Posters on Listings Page

Hey! you guys figured out how to post images on the Listings page. SWEET! I am psyched to have rock posters on that page.

BUT

Please be considerate.
Keep images to like 250 pixels tall. I want the listing page to load fast on people's phones too (like it does now) and giant poster images wont cut it. I love being able to check LON from my phone when I am out at night. Yeah. COOL!

Here is how you do it, if you want:

Just put this code in your extra info panel in the listing submission, in brackets though <...>:

img src="http://blah.jpg/" height="250"

Outdoor Roller Derby = Fun

the GUNSHO gun show

This Friday at 7pm is James' show at the Stairwell Gallery. He and I were planning an interview that I wanted to get up on the site before the show but F'ing ROCKBAND is taking up all of my time. I can't wait until the game ships .

Anyway..stay tuned for some personal time with James here on LON.

400 Blows

So, I have been traveling a bunch and in crunchtime at work, so the blogginess has slowed down a bit. However, I find myself in the Village right now (yes, the one in NY), in my hotel, out on business, having just gotten in from the 400 Blows show at the Midway on Ave B. Anytime I go away for work, the first thing I do it try and figure out who is playing while I am there. I lucked out that 2 hours after arriving in the city 400 Blows was onstage just 5 blocks from my hotel

400 Blows is a band I have been trying to push on folks for years now but with only a few bites. Maybe you will like them? Listen here.

Anyway, they are really fucking good and I finally got to see them. As they loaded in with their 2 Marshall half stacks, svt bass rig and drum kit I noticed that I only saw 3 guys. I figured Drummer, Singer/Something and Bassist...but where was the other guy? There are 4 rigs up there. Then the guitarist came out and twiddled some stereo reverb knobs and it started to make sense. "AH", I thought "the guitarist is gonna use both guitar rigs for stereo". Mmm...wrong. 400 blows, as I learned, has a singer (of the Eric Paul variety) a drummer and a single guitarist that runs through not one, not 2, but 3 full rigs...2 guitar and one bass.

It sounded awesome. If I realized 15 years ago how good a band could sound without a bassist I would have made my life a lot happier by not dealing with bassist (I kid).

Anyway, I can boil it down to a 2 word review...

Awe Some.


OH, also...keep your eyes out for Marnie Stern, Slayer and Pelican...all playing in Boston in the next month or so.

MWM/LB show

Man, Keith gave me and Jennifer a tour of Machines With Magnets last night before the show. That is one sweet studio. It is so nice to see people do awesome rehabs of buildings in the area instead of all of the idiots that just go and tear down these amazing spaces. If any of you folks are looking to do some recording, check out MWM. Lots of nooks and crannys with great sounds...bouncy "wet" rooms and dead calm "dry" rooms.

Very impressed.
















Lots of bands played last night. I have some snaps and super crummy videos of Lightning Bolt thanks to my cameraphone. Man, I need to invent a gizmo that is my Holga (for stills), my Iriver H340 (for audio recording), my Casio Exilim (for palmsized video recording) and an Iphone...yeah. Coming soon.

Also, you might have gotten a flyer for The Sight Of Sound. Check it out May 18th. It says "Contemporary illustrations by OVER 30 different illustrators". Yeah, I am over 30...so I am in the show.
:)

Pressure Printing

Holy crud. I just found www.pressureprinting.com ...have you seen this? The have some super sweet letterpress art by artists like Tim Biskup and Dave Cooper. The printing is amazing and the new-gothic presentation is A#1.

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Stinking Lizaveta rocked it

Man, Stinking Lizaveta was sweet. I totally dug 13th Moon, but this track was awesome too (Scream of the Iron Iconoclast):



This was not filmed at AS220 obviously, but the video still is sweet. Actually, this song was way better here in Providence.

Megasus plays tonight with The Body and others...

We are playing a B-Sharp night this Friday with a bunch of sick bands. I have seen the line-up in three different orders...but I know you will be there for the whole thing so order doesn't matter ;)

Brian is going on tour for over a month with Lightning Bolt so this will be the only Megasus show for a while. We are hoping to record some demos before he splits which would keep me busy for a while.




Here is some info from the B-Sharp/As220 listing:

B Sharp Presents: The Body, Stinking Lizaveta, Megasus, Weedeater and Hard Drug

After four album releases and 10 years of touring around the country blitzing audiences with their famously dynamic live shows, Philadelphia’s instrumental power trio STINKING LIZAVETA (named for a Dostoevsky character) has become an institution of sorts in the US underground music scene. Their eclectic style of music incorporates post-rock, metal, sludge, prog, stoner and doom with jazz stylings and eastern influences. RockDetector's book, 'History of Stoner, Goth, and Doom', categorizes their music as 'doom-jazz', a label that the band have taken to citing when asked to describe their music. Out of the ashes of Buzzoven comes frontman/bass player extraordinaire Dixie's new band WEEDEATER. Fuzzed-out stoner/doom rock is what Weedeater is all about. This shit is not for the weak; this is how the world sounds after a week of partying or five pot brownies later. It's a CD that kind of hypnotizes you. Everything is slower, everything is heavier, and the true evil of the world is delivered through Weedeater. THE BODY (Providence) is two men and several amps, one drum set and one guitar turned up really really loud. Two of the nicest most upbeat dudes playing the most wicked evil rock.

(image by HellWig)