Melvins All Around!!!
Tuesday, November 27, 2006
For the hip hoppers, check out The Coup and Mr. Lif at the Independent. That is, if you’re willing to shell out $22 to see two great hip hop acts that rarely command so high a cover.
Personally, I’d push towards a jaunt over the Bay Bridge to 21 Grand for something a little more experimental and a little more reasonably priced ($6). Henry Barnes has done the harsh noise thing during his time with Man is the Bastard and Bastard Noise (with noise-god John Wiese, no less). While I love his work with those projects, there’s something for everyone in his guise as Amps for Christ. Using mostly homemade stringed instruments and electronics, Amps for Christ’s output falls all over the place. From straight-ahead folk to experimental electronic weirdness to all places in between, the music’s good enough to warrant repeated playings on my show. And if that’s not enough for you, he also has done 3 or 4 versions of “Scotland the Brave.” That’s enough for me.
Wednesday, November 28, 2006
If you don’t know who the Melvins are by now, you’d better have a really good excuse. They’ve been around for twenty years. That’s long enough to be cited as a major influence by such notables and personal favorites as Nirvana and Boris (who take their name from a Melvins’ song). If weird, sludgy rock is your thing, this is where you should be on Wednesday. And it weird, sludgy rock isn’t your thing, you’ve got bigger problems than figuring out where to be tomorrow night, bud.
That’s all for now. Tomorrow (hopefully), I’ll tell you about Thursday, which brings us the Evangelicals, another Amps for Christ show (this time in the city) and a hip hop throwdown with Dan the Automator and Chali 2na. Don’t even get me started on the weekend… Although you probably won't be getting out too much with all the post-melvin pain you'll be enduring if you miss the Melvins.
For the hip hoppers, check out The Coup and Mr. Lif at the Independent. That is, if you’re willing to shell out $22 to see two great hip hop acts that rarely command so high a cover.
Personally, I’d push towards a jaunt over the Bay Bridge to 21 Grand for something a little more experimental and a little more reasonably priced ($6). Henry Barnes has done the harsh noise thing during his time with Man is the Bastard and Bastard Noise (with noise-god John Wiese, no less). While I love his work with those projects, there’s something for everyone in his guise as Amps for Christ. Using mostly homemade stringed instruments and electronics, Amps for Christ’s output falls all over the place. From straight-ahead folk to experimental electronic weirdness to all places in between, the music’s good enough to warrant repeated playings on my show. And if that’s not enough for you, he also has done 3 or 4 versions of “Scotland the Brave.” That’s enough for me.
Wednesday, November 28, 2006
If you don’t know who the Melvins are by now, you’d better have a really good excuse. They’ve been around for twenty years. That’s long enough to be cited as a major influence by such notables and personal favorites as Nirvana and Boris (who take their name from a Melvins’ song). If weird, sludgy rock is your thing, this is where you should be on Wednesday. And it weird, sludgy rock isn’t your thing, you’ve got bigger problems than figuring out where to be tomorrow night, bud.
That’s all for now. Tomorrow (hopefully), I’ll tell you about Thursday, which brings us the Evangelicals, another Amps for Christ show (this time in the city) and a hip hop throwdown with Dan the Automator and Chali 2na. Don’t even get me started on the weekend… Although you probably won't be getting out too much with all the post-melvin pain you'll be enduring if you miss the Melvins.
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