More Rando June Update

Preparing to travel to Europe this weekend to shoot some videography for Folk Festivals for 18 days more updates for what is sure to be a great trip to follow. Cheers.

Rando June Update

I've been updating Your Baby is Lame more frequently of late. I'm also nerd bombing Twitter now, as well. Still not sure how I feel about that but if anyone wants to follow me for my insightful or narcissistic comments my handle is here aaherter.

NACHO CASTLE!

HAPPY BELATED CINCO 5!

More Rando Stuff

Yeah, not really a real update of sorts more so shameless plugging my friend Annie's site Your Baby is Lame. I'm helping her out a bit with some updates. Check it out. Been digging the new Amesoeurs album quite a bit of late. It's supposedly listed as French Black metal but I wouldn't say that's a fair representation. I'd say it's more of a straight ahead rocking Alcest, another French metal band mirrored in dark shoe-gazer (it's not really surprising most of that band makes up Amesoeurs) Totally epic souding but could seriously do without the cookie monster growling (only on two tracks) but aside from that its pretty great.
This is probably my favorite track on the album at the moment.

Totally stoked that the new Dinosaur Jr. album, "Farm", is coming out next month on June 23rd. You can stream a few tunes off their mspace page. There's also a free download on their website here dinosaurjr.com. Totally digging "Over It".

Production Work I did

Hey its been forever since I updated this site. Been super busy doing shit like this. For more videos check out the rest of the drunk nerds stuff at drunk nerds videos

More updates at some point. I suppose.

Mudhoney Short Review

Photo credit: My shitty camera phone.

This past Friday at the Independent, Mudhoney came to town and flat out killed it. Wooden Shjips were also on the bill. I wasn't planning on a review but Mudhoney rocked me hard enough to feel compelled to brag about their sheer balls-awesomeness. However, due to transportation (and other personal deliberations) I missed most of their set along with the opener (can't recall name and too lazy to troll for my ticket stub). The Shjips continue to lock into that molten- spacey psychedelic groove with laser-like precision. I love seeing this band play and was kinda pissed I wasn't able see their full set. My state of mind was perfectly in tuned with the thick repetitive slabs of bass and eerie keys emanating from the stage.
Afterward, Mudhoney took the stage around 11, Most of their set focused on material off the new record, The Lucky Ones, one of the best records released this year, do yourself a favor and grab it here if you don't already own it. They played all hits e.g. "Touch Me I'm Sick", "Let It Slide", "In ‘n’ Out of Grace", Sweet Young Thing Ain’t Sweet No More, etc. The band drenched me in a washing machine of pure noise. My favorite part of the evening had to be when the band broke into "Hate the Police" and the whole place when crazy. Everyone in the front was jumping up and down and singing at the top of their lungs, including myself. Finally ending the evening with an awesome cover of the Flag's "Fix Me". Man oh man, what a great night. Mudhoney laid it down hard.

Setlist
01. The Money Will Roll Right In
02. I'm Now
03. The Lucky Ones
04. Next Time
05. You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face)
06. Suck You Dry
07. Inside Job
08. Blinding Sun
09. Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More
10. Good Enough
11. No One Has
12. Touch Me I'm Sick
13. F.D.K. (Fearless Doctor Killers)
14. This Gift
15. Hard On For War
16. When Tomorrow Hits
17. In 'N' Out Of Grace
18. Hate The Police
Encore
19. The Open Mind
20. Street Waves
21. Tales Of Terror
22. Fix Me

Night Marcher @ Bottom of the Hill 9.4.08

The three pronged guitar attack of rockNroll.
Gar
Speedo, himself.
Here are some photos I shot at the Marchers show last Thursday at Bottom of the Hill. This was seriously one of the best shows I've ever attended. I was planning on a full scale review but I couldn't break away from the spell the Night Marchers cast on every single person that night. SF may have thought they were equipped to handle the sheer fury of the Swami Sound System's high fusion of rockNroll, but they weren't. They threw down even harder, faster and louder than last April. Shit was killtacular. I almost decided to forsake the evening's festivities in order to fine tune a paper that was due the next morning. I am so glad I paused my responsibilities and went. I will never question the sheer force that Reis and company are capable of delivering on any given basis. My Standouts of the evening were "Closed For Inventory" and "Jump In the Fire". The thumb nail clap never got going during "You Got Nerve" this time. Regardless of a few dedicated trying to kick start the finger percussion band wagon. The one-two closing punch of "Scene Report" and "Fisting the Fan Base" summed up the evening perfectly, a rhythmic freight train equal parts Kitsos and Kourkonis pounding away as Speedo and Gar traded riff after heavy riff. As soon as they made a quick descent to stage right. The sea of fans grew angry at the abrupt conclusion of the evening and began shouting for more. The shouts rang louder and louder until the band came out and delivered a final encore knife into the crowd to satisfy their rockNroll blood lust. My only regrets were not bringing enough cash to score the new tour 7'' they're sporting on this new tour or the new Froberg designed t-shirt, it's got a sweet bubble graphic. Aside from those minor hiccups the night was truly memorable and I can't wait to see them again.