I'm probably going...

3/27/2012 1:26:12 PM

hmmm...i might have to do that too. unless they're announced for hopscotch before then. i'm dying to see them.

3/27/2012 1:33:45 PM

They played last year. I'd kinda doubt it.

3/27/2012 1:44:14 PM

Quote :

"the men are playing the haunted mill in belmont NC in july"

nice! that's 15 minutes from my house.

3/27/2012 1:49:06 PM

me toooo, fuck yeah

3/27/2012 2:04:17 PM

Porcelain Raft at the 506 in June. Blam.

3/27/2012 2:45:16 PM

2 things - I have to eat my words about that Alabama Shakes gig selling out, and it looks like I won't be going after all...

OH well.

3/29/2012 10:28:12 AM

Literally no one will care about this, but last night in Paris, I saw a French band called Zebda. I first heard a song of theirs 10 years ago when I first started taking French in school. Really really awesome to see them live after all this time. It was also a lot of fun singing along with a crowd in a foreign language. Although they did play Police and Thieves by the Clash and obviously sang in English, so that was pretty awesome for me as probably the only native English speaker out of the ~1,800 people there.

Although imagine the stereotype of French people not wearing deodorant...but at a hot/sweaty concert

4/4/2012 4:50:21 AM

"Police and Thieves" is a Junior Murvin song, not a Clash song.

4/4/2012 6:51:13 AM

Yeah, that's what I meant. I just listen to the Clash version more.

4/4/2012 8:32:45 AM

From Wikipedia:

Quote :

""Police and Thieves" is a well-known reggae song, first recorded in the Jamaican reggae style by the falsetto singer Junior Murvin in 1976 (Island WIP 6316), and one year later in a punk-reggae version by The Clash. Murvin's first commentary was "They have destroyed Jah work!""

That last sentence is absolutely incredible hahaha

4/4/2012 10:41:25 AM

Toubab Krewe @ The Pour House this Saturday!

4/4/2012 4:16:04 PM

We Were Promised Jetpacks is playing in the main showroom at Motorco on Saturday. They're not something I can't stand to miss, but I missed them the last time they were in the Triangle and I'm going to be gone this weekend for Easter. I think they're worth seeing if you're around.

EDIT: With Bad Veins and New Cassettes.

[Edited on April 4, 2012 at 4:27 PM. Reason : c]

4/4/2012 4:27:04 PM

CYMBALS EAT GUITAAAARRRRRSSSSSSS

4/4/2012 4:46:14 PM

every day I battle with the 16 year old inside my head about going to that show on Saturday

this has all the makings of a drunken ticket purchase at 3:30 in the morning

4/4/2012 5:06:20 PM

Last Friday's Perfume Genius show was a snoozefest, but I thought Cassis Orange and Parenthetical Girls were good, full of energy and totally had their mellow harshed by Sufjan Jr.

Just got back from Of Montreal and that was a good, fun, crazy show.

4/5/2012 1:14:46 AM

tonight at slim's

vinyl & the bandits #2
blossoms
lazy janes
paint fumes

dunno anything about blossoms, but paint fumes are a lot of fun and i love lazy janes so much

4/5/2012 7:02:31 PM

I might be at slims but i'm heading to CH to see the big metal show

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

4/5/2012 7:16:39 PM

Triangle Beach Music Festival is Apr. 28. Anybody got their tickets yet?

4/5/2012 8:02:33 PM

One day I stood in Schoolkids and watched tommy wiseau sell 50 tickets to that shit in 20 minutes. Blew my mind.

4/5/2012 8:10:44 PM

Quote :

"every day I battle with the 16 year old inside my head about going to that show on Saturday this has all the makings of a drunken ticket purchase at 3:30 in the morning "

So wait, everyone is too cool for Cursive now?

I didn't get that memo I guess, I'm looking forward to it.

4/5/2012 8:36:23 PM

not an issue of being too cool, believe me

it's an issue of them releasing horrible album after horrible album, and hearing they rarely play pre-Ugly Organ songs during their sets

4/5/2012 8:40:02 PM

^^^We sold over 800 tickets to that last year. They gave us 1,000 tix to sell for it this year. It's completely insane, I don't get it.

[Edited on April 5, 2012 at 8:43 PM. Reason : s]

4/5/2012 8:42:13 PM

All of the redneck/sorority girls go because they're stupid, and all of the redneck/fratty guys to see the all of the redneck/sorority girls get sloppy drunk in their bikinis and sundresses.

Nobody really gives a shit about the music.

4/5/2012 9:40:49 PM

if you're into EDM, party of the year:

http://insomniac.com/newsDetails.php?news=206

4/6/2012 12:47:37 AM

People discussing the Beach Music Festival as an excuse to get drunk under the pretenses of 'I don't get it' in this thread.

4/6/2012 12:49:22 AM

The funny (shitty?) thing is you know who's coming in to buy TBMF tix the second they walk through the door. They have a uniform and they never, ever shop for music (case in point regarding whoever said it wasn't about the music). The worst is when they bitch about the $2 service charge. It can be a pretty big headache.

4/6/2012 7:24:11 AM

The shag "music" culture is just awful.

4/6/2012 11:22:51 AM

"ey bossman, y'all got dem bay-ch music festival tickets here?"

[Edited on April 6, 2012 at 1:24 PM. Reason : ]

4/6/2012 1:24:14 PM

that guy really loves America

4/6/2012 1:39:12 PM

Is that Jason Young?


lol salmon colored pants

[Edited on April 6, 2012 at 2:02 PM. Reason : s]

4/6/2012 2:02:02 PM

glad to see Mr. Scrumples changed his opinion on the Alabama Shakes.

though I have been somewhat disappointed in the album.

4/6/2012 2:55:57 PM

Haven't listened to the album yet, but the songs I've heard are decent...

4/6/2012 3:31:01 PM

Ah yes, cymbals eat guitars. the band named by:

4/6/2012 4:36:09 PM

Yo dilly, those Facebook schoolkids posts are getting annoying

4/6/2012 7:39:57 PM

^i didn't post them, except for that last one

[Edited on April 6, 2012 at 7:49 PM. Reason : s]

4/6/2012 7:47:53 PM

They're probably the sort of things that'd work better as tweets, but whatever.

4/6/2012 8:00:59 PM

yeah, he has the facebook account linked to the twitter account now to where every facebook post gets automatically tweeted. maybe that's why they seem like tweets.

4/6/2012 8:06:15 PM

Quote :

"every day I battle with the 16 year old inside my head about going to that show on Saturday this has all the makings of a drunken ticket purchase at 3:30 in the morning"

SELF

FULFILLING

PROPHECY

4/7/2012 1:44:12 AM

^hahahaha, that's funny

solid show from real estate last night, dug it. singalong for "it's real" was pretty epic.

[Edited on April 7, 2012 at 11:47 AM. Reason : /]

4/7/2012 11:45:35 AM

last night was my first ever time sitting in the balcony there

I am officially old

4/7/2012 12:52:52 PM

I'm going to see Protest the Hero with Periphery next wednesday the 18th at Lincoln.

I haven't listen to much Protest but Periphery is pretty good, especially the guitarist, Misha

4/10/2012 11:16:26 AM

Eoto and Kraddy tonight @ Lincoln

4/10/2012 4:20:12 PM

magnetic fields sounded really great tonight, great show

4/13/2012 12:08:52 AM

Kinda hated the Magnetic Fields show.

Would have been better at a seated theater or something. Maybe I'm getting old, but I just can't put up with heat and 6'5" people standing in front of me and people shoving past me and yelling "SCUSE ME BRO" for two hours of stripped-down versions of songs that were already pretty sedate in the first place.

[Edited on April 13, 2012 at 1:07 AM. Reason : .]

4/13/2012 1:04:20 AM

^I'm not even old and that pisses me off, especially with more "thoughtful" bands where it's like STOP FUCKING MOVING AND TALKING AND LET ME LISTEN TO THIS BAND YOU ASSHOLES.

But that's Cat's Cradle.

4/13/2012 3:39:42 AM

I saw Magnetic Fields once, and that was enough.

Between Stephin's well-documented hatred of live performance, their refusal to do anything meaningful in the live percussion realm (whether that's because they won't get someone other than Claudia or they're just being persnickety, I don't know), and the normal problems associated with a quiet band doing a club show, it's just not a good experience.

4/13/2012 3:56:36 AM

^I thought it was a great experience last night; I really enjoyed it and a large part of what I liked about it WAS the lack of any percussion. It was strange at first because it felt like they just went right into the songs, but it put more emphasis on the string arrangements and harmonies, which happened to sound just great last night, what with the songs being rearranged a bit to play up those elements.

And with Stephin, you definitely never got the sense that he was happy to be there, exactly, but he didn't do or say anything really dickish either, and at this point, it's just part of his personality, and part of the whole package with the Fields. You just have to accept that, despite the fact that he seems to be pretty insufferable as a person, the music is still great.

Not to mention that it isn't all about Stephin live, or at least it wasn't last night. Shirley Simms is an underrated member of the band, her eight-string ukulele playing was spot-on, especially juxtaposed against John Woo's playing on the acoustic guitar. Shirley and Claudia sang as many, if not more, songs as Stephin. Merritt's stage banter was downright pathetic between songs, though, I will say that.

EDIT: Also I thought the crowd was surprisingly quiet and respectful last night. I usually don't like quiet bands in club settings either, but it happened to work well last night.

[Edited on April 13, 2012 at 7:43 AM. Reason : n]

4/13/2012 7:28:24 AM

Glad you guys are talking about this. Had free tickets to Wednesday's show, and that was easily the most boring show I've ever been to in my life. I think I dozed off standing up.

4/13/2012 10:12:00 AM

I'm pretty tired of people saying "it's the Cat's Cradle," like there's some different mentality there or something. When King's regularly and consistently books national touring acts on par with Cat's Cradle, you'll see it's "not just the Cat's Cradle." People are dickheads everywhere...

4/13/2012 10:14:46 AM