In this day and age when everyone hates being on time and everyone is great at being late we forget about the opening acts at shows. We’ve all muttered the line “Who cares?”(or something like it) when referring to arriving on time for a show but, we forget that the very same band we’re there to see, started the same way. I’ve been guilty of the same on most occasions. Here are a 2 examples of bands I WOULD of missed, if I didnt arrive on time…. The first being from the City and Colour show i attended last night at Terminal 5.. which was a good fucking show.
New from our friends Take One Car. This is “Dear Ronnie” off the new album coming out, “Its Going to Be a Nice Day”. We’ll let the song and vid talk itself up.
Instead of whining, try and be productive. If you hate everything about the ASP so much and think changes should be made, lets hear it. Now that you’re off tour, you should spend your time coming up with intelligent solutions and not starring in corny azz vids like the one posted below. That is unless, this is all just a publicity stunt? Couldn’t be?
You should think a little more long term. One day when FTW doesn’t work out, you’re going to have to do a lot of ass kissing to get back in the good graces of companies that could afford to pay you what Von Dutch pays you. Orrrr get payed in stickers and tees by a small guy like us.
Yoooooooooo, our good friend, talented artist and ginger extraordinaire Mr. Joe Hodnicki has designed a medal for Winter X and its been nominated as a finalist! Please click on this link => WinterX x Hods <= to vote him in. Its super easy and its the best design.
When I first heard about Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon putting together a side project called The Horrible Crowes I immediately thought, “Oh, probably just gonna be an acoustic or Gaslight Anthem b-side compilation.” I couldn’t have been more wrong and be happy about what I have heard, considering the album is in contention for being one of my albums of the year. The group consists of Brian Fallon and guitar tech Ian Perkins of Gaslight Anthem and the sound resembles a night time Tom Waits feel with a touch of The National. The album seems to cross the topic of heartbreak and pain for the most part in where Fallon sings about broken hearts, cheating lovers, late nights at the bar and rough times with a raspier soulful voice that sounds like a mesh of Springsteen and Tom Waits. The album has only been out for a few days but has received much critical acclaim from various magazines and websites and can only show that bands like The Horrible Crowes today can still reach people from age 16-60.
The album’s early track “Sugar” can only hint that the album is Fallon singing about heartbreak from a long lost lover who did him or someone wrong and lyrically sets the tone for the entire album. The next track “Behold The Hurricane” is the single from the album and is probably the closest resemblance to The Gaslight Anthem with his Springsteen like chorus and slowed out punk “Woah Oh’s”. However one of my favorite songs is the track “Ladykiller” in which the lyrics tell the tale of a cheating woman who is on the verge of getting caught by her partner and Fallon shows it with “And you must’ve met a man. Tall and Handsome at that, who must’ve put a spell on you baby, must’ve kept coming back.” The final track “I Believe Jesus Brought Us Together” is a perfect slow ballad that shows Fallon’s more soul side where he sings about a man and a woman with troubled pasts finding each other and falling in love with their similar heartbreaks. Nothing says it better than the chorus “Did you say your lovers were liars? All my lovers were liars too. Did you say you were afraid of dying? I ain’t lived a single day without you.” If I haven’t emphasized it enough, this album is perfect for every night time drive you have ever been on, especially on those cold winter nights and each song has something you can relate to. Do yourself a favor and spend the few bucks to pick this album up off of iTunes or the Side One Dummy webstore and check out the song below for a preview.
I was listening to “Truckers Atlas” by Modest Mouse the other day and couldn’t help but recognize the beginning drum riff. Today it hit… “W.M.A” by Pearl Jam. Lil slower and an extra “tss” but they sound pretty similar, listen to the intro of each..
both great songs by the way…
If you really want to feel better about yourself than you should check out the show Hoarders on television one of these nights. The show is basically about people who “hoard” certain items, animals, people, things etc. around their house because they have some strange attachment theory to them. One time this person was hoarding cats in their house and literally the house was infested with about 100 cats running around taking over the entire place. Still don’t think that is weird? Well how about the lady who refuses to throw anything away she’s used and is literally living in a pile of her own filth? Either way you have to feel pretty good about yourself to not have this obsession of hoarding things that you don’t use anymore, so the show makes you seem quite normal. Don’t be so sure because it seems we are in fact all hoarders these days and with a recent study that just came out about iTunes, the average iTunes owner only listens to about 19% of their library. Unfortunately we are no better than the cat person on TV.
If that is true than why don’t we just get rid of the extra music in our library? I agree it’s not that easy and it’s because music has that sentimental attachment to our lives that maybe that empty carton of four month old milk has for the lady who hoards everything she’s used. Music is a symbol of who we are and what we are feeling at different points in our lives and that is what makes it such a wonderful creation. I’ll admit, I find it quite hard to delete a song or album from my library that maybe I only listened to one or two times but god dammit I just may listen to that KoRn album I bought when I was a Freshman in high school again (doubtful). Either way it’s not too hard to understand why we can’t get rid of the music we hoard on our iTunes, it marked an important part of our lives at one point and maybe just maybe we will double click on it again. Unfortunately Korn, I don’t think I’ll be clicking on “Freak On A Leash” anytime in this next century.
