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THE LIGHTS AND THE MOONDOGGIESAt the Dubliner in Freemont. The Lights are really good. 3 piece stripped down rock. Probably seen them three times and would go again. Didn’t know the Dubliner had shows though? Kinda Fratty. The Lights will take care of them. The Moondoggies: actually pretty good as well. More of an alt country style, kind of like Neil Youngish with more going on. Worth seeing but what a stupid name for a band. Pretty much an instant turn off. Strange that it matters but it does. Maybe it is code for something really cool. Maybe they purposely chose a really stupid name? Just don’t get it. I understand the reason for candy coating a piece of shit but shit coating a piece of candy with a crappy name just doesn’t make sense. Oh well.

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Rare these days with the rising cost of food, fuel and Canadian lift tickets. A good one too. Whalebones were good. I think they opened for Band of Horses awhile back… Don’t remember much but they were ok. The FERAL CHILDREN. Saw them @ the High Dive for free and they were super good. If anything it will be entertaining. A guy that looks like TOM GREEN singing and playing drums while standing up. Great show for the price. Check it Cap Hillers. Or, if you want to spend some money go see Cat Power or The Eels.

Not for everyone. Thats for sure. Go rent the dvd THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON, they even have it at block buster. A good documentary on a crazy wierdo if nothing else. It did well at some film festivals. check this

It will be interesting for sure. I kind of doubt that he can make it through a hole set but we’ll see. Here is probably more of what to expect.

Also if you like documentaries on weirdos : Look up ROKY ERIKSON title Your Gonna Miss Me Super good. I give this one a 6/6 and maybe an extra 6 for a special DIABLO RATING.

This guy rips. And he played Bumbershoot this year. Listen to the lyrics. Sometimes these rockers really are crazy.

1. THE GRAND ARCHIVES: If you like band of horses and carissa’s wierd you will probably also be into these guys. Matt Brooke is a huge part of both these bands (he is the guy singer in carrisa’s wierd and old guitar player/song writer for band of horses). For instance, if you thought the first band of horses album was way better than the second, might be the absence of this dude? I could definitely hear the absence of him live at the last horses show i saw. In short, kinda like band of horses but slower, and very panzy. Not for slayer fans. Track 4 almost sounds like richard marx, i hate to say. A good cd to read too or listen too when hung over. Kinda wish a friend would have bought it and i recorded it from them instead of paying for it. but worth having. 3/6

2. The BLACK KEYS: attack and release. The first two albums by these guys are amazing. Since then they have gotten progressively worse (still not bad though) and overproduced. Still like the albums but probably just because i liked the older ones so much. This one was worth an interesting try due to mr. DANGER MOUSE producing it? sounds weird? Might be cool with some good hip hop beats in there mixed with some old blues? Nope, just made it boring and clean. bummer. 2/6 still an amazing two piece and great live show. But dont’ buy this album, get an older one.

3. The HELIO SEQUENCE: keep your eyes ahead. Good. Haven’t heard these guys for a really long time (like ten years) and this album is way better than i remember them. Found it used at sonic boom. woo hoo, saved four bucks! I think they are only a two piece as well. Ripping drummer and a very creative disc both lyrically and musically. Definitely still a panzy cd though. but a good one. poppy as hell. i say get it. i would have payed full price for this one. 5/6

4. BECK ODELAY RE-ISSUE spendy one. 30 bones. You have to really want it. Got it used. Wouldn’t do a full price. Double disc. Odelay og and another disc of some remixes and covers and a couple hard to find beck songs. The best part is a version of an odelay hit in Spanish, straight mexi-style with full marriachi band. Don’t buy it. Unless you really like beck. And i do.

5. NADA SURF lucky. Well, their last two albums were really good. Mainly the album LET GO. Super good. This one i could have done with out. Just pretty much boring. Nothing new and not as catchy. Not a bad album but get LET GO instead. 3/6

TAD broken circuits and ringing ears DVD (for the visually stimulated)TAD: The heaviest of all seattle grunge. 300 pound, ear shattering, intelligent grunge. Go buy 8 way santa and inhaler, even infared riding hood. prob find them all in you local used cd bin. guarantee you’ll see one. Stoker if it is 8 way santa. If you find it, let me know. Lost mine years ago. I think it was a tape. Remember those? We used to listen to them in our cars. Never skipped once. Good dvd on the birth of grunge and how meth even can even affect really fat people that rocked really hard. That is for the kids. Even if your fat, meth is not good for you. Kind of a sad story of how they almost made it but had really bad luck, and a drug problem. check it out. 4/6

I caught Transmissionary Six last Saturday at the High Dive. I’ve been wanting to see these guys for a while. They’re local so they play pretty frequently. The band has an interesting sound. A little bit of an alt-country, spacey rock sound. Female singer with a unique voice and a slide guitar!

KEXP put on the show which was a benefit for the Seattle public libraries. Viva Voce and Caner Rising also played but i cut out early due to the previous nights bender.

I didn’t think the band sounded all that great relative to their recorded music, but it looked like they might have been having some technical difficulties on stage–not sure.

The music is really cool–mellow. Here’s a couple songs i found online.

LASERS! Everywhere! Holy crap. I’ve seen Ghostland a few times previous to last Fridays show and can honestly say they are one of the better performances i’ve ever seen. Aaron Baron, the lead singer can dance like no other. Yeah, i’ll admit it, i pretty much went to the show to watch a man dance.

The acoustics in the place were great, the performance was awesome but the laser show kinda over powered everything in my opinion. That, and the PBR over powered me but that’s a different story.

All in all, great show–i’d pay to see them again. Check em out if you haven’t before. They’re good. And if you dig lasers, you’ll be extra pumped.

Here’s a few pics and a video.

A friend of mine had tickets to the Vampire Weekend show @ Neumos 3/26/08 but was ‘too tired’ to go to the sold out show. Lucky me! I promptly swooped up the tickets and headed to the Hill where a late March blizzard was waiting for me. Weird.

After getting ready for the show at Mo bar with the assistance of a few PBR’s, McKenney and i headed into Neumos. Holy crap the place was packed! Neumos is a bit lame when it’s that packed. But then again most places are.

Vampire Weekend went on pretty much on schedule @ 10:45 which was nice (being a school night and all). They were all wearing some form of a button-up, collared shirt like a bunch of goofy frat kids. Really goofy. (more…)