthere)- but it can be hard to read the face of the drunks on stage-so what can i really say. anyways, below is a rough cut from Crystal Antlers-i'll leave the best for thursday
cheers & beers
10.19.2011
its like they are too good looking
BAND: U.S. ROYALTY
FROM: DC
what happens when an upcoming band becomes the face of a fashion line? gets more notice for their structured cheeky hairy faces and the designers name pasted along side theirs? I guess i've always thought it goes the other way around...you play dirty music and move like banshees (real nice like) and even the most unattractive member is good fuckin lookin in someones eye. apparently now i have no god damn idea what comes first- so take a listen for yourself and decide. I can see a crowd stomping at the Paradise to this jam (just listen to this one and attempt to ignore the visuals-you might toss your afternoon beers)
This legit video/tune below sounds a tad like coldplay to me..but western...? Coldplay would just look ridiculous in cowboy boots. Anyways- cross yer eyes to them coming to Boston in the near future
Cheers
10.13.2011
Race cars and brain freezes
WERS turned me on to these guys (this morning oops) and i dig them. I don't quite understand what kind of sound this band is going for, so listen to their album Its a Corporate World and get with me? I get the instruments & vocal arrangements but each song is too different and i really hope they stay away from creeping in synths and just give me the noise. noise, drums, guitar, bass, real rhythm, solid voices. they could be so much more without covering up
Anyways- this cover kills it. baby im interested
Cheers~
Anyways- this cover kills it. baby im interested
Cheers~
9.21.2011
Saintsenca youngins and Stone churches
a history tale from me to you
in a little town called Newmarket, NH, the Stone Church reined over all as the best place to see live music in all of the holy land that is the New Hampshire seacoast. The church-converted-to-music hall was a tiny stone structure up on Zion Hill (literal). It was gorgeous, the stage was small and the freedom to smoke whatever you wanted outside brought in all kinds of musicians, people and wandering students. Tuesdays nights were bluegrass night and we would make the trek to the town over to experience drunken bliss and local bluegrass. here we all learned how to really dance (bop man) glazed over and tranquilized.
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This place opened their holy musical doors to all of us and changed us. It's because of places like this why i cannot bring myself to envision concerts at any other place then festival grounds or tiny dance halls with wooden floors covered in my beer. It's because of places like this why we frequently are pulled towards the original sounds of folk created by bands younger then us (sad song). All of this is my introduction to Saintseneca. just youngin's playing in basements and bars and on trashcans, testing out their sound and making waves towards us.
in a little town called Newmarket, NH, the Stone Church reined over all as the best place to see live music in all of the holy land that is the New Hampshire seacoast. The church-converted-to-music hall was a tiny stone structure up on Zion Hill (literal). It was gorgeous, the stage was small and the freedom to smoke whatever you wanted outside brought in all kinds of musicians, people and wandering students. Tuesdays nights were bluegrass night and we would make the trek to the town over to experience drunken bliss and local bluegrass. here we all learned how to really dance (bop man) glazed over and tranquilized.
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This place opened their holy musical doors to all of us and changed us. It's because of places like this why i cannot bring myself to envision concerts at any other place then festival grounds or tiny dance halls with wooden floors covered in my beer. It's because of places like this why we frequently are pulled towards the original sounds of folk created by bands younger then us (sad song). All of this is my introduction to Saintseneca. just youngin's playing in basements and bars and on trashcans, testing out their sound and making waves towards us.
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