Finally got my tickets for SubhumanS, though at the Glasshouse instead of in LA.. all the other shows didn't fall through, couldn't get any partners in crime. My sister is motivated to the SubhumanS, so we're rolling!!

maybe Eugene Chadbourne this weekend
maybe Ikue MOri at the Stone next week

I'm a little disappointed because I can't rally any other brothers of mine to go the the SubhumanS show, and I can't go in the pit solo, its not safe. You should never get into the pit at a punk show if you came solo, shit can go totally wrong. Its like starting a bar fight without any friends there. Shit can go terribly wrong in a hurry. So even though I haven't been in a good pit in several years, and I am DYING to get my pit on, I'm going to have to be wiser here, based on my experience in the past in several gutter punk mosh pits, and sit this one out.

Pits are NOT inherently violent, angry, or dangerous, but there is a natural danger in jumping into a sweaty, tightened circle of people flailing elbows around. If you accidentally get hit, people will help you up, but still, its best to have a tag-team. I've never had an incident which required a brawl or a fight from the pit, indeed the pit is generally all elbows and love, but you should have some backup even if just to help you up if you get knocked around a bit. Safety first. Sucks though. I did jump into the pit solo last time, and it was alright, but I didn't get the fullest experience like I do when we jump into the pit with a crew of five or six dudes to manhandle the pit and dominate. Plus, in LA there is always one asshole who heard they fight at punk shows, and he is throwing punches in the pit, sometimes you have to throw a few back at those assholes to remind them fighting is reserved for the parking lot, not the pit ;)

Anna Calvi

SubhumanS was INTENSE. One of the best punk shows ever, and I've seen these dudes like 10 times! The pit was epic, but all love and elbows. In fact, the entire crowd devolved into a pitting frenzy of jostling bodies, sweaty rage, and punk-filled love! Our community is so misunderstood from the outside looking in, but we are a love filled community. I used kick it with nothing but chaos punks, and we wasted too much time getting into brawls and fights, causing chaos. It was so fucking nice to go to a punk show without my chaos homiez, just me and my sister and her friends, and we had a blast. They played ALL the songs, a perfect blend of the old classics we all want to sing along with and the new songs from Internal Riot album. I'm batter, bruised, with no voice whatsoever, and completely blissed and ecstatic!



And Dick, after thirty solid years, WILL YOU EVER
WEAR A T-SHIRT WITH A FUCKING COLLAR??

I hope the fuck not ;)

u:mack are bringing the orb to Dublin on their 25th anniversary tour to play
"The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld" & "UFORB" (Live)

~might~ go to mv&ee on tuesday. they are playing on a boat!

Magik Markers on Wednesday
Wolf Eyes next Monday

Then in December Ghedalia Tazartes, MV & EE, and Goat

Should I go see Alejandro Escovedo & Peter Buck?

^ Is there a reason to not go?




MONO is playing tomorrow....they're pretty neat....but sometimes I get incredibly bored with post rock stuff sometimes.....ehhh fuck it. I'll probably go...I have nothing else better to do.

saw Blues Control Tues, pretty good stuff!

http://vimeo.com/55942363

saw Anthony B last weekend. Missed Barrington Levy last night cuz I have to go to work and the dancehall ends way to late for all that, this was the year I finally decided to stop dragging my ass to work on a paltry hour and a half of sleep and instead do the grown up thing and skip the show. Of course, I can't be entirely boring, I still go to shows on work nights so long as I can be tucked into bed by 2AM on the dot, which dancehalls aside tends to work out just fine.

Dec 1 Groundation at the El Rey, hoping to find a partner in crime to get to the Lee Ranaldo show Dec 13, shit its a friday so I may just take the Metro ;)

did you go? Just wondering whether they're playing some new songs already. I love Mono, the first time I saw them I didn't know them yet. Just had my eyes closed all the time and enjoyed it immensely. People around me thought I fell asleep and kept poking me in the back though....
Didn't like their latest album so much, but live those songs were so good.

turns out this wasn't last week... it's this week!
going cause "it's a date":cool:

I did! But I could not tell you if anything they played was new. I'm not familiar with all of their catalog(I'm new to them). But I really enjoyed the show.


ANyways...a bit excited for next month. Noveller, Grouper, and TV Ghost(not together) are playing!

saw disappears last night
friday i'm gonna see retrovirus in austria IF the trains are running. stupid storm :(

Dum Dum Girls - December 14th

Bo Ningen - New Years Eve at Cafe OTO!

Stephen Malkmus - January 2014

Vibracathedral Orchestra - February 2014

Thurston Moore - February 2014

Thurston Moore, Dylan Nyoukis, Phil Minton, Moshi Honen, Sharon Gal, Steve Noble and Alex Ward - March 2014

Saw Ghedalia Tazartes on Monday, it was good.

Wished I'd gone to see MV & EE tonight but couldn't as I had to be home to help my new housemate move in.

I think my gig year for 2013 might be done.

They were GREAT. I saw Thurston Moore walking around in the crowd. Matt Valentine hi-fived him when they finished playing. I enjoyed Ghedalia Tazartes on Monday too.

I really wanted to go too, I didn't because I've been ill for over 2 weeks now and I think it's partly because of all the gigs I've gone to (driving to London and back constantly fucked me up)... EDIT: I had/have glandular fever

This has been my best year ever for gigs. I saw Thurston Moore 21 times, Body/Head and Lee Ranaldo twice, The Thing 3 times, Acid Mothers twice, Dinosaur Jr twice, Fushitsusha, Mainliner, Selvhenter, Jooklo Duo, Jandek, Lau Nau, Wolf Eyes and many more.... I can't wait for Bo Ningen at OTO on New Years Eve!

last friday: Scott Matthew
Tuesday: Esmerine
Thursday: Raggende Manne
The week after that possibly: Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung
which will be the last one of this year

Next year:
it starts with a threesome of Dutch bands: Hallo Venray, Bettie Serveert and Claw Boys Claw
then Lubomyr Melnyk, once, twice, possibly even trice!
Mogwai
Bill Callahan
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (2 times!)
A Winged Victory for the Sullen, they're doing live music for a ballet piece by Wayne McGregor
The Ex Festival incl. Thurston Moore (don't know which of the 4 nights I'll go to though)
possibly going also to: Weed, A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen

Lee+Dust, Bill Orcutt, Dec 13th, Echo, Los Angeles
Earth [live scoring Herzog's Fata Morgana], Dec 14th, Cinefamily, Los Angeles
Just found out about this one, super excited for it, under kinda weird 24-hour free-rolling-admission-pending-venue-capacity-with-RSVP membership-drive-cavalcade-of-craziness circumstances. Really hope I get in.http://www.cinefamily.org/films/telethon2013/

Recordings of all (but especially the Earth show) would be appreciated!

Planning on it, believe me. I just looked up the film, it's 79 minutes, hallucinatory Saharan desert mirage footage shot under trying circumstances; a perfect match. Will they improv, or play their tunes? According to Dylan's twitter they are currently recording a new album at a studio in Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave Desert (beautiful place just east of LA) with two new band members. Tinariwen just recorded somewhere out there too, I suspect outdoors as is their habit.

There will be a live stream of this event on the Cinefamily website, so you could try to capture the stream and record it that way too. Sometime between 5-9pm US pacific std time.

Never made it inside the venue, due to bait-and-switch last-minute ticket gauging. Adverts said non-members would be let in free on first come first serve basis. My budget is tight so I got there many hours early and was first in line, then at the end they sell off the last 10 available seats at $50 a pop. Kinda pissed. Made it home in time to see the very end of the live stream.

Wowzers, that is a very cunty switcheroo - I would be way angrier than "kinda pissed". Really sorry for you.

Richard Skelton / Lina Lapelyte / Rie Nakajima / Jennifer Walshe

Andrew Chalk Quartet / Matthew Shaw

Samara Lubelski / Thurston

Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura

Dead Neanderthals / Dead Days Beyond Help

Rafael Anton Irisarri / Moon Ate The Dark / Inigo Ugarteburu

MultipleTap: Doravideo / Hijokaidan / T.Mikawa / Toshimaru Nakamura / Jojo Hiroshige / Junko / Hatsune Kaidan / Makoto Kawabata / Tetsuzi Akiyama / Atsuhiro Ito / Tanaka Yumiko / Miho Wakabayashi / Ko Ishikawa / Makoto Oshiro / Painjerk / Takahiro Kawaguchi / Katsura Mouri / Ken Ikeda / Katsuyoshi Kou

^ holy shit. I am incredibly jealous. You're going to see hatsune kaidan!!!

And jojo is doing 3 different sets?!

When is this? Loving their stuff.

cibo matto in march!

Where are you finding 2014 tour dates?

Sun 26th January - South Street Arts Centre, Reading, UK

Thanks, I found this eventually. I was presuming it would be London for some reason. This is just down the road from me. I'll have to check my diary (it'll be empty).

I saw it on last.fm

Buffalo daughter announced they're opening for them for Midwest dates. So fucking excited.

Samara Lubelski & Thurston Moore

Am going to this line-up at Cafe Oto on 22 Feburary - http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/multipletap.shtm

Yay! We're all gonna see Pookie! We're all gonna see Pookie! We're all gonna see Pookie!

Yay! We're all gonna see Melly! We're all gonna see Melly! We're all gonna see Melly!