What Shows Have You Been To Lately?

Justthefacts · 06-22-2018, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Hexa - Dark shoegaze girl group with good sound but nothing mind blowing. The highlight of the show was JTF's cousin in the crowd going "they're all so hot" and his friends were like dude...
Hiro Kone - Really sick dark ambient/techno/jungle stuff that got me wet.
Drew McDowall (Coil) - Incredible and other worldly experience. I was blown away.
Sun Foot - Skipped most of this. Some cool guitar but not much direction.
Lonnie Holley - Holy **** what garbage. That is some of the lamest bull**** masquerading as experimental music that I've ever seen. **** this dude, seriously. And **** his basic bitch philosophy that he thinks is all deep.
No Age - Badass. Loud, energetic duo with walls of sound. Highly recommend seeing them (with earplugs).
Shabazz Palaces - What can I say? Legends. They were trying to get their sound right with the hella amateur crew throughout a lot of the show and I could tell that they weren't feeling it as much as a result, but they still rocked it. I love when they do the stuff from their first 2 EPs live since those are so performance heavy and they always have a lot of fun with it.

Ahh cousin Bill. He's a wiley one love that man.

~~Dewey Oxburger~~ · 06-24-2018, 09:24 PM

Miranda Cosgrove

**Goofle** · 07-23-2018, 10:44 AM

Chelsea Wolfe smashed it last week. Played most of my favourite songs in her 45 minute set. And Ministry got the people very excited. Quite a few crowd surfers to deal with. Not on board with them literally spin-throwing vinyl and drumsticks into a crowd of drunk people, but that's my security instinct kicking in I guess. Also...

Perks of the job innit.

simplephysics · 07-23-2018, 10:53 AM

Caught Clint Breeze and the Groove for the second (?) time the other night. Very laid back and jazzy hip hop inspired jams. Their drummer is fan freaking tastic

**Janszoon** · 07-24-2018, 10:25 PM

Bongripperwith It's Not Night: It's Space and Backwoods Payback

I was there to see Bongripper and they we amazing. Heavy as hell instrumental sludge/doom shit. They played for over an hour and I think that was only three songs. I had never heard of It's Not Night: It's Space before and they were great too. Heavy, fuzzy, noisy instrumental space rock. Backwoods Payback I had also not heard of before. Really fun stoner rock type stuff with a great vocalist and lots of stage presence.

**Goofle** · 07-25-2018, 01:25 PM

That's me banging my head on the stage at 2:15.

Psy-Fi · 07-31-2018, 05:16 AM

Saw this show last week. Didn't bother getting there early enough for the first two of three opening acts. The third opener, The Turbo A.C.'s, was OK but rather meh overall.

D.O.A. put on a great show. Front man Joey Keithley is 62 and looks closer to 75 but he still has the chops, vocals and attitude to blow the roof off a venue.

**Janszoon** · 07-31-2018, 05:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi

Saw this show last week. Didn't bother getting there early enough for the first two of three opening acts. The third opener, The Turbo A.C.'s, was OK but rather meh overall.

D.O.A. put on a great show. Front man Joey Keithley is 62 and looks closer to 75 but he still has the chops, vocals and attitude to blow the roof off a venue.

Nice! I’ve never listened to too much D.O.A. but I love the album they did with Jello Biafra.

Psy-Fi · 07-31-2018, 02:30 PM

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Nice! I’ve never listened to too much D.O.A. but I love the album they did with Jello Biafra.

These three in particular are punk classics...

Something Better Change (1980)
Hardcore '81 (1981)
“War on 45” (1982)

**Frownland** · 08-26-2018, 11:42 PM

Carlsbad Music Festival

Daniel Pate - Played David Lang's Unchained Melody then did a piece by a local artist on a vibraphone prepared with tin foil and manilla folders. Cool compositions to make the performance interesting but this dude needs to loosen up. He has no voice.

Gyan Riley - Absolutely stunning performance. Neoclassical American primitivism guitar business that was gorgeous, impressive, and virtuosic.

Hausmann Quartet - Pretty great modern classical string quartet. They did a piece by Charlotte Shaw that I saw the Isuara Quartet perform before. Isuara had more passion. Hausmann had stronger pizzicato game. They did a few other interesting post minimalist pieces too.

Crew D'Etat - Funky and dope and dank brass band.

Peter Sprague + Leonard Patton - The singer was on some ****ty soul nonsense but he had some good scatting. The guitarist is great and had his moments but overall he was boring as ****. If he opened up it'd be pretty awesome.

Nathan Hubbard Trio - Fire avant garde jazz. Bass, vibes, and drums. Pretty wild performance I gotta say. They did two sets and I had to leave early during the second one to catch a different show, but both were really captivating. These guys have great chemistry.

Matt McBane - Props to this dude for being the man behind this festival and for being a nice guy but damn dude, this dub influenced classical business ain't gonna cut it. So boring.

Stephanie Andrews + Andrew Munsey - Stephanie Andrews on trumpet, Andrew Munsey on drums, Brian Walsh on bass clarinet, Joshua White on piano, Dave Tranchina on bass. They were dope as **** free improvisation that reminded me a bit of Braxton. Joshua White absolutely shredded on the piano, probably the best performance I've ever seen him in.

Donnacha Dennehy Composer Portrait Concert - Four performances of pieces by Donnacha Dennehy. Andrew Anderson did Stainless Staining, a minimalist piece with tape and piano. Very hypnotic and beautiful. Isaac Allen, Alex Greenbaum, and Tina Chong did Bulb, which was minimalist but went to wilder heights than the earlier piece because there were more instruments. I kind of wish that I hadn't looked this composer up because a pretty similar performance with these performers was the video I watched to get an idea if I wanted to see it and it would have been better if it was new for me. Daniel Pate did a piece called Paddy and it was more involved so it made up for his stiffness. It's a very busy piece and hard to pull off. Hausmann Quartet did The Weather of It which was dizzying and hypnotic minimalism. I mean hypnotic literally because I went to weird places. Or maybe I was just a little bit too drunk and dozing off. Still a good performance though.

Sibarg Ensemble - Essentially a piano trio with a kamencheh (a bowed four string gourd instrument) and an Iranian vocalist drawing on traditions of jazz and Iranian music. The groundwork was very much like Village of the Pharoahs and went into some awesome dark territory as well as some heavy spiritual vocal performances. The pianist was badass, I wish that I sat where I could see him better. Everyone in the group was badass actually. The rhythm section slayed and they all fed off of the crowd and went to some really cool places.

Mandobasso - Only stayed for about ten minutes. They're good players but they can't carry it with their setup of just a mandolin and bass. Should try to go for Mandoguitabasso or Mandopercssiobasso.

We Are the West - Chillin on the lawn and caught these guys while having my beer. About half of their performance was terrible vomit worthy pop rock ****ty ass **** you terribleness, but then they'd do songs where they were doing dope ass progressive rock with an interplay kind of like This Heat that were ****ing amazing. What the **** guys, quit trying to be accessible. Just play the good **** and cut the stupid BS.

Eric Byers - Well performed and nice pieces, but felt more like a recital than a performance. Also the chairs were pretty comfy and I was nodding off a little. That's mostly on me though.

Nathan James - I don't even want to talk about it.

Scott Paulson - Used a lot of children's instruments as well as a harp, piano, and theremin. He did some kind of playful stuff and brought some kids on stage to play his assortment of instruments (you know I wanted to jam up there but I let the kids have it). It's cool what he's doing: showing kids how easily you can democratize music. They had him marked in the program as sound collage and that was a bit misleading though. And he was a lil creepy.

Fazi - Chinese rock group. Had some weird outsider qualities that I couldn't put my finger on as far as the group goes and the vocalist had a lot of energy even though he looked like he had just smoked weed for the first time. They also had the tamest feedback solo I've ever seen. Not even saying that like it's bad, it was just interesting how restrained it was.

Johnny Gandelsman Plays Bach's Complete Sonatas and Partitas - A two hour solo violin performance done entirely from memory with a passionate and folksy bent that didn't even feel like thirty minutes. One of the most amazing things I've ever seen in my life.

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Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	Bongripperwith It's Not Night: It's Space and Backwoods Payback I was there to see Bongripper and they we amazing. Heavy as hell instrumental sludge/doom shit. They played for over an hour and I think that was only three songs. I had never heard of It's Not Night: It's Space before and they were great too. Heavy, fuzzy, noisy instrumental space rock. Backwoods Payback I had also not heard of before. Really fun stoner rock type stuff with a great vocalist and lots of stage presence. __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Carlsbad Music Festival Daniel Pate - Played David Lang's Unchained Melody then did a piece by a local artist on a vibraphone prepared with tin foil and manilla folders. Cool compositions to make the performance interesting but this dude needs to loosen up. He has no voice. Gyan Riley - Absolutely stunning performance. Neoclassical American primitivism guitar business that was gorgeous, impressive, and virtuosic. Hausmann Quartet - Pretty great modern classical string quartet. They did a piece by Charlotte Shaw that I saw the Isuara Quartet perform before. Isuara had more passion. Hausmann had stronger pizzicato game. They did a few other interesting post minimalist pieces too. Crew D'Etat - Funky and dope and dank brass band. Peter Sprague + Leonard Patton - The singer was on some **ty soul nonsense but he had some good scatting. The guitarist is great and had his moments but overall he was boring as . If he opened up it'd be pretty awesome. Nathan Hubbard Trio - Fire avant garde jazz. Bass, vibes, and drums. Pretty wild performance I gotta say. They did two sets and I had to leave early during the second one to catch a different show, but both were really captivating. These guys have great chemistry. Matt McBane - Props to this dude for being the man behind this festival and for being a nice guy but damn dude, this dub influenced classical business ain't gonna cut it. So boring. Stephanie Andrews + Andrew Munsey - Stephanie Andrews on trumpet, Andrew Munsey on drums, Brian Walsh on bass clarinet, Joshua White on piano, Dave Tranchina on bass. They were dope as free improvisation that reminded me a bit of Braxton. Joshua White absolutely shredded on the piano, probably the best performance I've ever seen him in. Donnacha Dennehy Composer Portrait Concert - Four performances of pieces by Donnacha Dennehy. Andrew Anderson did Stainless Staining, a minimalist piece with tape and piano. Very hypnotic and beautiful. Isaac Allen, Alex Greenbaum, and Tina Chong did Bulb, which was minimalist but went to wilder heights than the earlier piece because there were more instruments. I kind of wish that I hadn't looked this composer up because a pretty similar performance with these performers was the video I watched to get an idea if I wanted to see it and it would have been better if it was new for me. Daniel Pate did a piece called Paddy and it was more involved so it made up for his stiffness. It's a very busy piece and hard to pull off. Hausmann Quartet did The Weather of It which was dizzying and hypnotic minimalism. I mean hypnotic literally because I went to weird places. Or maybe I was just a little bit too drunk and dozing off. Still a good performance though. Sibarg Ensemble - Essentially a piano trio with a kamencheh (a bowed four string gourd instrument) and an Iranian vocalist drawing on traditions of jazz and Iranian music. The groundwork was very much like Village of the Pharoahs and went into some awesome dark territory as well as some heavy spiritual vocal performances. The pianist was badass, I wish that I sat where I could see him better. Everyone in the group was badass actually. The rhythm section slayed and they all fed off of the crowd and went to some really cool places. Mandobasso - Only stayed for about ten minutes. They're good players but they can't carry it with their setup of just a mandolin and bass. Should try to go for Mandoguitabasso or Mandopercssiobasso. We Are the West - Chillin on the lawn and caught these guys while having my beer. About half of their performance was terrible vomit worthy pop rock ty ass you terribleness, but then they'd do songs where they were doing dope ass progressive rock with an interplay kind of like This Heat that were ing amazing. What the guys, quit trying to be accessible. Just play the good and cut the stupid BS. Eric Byers - Well performed and nice pieces, but felt more like a recital than a performance. Also the chairs were pretty comfy and I was nodding off a little. That's mostly on me though. Nathan James - I don't even want to talk about it. Scott Paulson - Used a lot of children's instruments as well as a harp, piano, and theremin. He did some kind of playful stuff and brought some kids on stage to play his assortment of instruments (you know I wanted to jam up there but I let the kids have it). It's cool what he's doing: showing kids how easily you can democratize music. They had him marked in the program as sound collage and that was a bit misleading though. And he was a lil creepy. Fazi - Chinese rock group. Had some weird outsider qualities that I couldn't put my finger on as far as the group goes and the vocalist had a lot of energy even though he looked like he had just smoked weed for the first time. They also had the tamest feedback solo I've ever seen. Not even saying that like it's bad, it was just interesting how restrained it was. Johnny Gandelsman Plays Bach's Complete Sonatas and Partitas** - A two hour solo violin performance done entirely from memory with a passionate and folksy bent that didn't even feel like thirty minutes. One of the most amazing things I've ever seen in my life. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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~~Dewey Oxburger~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jun 2018 Location: Turkey Foot junction Posts: 30	Miranda Cosgrove