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Post by chvrchbarrel on May 10, 2017 11:18:11 GMT -6
Did you see a show?
How was it?
Did you have to go to the Riv?
Did they play that song?
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Post by chvrchbarrel on May 10, 2017 11:18:54 GMT -6
I saw Catfish & the Bottlemen in milwaukee for free last night and it was fun, and i was in my bed in chicago by 11:30
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Post by Broc1123 on May 10, 2017 11:25:13 GMT -6
Wow you got to hang out in Milwaukee AND made it in bed before midnight.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on May 10, 2017 11:30:30 GMT -6
the huge upside to seeing shows at the rave is that they serve new glarus beer
the huge downside is that its $9 a bottle
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Post by Broc1123 on May 10, 2017 11:31:30 GMT -6
Spotted Cow was the talk of the town at Tank's wedding two weeks ago in Lake Geneva.
I'm gonna go ahead and say, overrated.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on May 10, 2017 11:37:52 GMT -6
Yeah definitely overrated if it's coming at you as "the talk of the town" but when its the same price as most of the domestic/low-end craft selections at a store in WI, why not drink it?
We try to bring some home any time we're up there
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Post by Broc1123 on May 10, 2017 11:39:33 GMT -6
Yeah definitely overrated if it's coming at you as "the talk of the town" but when its the same price as most of the domestic/low-end craft selections at a store in WI, why not drink it? We try to bring some home any time we're up there Yeah, my experience involved an Uber driver telling a long story about how her boss lives in Chicago and always wants her to bring him some Spotted Cow. |
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Post by lollaman44 on May 10, 2017 14:57:00 GMT -6
i won tickets to whitney last night through thrillcall. good show with good energy. the new song they played was swell. more of the same to come.
also, love the new board.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2017 15:02:59 GMT -6
opeth were good and played lots of old stuff which was nice
gojira was fucking incredible.
stayed at bars down the street during devin townsend because ew.
vic also never seems to fully sell out (or they underestimate capacity) so we got a good rail spot on the back ledge so we could see everything and have easy bar access. good times.
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Post by tacosaregood on May 10, 2017 15:47:26 GMT -6
I went to Jazzfest for the first time last weekend and that festival is absolutely lovely. Highly recommend it for anyone interested. So many fun sets from a bunch of local bands I'd never heard & some heavy hitters. Only problem is that my liver, stomach, and mental clock all still hates me.
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Post by regionrat6337 on May 10, 2017 15:49:07 GMT -6
i won tickets to whitney last night through thrillcall. good show with good energy. the new song they played was swell. more of the same to come. also, love the new board. Saw them on Monday night and they were awesome then as well. Loved the Dolly Parton cover they opened with |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 8:05:06 GMT -6
Caught the Jesus and Mary Chain on Tuesday night. Just got back from St. Paul last night.
Didn't catch the openers, but this was the second time seeing JAMC (first time was almost exactly 2 years ago) and it was fantastic as expected. For those of you who didn't care for the new album, it sounded great live. Songs like All Things Pass were given the Psychocandy treatment and featured fuzzed out bliss. The Chain were never great lyricists, they just wrote good pop and layered it with distortion and fuzz. It was a night of all of their hits, and when Reverence came up to close out the main set, the fire alarm went off. Curtains came down, and the JAMC stopped playing. Couldn't see them, but I'm guessing they left the stage. 15 minutes passed, they came back out, replayed Reverence and began their first encore which featured Just Like Honey. They closed with I Hate Rock N Roll.
Highlights:
Some Candy Talking
Just Like Honey
All Things Pass
Reverence twice
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Post by no dice on May 11, 2017 13:02:52 GMT -6
Saw Father John Misty last night.
I haven't listened to Pure Comedy much but I was very impressed by the new songs live. especially the songs in the back half of the album which I maybe listened to twice before yesterday. The 10+ person backing band drowned out Josh's voice for the first couple songs until they finally turned up the mic.
Since it was a seated venue (Which, I must say, Kings Theatre is a beautiful venue) the crowd remained in their seats until the first non-Pure Comedy song where Josh motioned for everyone to get up. Interestingly, he also motioned for everyone to sit down the next time he played a string of Pure Comedy songs in the encore.
So overall, it was a great show but not my favorite by him because the Honeybear tour shows were just so much fun. I was not a fan of the tamer Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings.
Favorite Songs: So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain, Holy Shit, Strange Encounter
Wish he'd played: Ideal Husband, Only Son of a Ladiesman
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Post by brainloading on May 11, 2017 14:08:38 GMT -6
Caught the Jesus and Mary Chain on Tuesday night. Just got back from St. Paul last night. What'd you think of the new theater? I've been there twice now and loved it both times. |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 14:36:30 GMT -6
I loved it. I liked that instead of spilling out into the street there was a nice plaza area for us to stand in that wasn't inconvenient. I was surprised tho that it took us 30 minutes to find a place that sold alcohol after 10 pm. St. Paul overall was not my favorite vacation spot, but the Palace theater was bomb.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 23:35:46 GMT -6
Shining was pretty tame compared to what i expected but sounded cool Revenge sounded great but had a super uninterested (and annoyingly vocal crowd) Wolvhammer were fucking amazing. got to hang with the vocalist for a while afterwards and go figure he's a massive wrestling fan  |
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Post by claypoolfan on May 12, 2017 5:39:06 GMT -6
Did you ask him when the new Skeletonwitch LP is dropping? If not, gtfo.
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Post by neader on May 12, 2017 7:20:28 GMT -6
cloud Nothings were great. Super cool small venue in the basement of a Grimey's record store, venue is affectionately called The Basement.
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Post by teekoh on May 12, 2017 8:11:12 GMT -6
Sorority Noise were pretty good last night. We got a lot of stuff that from before the new album, which was a bummer for me. The kids seemed to love it, though. The new album tracks ripped. Mookie and I were talking and we both thought it pretty likely that they end up on the second wave of Riot Fest bands.
Also s/o only having to see one band being home by like 9:40.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2017 8:19:15 GMT -6
Did you ask him when the new Skeletonwitch LP is dropping? If not, gtfo. "hey this band was pretty cool but what about that other band you're in that my friend likes more" |
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Post by mookie on May 12, 2017 8:21:31 GMT -6
Sorority Noise were pretty good last night. We got a lot of stuff that from before the new album, which was a bummer for me. The kids seemed to love it, though. The new album tracks ripped. Mookie and I were talking and we both thought it pretty likely that they end up on the second wave of Riot Fest bands. Also s/o only having to see one band being home by like 9:40. Yeah, Sorority Noise was alright, I appreciated that the plowed through the whole set and barely stopped to tune or anything. And I appreciated the Manchester Orchestra song snippet they added. Oh, and if anyone out there has ever thought that Dashboard Confessional was just too hardcore, try Mat Kerekes!! (yeah, that was bad, we sat at the bar and watched basketball during his set) |
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Post by llamaoftime on May 12, 2017 8:51:40 GMT -6
So I've been to a few things in the past week. On Sunday I saw Deerhunter play a tiny venue in my small town. It was awesome. I've only seen them one other time, a festival set, and thought it was just ok. But this one was really really good and one of the better shows I've seen in a while. Setlist, while a bit short, was super tight and didn't have any low points. The band seemed to really enjoy playing there. They messed up trying to play "Game of Diamonds" which they hadn't played in a super long time and it led to a pretty great Bradford rant about politics and random things while they were trying to get it together. The encore in general was pretty great. Rainwater Cassette Exchange is genuinely a great opener. All around great. Setlist- www.setlist.fm/setlist/deerhunter/2017/the-gig-beaumont-tx-2be7a862.htmlSaw Mitski on Tuesday. We found out it was just a solo acoustic show. But that worked incredibly well honestly, I don't know a good way to put this but she had kind of a big sound for a solo act. Her voice was so good. Unfortunately it was stupid short. Like, it was a 40 minute set. A really really good 40 minutes, but bit of a letdown that it ended so fast. Saw Hamilton Leithauser last night. Man he sounded so good. Again another somewhat short set, I believe he played about 70 minutes, but I left feeling satisfied at least. His voice is so good live. I'm kind of half hoping he's doing a Pitchfork aftershow with someone cool now since I won't be there to see him on the Sunday of the fest. Walker Lukens opened and I have a feeling he might be about to get pretty big, he's got the sound for it. I enjoyed his set. |
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Post by arbee on May 12, 2017 9:53:37 GMT -6
won't be the first time my fave show of the year is by the same artist as my fave AOTY.
Chuck Prophet was fucking incredible last night at The Tractor Tavern in Seattle....
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2017 10:04:45 GMT -6
On Sunday I saw Deerhunter play a tiny venue in my small town. It was awesome. I've only seen them one other time, a festival set, and thought it was just ok. But this one was really really good and one of the better shows I've seen in a while. Setlist, while a bit short, was super tight and didn't have any low points. The band seemed to really enjoy playing there. They messed up trying to play "Game of Diamonds" which they hadn't played in a super long time and it led to a pretty great Bradford rant about politics and random things while they were trying to get it together. The encore in general was pretty great. Rainwater Cassette Exchange is genuinely a great opener. All around great. Setlist- www.setlist.fm/setlist/deerhunter/2017/the-gig-beaumont-tx-2be7a862.htmlI like what they've done with RCE, and it's pretty cool that you got Dr. Glass too and Game of Diamonds. Surprised they are still touring behind Fading Frontier. |
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Post by llamaoftime on May 12, 2017 10:16:05 GMT -6
On Sunday I saw Deerhunter play a tiny venue in my small town. It was awesome. I've only seen them one other time, a festival set, and thought it was just ok. But this one was really really good and one of the better shows I've seen in a while. Setlist, while a bit short, was super tight and didn't have any low points. The band seemed to really enjoy playing there. They messed up trying to play "Game of Diamonds" which they hadn't played in a super long time and it led to a pretty great Bradford rant about politics and random things while they were trying to get it together. The encore in general was pretty great. Rainwater Cassette Exchange is genuinely a great opener. All around great. Setlist- www.setlist.fm/setlist/deerhunter/2017/the-gig-beaumont-tx-2be7a862.htmlI like what they've done with RCE, and it's pretty cool that you got Dr. Glass too and Game of Diamonds. Surprised they are still touring behind Fading Frontier. They are touring with Kings of Leon right now for whatever reason, and they booked a bunch of small shows during the gaps in that tour |
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Post by teekoh on May 12, 2017 10:29:45 GMT -6
won't be the first time my fave show of the year is by the same artist as my fave AOTY. Chuck Prophet was fucking incredible last night at The Tractor Tavern in Seattle.... I hope he ends up coming to Chicago at some point. I like the album well enough that I'd definitely check out the show. |
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Post by Kamera on May 13, 2017 11:08:05 GMT -6
So Real Estate last night was awesome despite the Vic's sound quality and the WXRT crowd (seriously they are the worst). Frankie Cosmos sounded fantastic and played for almost an hour since she was the only opener. I got there 15 minutes before the show started and the pit was completely packed -- kind of thought people wouldn't show up til 9ish.
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Post by Kamera on May 14, 2017 10:36:45 GMT -6
Night 1 of 2 for Ty Segall was great. He opened with "Break A Guitar" and from there it was non-stop moshing til he played some slow love song from the new album midway through. After the show, I picked up a Metro-made silk-screen Ty Segall poster which I haven't seen Metro do in a long time. Looking forward to Thalia Hall tonight!!!
PS I'm super sore and bruised everywhere but no regrets being in the pit *thumbs up jpg*
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 7:22:31 GMT -6
so saturday, Mastodon might've sounded the tightest out of any of the times i've seen them and they played a stupid long set.
EoDM were fun as hell and did a great bowie cover.
Russian Circles did their best stuff and sounded great.
and then i saw Every Time I Die at bottom lounge last night and it was neat cause it was an all ages show and was done promptly at 9 pm. but also they were really good and played pretty much everything i wanted to hear.
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Post by claypoolfan on May 15, 2017 7:45:50 GMT -6
Yeah Mastodon is on point right now. I feel like Brent must have gotten sober? I was shocked that A) he played the first song with EODM (and ripped), B) was on point for the whole of their show and C) bantered with the crowd multiple times which I'm not sure I've seen.
I think their production is just too exact at this point to allow them to be sloppy at all. The lighting rig was pretty awesome the whole time.
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