disco.punk.ish.
friday night we stayed home and did nothing while many of our friends went in for round 3 of the hay maze party down in half moon bay. (read last year’s report). i just wasn’t up for a drug-saturated ant farm and so we stayed home, although i did kind of want to be outside all night. it’s one of the only reasons i go to all-night parties. i like being outside all night. i like hanging out with other nocturnals. i like seeing the sunrise. once in a while i’m willing to put up with the bad music and the mania for my own personal rewards. just not this time.
saturday night we went to see The Faint @ the Warfield, and it was pretty kick ass post-punk post-disco electro rock. ish. high energy, full sound, good composition and lyrics, great performance. actually much more rock-n-roll live than the sort of stripped down sound on the albums, which was good. i hate it when it’s the other way around. fave track: forever growing centipedes.
they had two opening acts: Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head & Dr. Doom aka Kool Keith.
NPSH was frickin’ ON IT and looked exactly what i imagine all indie rock bands i hear on KALX look like. like american apparel exploded all over them. but they had GREAT energy and good songs and the early audience was into them. they even had a song that was prefaced by “this song is about making an extreme hair commitment and then wondering for the rest of the day if you’ve made the right choice.” i had just dyed 75% of my head blue-black that very afternoon, so i related to this.
and then came Dr. Doom. i don’t know who booked these guys, but FAIL. and especially FAIL that they put them between NPSH and The Faint. they should’ve played first to half empty room. hipsters only PRETEND to like hiphop. they don’t really. they really like fluorescent pants and synthesizers. not only that, but they were just not that good. 2 MCs and 1 DJ and it sounded like 8th grade kids from berkeley high. they only had 1 song that i liked but that had nothing to do with them; i just liked the bass track.
anyway, then The Faint came on and rocked it, and then we went home before midnight like old people.
next up on the music menu:
thursday night obi-j plays the Transported SF bus
friday night @the INdependent: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and justin’s counsin’s band Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
next week: MMW @ the fillmore on 11/20, thx to our friend joel, who gifted us the tix
and now on the near horizon: NineInchNails on 12/13 in vegas. yes!
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> willing to put up with the bad music
i can’t believe things have gotten so bad that you just published this. god, it’s depressing.
did you hear me talking the other night about how someone who’s new to the scene asked me: ‘wait…did there used to be a time when there was good music EVERY TIME you went out?!’
sigh.
well, that’s nothing new with me, though, really. i’m not sure i would really take it as a “state of the scene” sort of comment. i don’t personally think there’s EVER been a time when there was always good music EVER TIME in the dance music scene. on the same note, there was never a time – for me – when all the music was good when i was in the jamband music scene either. there’s always shitty music. it’s just about what you want out of the scene.