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Snow King line up for this summer looks decent.
I’m probably in for one night String Cheese (all I can handle), Old Crow (definitely), and maybe Moe/etc.
Classic mountain town noodling lineup, with the exception of Cypress Hill!
Decent TGR contingent at moe in Steamboat tonight. Tiny venue. Very cool.
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You remembered them?
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Good seeing you last EWG!! Hell of a show
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Nice!!! Stoked for u all!! Looks like a good time, hope the boat skied good! Small venue ftw.Quote:
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moe. at the stings in steamboat. <600 people, oh so goodQuote:
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Skiing was a challenge Sunday, rock ice…. Few beers in the sun on the deck made it much better
Sweet! Moe should be fun at Snow King, for sure!
interesting..... hope they shove a convenience fee up their ass
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Already asked a couple people but can I get a reco on preferred tickets at Sandy Amphitheater? Leaning lawn but I'm unfamiliar w the venue.
Any of yall considering OCMS in SLC should go
We had a great time in the seats last year, at Charlie Crockett. BYO food, cooler, non-alcoholic bevies. Have not been on the lawn. It’s small. Smaller than red butte it felt, I don’t think there’s a bad seat in the house
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No idea what ocms is.
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Idles in SLC.
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Kitchen dwellers at the mish. Silas Herman filling in on mando for Sunday show.
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OCMS is what comes after Hootie & the Blowfish.Quote:
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For the record, after you see a show at the sphere, all other concert experiences will be bullshit.
(Intentional hubris, but goddamn true).
That place is absolutely insane, in every good way. Best sounding (large,amplified) venue in existence.
THE GO! TEAM
https://thegoteam.co.uk/
I caught these guys a few weeks ago at The Independent in San Francisco (basically a sweet black box venue with solid sound).
They were celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album, Thunder, Lightning, Strike.
It only took me 20 years to see them, too.
Great, energetic show.
Frontwoman Ninja is backed by a 6-piece and she keeps the energy high. She crowd surfed (last time I saw a singer crowd surf was Peter Gabriel on his inaugural So Tour) and tossed off witty Brit banter between songs.
Crowd was pretty chill, though I did “luck out” by having the 6’9” tall and 100” wide bloke standing in front of me shooting video snippets all night
(and every time I moved he moved in front of me again!).
Opening act, abracadabra delivered a largely original set of songs (they did 1 NIN cover) that was a cool mixture of Devo, Laurie Anderson, Kraftwork, Gary Numan, and Oingo Boingo.
Sorry, no pix (I’m one of those anal Gen X-ers who grew up seeing shows without the distraction of cellphones). :D
Highly recommend seeing these folks live (East Coast tour in Oct).
Or at the very least check out their albums: https://thegoteam.bandcamp.com/
Independent is a cool venue. Never heard of these guys
When Peter Ganbriel crowd surfed for the first times, it was one of the most epic things ever done in a big concert. Mind blowing back then
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I've finally gotten back into the live gig swing after several years of not attending any.
Got a slew of interesting shows that I am hoping to get to this summer and fall. We shall see how many of them I make it to, but this is who's on my hit list:
Sonida Gallo Negro
https://www.sonidogallonegro.com
Starcrawler
https://www.starcrawlermusic.com
The Chameleons
Beat
https://beat-tour.com
The Black Angels
https://theblackangels.com
Opeth
https://www.opeth.com
La Luz
https://laluzband.com
La Santa Cecelia
https://lasantacecilia.com
Willy Vlautin
https://www.willyvlautin.com
5/28/24 @ Sundance Books and Music, Reno
Mr. Vlautin is one of my favorite authors, so when I learned that he would be performing and reading at the closing celebration of Sundance Books, I rallied to get down there.
Not sure when he went on as the store's website made it sound like there were DJs spinning before him, but I got to the venue at 6:30 and he was already strumming away on the front porch.
I caught him for 30-minutes, during which he played three songs and between them read excerpts from his forthcoming new novel, The Horse.
He delivers sad, introspective songs--he even kept quipping between songs that his style probably wasn't the most upbeat for a celebratory event--with rustic charm.
If you haven't read any of his books, I highly recommend them (start with Motel Life, but The Free is my favorite of his that I've read so far).
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6/2/24 @ The Holland Project, Reno, NV
https://hollandreno.org/explore/
This Los Angeles quartet have graced the stage at the intimate Holland Project regularly over the past several years, yet I've always managed to miss the gigs. Well, I finally made it to one last night and was not disappointed.
They unleash a mash of prog psychedelia tinged with Laurel Canyon twang, Paisley pop, and drone and squonk.
Lottsa sweet guitar noodling buffered by silky tenor vocals and a solid backend of bass and drums.
Highly recommended.
I only snapped two rather shitty pix as this was one of the first shows I've attended in the cellphone/social media era where virtually nobody had their phones out! Everybody was completely in the moment with the band, which was cool as f#$k (and I didn't want to be the douche on his phone wrecking the scene). The few people who did take photos either moved to the back, the side, or crouched down in front so as not to obstruct the views of the rest of us.
As for the venue? It's like seeing a band in your dad's garage. Not sure of the capacity, but there were about 75 folks there last night, so it was small and cozy. Great sound for such a compact room, too.
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Good eye!
Though if I were a character in a Rick and Morty episode that would have made sense, what with time traveling and such…
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Starcrawler https://www.starcrawlermusic.com
Opening act: NIIS
Venue: Harlow's Starlet Room, midtown Sacramento, CA
Date: Thursday, June 6, 2024
I can't quite remember how I stumbled upon Starcrawler, but I got intrigued by their vibe via several of their online videos. Enough so that I decided to plunk down the $24-and-some-change (thanks online fees!) to drive an hour-and-a-half down from the mountains to see them the other night.
I arrived at the venue around 8:45, just in time to catch the last song-and-a-half from the opening act, NIIS. Not being familiar with them, I had checked out their vibe via a few YouTube videos and found them not much to my liking, thus I had purposely timed my entrance to skirt their set. They were certainly energetic and LOUD and had commanded a pretty decent mosh pit up in front. The lead singer spoke in this pixieish voice, but sang like a demon possessed.
I had been to Harlow's once before to see Luna several years. ago, but had never been to this addition, a smaller upstairs venue. The main venue is pretty intimate, this is even more so. To give you an idea, the band had to walk through the audience to get to the stage; I can't recall if I have ever been to a show where that happens.
I found a spot pretty close to the front, though far enough back to avoid any fluid tossing from the lead singer (I had read that Starcrawler's frontwoman liked to spit, throw water and other fluids, and heckle her audiences; I'm too old for that shit, so stood off to the side near the rhythm guitarist :D).
My buddy describes Starcrawler's sound as "Bubblegum Hole," which I guess fits if you have only watched their videos and listened to their studio albums. Live, they come off more like an LA version of Zeke, thought their style is quasi-glam country and their sound is sleazy rock augmented by Laurel Canyon twang.
Vocalist Arrow de Wilde is charismatic AF. The DNA of Mick, Iggy, and Alice is definitely boiling through her blood as her lanky frame writhed and pranced around the small stage. Her demeanor was mildly antagonistic (she referred to all assembled as Ball Sacks, making a pun on the state capital's name, Sacramento). She wandered into the crowd at one point, snatched a cap off some dude's head, put it on, lept back onstage and tossed it glibly back into the crowd. She later instigated a mosh pit herself, and also doused the front row with water.
The rest of the band played straight men to her wild woman act and kept the music on open throttle. Lead guitarist Henri Cash had a nice little arsenal of axes, ranging from a vintage Flying V, to a semi-hollow Gretsch, and a custom-made 3-string guitar. he plays with unbridled energy, jumping up on his monitor to play leads (he smacked his head on the low-hanging ceiling speakers more than once) and even ventured out into the small crowd for a solo at one point. Rhythm guitarist Bill Cash had a couple nice hand-painted Teles, plus a cool pink encrusted pedal steel guitar. The rhythm section of Tim Franco (bass) and Seth Carolina (drums), kept the low-end throbbing nicely for the band's hour and 10-minute super-charged set.
For the second encore Henri Cash brought an approximately 8-year old little girl onstage (it was an all-ages show) and let her flail on his guitar. While not of the caliber of Dave Grohl's schtick of bringing audience members onstage at Foo Figher's gigs, mostly because the little girl looked kind of scared, it was still cool to watch Cash encourage her to wail on his axe.
Their set was short, sweet, but always on full-tilt.
I'd definitely see these cats again.
The calm before the storm (the band really digs the color pink, btw)
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Any body going to see Sturgil Simpson in Missoula in September? I'm trying desperately to make this work.
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The Wood Brothers, tonight. Great show.Love these guys.
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SONIDO GALLO NEGRO https://sonidogallonegro.com/
Cypress, Reno, NV https://www.cypressreno.com/
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Caught this 7-piece outfit—bass, guitar, keys, percussion, flute, drums, and theremin(!)—on a quiet Sunday evening.
Their sound is psychedelic Mexican surfstramental with a side order of space are bachelor padness.
I last was at this venue on March 15, 2020 seeing Shooter Jennings right as Covid began shutting everything down.
It’s a great small space smack dab in the middle of the Midtown District.
The crowd was sparse; roughly 50 people, a 1/3 of which danced enthusiastically up front and bantered playfully with the band in Spanish between songs.
Despite the low turnout, the band ripped through an hour-and-a-half set of blistering instrumental jams.
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Saw Nick Lowe with Los Straitjackets tonight. Very enjoyable show. Straitjackets did a couple short sets on their own and a couple longer ones with Nick. He was affable, lively, and into it. A good time.
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Saw OCMS with sharp and stbmrstgapp last night on the summer solstice. Went in with low expectations - was blown away when they had Molly Tuttle come up to open for them and play a few songs at the end. Phenomenal. One of the best shows we've seen all year.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ca75e8268a.jpg
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Molly Tuttle is the real deal.
Crooked Tree makes me cry
Lagunitas Brewing in Petaluma, CA has some intriguing shows this summer:
https://lagunitas.com/live-at-lagunitas/
I am eyeing Dengue Fever, Robert Randolph, and Ibibio Sound Machine…
Colorado peeps: Got a pair of free tickets for Adrienne Lenker Wed at Mission if anyone wants them.
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Went and saw Thee Sacred Souls with stbmrstgapp last night. Great show. She'll be at 10+ shows during this pregnancy - trying to get it all in before the baby comes
next up is Andrew Bird, then Orville Peck and Sierra Ferrell
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Wait, you pulled the trigger for Sierra?!!! Me & Buzz would've waited for ya!