MUSIC ADDICTIONS

Solstice

Similarly, I’m going to blame Stranger Things for making me wander around the house singing “Running Up That Hill” and driving my partner crazy. The Totem remix from the finale fucking slapped.

Stranger Things Season 4 - Running Up That Hill - Totem Remix

eye8urcake

I (suspect I) got Covid at Primus, but between the need to get out to the city for a visit with my still-grieving-but-definitely-better daughter that didn’t center on tragedy or emergency fixes of shit that needed fixing before it broke and really wanting to see Primus not-at-an-Ozzfest, I mean… worth it. Les Claypool had a huge influence on my during my first pass through college, when my majors were music performance and recording.

Clips from the actual show here.

The opening group was some dark, trancy, old school gothy shit called Black Angel and I really wish I’d been able to make it through the gauntlet that was GSR to find their merch, assuming they had any. I LOVED them and I hope I get a chance to see more from them sometime soon. Here’s a link to a page with some of their stuff.

BloodAngel

@eye8urcake PRIMUS! Is the best!

Testament

Had a conversation today with a co-worker who’s far younger than I am. Talked how he had just got into this band called Alice in Chains and I thought it was adorable, while at the same trying to not think of the grey hairs in my beard. So I’m listening to him talk and regret how he wasn’t born yet when Lane Staley passed away and he started to ask, “So what the hell is Rooster about?”

And I had totally forgotten until he asked that that song was written by Jerry Cantrell about his dad, who had been in Vietnam. Jerry never had a great relationship with his dad because of his father’s PTSD from the war, so he tried to write a song from his dad’s perspective about what it was like being in the war. He named it Rooster because that was what his grandfather had called his dad, because ‘he walked with a strut like a rooster’. And when he played it for his dad, asking him if had gotten close, his dad just said “You got too close. You did good.”

After explaining this to my co-worker he was like ‘what the fuck, I never knew that song makes so much more sense’. I agreed, stating the song is far heavier than people realize.

Aria

A+ on the Gogol Bordello. The first time I saw them was in 2006, pictured below via my shitty flip-phone capture. Two years later I started dating @insomniac and even when we were dead broke, they were the band that would scrounge money to go see every single time they came to town.

At this point, we’ve been to so many of their shows I’ve literally lost count.

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ETA: The other band we will always go see if they’re within a two hour drive of us is The Struts. Seriously, if you see Gogol Bordello or The Struts live and say you had a bad time at the show, Imma just go ahead and assume it’s because you’re a soulless automaton who hates joy.

BloodAngel

@hellfrog NEW ALBUM IN SEPT!

Aria

@BloodAngel said in MUSIC ADDICTIONS:

@hellfrog NEW ALBUM IN SEPT!

September 16, to be exact.

They’re also going back on tour in October, but the closest they’re going to be to Philly in the dates they’ve listed so far is Pittsburgh. <grumbles>

BloodAngel

@Aria Same. Can’t see them so sad.

Aria

@BloodAngel I’m honestly pretty surprised. With the band having historically been based out of New York, they usually swing through either right at the start or the end of a tour and if they don’t come here, at least play somewhere in Eastern PA. (Seeing them in Stroudsburg was kind of weird, though, ngl.)

I generally find that they update their Instagram a little bit earlier than their newsletter or their website. If you don’t follow them there and want to catch updates on additional stops they might add, that’s how I get their latest.

BloodAngel

@Aria I’m upstate NY. So sometimes they play Buffalo.

Aria

@BloodAngel said in MUSIC ADDICTIONS:

@Aria I’m upstate NY. So sometimes they play Buffalo.

Ohh, shit. If you’re going to punk shows in Buffalo, did you ever get the chance to see The Kominas?

BloodAngel

@Aria YES! So fucking badass! I’m in Rochester. But I travel for shows almost anywhere.

BloodAngel

@Aria Ever listen to the Bunny and the Bear. Use to see them a lot back in the day.

BloodAngel

@Aria said in MUSIC ADDICTIONS:

The Kominas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taqwacores_(film)

Also, that movie was badass! Speaking of that “scene”.

hellfrog

@BloodAngel said in MUSIC ADDICTIONS:

@hellfrog NEW ALBUM IN SEPT!

wait what
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WHAT

eye8urcake

@hellfrog said in MUSIC ADDICTIONS:

@BloodAngel said in MUSIC ADDICTIONS:

@hellfrog NEW ALBUM IN SEPT!

wait what
what
WHAT

sheila brovslofsky

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@eye8urcake archer virus

(If you get why I use this GIF, I will be at you.)

Aria

@BloodAngel I’ve not listened to Bunny and the Bear, but I have seen The Taqwacores as well as the Kominas back in 2014.

Fun Fact: Sunny Ali’s brother was my mechanic for awhile, something which Sam and I realized when I was in having work done on my car and said I was going to a show that night. When he asked who it was, I dissembled a little bit, mumbling about an obscure band most people hadn’t heard of, before admitting it was them and getting a face-blast of “THAT’S MY LITTLE BROTHER’S BAND.”