Saturday, June 9, 2012

Songs for Snakes - Charcoal Heather






Songs for Snakes are San Francisco who channel the spirit of Minnesota’s Husker Du. is a three piece made up of Bill Taylor handling guitar and vocals, Paul Furusho hits the drums, Nick Waters provides the bass. The band describes their music as loud/melodic punk music or Husker Du and Jawbreaker having a pleasant cup of tea with Simon and Garfield and that about hits the nail bang on the head.


The band start proceedings off slowly with "St Mary" and then speed up with the melodic sound blurring in "Sidewalk Rider". The murmered vocals are buried in the background in the title song and many tracks allowing the guitars to warmly dominate the song with their prominence.
Although first band that comes to mind listening to these guys is Husker Du although there is a little more going on. The guitar at the start of F.E.A.R. is reminiscent of The Verlaines and others of the same ilk on the Flying Nun roster in the 80's and "The Most Documented Man" sounds a little like a shouty Oi band are in the background although Songs for Snakes never let go of their own sound.

4/5

You can hear the album "Charcoal Heather here and name your price to buy it. It's recommended that you do.

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Boris - Wellington, New Zealand

Boris played at Bar Bodega in Wellington on March 27, 2012. There was a support band but they cancelled which pretty much makes it an ideal show as far as I'm concerned because I usually only want to see one band. The band played their mix of pop and drone for around 90 minutes and finished before midnight.

Here's a few pics.







Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Songs of Envy

Today's post is brought to you by the wish to be someone else.

First up from the album "Killjoy" Shihad's Envy



Straitjacket Fits
"If I Were You" - I can't find the actual video on youtube and I know it existed once upon a time. Is it one of those stories where the record company doesn't want you to post it so they can lay off their employees from around the world?
Anyway they were always a great live band. Also RIP Dimmer.





The Cure
with the annoyingly poppy "Why Can't I Be You?"



Lastly Nik Kershaw with "Wouldn't it be Good" which I always enjoyed as a high school student who wished I was better at everything I tried.



I don't want to be the only person doing this so please some of those I've missed in the comments.

Beastwars - IV

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