Chaos Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 I figured this would be a great thread for us to talk about different shows we are going to see. My concert schedule this year is looking pretty light. I just bought my first pair of tickets for the year and will see Ray LaMontagne in July. Feel free to share thoughts, experiences, photos, etc. of your random show going experiences. I hope to add a few before the end of the year myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Three shows I know I'm going to in Philly in the next few months: Ghost Mice, Perfect Pussy and Swans. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzkrieg Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I live in a musical wasteland luckily surrounded by 3 decent sized cities so spring and summer usually involves a lot of bus trips and hostel stays. I'm kicking the season off with Fifth Harmony and Cut Copy next week which seems to be a bit of a mismatch but they just happened to be in Buffalo on back to back nights. Plus it just seems hard to see a lot of pop acts without going to a stadium or some outdoor radio station promoted event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Wonder if I can revive this thread at all... Living in Austin, there's always something I *could* go see, but age and budget are definitely limits to this. I'm also not nearly as vested in the local music scene as I once was, also due in part to age and budget. Right now, shows I would like to see in the next couple of weeks include Red Fang, Big Business, and American Sharks tonight, Floor and Parquet Courts (separate parts of same venue, with separate tickets) next Thursday, and Protomartyr next Friday. Unfortunately, I can only afford to go to one, so it'll be Protomartyr as I haven't seen them before and heard a lot of good things about them at/after SXSW. Last month I saw The Men (who are my favorite current band) and Cloud Nothings. The Men were great as always, very drony and noisy and did a 40 minute set that felt like 20 and left me wanting more. Cloud Nothings are now very popular with the college set, so I stood back and let them have their fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Only show I have plans to go see this summer so far is Queensryche (being supported by Great White, of all bands.) I was shocked how much I dug their new album last year, with Todd La Torre replacing Tate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 just got back from a show. Gilby Clarke (of G'N'R fame), Bullet Boys, Faster Pussycat, and Quiet Riot. oh man, what a good time. Clarke's set, although short, was a lot of fun. he played "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" but stayed away from Guns, which i think worked in his favor. he had good crowd support for being the opener. Bullet Boys were there. the crowd was hyped for "Smooth Up In Ya" but wasn't really invested in anything else. Faster Pussycat was awesome. high energy, good playing, great crowd interaction. it was definitely my highlight. Quiet Riot was fun too. had a long stretch where i didn't recognize many songs, but kept the energy up and their closing bit was fantastic. i was feeling really good about this, but thanks to Fowler's post i now want to see Great White. thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Great White was fine. Queensryche was fucking awesome though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Friday I saw Soundgarden & Nine Inch Nails in concert. This was the closer (pardon my singing): 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 So, just got home from Monster Truck/Buckcherry/Alice in Chains. Buckcherry did a nice job on the two songs by them I actually know, and were nice and solid. I know nothing about Monster Truck, but they were perfectly fine. AiC were... Holy fucking shit great. So fucking great I decided to remember William DuVall's name and not just refer to him as "the new guy that replaced Layne." I've been to quite a few rock concerts, and I have never seen a single song get a better, or more electric performance than they gave Man in the Box tonight. Literally, the best live performance of a single song I've ever seen/heard. Rooster was almost as good. But... THOSE MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLES DIDN'T PLAY HEAVEN BESIDE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One More Astronaut Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Whatever you think of their music, Jared Leto and the boys of 30 Seconds to Mars know how to put on a hell of a show. It's been a great year in concerts for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 A couple nights ago I saw Perfect Pussy and Joanna Gruesome in the basement of a church. It was awesome, and Meredith Graves is a giant, both with her stature and presence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Is it just me, or is there something deeply incongruous about a group called Perfect Pussy playing at a church? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Got my ticket for Bob Mould on 9/20. He's one of those people who comes through Austin so frequently that my continued inability to attend one of his shows felt like a cruel cosmic prank. So assuming nothing appalling happens in the next 19 days, I am pretty excited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Got my ticket for Bob Mould on 9/20. He's one of those people who comes through Austin so frequently that my continued inability to attend one of his shows felt like a cruel cosmic prank. So assuming nothing appalling happens in the next 19 days, I am pretty excited. I keep forgetting about that show. September in Austin also has Merchandise/Lower and Earthless, off the top of my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Now if only Cheap Trick would break their streak of coming to town every time I go on vacation, I'd have my concert bucket list about as close to finished as it's ever going to get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp, broken circa 1988 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 current show line up SEPT: SWANS/Carla Bozulich, Liars/The Motherfucking Destruction Unit OCT: The Body/Sandworm NOV: Run The Jewels/Ratking/Despot cuz fuck my ears, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Ape Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Is it just me, or is there something deeply incongruous about a group called Perfect Pussy playing at a church? I'm gonna guess JR's talking about First Unitarian in downtown Philadelphia. That place is actually an incredible music venue, with the added bonus of out-of-towners' confused reactions to hearing about bands with vulgar names performing there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp, broken circa 1988 Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Swans are very loud. Like... you have no way of understanding until you're there. Those parts on their new records where there's a long time between individual chord hits? When they do that in front of you, it feels like a force pushing you backwards. It exists. Carla Bozulich was great too but I'm like sort of obsessed with her? So maybe that judgment isn't exactly on point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 got Alice Cooper/Motley Crue tonite. saw Cooper probably 10 years ago and it was great, i expect more of the same tonight. haven't seen the Crue, but i don't see how it won't be fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Swans are very loud. Like... you have no way of understanding until you're there. Those parts on their new records where there's a long time between individual chord hits? When they do that in front of you, it feels like a force pushing you backwards. It exists. Carla Bozulich was great too but I'm like sort of obsessed with her? So maybe that judgment isn't exactly on point. Swans drowned out any stage within earshot during their 2013 visit to Bonnaroo. And those stages are a mile away from each other, if not more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted November 10, 2014 Author Share Posted November 10, 2014 Swans are very loud. Like... you have no way of understanding until you're there. Those parts on their new records where there's a long time between individual chord hits? When they do that in front of you, it feels like a force pushing you backwards. It exists. Carla Bozulich was great too but I'm like sort of obsessed with her? So maybe that judgment isn't exactly on point. Swans drowned out any stage within earshot during their 2013 visit to Bonnaroo. And those stages are a mile away from each other, if not more. I really don't remember being able to hear them. The one that drowned out everything for me was R. Kelly's Late Night set. You couldn't escape it regardless of where you were. Our camp that year was over by "The Other Tent" entrance to Centerroo, and I could have just sat at my camp and listened to that all night. Thankfully, after I took my fiance back to the tent, I was able to experience the magic that was Superjam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp, broken circa 1988 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Non-festival! Shoo, shoo! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 So about 9 years ago, I fell in love for a while with a synth-pop duo called Iris that one of my internet friends was really into. They were fixtures of the Austin scene in the early aughts, but had long since broken up by the time I moved here (and I had kind of outgrown them anyway, I thought). Early this year they reunited for a new album, and I finally got to see them tonight. It was a weird cross between being the interloper in a crowd of people the band knew on sight because they'd been at every show for years, years ago combined with the crazy elation of getting to see performers who had meant a LOT to me during my grad school and unemployed-internet-hermit years even though I hadn't really followed them in ages. I'm pretty sure I had a Joker grin through the entire set, and the keyboard-free version of "Appetite" with just a very basic guitar line and the entire club singing along is going to go down as one of my all-time defining live music moments. It's funny how the shit you think you've left behind comes back to grab you sometimes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 I need the Steve Carell NO, NO, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO meme if this Drake headlining Roo 2015 news is to be believed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Wrong thread (BELIEVE DAT, though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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