Why did it take until a stupid VH1 countdown for m
By Eric | June 3, 2012 9:31 am
Why did it take until a stupid VH1 countdown for me to realize the Chili Peppers’ double-entendre with the title of “Cali-Fornication”? #duh
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RT @DownGoesBrown: Going to go find a piano player
By Eric | May 4, 2012 2:33 pm
RT @DownGoesBrown: Going to go find a piano player and punch him in the face. #rip
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RT @DefJamRecords: Man…that one hurts. Our praye
By Eric | May 4, 2012 2:32 pm
RT @DefJamRecords: Man…that one hurts. Our prayers go out to Adam Yauch and his family. #MCA #BEASTIEBOYS Rest Well.
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03/03/2012 Matthew Good, Emily Greene (Rochester, NY @ The Club At Water Street)
By Eric | March 4, 2012 8:50 am
Two years removed from the last time I’d seen Matt Good, he was back to the solo acoustic shows for this tour. Emily Greene had her half-hour, and she was enjoyable for her performance. Seemed like a fairly young crowd for Matt Good. As I tweeted:
99% of us is failure. In other words, 99% of this crowd is too cool for the room. Holy crap do I feel old and out of place. Damn.
— Eric Bonus (@woopop) March 4, 2012
So yeah. Interesting set list from MG, with nothing from Vancouver at all, and except for the closer “How It Goes”, nothing from the latest Lights of Endangered Species. Heavy on the older stuff (hey, no complaints!), and for me, a first time ever hearing anything off of Ghetto Astronauts, as he played the hidden track “Omissions of the Omen”. Wow. A very enjoyable show, very intimate since it was on the club side, and despite the relative lack of crowd involvement, it was still a good time.
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Advertising On Police Cars
Born Losers
Fated
While We Were Hunting Rabbits
The Fine Art of Falling Apart
Avalanche
Strange Days
In a World Called Catastrophe
Suburbia
Omissions of the Omen
Load Me Up
Apparitions
Metal Airplanes
Encore:
Alert Status Red
Black Helicopter
How It Goes
Born Losers
While We Were Hunting Rabbits
Avalanche
Strange Days
Omissions of the Omen
Apparitions
Metal Airplanes
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Matt Good @ Water Street! http://t.co/zEgVQLrF
By Eric | March 3, 2012 10:02 pm
Matt Good @ Water Street! http://t.co/zEgVQLrF
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99% of us is failure. In other words, 99% of this
By Eric | March 3, 2012 8:36 pm
99% of us is failure. In other words, 99% of this crowd is too cool for the room. Holy crap do I feel old and out of place. Damn.
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02/24/2012 Mike Doughty, Angelo Rose (Rochester, NY @ The German House)
By Eric | March 1, 2012 4:08 pm
I met Matt down in the South Wedge, grabbed some John’s Tex-Mex, then wandered over to the Tap&Mallet for some pre-gaming! We were informed by our bar neighbors that even though it was a GA show, there were seats on the floor. Huh? Sadly, yes, we arrived to find rows of folding chairs on the floor. Blah. Matt and I got some pretty decent seats, and settled in for the opener, Angelo Rose. Apparently he’s a lawyer that got the music bug and does solo acoustic stuff. It was okay, nothing special, the songs were sort of long-winded to me. After his half-hour, it was Doughty time. Just Mike, his guitar, and his book, The Book of Drugs. Interspersed with the songs, Mike would read passages from his book, mostly about his Soul Coughing bandmates. At one point, Mike called out these two girls in the front row for talking while he was, and pretty much publicly embarrassed them. “They paid to see me!” A good mix on the setlist across all of his solo albums, and the book selections were mostly humorous as well. I think Matt and I were the least hipster-ish people in the place by far, so the people-watching was fairly decent also!
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Mike Doughty setlist:
American Car
I Hear the Bells
Na Na Nothing
Madeline and Nine
Day By Day By
Sunken-Eyed Girl
Grey Ghost
Looks
Thank You, Lord, For Sending Me the F Train
Rising Sign
Shunned + Falsified
Real Love
Tremendous Brunettes
Like a Luminous Girl
I Just Want the Girl in the Blue Dress to Keep on Dancing
Busting Up a Starbucks
Russell
Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well
Encore:
White Lexus
27 Jennifers
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02/16/2012 Shadows Fall, Hate Machine, Order of the Dead, Armed With Valor, Fleshburn (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
By Eric | February 24, 2012 4:11 pm
A rare Thursday night show, this had the Shads doing a short run to warm up for some overseas festivals, sort of a DIY tour. Since they’re based in Boston, they used a van+trailer, and an SUV and drove themselves to Rochester, Syracuse, Albany and back to Mass. Anyway, we got to see ’em! I didn’t catch too much of the first two bands on, but the direct support was a treat. For whatever reason, I never got to see Hate Machine (or even Omniblank, for that matter) during their nu-metal heyday around the late 90’s and early 2000’s, even though they were a Rochester band. What’s 12 years? I can see why they had some popularity, I felt like I was at practically any nu-metal show from that era, and these guys sounded GOOD. Big local following for them, and that made for a great show. Makes me nostalgic for that stuff haha. So after Hate Machine, the Shads were up, and one may as well have called it a greatest hits set, which was just fine with everyone there. We even got to hear one new song, the title track from the new album “Fire From The Sky”, and that went back-to-back with my favorite, King of Nothing. The guys sounded great, had a ton of fun up on stage, looked like they were happy to be out playing again, and the crowd was into it all night as well. Good times.
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Shadows Fall Setlist:
My Demise
Thoughts Without Words
Enlightened by the Cold
Burning the Lives
Stepping Outside the Circle
Still I Rise
The Power of I and I
Fire From the Sky (New Song)
King of Nothing
What Drives the Weak
Inspiration on Demand
Destroyer of Senses
The Light That Blinds
Redemption
Still I Rise
Fire From The Sky
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RT @brianshadfall: Rochester you fucking killed it
By Eric | February 17, 2012 1:19 am
RT @brianshadfall: Rochester you fucking killed it. Our first show since July! What a blast. See you tomorrow in Syracuse. #Party
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Shadows Fall at Montage! http://t.co/PzysvXCt
By Eric | February 17, 2012 1:13 am
Shadows Fall at Montage! http://t.co/PzysvXCt
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