This looks really wicked. I had always been intrigued by her, but never totally got into listening to her stuff. Had no clue about this recent stuff she was doing.

I am also becoming quite intrigued with this projection mapping and it's uses in shows like this. I recently saw Animal Collective, who had some pretty cool projection mapping visuals, as well as a Cirque du Soleil show based on Avatar that had some absolute genius uses. I really like what I am seeing here from Kaki based on your shots and a few Youtube vids.

''Are you enjoying the show?'' projections on her guitar. Seriously?

Saw At the Drive In last thursday and they rocked. I honestly expected Cedric to hold back a bit, but he didn't. He fucking nailed it. Jumping all over, screaming, and not some singing screaming stuff...but actually belted out when he needed to. Anyways...I'm glad it wasn't tame. I arrived late(worked super late) so I was by myself the whole show, until the very end. For the closer, One Armed Scissor, Everyone started going nuts so I plowed through to the front and found my friend whom i was supposed to drop off later. Anyways....shortly after that, I saw another friend(from the Street Fightin' crew) and he was like "holy shit!" and then lifted me up onto the crowd and yeah...I got to crowd surf for one armed scissor and it was awesome.

I'm still hoping for some mid-Texas dates for this tour. I mean, Oklahoma would be better, for sure, but I still can't believe not a single Texas date...

she looks like Justin Beiber in these pics

yeh, it was a mid-show sketch with the guitar "talking".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfPaB35yNTI







Her set was quite interesting (some of the projections are animated in real-time in synch with the guitar sounds) from a technical pov, but if you like projection mapping you should definitely check Amon Tobin's stage for his ISAM tour, if you haven't yet. Especially the second leg of his live dates (ISAM 2.0) when he expanded the whole set. Check this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2neUctndyTY

No, I have not seen this. Just did a quick spot-check through the vid and it looks pretty intense. Will certainly be watching through it this evening when I can actually concentrate and "watch" it uninterrupted. Looking forward to it, thanks.

Edit: And to continue thread theme, I actually saw Deftones last night. I know that might be a little cliche and not appreciated around here, but I swear every time I see them lately I can't help but be impressed at how on-point Chino can be. He always will be one of my favorite front-men. He absolutely killed it last night. Solid setlist too. I think 4 Around the Fur tunes in the first 6 or so, and did not even play a song off the new album until like 8 songs in or something like that. No 7 Words though, which was highly saddening.

Alan Licht & Tetuzi Akiyama, didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped to, in fact I thought it was generally pretty dull.

caught opn for like the third time the other night. he's becoming incrementally worse each time. in retrospect wasn't too big a fan of the last record but live the elements which came to irritate me on the lp were seemingly all he was interested in. don't think I'll bother next time out :(

Last night:

Uskovaiset - A new band, pretty nice stuff live. https://uskovaiset.bandcamp.com/
Sokea Piste - great noise-rock/punk once again. https://sokeapiste.bandcamp.com/albu...seen-maailmaan
Sur-rur - Melodic punk. First time I saw them properly. Good shit live. I believe they were greatly influence by things like the huskers and replacements. check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jof_5UKQ2eU

Kanye West, and it was absolutely transcendent. Visually, musically, all over the map. One of the best arena shows I've ever been to. Probably the best really.

Excited to see Shellac in Chicago next.

some psych gig with 3 danish bands. i think i was the only foreigner there.
the music was great but the atmosphere sucked. par for the course where i live.

I saw Clock DVA and Meat Beat Manifesto this past weekend in Houston......it was my first time seeing each. While it was a thrill to see them, overall I was disappointed. Guys noodling around on laptops just isn't much of a show. Some of the video images / production was fabulous, but there was no musicianship. I was at least expecting "live drums" with MBM, but nothing of the sort......just live video streams of drums.

I've always quite enjoyed Meat Beat Manifesto. Not, like, a ton, but I'd see them live.

pj harvey..
i miss the old, dirty sound a la steve albini.. the new album is great, but lacks the personal impact of her earliest work..

the gig reflected just that..

:(

I think the new album is great too, but after revisiting Dry and Rid of Me, it definitely loses its luster a bit. I did not feel that way about Let England Shake. That album felt like grisly old PJ updating her mission statement for the 2010s. New one is very good, but very good can be disappointing when there's so much great to compare it to.

Haven't seen her perform the material live though. I've read good things about the Hope Six shows actually. Sorry it didn't really measure up for ya.

I've enjoyed the music of both groups for a long time. As I said, I was excited for the opportunity to see them perform. However, guys leaning forward toward their laptops, squinting their eyes to see what to "click next" isn't much of a "performance."

My history with Clock DVA was first hearing tracks of theirs on compilation LP's and cassettes back in the mid to late 80's. I've always been more partial to their instrumental / experimental based music.

Number's Night Club as been a Houston institution for close to 40 years now. It's where I first heard Meat Beat Manifesto and back in the day, I was just as excited about the 12" remixes as I was full length albums.

Saturday Night's Setlist:

01. Fire #9
02. Sound Innovation
03. Hello Teenage America
04. Drop
05. Luminol
06. Nocebo
07. Assassinator
08. Edge Of No Control
09. Noise Interlude
10. Helter Skelter
11. Still Falling
12. Prime Audio Soup
13. I Am Electro
14. God OD
15. Do It With Soul
16. She's Unreal
17. I Got The Fear, Part 2
18. It's The Music
19. Acid Again
20. Drum Attack
21. Penultimate Bass Test



Notice the screen in front. It often had hell fire images of flames and whatnot playing and that was a cool effect......but the guys never stepped out from behind their laptops, never stopped to talk or share a story about the music.

Ick. I've been to shows like that and they make me wish I still took crazy pills. Might be fun if I was tripping and dancing, but certainly not for actual entertainment.

saw saxophone quartet battle trance last night. they are way better live than on record. very intense. shrill, dissonant, beautiful. they made pretty much every sound you can make with saxophones.

Sunday Night I saw the Legendary Pink Dot's in Houston......it was my eighth time seeing them!



I was the first one in the venue and made my way to the Merchandise Table where this guy started talking to me. I must have had a funny look on my face because he stopped talking and I said, "You're Chris McBeth." Now he is the one with the funny look on his face.

I introduce myself, the light bulb goes off and gives me a big hug. Chris owns Beta-lactam Ring Records and I've been ordering music from his label for close to 20 years......recognized Chris's voice from his multiple appearances on Dead-Airs radio show, What's This Called?

Chris takes me through a few doors into a room where the Dots are busy assembling CD cases. Each takes time to shake my hand and we have a nice 15 minute visit about the current tour and their previous visits to Houston.






01. D-train
02. Love Puppets
03. Mirror Mirror
04. Credibility
05. Page Aquarain
06. Real World
07. Disturbance
08. 10 O'er 9
09. So Gallantly Screaming
10. City Of Needles

These guys last night. Another new band I hadn't seen before. Combination of jangly guitar pop and screaming face red. It was worth going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij9q8Of_ZZ4

This month:
Merzbow - Great!

Los Siquicos Litoralenos / Skull Mask / Rubber O Cement - Funnest, best line up show I've been to in a long time.

Senyawa - Super intense folk rawness from Indonesia

Black Spiritual /Dead Neanderthals - Dead Neanderthals set a high bar for the evening with a heavy set of droning free jazz, then Black Spirituals blew everything away, the best, deepest and most sensitive jazz/noise thing I've seen in years and something that every fan of Lee & Thurston's improv records needs to see or hear.

Thurston Moore and Sick Llama - Sick as fuck duo set from two musicians who should continue to play together.

Big Shug and Jeru the Damaja - Was awesome to see these guys playing the hits; however, Jeru was reeeaaally milking the crowd participation stuff and bumming out chunks of the audience with his frequently sexist and homophobic stage banter. On the Big Shug is a soulful dude and one of the few rappers who can actually sing.

NO doubt you've seen some amazing shows recently. I'm very interested in what you thought about, Skull Mask? I've been listening to Miguel's music over the past two years and find him to be an interesting guy. He lives in Mexico and travels into El Paso on a regular basis.

On October 21st, I saw Richard Pinhas perform at 14 Pews in Houston. This was Richard's first time playing Texas in 40 years. 14 Pews was once a church in a residential neighborhood and it has, 14 Pews. Without any fanfare or proper introduction, Richard sat down and just started to play for about an hour. He has a new album out that I picked up at the show, but it really doesn't sound like anything he played that night.





Tomorrow, Richard Pinhas starts a tour of Japan with Merzbow-Haino-Yoshida:



The opening act, Illicit Relationship is a husband/wife duo from Houston and their set was amazing. I had recently received their newest CDR in the mail so I was a little familiar with their sound.

I just went to Dinosaur Jr in Brussels, at a last moment decision. It was good, but like many have said already, the voices are so buried in the mix these days that they are hardly hearable. Both J and Lou didn't look too good either. Normally Lou is all happy and talkative, this time not and he looked like he had lost a lot of weight compared to when I saw him last time about half a year ago (when he did a solo tour).
Best tunes were the noodles that J was doing in between the actual songs

Best moment during the support set was probably when I slapped a guy in the face (but not hard) who was continuously being a total dickhead and completely stoned or drunk or whatever. Then his gf started bitching at me and then they got kicked out :)

Addition:
I just read that John Molony is the drum tech on the Dinosaur Jr. I already thought he looked familiar. He played along on the support act (vocals and some drumming) and on one song during Dinosaur Jr's set he played second drumming with another additional guitarist.

Very enjoyable although there were some sound issues during his set. It was interesting to see a finger picker using a lot of effects. Judging by the merch table he has quite a few things going on and I'm curious to hear what his other projects are like. I liked his performance enough to buy a tape.

I messaged with Miguel today and passed along your comments about the Skull Mask performance at Cafe OTO. Miguel said he appreciates the feedback and to check out all things Skull Mask here. According to him, one of the Amps provided by OTO was the cause of the audio issues.

On weekend I saw a bunch of shows both nights.
On friday it was the Sludge Feast with:
Rutsa (grind/sludge thing)
Coughdust (very down-tuned local sludge, Crowbar -ish with more groove. good stuff live)
Stolen Kidneys (noise rock/post-hc/sludge guitar feedback assault, totally great shit)

On saturday:
Echo is your love (long standing sonicyouthian noise indie guitar mess. About 8 years since the last time I saw them. it was good to see them again. I was heavily into them around 10-11 years ago)
Sokea Piste
Sur-rur (these two I've seen alot lately, but nevertheless, both were great again)

I just saw Thee Oh Sees in Toronto. Stellar show, I wish it was longer. I don't understand music theory but I have a concept of it.

The guy's lyrics were completely incoherent, his voice was nothing more than an instrument, which was a psychological relief! Every once in a while the guy screamed and the crowd went wild.

It was a 3 piece band though my brother says he usually has 2 drummers. The tone of the guy's guitar was so psychedelic, the sound he made opened my mind.

They played no encores, my brother said they don't really care about trying to overplease. The last song was really trippy and about 10 minutes so they still left a good impression.

One cool personal thing was I invited some friends to the show and then they couldn't make it. Then another old friend I didn't know would be there picked me out in the dark and told me Oh Sees was his favourite band. It was great to see him there. He tried to get a concert poster but they wouldn't let him back in after the show. The poster was stellar though, it was like a moose with the Milky Way airbrushed in it, no text.

I am glad my oldest brother got me into Thee Oh Sees and would definitely see them again. They left me wanting more. Best modern band out of California.

I wanted to see a somehow new band called Last Train, in a four-band festival called Octobre Rock, one hour from my place, in a village.
The venue was cool. What was not was that the festival had a DJ. And what he played, I did not like. I was there for rock, and we had... zouk... and disco... blaring loudly out the speakers.
The first band came on, teenagers, not quite comfortable with themselves (no blame intended), doing covers. Not great.
The DJ went back at it again. Some horrible hard rock, some French irritating pop...
The second band came on. They had an accordion and a saxophone. Being angry as I was, it was about unbearable. They hadn't started yet though. The singer went to the mike for the usual one-two-one-two. The sound wasn't as bad as with the first band, it was worse. Plus, the DJ had been freewheeling for more than 30 minutes at that point.
I had to quit and ran away.
The galette-saucisse was the only good thing that night.

And I've seen Föllakzoid in Angers in september and liked them.
Sonic Boom and Klaus Johann Grobe too, for a very very enjoyable night.

Last Saturday:

- Thighpaulsandra (kind of mediocre)
- Chris Corsano / Tony Elieh / Sharif Sehnaoui (fantastic, high-energy gig)
- Amnesia Scanner & Bill Kouligas: Lexachast (mindblowing, out of this world)

Glad you enjoyed it. I saw them for the first time at the last ATP I was at. I was coming down from acid, totally worn out from it (those 8 hour trips are tiring as fuck) and wasn't all that up for them. However, they blew me away. Great live band.

They are. Seeing them tends to revitalize my faith in whatever punk is or was. Those guys just totally throw down.

I think they've actually turned into one of those bands that's just infinitely better love than on record. Don't get me wrong, I've never heard a Thee Oh Sees album I didn't like, and it seemed like they were really on a roll up until Floating Coffin (their apex, in my opinion), but lately their albums have kind of all started to blend together.

But live, they're ferocious. Whatever their lineup happens to be at the time. I think I've seen them four or five times and each was a total kick in the balls.

how was Rubber-0? I haven't seen them for a couple of years, but they always put on a great show, same guys in Caroliner and Hans Grusel

This past Sunday night, the wife and I went to see The Goo Goo Dolls here in downtown Beaumont. I'm not much of a fan at all, but I was surprised at how many "album" cuts I knew. Anyway, it was nice to have a 15 minute drive to the show and overall, it was really good.

That venue looks gorgeous.

Agreed. That venue looks very nice. Seen several shows there?

Bad Luck Jonathan, December 3. This is the 50,000th or so band from head Mekon Jon Langford. It might just be the best gig I've seen this year. If Langford is coming to your town in any of his musical incarnations, do yourself a favor and go.