bands you've seen this year
 

how've you been rocking 2008? what is the best band you've seen live so far?

I think this year has had good gigs (considering I live in Chile and in the past years venues have been mostly MTV bands like Maroon 5 and My Chemical Romance)

this year: Interpol, The Datsuns, Laurie Anderson, Bright Eyes and Animal Collective. I also saw Combichrist by mistake.

The best was Laurie Anderson and Interpol.

Sonic Youth (best)
-Leslie Keffer and Val Martino
The Breeders
-Magic Wands
Nels Cline Singers
Silver Jews
-Monotonix (insane)
Deerhoof
-Experimental Dental School
Vivian Girls
Tyvek
The Mars Volta
Girl Talk (most fun)
-Grand Buffet
-Hearts of Darkness
Nine Inch Nails
-Health
Awesome Color (worst)

Will be seeing Dropkick Murphys, No Age, and Misfits before the year is out at least.

I'd cut my left index finger for those.

Sonic Youth was a blast, The Breeders were fun because Kim was drunk as hell during the show, Deerhoof was awesome, There's nothing like the Mars Volta live and Nine Inch Nails was on Halloween so it was double cool.

Polysics, Boris, Torche, Six Organs of Admittance, Two Dead Sluts:One Good Fuck, Can't, Demons, Ponytail, Mission of Burma, Devo, Megasus (Brian Gibson's Sludgecore band, surprisingly awesome), Moss, Polvo, Black Pus, damn I've seen a lot, it's hard to remember all of them. Let's see. No Fun (the bands I remember watching were Astro, Thurston and Nancy Garcia, White Out, Burning Star Core, Sickness, Handicapper Horns, Jason Crumer, Sewer Election, that was the first night. Second night I remember watching and having a blast with Emeralds, Afternoon Penis, Cornucopia, Tovah Olson and the Jasons, the Hair Police. The main stage on the second night was fucking ridiculous, I didn't leave once even for a cigarette break; Nevari Brothers, Nautical Almanac, Keith Fullerton Whitman, The SKATERS, Carlos Giffoni, Demons, Religious Knives, and Cluster who even though are an expansive and minimalist Kraut rock synth band didn't sound out of place, and I'm sure for many were the highlight of the night just for being there. The third night's second stage introduced me to a couple bands who have gone on to be some of my favorite in Noise; namely Halflings and the Cathode Terror Secretion. I also checked out Alan Licht and he was awesome. Main stage was Werewolf Jeusalem, Sudden Infant, Lee Ranaldo, Illusion of Safety, Consumer Electronics, and the HATERS who were my pick for best of the weekend, fittingly because they headlines the whole damn thing). Hair Police, Heathen Shame (the Heathen SHame/Hair Police show was prolly my favorite this year, both bands were top notch, especially Heathen SHame who's duel guitar feedback destruction combined with the skronktastic and actually quite "in the tradition" (meaning Ayler, Coltrane, etc,) was particularly great. I also saw the Weasel Walter Quarter doing absokutley ferocious Free Jazz, and I dont just love this because it's Weasel, but people must realize above all he is a Jazz and Free Improv Musician, and a mighty amazing one at that who has aquired talents on many instruments. The Silver Daggers, Abe Vigoda, The Hospitals, Kanye West (haha), Rihanna, Ghostface Killah. Visited a friend in Portland and saw the amazin Eat Skull. Naked on the Vague, Clockcleaner, Pink Reason (the most moving and beautiful and most purely emotional performance i saw this year, pink reason will be around for a while). Saw R.E.M. with my dad for Father's Day. The Oh Sees. Gang Wizard (they are the Black FLag for our "wierd" generation). Robedoor. Pocahaunted.

Well, I saw a lot of bands. I feel kinda stupid and braggish about writing every band I saw, so i stopped but here goes some of them anyways, *post

No Age
Abe Vigoda
Chairlift
White Rainbow
Valet
Atlas Sound
Ariel Pink
Music Tapes
Circulatory System
Dark Meat
Bjorkestra

Ariel Pink was amazing, but the show was cut short, otherwise a clear winner... No Age was incredibly fun. Music Tapes was just awesome.

So far:

Dragons Of Zynth
K-Branding
Hot Chip
Atlas Sound
Animal Collective
Nervous Cabaret
HEALTH
Caribou
Birdy Nam Nam
No Age
Toys'R'Noise
Neptune

I'm going to see TV on the Radio in December I think, not sure though

how was Health?

This is too much dude

But the best so far : Boris/Torche, CPC Gangbangs/the Nymphets/Hospital Rats, Jay Reatard/CPC Gangbangs, AIDS Wolf/Japanther/Sightings/Black Feelings, Shellac/A Place To Bury Strangers, Mudhoney/Quest For Fire/Manymental Mistakes, Silver Jews, AIDS Wolf/Indian Jewelry/Panopticon Eyelids, Nymphets/American Devices

Seriously though, what do you have against paragraphs? Aren't you studying to be a journalist? Don't hacks have more paragraphs than normal people? Is it an art statement?

I've seen lots of things this year. I'll wait until the 'gigs of the year' thread though, there's still the best part of 2 months left.

Daniel Johnston
Jad Fair
Scout Niblett
Mark Linkous (sparklehorse)
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band
Be Your Own Pet (x2)
Numerous local bands that you don't care about

Great. They tend to overplay a bit but hey, it's show, and it works pretty well. There's a lot of energy on stage and it's great. They played two or three new songs which are really promising, groovier than what they're doing on the first album, but still noisy. I hope they'll release something new next year

a few local bands from salt lake city and places here in fl
the walkmen
thao and the get down stay down (twice)
xiu mothafuckin xiu
harlem shakes!
vampire weekend
against me
a few different warped tour bands.. i have no frigging idea..
experimental dental school
deerhoof!

The Scientists
Sonic Youth
The Jesus & Mary Chain

Einstuerzende Neubauten
Holy Fuck
BJ Nielson
Chris Watson
Chris & Cosey
My Bloody Valentine
Unkle
Manorexia
Biosphere
Antenna Farm
Goodiepal
Olafur Arnalds
Finn
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Stargazers Assistant
Skullflower

Boredoms w/ Black Pus and Soft Circle
Mudhoney w/ The Cynics and The Points

ATP NY
Bardo Pond, Meat Puppets, Tortoise, Thurston Moore, Built to Spill, Harmonia, Polvo, Les Savy Fav, Shellac, Lightning Bolt, EPMD, Mercury Rev, Yo La Tengo, Dinosau Jr. , My Bloody Valentine

AIDS Wolf and Times New Viking

even though im not their biggestfan it is always amazing to see a band from the local scene that has had the amount of "success" that monotonix have had. and yeah their shows are great.
off the top of my head i have scene
peter brotzmann
the dreamers/electric masada
animal collective
flowers of hell/ gemma hayes/ my bloody valentine
the hungry march band (one of the coolest live acts that i have ever seen)
james levine directing mahlers 6th
hopefully i will see my first opera in a few weeks
dinosaur jr.
aids wolf
i think ive seen more shows
but im not sure

I saw Janacek's Jenufa on Thursday. It was very good. I also saw Messiaen's St Francis... at the proms, which was mindblowingly amazing. You going with the libretto?

The year isn't over yet, but out of the 100+ bands I've seen so far, the best show was Keiji Haino playing w/ The Melvins (followed by the Haino solo gig on the previous night) at the Rotterdam Film Festival in January... and to think I don't even like the Melvins! (Their own set at that same festival was also good though.)

edit: actually, it was also the combination of seeing them first separate and then together on 3 consecutive nights what made it so great.


furthermore:
Nihilist Spasm Band
The Drone People
Acid Mothers Guru Guru
Electric Wizard
Aluk Todolo
Wu-Tang Clan
LSD March
Ashtray Navigations
Sun Ra Arkestra
Oren Ambarchi
Wolves in the Throne Room
Comets on Fire

maybe. im taking this course on opera at uni. its taught by this woman who is supposed to be the best professor in the faculty. im probably going to go to R strauss' salome in few weeks and to tosca in the spring

Butthole Surfers
Mudhoney
MBV x2
Breeders
Ashtray Navigation's a handful of times
Sunburned Hand of the Man
Mike Flower
Dead Meadow
Melvins
Sebadoh Bubble & Scrape


Acid Mothers Temple (tomorrow)

acid mothers temple & the cosmic inferno
dead meadow
the brian jonestown massacre
sarabeth tucek

fuck.
this year sucked...
Ive only seen coco rosie, who were great, but its just one damn gig...
thaks for reminding that 2008 was a bitch

I've seen a bunch of bands the past year but I haven't listed them and my memory fails me, but the most notable to you are Boris and Dälek.

I understand you guys don't like the way I write on here, but I could give a fuck. It's a message board where I can talk about music, when I have multiple assignments due every week when I have to adhere to every silly fucking AP-style guideline do you really think I want to come on here and worry about paragraph breaks, punctuations, grammar, spelling, etc...? The way I talk on here is similar to how I would talk in a normal conversation, I just type as I think.

I've always wondered how AshNav are live. I bet they are fantastic, correct?

Have fun at the AMT show, their last record was damn heavy and they are always better when they play heavy, I suggest you at the very least get stoned out of your gourd and it might even be more preferable to take half a a blotter or maybe a gram of shrooms, something to get your mind flowing. But don't do too much, the volume, heat, etc.. Club shows are very poor environments for psychedelic experimentation no matter what band is playing.

this year it has been a good year:

Sister Nancy
Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus
Pato Banton
Eek a Mouse
the Wailing Souls
Anthony B
Sly and Robbie
Gregory Isaacs
Bob Weir and Rat Dog
Don Carlos
Kiddus I and China Smith
Radiohead
Groundation
Deftones
Itals
Steel Pulse
Israel Vibrations

well I have no problem with the way you write, but in that particular message, linebreaks would have been appreciated, cause it's just too long, I couldn't read it. otherwise i never have problems reading your posts

Yeah, ultimately, it's a big 'whatever' in both directions - but when you talk you pause for breath (I hope). Paragraphs are nice little pauses that aid comprehension. I'm not saying you shouldn't write things, or you shouldn't splurt your mind out, or you must obey the God-given laws of grammar or anything like that. It's just impossible to read any content you might have if your paragraph has four million clauses and the syntax is iffy (syntax is a lost cause on the internet, I know).

Besides which, taking a fraction of a second to hit 'enter' is a nice way to break up the evening.

No Age, Mika Miko, Radiohead, Beck, Liars, M. Ward, Wilco (2), Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Six Organs of Admittance, Dead C, and Neil Young.

I saw Melt-Banana, My Bloody Valentine and Shellac.

Slow year for gigs.

Yeh I always enjoy seeing ashnav, they usually play for about 20 mins but it's usually something completely different everytime.

I am looking forward to AMT. I'm kind of on a little drugs binge this weekend already. I took cough syrup yesterday which went completely insane and then took half a tab of acid today. There is a possibility of getting some mescaline tomorrow but I think it will be too much for the show. I'll probably just get baked like you suggested.

Sonic Youth (july 4th show... Feelies too, but didn't care for them)

Drive-by Truckers (last week)

I can't say which show was better. I may have enjoyed Truckers more just cause I was closer to the stage and Patterson Hood (guitarist) and Shonna Tucker (bassist) are so pleasant and funny.

i've seen a ton of bands...at least 165 so far...most of them can be seen via this link:

http://narlus.zenfolio.com/f413372462

i didn't get photo passes for John Zorn, Paul Weller, and Sam Rivers. pretty much everything else i saw i did also get to shoot.

top shows, in no order

brothers unconnected
mogwai
melvins
urge overkill
loren connors
boredoms
har mar superstar
big dipper
mudhoney
devo
zaika
tortoise
radiohead
shellac
mercury rev
spectrum
brian jonestown massacre
my bloody valentine
helios creed
wire
lau nau
les savy fav
the cure


yeah, it's been a good year. still some great shows left on the calendar, too.

haha, point taken.

This year's been the one of Israel. What's going on there?
Last year I saw Izabo and liked them, this year it's been TV Buddhas and their impact was strong, they are great great great.
They've toured with Monotonix. Haven't seen these yet; only watched the pictures taken from their shows.
Musically, from the excerpts on their Myspace, I'd like them less than TVB, but I'd definitely go see them on a good day (good for me).

I saw the Gore Gore Girls and liked them.
I saw the BellRays' new line up, which is groovier than when Tony Fate was on guitar.
Other bands, mostly French.
And Power Solo (good ones).

Schandmaul
32Crash

And I have yet to see Lydia Lunch on November 29