Heartland

Whole album is fantastic really but this is on repeat:



How am I just learning about this band now?

For drinking in that neck of the woods I've always liked McCoy's over on 9th (it's a dive where my granddad enjoyed a pint, as well as my dad when he worked in The City) or the Russian Vodka Room if you're feeling fancy.

This one's almost a certainty for me. Well... tickets bought, but I was just offered a promotion which could potentially interfere. So, we'll see. If you want to gamble on my work life benefitting you, keep an eye on this space - if I can't go, and my Pittsburgh friend can't find a babysitter to al...

I might try to do this one. I hate driving into Baltimore though.

Brewer's Art isn't far from the venue for people looking for drinks. And they're both pretty close to the MARC/Amtrak station.

This one's a maybe. The city has clearly changed since I moved away - there used to be almost nothing around there.

This one's almost a certainty for me.

What an unexpected surprise. I'll probably do Pittsburgh (McKees Rocks) and maybe Dallas or Baltimore.

This new Melvins record is really good. I got the new High on Fire as well but… well, it’s HoF and it sounds like them but it’s too metal and not enough rock and roll for me (nothing but Motörhead can scratch the Motörhead itch).

Husek wrote: ↑24 Apr 2024, 14:02 We did something once again, I'd say this is far from a fan-favourite, but imho it's a underrated gem:

I dig it. It was always one of my favorite of the oldest new songs. It would have been phenomenal if it had gotten a proper studio recording.

Heilung were phenomenal. I kind of wavered on going, but I'm glad I did. Swans I've seen three or four times before, and they've always blown me away. Not this time. I never thought I'd describe a Swans gig as boring, but this was f**king boring . The ratio of brilliance to art-wank was far too heav...

Halfway through my first listen and quite liking it.

Swans next Friday, and then Heliung a few days after that. Next show on the calendar is The Chisel/Home Front/CMI. They're playing at an expensive new-ish waterfront development in DC and I can't imagine what the crowd will be like. Government lawyers cosplaying as working-class I'd guess.

Corb Lund's new one, El Viejo. I very much like it - as usual, excellent songwriting, clever lyrics, and outstanding musicianship.

Recently I've heard Closing in to naught us in ... don't know whether that makes any sense, though ... :eek: :lol: ... Ever since it debuted (and then sank ignominiously beneath the waves) I've been hearing it as "closing in to the north of sin" but of course I have no idea what that migh...

Not something I’ve ever heard.

He's always stomps / lumbers across the stage for years. He's no Rudolf Nureyev... Let's not look for stuff that isn't there. There have been some clips I've seen over the last couple of years that make it look to me like he might be dealing with some back pain (I say this because I was a in a car ...

CamilleDeville wrote: ↑10 Sep 2020, 04:20 “Goes around corners like a plank in a rail-gun” It’s a very cool car, even with some glitches

I dated a gal in the 90's who owned one, and had the pleasure of driving it through west Texas once. That thing was a beast of a car (the girl was not beastly at all - sweet girl, rich parents).

To be fair, the "live Bassist" question is a valid one. Craig Adams was effective because he was used to working with a drum machine; Tony James is generally considered not very good. I get this. I largely learned to play with a drum machine, so I tended to have pretty good timing. Back i...

I have a terrible prediction. First, I'm pretty sure the Antwerp gig will go ahead after 2 days rest. But what will happen is that Von will be determined to book another tour to make up for the Gent and Eindhoven dates. And he'll collapse and *those* gigs will be rescheduled. And so on and so on un...

Swans in DC, come April. That's all that's on my radar right now.

AI is not able to do a new Sisters album and never will be. I think the deprerssing thing is that if The Sisters play a song a live that was written by AI we would not recognise the difference. I don't think the new album with AI is dropping like that (new songs, new compositions), but I very much ...

It’s the holidays so I take a break from the stuff I read for work. At the moment it’s Nomeansno - From Obscurity to Oblivion: An Oral History.

Thoroughly enjoying it so far.

That’s really nicely done. I still can’t place who your vocal reminds me of though…

That's not how recording contracts work. You can't get around them by simply releasing the material free of charge online. Every music video ends with a copyright statement that it belongs to the record company, which was conspicuously lacking from the Suzanne video. If this theory were true the Pa...

All of 'em, honestly. I love the new-new stuff, but I'd very specifically love to hear studio versions of War on Drugs and Come Together.