I saw Band of Horses last night for the first time. One of my favorite all time indie bands that inspired a few thousand song playlist that I still listen to to this day. They were way better live than I was led to believe. Very playful and informal. The venue was amazing. It's a brand new place in Buschwick Brooklyn called Brooklyn Made. They cater to artists by providing them with rooftop suites, a pool and their own private outdoor bar. They also have lots of cool stuff for fans including a pool table, multiple outdoor areas and rooftop bars, fireplaces, and great view of the City and all the cool street art in Buschwick. They claim to hold 496 people, but no way. You can only really go about 20-25 people deep, but the room is stretched wider than the stage. I would say 300-400 tops. The crowd was great (for a change). Super enthusiastic and age range was like 20-65, which was really strange but kind of cool as I wasn't close to the oldest at all. Great setlist with all of their hits and they covered Kids Don't Care by the Guttersnipes and Neon Moon by Brooks & Dunn. Overall really fun night. (videos are still processing so may be low res for now) Artist's Suite and their bar and pool is on the other side of that structure.
That looks absolutely fantastic. Also those first three albums were so good, I was a huge fan, still am, although I do not enjoy much of the newer material. Hard to tell on a video but sounds like they nailed acoustics in there.
Sound was amazing. New songs I've heard so far are also good. They played this and In Need of Repair.
So I went to see Manchester Orchestra last night at The Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC and it was literally the polar opposite experience to seeing BoH the night before. Venue was too big and crowded (2200 people) and felt like a covid cesspool despite the vaccination requirement. Manchester Orchestra was completely robotic and 100% predictable. They literally played the same set as they used for their last 10 or so shows and there was just no spontaneity at all. They sounded good, but it just felt very canned and the venue just totally sucked.
It was really hard to get into them. The sound was super muddled where we were and we didn't have much of a view. The floor and stage are poorly designed. The stage is too low and the floor does not slope upwards so seeing anything is really difficult. They seemed more energetic and the crowd was pretty into them, but overall I was in such a bad headspace with the venue that it was hard to appreciate anything.
Understandable. I have tickets for the show in Phoenix but I don’t really have any affinity for Manchester Orchestra, I just went off of enjoying the new Foxing album and recs here that they’re fun. A venue can fuck that all up though.
Yea I have no interest in seeing a band and not hearing any of my favorites because they played them the night before 200 miles away.
The setlists I like the best usually have 75% of the favorites slotted in and then a couple of the new singles and then some variance. Manchester Orchestra did that, but it is literally the same every night and I kind of ruined it for myself by looking it up and knowing that. I was literally telling my wife in friends what each of the next songs would be.
This is the second time I've seen them and I really enjoyed them the first time, but it may have come down to how I was feeling that night and having no expectations. Post covid, crowd size and proximity are definitely on my mind, so any show that is packed in is going to have a negative feeling. They should have only sold 75% of the capacity IMO.
I kinda just want them to form a sketch/improv team. The album will be good though, definitely a decent consolation prize
Cornelius Suttree love you mang, glad you’re back. You like the new album? Had a crazy weekend and didn’t get a listen until casually Sunday but about 10 times Monday Tuesday and I dig it.
so what are we thinking are the best albums of 2021? Have been working on getting in position to get back here for the World Series and end of year lists and want to consume a bunch of new music these last 60+ days Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee La Luz - La Luz Bloodslide - EP Ducks Ltd. - Modern Fiction Goat Girl - On All Fours Black Marble - Fast Idol Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg FACS - Present Tense Blanck Mass - In Ferneaux Cloud Nothings - The Shadow I Remember Bachelor - Doomin' Sun Squid - Bright Green Field Chad VanGaalen - World's Most Stressed Out Gardener The War On Drugs and Snail Mail await and can probably get penciled atop most lists also really looking forward to Penelope Isles who have an album out November 5. And I believe IDLES have an album out soon, caught up on Peaky Blinders recently and was so pumped to hear them in there things on my radar that I need to dig into because they either had singles or albums come out: Men I Trust Andy Shauf Lost Horizons My Morning Jacket Clinic Bat Fangs Hand Habits Julia Shapiro TOPS Lightning Bug yes/and Small Black Darkside Still Corners Faye Webster Weakened Friends Current Joys Shannon Lay Nopes Black Country, New Road SPELLING was bummed with Colleen Green's new album. I Want to Grow Up was a favorite of mine but this one doesn't have that same power pop shred-heavy feel to it that single from Let's Eat Grandma a few weeks back was a welcome sight. Would love an album from them in 2022
I like it a lot. It's not Light Up Gold, Sunbathing Animal or Human Performance. But it's on the same level as Content Nausea for me, if not Wide Awake. I really really love Just Shadows, been a great shower song the past few days. You can definitely tell it was cut from jam sessions
the new mmj record blows. darkside is kinda underwhelming besides the singles. still corners is fine if you like still corners
I feel like Black Marble's entire discography would be perfect soundtrack music for movies about two sexy young people who love each other but in the end don't get together
If anyone is interested in seeing Carseat, they offered a pre sale code if you follow them on spotify. Starts tomorrow and goes 12 hours. Presale starts at 10:00 AM local Offer code: MADLO Ends October 28, 2021 at 10:00 PM
was supposed to see Protomartyr in freaking Detroit in a couple weeks (Nov 13) but now I can't go so if anyone wants my ticket, please let me know and it is yours would be such an epic show Detroit
Just starting to work on albums of the year prep, but at a glance here's some of the indie highlights for me: Cicala - S/T Hospital Bracelet - South Loop Summer Goat Girl - On All Fours Claud - Super Monster Katy Kirby - Cool Dry Place Julien Baker - Little Oblivions Adult Mom - Driver Biitchseat - I'll Become Kind The Pink Stones - Introducing...The Pink Stones Noods - Blush Girl in Red - If I Could Make It Go Quiet Origami Angel - Gami Gang Rosie Tucker - Sucker Supreme Olivia Rodrigo - Sour PACKS - Take The Cake J Brekkie - Jubilee Lucy Dacus - Home Video Pom Pom Squad - Death of a Cheerleader Viji - Suck It Clairo - Sling WILLOW - lately i feel EVERYTHING Samia - Scout Kississippi - Mood Ring Madi Diaz - History of a Feeling Indigo de Souza - Any Shape You Take Lightning Bug - A Color of the Sky Liz Cooper - Hot Sass Mini Trees - Always in Motion Macie Stewart - Mouth Full of Glass Ducks Ltd. - Modern Fiction Lala Lala - I Want The Door to Open Grouper - Shade Hand Habits - Fun House Ada Lea - one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden And welcome back, man
I listened to it once the other day and could not believe how bad it sounded. I was hopeful that maybe I just wasn't in the mood. Disappointing.
I’m already treating the snail mail album as AOTY without listening to 75% of the record, and I have zero qualms about that. I’m not taking questions at this time, thank you for coming to my TED talk
Thanks, didn’t know of this. Heavily confused how I was able to just now casually buy two tickets to this four and a half hours after the sale started while Mitski, for the same venue and ticket platform, sold out within 10 seconds.
That’s what I was saying up top, Mitski has an absolutely huge live following that started years ago. She probably became more “popular” as a result and it really boasted her last release. I’d certainly defer to a hardcore fan over what I read but that’s the way I understood it through reading about how great she is live.
the girls who used to live above me loved Mitski sooo much. Her music resonates with me (and I'm sure it's the same for many people) because it deals so much with anxiety, discontent and hopeless romanticism. And it's fun as hell to sing along with her in the car, shower or at her shows she has more monthly listeners on Spotify than Rage Against the Machine, which is cool
New Parquet Courts, War on Drugs, and Snail Mail albums on successive Friday's is really hitting my personal sweet spot.
surprised I've never heard of them, I gave the first track of their previous album about 30 seconds to taste and it looks like I'll be digging back for sure
Saw fan of section featured Nov3l and that sold me. Once I saw who they were touring with I needed no more.
I expect Real Estate and Beach House will be my top two bands on that Spotify wrap up thing. And as much as I love them that's probably more because they're so easy to listen to in an office environment In an ideal world where I don't have to work I think Preoccupations would probably be #1