August 31st, 2009 by Eric RexFull Flickr Set
Edit: We dumb. I got the members of Das Racist mixed up. Corrected in the text.
Apartment hunting is some of the worst shit in the world. I’ve had to turn down in expensive shows that I wanted to see because of stress and exhaustion of apartment hunting, or just the desire [...]
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3 Comments » August 28th, 2009 by Eric RexThe first video to the LA Hardcore outfit The Bronx’s all acoustic Mariachi music. Oh yes.
Category : Uncategorized August 28th, 2009 by Eric RexThe Happiness of Being 2wice
Video to their 7″ single from back in March of this year
“The Happiness Of Bring Twice” is Sam’s impression of what true love can be when left to instinct. Sometimes the emotions you feel won’t make sense in your head and this track makes this a case in point. Clasping beats [...]
Category : Uncategorized August 27th, 2009 by Eric RexDas Racist are performing as Spanish Broads this Sunday 8/30 after the Pool Parties @ Public Assembly for the free Fuck Mondays parties along with Cerebral Ballzy. The new project has been described as a “no wave jam band” kind of thing. They won’t be performing any Das Racist songs so don’t expect [...]
Category : Uncategorized August 26th, 2009 by Eric RexThis was posted by the band yesterday.
I absolutely love The Sleeping Eye and their recent Cakeshop show was everything I love in live music. It was intense.
we’re playing your city in October
10/9 Cleveland OH Now That’s Class
10/10 Lemoyne PA YOUNGBLOOD Championship Vinyl
10/11 upstate NY probably?
10/12 Toronto ONT
10/13 Montreal QUE
10/14 Sherbrooke QUE
10/15 Boston [...]
Category : upcoming show August 26th, 2009 by Eric Rex8-Bit music to me is a bit of mixed bag. I didn’t grow up with an NES or a Sega Master System, so there isn’t any sort of nostalgia for a childhood spent in front of a TV listening to low quality beeps and bloops while rescuing princesses. So the modern creation of music utilizing [...]
Category : album Review August 25th, 2009 by Eric RexIt was really like Whartscape 2007 at the Floristree but without the amenities. Or lock step rigidity in organizing the juggling of bands. Though after enough DIY shows you become used to nothing starting promptly and set times really just being sort of abstract of who is playing next rather than any sort of schedule you can reliably follow.
Category : Show Review August 24th, 2009 by Eric RexMetal is one of those musical styles I liked in the past, kind of gave up on for over a decade and have only recently tried to reexamine. Growing up in the 80s in Texas, glam metal was my only exposure to metal until friends in middle school. It was through them that I discovered the joys of Thrash through bands like Anthrax, DRI, Metallica and Suicidal Tendencies. Bands that we never heard on the radio, only through duped and distributed tapes. We’d have to scour things like Thrasher Magazine and VHS team tapes for music. This eventually led to me discovering Punk and then Hardcore while moving away from Metal.
As I got older, songs about blood and death and Satan and darkness held less appeal to me. I can’t say why. It’s not like I was a happy child. It was probably the political aspects of Punk / Hardcore appealed to me, along with the can-do DIY attitude, where as Metal seemed more for mopers; focusing on despair and violence and anger without release or a target whereas punk had a million targets and could also hold more than one emotion in its three chord heart at a time.
Recently though, largely to meeting Ivan Khilko of Immanent Voiceless, I’ve had a bit of a rekindled interest as he says “oh man, you have GOT to check this out.” And while sometimes it may not be my thing, his Wikipedia-like knowledge and musical background have exposed me to a great deal of Metal I wouldn’t have even known existed.
One of those bands is Brooklyn’s own Bloody Panda, a doom metal outfit who recently finished a tour with a coming home show Friday night at Union Pool.
Category : Show Review August 21st, 2009 by Eric Rex“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times/ it was the combination best of times worst of times”
Asking if Das Racist is joking or serious or even trying to play the middle by asking if they’re seriously joking seems to me to be missing the point of the music.
Category : Show Review August 17th, 2009 by Eric RexFull Flickr Set
This time, I promise, I won’t mention the weather beyond this; it was damn hot.
“There’s not going to be anyone there. It’s hip-hop and Dinosaur Jr. is playing for free in Central Park. It’s going to be dead.” As usual, Edwina was right.
It was kind of barren when we made [...]
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