tinnitus photography

i'm curious to see who Pavement chooses...

i wonder if Malkmus will convince current jicks drummer Janet Weiss to get Sleater-Kinney back for a show.

Those shots are great...

 

I love the little girl who looks like she is doing the Frankenstein dance on her daddy's shoulders.

thanks! it was a pretty great event...free, great bands, great weather. hard to beat. well done to MIT, Newbury Comics, and the bands.

i saw the band play the new record in a free show two days ago...sounded good. i took some shots.

http://www.onafriday.com/archives/2009/10/photos-mission-of-burma-day-mit-set-2.html

i was in the back getting a beer during 'hungry heart,' having ditched my camera gear at the production office, and i missed this whole thing. funny.

btw, some of my shots are up at Backstreets:

http://backstreets.com/news.html

he pulled a young girl onto the stage for 'out in the street'

True, but 2008 brought us Dr. Dog - Fate...... But that's about it.

 

Honorable mention:

 

Fleet of Foxes

Vampire Weekend (meh..)

_Furr_ from Blitzen Trapper is a great record.

Also, _4_ from Dungen. _The Hawk Is Howling_ from Mogwai. James Blackshaw's _Echoes of Litany_.

Melvins' _Nude With Boots_. Baby Charles put out a fantastic soul/R&B record.

the stretch from _Cream Corn_ to _Hairway to Steven_ is unassailable. great stuff.

Hey! I was at this show! That makes two shows in a row we were both at! We gotta meet someday. You don't happen to be going to Dinosaur Jr tonight do you?

Great pics. Check out the Surfers thread I started upstairs. Could use your lovin'. http://forums.viachicago.org/topic/41703-butthole-surfers/

i was at the Dino Jr show on Friday...drove down to NJ to shoot the Springsteen show last night. later today caught the free Mission of Burma show...damn i'm tired and too many photos to sift through!

you gonna be @ any of these shows:

Om/6 organs

Mastodon/Dethklok/High on Fire

Har Mar Superstar

Psych Furs

Echo/Bunnymen

1976 was the worst...

about the only great records i can think of are _Ramones_, _Jailbreak_ and _Agents of Fortune_, and the Modern Lovers' record was recorded and should have been released in '72.

Great pics. King Coffey looks big. Teresa's back too, eh?

i think King's been hitting the gym. he was on fire.

Teresa is back, but looked like life's been hard on her.

thankfully no Kathleen so that can remain a hypothetical question.

they may not be everyone's cup o' joe but are truly one of the more original and important US bands, i'd say.

review of Wednesday's Butthole Surfers show:

http://www.prefixmag.com/photos/butthole-surfers-w-psychic-ills-paradise-in-boston/

i am shocked at the absence of Mogwai. truly my favorite band of the 00s.

I should be set to shoot the Oct 3rd show for Backstreets mag, but i'd prefer seeing _Darkness_ to BITUSA.

I agree with most of your ratings. As for the holy trinity, I agree....and may I add Propeller, Mag Earwig, Isolation Drills, and on and on and on and on.

 

This is a current mix of 'up' material post FaCE - NH.

 

Things Have Changed (Down in Mexico City) - Elephant Jokes

Stiff Me - Elephant Jokes

Symbols and Heads - Elephant Jokes

Miles Under The Skin - Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love

Johnny Optimist - Elephant Jokes

Heavy Crown - Planets Are Blasted

Gratification To Concrete - Off To Business

Go For The Exit - Brown Submarine

Canned Food Demons - Planets Are Blasted

Death of The Party - Blues and Boogie Shoes

Queen Of Stormy Weather - Planets Are Blasted

Jimmy - Elephant Jokes

No Island - The Crawling Distance

The Original Heart - Is Off To Business

The Killers - Standard Gargoyle Decisions

Beauty of the Draft - Blues and Boogie Shoes

Winston's Atomic Bird - Brown Submarine

The Naked Wall - Blues and Boogie Shoes

(All You Need) To Know - Elephant Jokes

Wealth And Hell-Being - Is Off To Business

 

If he released a 55 minute record like the comp above he would be hailed as the second coming.

you forgot "The Blondes" which is a great track.

Here is my review of the Sunday show, w/ photos from both nights:

http://www.prefixmag.com/photos/u2-gillette-stadium-foxboro-ma-picsreview/

i've got more shots here

I've sadly read less than great things about SFA at ATP. They're my absolute favorite band, and I went to NY to see them last Friday, the weekend of ATP, and it was incredible. It was a 600 person club, and the band and fans all seemed really into it. And the Furries played a great setlist of old and new shit. Terrific show.

 

Was it just an enthusiasm issue, or are you not a DD/LY fan?

to be honest the only song off DD/LY i heard before leaving was "mountain." they started w/ some great songs (slow life, juxtaposed, rings) but there was no life, no zap to their game. i'd seen SFA once in '05 and Gruff solo in '07 and both were great, and i really enjoy most of their catalog. for whatever reason they felt flat to me.

once again the organizers of All Tomorrow's Parties put on one hell of an event in a dingy, overlooked corner of the Catskills. 3 days of entertainment overload centered around bands, but including comedians, live improvisation, trivia games, cult film screenings, performances of complete, specific recordings, live interviews with King Buzzo and Jon Spencer, a poker table helmed by Big Black/Shellac leader Steve Albini...the list goes on and on...incredible weekend. nirvana for music geeks, basically.

Here are my thoughts about the whole thing, links to a review and photo gallery from each day.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Nick Cave

Bob Mould with No Age

eye of Boredoms

Boris

Flaming Lips

i suppose i need to familiarize myself w/ the new record...am going to the Boston shows Sunday and Monday (photo passes confirmed, too).

This news is most unfortunate. I hereby resign my commission in the Wilco Army.

i do not like the Dead.

i very much like Wilco.

And whoever wrote that review should know that they would not be playing Ozzy era songs even if there was not some lawsuit going on. They use to, of course, but Dio is not very fond of Ozzy, and I think it sounds wrong when he sings Paranoid or whatever anyhow.

 

Some examples of Dio doing Ozzy era songs can be found on the album Live Evil (1982).

 

I will give the guy props for knowing that Vinny did not play the drums on the Heaven and Hell album (it was Bill Ward).

i wrote the review, too.

no, i certainly knew going in that there would not be any Ozzy material played, and i thought i'd made that point clear w/ the analogy of the recent Stooges reunions only playing material from the records that Asheton played guitar on.

Thanks! someone called them the Hands of Doom, and i think it's accurate. that photo is currently my wallpaper for my pc...think i'll get a decent print of both shots.

more shots of all the bands can be found here:

http://narlus.zenfolio.com/f1072397664

enjoy!!

not sure how much overlap there is between Wilco's fanbase and some of the louder music forms, but if you are interested i caught a couple of very cool shows over the last 10 days or so.

Heaven and Hell (aka Black Sabbath, fronted by Dio) review

Motörhead review

you must own:

The Lioness

Trials and Errors

Mi Sei Apparso Come Un Fantasma

wow, Wilco's playing Vicar St? that's a pretty cozy venue to see them. when i lived in ireland i saw Echo/Bunnymen, Calexico, and The Go-Betweens there. i didn't get tickets to any of the three sold-out Nick Cave solo shows...no tickets to be had out front from scalpers either.

That was the mellowest I've ever seen Chan Marshall. She barely said a word, she just dance and sang the whole time. Last time I saw her she hardly finished a song and told a bunch of crazy stories.

 

Chrissie Hynde still has the same voice she did on the classic records. Very cool.

yeah, she's gotten over her tendency to meltdown at shows, but this karaoke act has gotten a bit stale. agreed that Hynde sounded great, though i think her vibrato was helped out a bit artificially...

Really great photos!!! What type of gear did you use?

thanks! canon bodies and lenses.

very fun show...LOUDquietLOUD sorta evening, w/ Chan Marshall still plying her dusky soul sound and breaking up the volume output.

review and photos here:

http://www.gigwise.com/reviews/live/52125/Wednesday-120809-Cat-Power-Juliette-Lewis-The-Pretenders-@-Bank-of-America-Pavilion-Boston

more shots (click on the photo to see more):