Tonight and the 10th

HOWL is playing tonight (Sunday) at the Living Room with The Aardvark Trail, YavinFive, The Intruder and High/Horse. howl is currently on permanent rotation in my car. Members of HOWL were students of mine at RISD.

I need to book a show somewhere so I can play with my ex-student's bands. That would be weird... but fun. Megasus, Cheeseburger (NY), HOWL, Teenage Waistband...

Also, Theo (ex-Lunachicks singer) is playing with her band Theo and the Skyscrapers on the 10th of August. I am gonna head up to Boston to see them at the ICC. Theo recently did all of the Motion Capture for the "female singer" in my new game ROCKBAND. The Skyscrapers are sorta new-new wave, electro rock.

Anyway, there you go. See you at HOWL tonight?

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Oh. So you like Metal? What about Death Metal? Yes? What about female vocal Death Metal? You do? Well do I have a show for you.

My pal Mallika (works at Harmonix) is the singer of the opening act on August 3rd. The band is Abnormality. They will be serving some Death Metal for you.






I have never seen a human body part move as fast as the guitarists picking hand. Jesus, I swear the thing was just a blur the whole show. I dunno how it was captured on film.

The headliners are Goreality. Not like GO! REALITY...but more like GORE! REALITY. Anyway, if Deathmetal is your bag and you don't mind going to places with horrible names like "Jerky's" check it out. This guy here, I think his name might be Fish...I saw him play in New Bedford and it was heavy.

Pelican

Paul and I went straight from work to the Middle East tonight to see Pelican. The opener...I cant remember their name...Priest something, were pretty good mixed with pretty boring. Then Clouds were next. I wanted to like them because one of them is from CaveIn...but the were boring dude rock. Pelican however, saved the night. They ruled. Enormous and ominous.

I am sending this pic and text from my phone/paul's car so who knows if it will make it through all of those internets to lotsofnoise.

Oops

The site was down for a little bit...but it is back now. I was trying to ditch an old domain name and this one got caught up in the confusion.

Damned register.com.

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.