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Beautiful Noise Freakout...

Labels: awesome, concert, goodness, Live, Movies, music for every orifice, Noise, Porn, sonic youth, video

played a show with these guys yesterday. twas a lot of fun. from perth, australia. they're in the midst of a two week tour throughout japan.

Labels: australia, goodness, injured ninja, Noise, perth

This is without a doubt the best aural therapy I have stumbled upon.
www.myspace.com/thelemonschair
I went to see their show yesterday on a whim. They are incredibly friendly people, and all the people playing on the bill were great too.

Drummer is ex-Melt Banana, which is noteworthy I suppose. He has a solo-project called Watchman, which I saw on New Years. That show was also fantastic, though more along the lines of psychedelic, dance, electronic stuff in the vein of Boredoms.


If you want to get down with some downers... or anything for that matter, please consider putting this on.
Love,
Erik

Labels: Lemon's Chair, Melt banana, Noise, post rock, post-rock, Shoegaze

Study For A Doomed Megalopolis - Urban Planning


Study For A Doomed Megalopolis is Urban Planning's new album, featuring two tracks, The Golden Mist and It Was Sunny In The Urban Metropolis. Urban Planning continues to be joined by guest musician, Seaport/Airpot.

Labels: architecture, art, aural, brown, in our fridge right now please come over and eat some, Loud, Mp3, Music, Noise, past life regression readings, planning, Rock Action, urban, yum

Health and Foals played at the Glass House in Pomona tonight, and let me tell you. Yes, I will tell you. It was great. Health's sound was so good this time (comparatively, for instance, when they played Sunset Junction and the sound guy was a jerk). Although the turn out was disappointing, the show was awesome. As always, if you have the opportunity to see them, do. Plus they got me into the show for free, as I interviewed them earlier for KSPC (expect the full, non-radio edit soon). In summary, Health is super cool and super nice. You will love each other.




For not being a Foals fan, I have to say their performance was pretty good. I especially love thier love of the disco beat. Fairly post-punk/post-rock but pretty dancey. They did not do an encore (according to Rachel, its not a British thing), but we all know encores aren't hip anymore anyways.



Expect full Health interview soon, courtesy of KSPC (kspc.org).

Labels: 88.7 FM, art, concert, foals, health, KSPC, Music is GREAT, Noise, past life regression readings

Aural Load (Feat. R. Kelly) - Urban Planning

Recorded in Dominique's closet, Live in America is Urban Planning's newest release. With the temporary absence of the Public Utility and Sewer System Administrator, this recording features not only R. Kelly, but guest musician Seaport/Airport.

Labels: architecture, art, aural, brown, load, Mp3, Music, music for every orifice, Music is GREAT, Noise, planning, post, R. Kelly, sim city, urban

Well. Fourth time seeing these lads from Scotland and the comedown feels real good, real fuzzy. Are Mogwai loud? Yes. They are. That is cliche at this point though. Of course they are loud. That's why they are Mogwai. But what they really excel at is stretching the decibel level while maintaining absolute perfection throughout the entire EQ spectrum. There is none of that white noise resonation from overdriving the amps too much. My ears aren't filled with that strange and cacophonous sound that comes when bands are being too loud without the nuance. You know, it's possible that I've seen louder shows than Mogwai. Any show at the Smell is a great example. They turn everything up. It's loud as fuck, and yet it's still lacking. Things reverberate within my eardrums and I can't make out any of the actual instrumentation. Rather, I feel like I've buried my head between someone's shitty tweeter and their other second hand woofer. Yes, it's loud as fuck. Yes, I might vomit the decible level is so high. But unfortunately, I still don't really feel blown away. This is where Mogwai succeeds. Imagine a volume that exceeds that awful "shit/cacophony sound" and transcends to yet another level, where the intricacy of the guitar work is simply embellished by a staggering, perfect wall of sound. I'd attribute this to the fact that Mogwai are rich. Really fucking loaded, exemplified by the double Marshall stacks and taller-than-I-am bass cabs. It also doesn't hurt that their roadies take on a cultish, my-role-in-this-show-is-of-the-utmost-importance demeanor. Dude found it necessary to jump on stage to fix a slightly stray microphone cable. God forbid it's not perfectly knotted to the stand's pivot. I guess that's where it pays to be on a semi-major label (matador? rockaction (their own) in the uk? pias?).
Oh yeah, and Fuck Buttons were good too.

Labels: Fuck Buttons, Loud, Matador, Mogwai, Noise, Perfection, PIAS, Rock Action