W00t. Tickets have been purchased for the Massive Attack show at the Anthem on March 20, and our friend Pete is coming with us!
Jen and I are going to the Gilah Press open house this evening to look at pretty pretty letterpress, drink some drinks, and meet people. Then we will go out and have a drink together at a bar like two adults! I DON’T REMEMBER WHAT THIS FEELS LIKE.
Elsewhere in the world, shit is burning down, people are being shot, and politicians are still lying. Maybe I’ll have more than one drink and call us an Uber to get home.
File this under HELL YES I MUST GET TICKETS: Massive Attack announced a 20 year anniversary tour of Mezzanine, with Liz Fraser (of the Cocteau Twins, a band I ordinarily can’t stand) who sang vocals on Teardrop, Black Milk, and Group Four. US dates haven’t been announced yet, but when they do I have to see this.
This is so awesome. The music, the video–damn. (via)
Pitchfork just posted their list of the 200 Best Albums of the 1980’s. There are so many excellent albums to choose from in that decade; I guess their top 10 is a pretty good (if not uninspired) group.
On heavy repeat this week: Just Give In/Never Going Home, by Hazel English. Of all places I heard the song Never Going Home at a restaurant and had Siri’s Shazam feature tell me what it was. It’s super chill, laid back music about longing and homesickness, heavy on picked electric guitar.
This is a full recording of Tycho’s 2018 Burning Man set at sunrise. Excellent stuff.
You can’t listen to “Dance the Night Away” without feeling good. This should be the hold music for suicide prevention hotlines.
On Vulture, Chuck Klosterman ranks all 131 recorded Van Halen songs. Overall I agree with many of these choices but there are a few I would argue with. “Dirty Movies” at 61, above anything on A Different Kind of Truth? “Right Now” at 58, above “Poundcake” at 35? Come on.
This song is actually a year old, but who cares: Royal Blood, With The Lights Out. I’ve talked about this band before, and I just can’t get enough of them. It’s just two guys playing drums and a bass that’s modified to sound like a distorted guitar, but they sound huge. Everything they’ve done is melodic and beat-heavy, which is right up my alley.
Japandroids, Near to the Wild Heart of Life.
They’re telling me I’m getting out of here tomorrow. I want to roll the windows down and play this song at maximum volume on the way home.
Material Issue, Valerie Loves Me.