Clutch – 2014 – Earth Rocker
By Eric Bonus | June 20, 2018 6:00 pm
Artist: Clutch
Title: Earth Rocker
Label: Weathermaker
Released: Jun 24, 2014
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD? DVD Included
Release Type: Deluxe Edition
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#Earth Rocker
#Crucial Velocity
#Mr. Freedom
#Night Hag
#D.C. Sound Attack!
#Unto The Breach
#Gone Cold
#The Face
#Book, Saddle, & Go
#Cyborg Bette
#Oh, Isabella
#Scavengers
#The Wolf Man Kindly Requests…
#Earth Rocker
#Crucial Velocity
#Mr. Freedom
#D.C. Sound Attack!
#Unto The Breach
#Gone Cold
#The Face
#Book, Saddle, & Go
#Cyborg Bette
#Oh, Isabella
#The Wolf Man Kindly Requests…
#Earth Rocker
#Crucial Velocity
#Mr. Freedom
#D.C. Sound Attack!
#Unto The Breach
#Gone Cold
#The Face
#Book, Saddle, & Go
#Cyborg Bette
#Oh, Isabella
#The Wolf Man Kindly Requests…
#Crucial Velocity
#Gone Cold
#Easter Egg
Review: CD2:
Mixed at The Magpie Cage, Baltimore, MD.
Mastered at Taloowa Mastering, Yonkers, New York.
Tracks 2-1, 2-3, 2-7, 2-9 – Recorded Live in Houston, TX – House Of Blues – 5/25/13
Tracks 2-2, 2-8 – Recorded Live in San Antonio, TX – Meltdown Festival – 5/26/13
Tracks 2-4, 2-6 – Recorded Live in Lincoln, ND – Bourbon Theater – 5/23/13
Tracks 2-5, 2-10 – Recorded Live in Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue – 5/19/13
Track 2-11 – Recorded Live in Fargo, ND – The Venue – 5/22/13
DVD:
This show was recorded on Nov. 14, 2013 at The Ogden Theatre in Denver, CO.
Edited at MyGoodEye Music Visuals, Brooklyn, NY. Mixed and Mastered for PLX Mastering.
Crucial Velocity video shot live on tour. Gone Cold video shot while on tour.
Easter Egg by Curtoonz Animation Studio, Chula Vista, CA.
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Soundtrack – 2016 – Trolls
By Eric Bonus | June 20, 2018 6:00 pm
Artist: Soundtrack
Title: Trolls
Label: RCA
Released: Sep 23, 2016
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Standard
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#Hair Up
#Can’t Stop The Feeling!
#Move Your Feet / D.A.N.C.E. / It’s A Sunshine Day
#Get Back Up Again
#The Sound Of Silence
#Hello
#I’m Coming Out / Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems
#They Don’t Know
#True Colors (Film Version)
#Can’t Stop The Feeling! (Film Version)
#September
#What U Workin’ With?
#True Colors
Review:
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Lucky Boys Confusion – 2017 – Stormchasers
By Eric Bonus | June 19, 2018 6:00 pm
Artist: Lucky Boys Confusion
Title: Stormchasers
Label: Townstyle
Released: Apr 14, 2017
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Standard
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#I Slept With The Devil
#It’s After Midnight
#Stormchaser
#Sun In My Eyes
#Name In Lights
#Burn A Little Brighter
#Insomniac
#Your Friends Are Whispering
#Good Luck
#White Collar
#Knives (Watch What You Say)
#A Candle In The Window (Please Come Home)
Review:
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06/02/2018 Samantha Fish, White Woods (Rochester, NY @ Flour City Station)
By Eric Bonus | June 3, 2018 11:02 am
Samantha Fish is one of Dad’s favorite blues artists, so when she announced a show in Rochester, and especially in as small of a place as Flour City Station, it didn’t take much convincing to get Dad to come up. We got “reserved” tickets, which meant they set up tables in the main part of the floor, and it was a free for all once inside the tables. I thought we got there reasonably early – I was wrong. We got practically the last two seats, and they were right up front. Pretty good view-wise. The crowd was skewed much older, I was one of the youngest people there by far. The openers, White Woods, were meh, nothing to write home about. Samantha Fish, on the other hand, was fantastic, as was her band. For barely knowing any of the songs, I had a really good time; Dad gave it a good review also, save for the fact that it was a bit loud (told you to bring earplugs!!). She can shred on the guitar, and belt out the tunes as well. Really good stuff. Dad even got an autograph on the CD he bought after the show, skipping almost the entire line in the process (inadvertently, but still!). Always fun to hit up a show with Dad!
Guesstimated setlist:
American Dream
Chills & Fever
You Can’t Go
Blood in the Water
Little Baby
You’ll Never Change
He Did It
Don’t Say You Love Me
Need You More
Belle of the West
Cowtown
Hello Stranger
Somebody’s Always Trying
Nearer to You
Gone for Good
Daughters
Bitch On The Run
Encore:
Go Home
Crow Jane
Cowtown
Gone For Good
Bitch On The Run
Go Home
Crow Jane
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05/22/2018 Butcher Babies, Nonpoint (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
By Eric | May 25, 2018 8:54 am
I’ll usually always make the effort to go see Nonpoint if they come to town – I’ve been a fan since Statement, and they always put on a good show. This one was no exception. This was a dual headlining run with Butcher Babies, with both bands switching off closing the show. Rochester had Nonpoint on first and BB closing this time. Probably not the right call given how popular Nonpoint is here, but such is life.
Due to them being first, I got there a little late and missed the first handful of Nonpoint’s songs, but I got to see most of my favorites, plus two new songs off of the forthcoming X album, both of which rocked and hopefully are indicative of how the rest of the album will be. I met up with Dave and Danielle about halfway through the set, and we had the same observation: the older songs seemed a bit slower. Victim, Endure, and What A Day were not nearly as fast as the album, and I wanted to move more! Beyond that, the set was still fun, and the place was very full with lots of people singing along and moving. Great response for the band!
Nonpoint setlist:
Bullet with a Name
The Wreckoning
Breaking Skin
Victim
The Truth
Dodge Your Destiny – new song
F**K’D
Endure
Hands Off
Wheel Against Will – new song
My Last Dying Breath
Alive and Kicking
What a Day
Breaking Skin
My comment about Nonpoint going on first being the wrong call is informed by the fact that half the place cleared out after the set. Once Butcher Babies started, I myself lasted about three songs and thought getting home and relaxing was a better use of my time as well. I had seen BB open for GWAR a couple years ago, and I thought they were okay then, and they were just okay now. I didn’t think the songs were all that interesting, neither girls voice did anything for me, and the crowd that was left was kinda into it, but there was a lot of just standing around also. Eh, can’t win them all. Nonpoint was fun!
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Mike Doughty – 2018 – Strictly For Special Internet Friends
By Eric | May 15, 2018 6:00 pm
Artist: Mike Doughty
Title: Strictly For Special Internet Friends
Label: Snack Bar
Released: May 11, 2018
Packaging: Cardboard Sleeve
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Standard
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#All The Famous People
#Beat Up Born Where I Come From
#Fiery Floor
#Suffering
#Stars Burn My Hands
#Safe Word
#Sad Man Eating Candy In His Bed
#Give The Dog A Name
#You Are Your Own Parade
#Tigers Mirrors Mazes Dreams
#Brandon’s On His Phone And His Laptop At The Same Time
#Send A Letter To The Moon
#When You Were Gone
#Burning Like A White Wire Part One
#Olivia (Part Three)
#You’ve Been Lying To Everyone
#Aerosol Park
#Kansas City, KS
#Kansas City Roll
#Here Comes The Bliss Girl
#I Can’t Believe I Found You In That Town
#This Was My City
#I Knew You’d Be Cruel
#Sad Girl Walking In The Rain
Review:
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05/09/2018 Stone Temple Pilots, Camp Howard (Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom)
By Eric | May 11, 2018 10:44 am
It had been seven years just about to the day (+2 days, but who’s counting?) since I’d last seen STP, and armed with a new album and yet another new singer (RIP Weiland and Chester) the band did some club dates interspersed with their big festival appearances.
I got there in time to catch the opener, Camp Howard. Oh Joy. I personally wasn’t all that impressed, but then again, jangly indie-rock isn’t my thing either. However, upon retreating to the merch tables and seeing that the band’s only other item for sale besides a t-shirt is a tote bag, I really think you’re on the wrong side of the rock and roll ledger. A freaking TOTE BAG. Get off my lawn with that nonsense!
Anyway, I caught up with Dave and his friend Kristina, and we hung in the back for STP’s set. New singer Jeff Gutt (who I didn’t realize had sung for Dry Cell, they of Body Crumbles on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack fame) did his own thing, and while yeah, he kinda sounds like Weiland, he kinda doesn’t, and that’s great. He’s not a copy at all. The DeLeo brothers along with drummer Eric Kretz sounded fantastic all night, and I was really happy with the setlist selection. They worked in five new songs among the 20 total, and they fit right in (Roll Me Under is my favorite). Beyond that, nothing off of either Shangri-La-De-Da or the 2010 self-titled (nor the High Rise EP for that matter), but we did get some deeper cuts off the older albums. Silvergun Superman (which I saw in 2011) and Lounge Fly off of Purple; and then Glide, Sex & Violence, and Atlanta off of No. 4 (never saw any of those!). I hadn’t seen Piece of Pie since the two shows in 2000 either, so that was cool for the first song of the encore. Like I said in the 2011 review, it was cool that it wasn’t just radio hits all the way through (no Sour Girl, Creep, Down, Days of the Week, etc.) as I can hear those anytime. A fun show to be sure!
Wicked Garden
Vasoline
Middle of Nowhere
Meadow
Big Bang Baby
Silvergun Superman
Lounge Fly
Glide
Big Empty
Atlanta
Plush
Finest Hour
Interstate Love Song
Sex & Violence
Six Eight
Roll Me Under
Dead & Bloated
Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart
Encore:
Piece of Pie
Sex Type Thing
Silvergun Superman
Glide
Roll Me Under
Piece of Pie
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Monster Truck – 2016 – Sittin’ Heavy
By Eric | May 9, 2018 6:00 pm
Artist: Monster Truck
Title: Sittin’ Heavy
Label: Dine Alone
Released: Feb 19, 2016
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Standard
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#Why Are You Not Rocking?
#Don’t Tell Me How To Live
#She’s A Witch
#For The People (feat. Ian Thornley)
#Black Forest
#Another Man’s Shoes
#Things Get Better
#The Enforcer
#To The Flame
#New Soul
#Enjoy The Time
Review:
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Fear Factory – 2001 – Digimortal
By Eric | May 9, 2018 6:00 pm
Artist: Fear Factory
Title: Digimortal
Label: Roadrunner
Released: Aug 24, 2001
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Limited Edition
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#What Will Become?
#Damaged
#Digimortal
#No One
#Linchpin
#Invisible Wounds (Dark Bodies)
#Acres Of Skin
#Back The F*** Up
#Byte Block
#Hurt Conveyor
#(Memory Imprints) Never End
#Dead Man Walking
#Strain Vs. Resistance
#Repentance
#Full Metal Contact
Review:
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Light The Torch – 2018 – Revival
By Eric | May 9, 2018 6:00 pm
Artist: Light The Torch
Title: Revival
Label: Nuclear Blast
Released: Mar 30, 2018
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD?
Release Type: Standard
Autographed?
Tracklist:
#Die Alone
#The God I Deserve
#Calm Before The Storm
#Raise The Dead
#The Safety Of Disbelief
#Virus
#The Great Divide
#The Bitter End
#Lost In The Fire
#The Sound Of Violence
#Pull My Heart Out
#Judas Convention
Review:
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