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Oooh, they're coming to Toronto in May. Any suggestions when I should buy the tickets?
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Soon as, at it became difficult to get good seats for the shows over here and a couple sold out. Also Rave Tapes hit #10 in the UK album chart, not bad for a post-rock band (who aren't Sigur Ros anyway).
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Booo, no west coast dates.
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There's actually dates for both Portland and Vancouver, however if you're talking about California, they posted an addendum with more dates.
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angus725 posted:Oooh, they're coming to Toronto in May. No rush, I don't think they usually sell out. I've been to the last 4 Toronto shows and will be hitting this one too because I won tickets through the promoter. You should follow Collective Concerts on fb/twitter, they will likely give more away closer to the show. CC also hooked me with pairs for the Black Angels & Roky Erikson and Gary Numan.
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Jehde posted:There's actually dates for both Portland and Vancouver, however if you're talking about California, they posted an addendum with more dates. Oh, hell yeah! That's definitely more feasible. E: Wait... gently caress that's the same night as QOTSA in San Francisco. Decisions...
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Jan 31, 2014 00:37
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Russian Circles is headlining a US Tour!  I so very much have to see them in Cleveland. e for link: http://artistdata.sonicbids.com/russian-circles/shows
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Jan 31, 2014 06:56
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zxqv8 posted:Russian Circles is headlining a US Tour!
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I actually don't have Memorial. I'll have to get on that. So so so so so keen for Jakob to come out with a release date for their new album and Australian tour.
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How is A Silver Mt Zion live? They're playing Union Pool in Brooklyn and I want to get tickets, but I'm broke and wondering if I should charge them now or wait a week til I get paid (or they sell out)
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Jan 31, 2014 18:27
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A Silver Mount Zion are very good live, although I've seen people complain about all the audience interaction that Efrim does, he'll stop between every song and talk to the audience about whatever which I thought was pretty cool. However, they could easily fit another song in their set with all the time that takes up and some people would prefer that.
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Jan 31, 2014 19:01
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I'm going to see them in a few weeks and yes, I'd far prefer it if they were more like GY!BE in that respect: just play the songs.
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Yeah I don't remember Godspeed saying anything when I saw them for the entire hour and a half or so that they played. Maybe "thanks" at the end, but that's it. That's how shows should be.
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Stage banter is nice if the person doing it is engaging--Bomb the Music Industry! and Opeth come to mind. Sometimes you want a break.
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When I saw El Ten Eleven opening up for Bonobo, it was really hilarious because they made a point to say before one of their songs that it "wasn't made with any computers", and then Bonobo comes on stage after them blasting computer music. He had a live band with a vocalist and everything, but it was still funny.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Yeah I don't remember Godspeed saying anything when I saw them for the entire hour and a half or so that they played. Maybe "thanks" at the end, but that's it. Seen them twice, don't remember one word. Maybe this is Efrim's valve for getting all that out.
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Godspeed doesn't even have mics set up through which they could say something.
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Starsnostars posted:A Silver Mount Zion are very good live, although I've seen people complain about all the audience interaction that Efrim does, he'll stop between every song and talk to the audience about whatever which I thought was pretty cool. However, they could easily fit another song in their set with all the time that takes up and some people would prefer that. He does talk a lot. But every time I've seen them he's also been pretty funny. Circa 2006, at a SMZ show, some fan yells "WHEN IS GODSPEED GETTING BACK TOGETHER!" Efrim: "I don't know, when are you getting back together with your ex-girlfriend?" Anyway, holy gently caress the new SMZ is their best yet. It's like "13 Blues 2", which is a drat great thing.
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I just got around to listening to gently caress Off Get Free for the first time last night. What We Loved Was Not Enough is definitely my favorite new song of the year so far. I had to listen to that one like 3 or 4 times in a row because I liked it so much.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I just got around to listening to gently caress Off Get Free for the first time last night. What We Loved Was Not Enough is definitely my favorite new song of the year so far. I had to listen to that one like 3 or 4 times in a row because I liked it so much. What surprised me is that Pitchfork gave it a good review. I can't remember the last time they gave a post-rock album above a 6 or 7, and if they did it was probably only because they let Ned actually write a review. e: Well, to be fair, Silver Mt. Zion haven't really been post-rock for a few albums now, starting with 13 Blues they really committed to the blues/hard rock/gospel mix. Actually, even Horses in the Sky wasn't what people would normally call post-rock.
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My only previous experience with SMZ was their debut, which I wasn't big on, so I was surprised at how much I enjoyed gently caress Off Get Free. Definitely my current album of the year.
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Henchman of Santa posted:My only previous experience with SMZ was their debut, which I wasn't big on, so I was surprised at how much I enjoyed gently caress Off Get Free. Definitely my current album of the year. I think it's very safe to say you'd enjoy the three albums prior to the new one, at the very least. Around the "Pretty Little Lightning Paw" EP they got into the heavy, chanty sound. The debut and second album, while I love them, are quite different to all their other output. Definitely at least try Thirteen Blues and Kollaps.
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They've never been post rock you nutters.
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ICHIBAHN posted:They've never been post rock you nutters. The first and second album had songs on it that fit as well in with "post-rock" as bands like Labradford, who were always called post-rock. "Sit in the Middle of Three Galloping Dogs" definitely fits the label as well as, I don't know, Dirty Three. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Mot5iGloY e: I guess maybe you gotta realize that at one point everything from Trans Am to Fly Pan Am was lumped into the post-rock category. precision fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Feb 8, 2014 |
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Aye it's a shite genre.
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ICHIBAHN posted:Aye it's a shite genre. Yeah even if you think about it, Godspeed sounds more like later Swans than it does any other post rock band (except maybe Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles). It's a useful term that most means "stuff that people who like post rock think other people who like post rock might like", but it's so ill defined it borders on useless.
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Sounds like it's time to break out this old chestnut!Constellation Records posted:"This is our 'post-rock' -- a term that must be construed politically in equal measure to its referencing of some diffuse 'instrumental' or 'deconstructed' musical aesthetic. 'Indie rock' was never a genre and its bastardisation as an aesthetic category was one of countless elegant corporate-intellectual coups during the 1990s. Sadly, all too many hipper-than-now taste-makers were happily complicit, ready to replace 'indie' with 'post' and thus help extinguish any abiding concern about the economies that ground and contextualise rock music. So gently caress post-rock, and the smooth untroubled consumption it enables. Independent rock as a utopic analogue for social organisation is our mandate." I agree 100%.
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But I need my handy two-word phrase to lump hundreds of fairly disparate bands into one category!
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Do ASMZ play with a support act? How long do they give you?
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Whatever "post rock" means, this sounds like it to me and if anyone can ID the band/song I would appreciate it, tia (the multimillion dollar house this is an ad for is also pretty cool to look at!) Organic Modern Estate
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BobHoward posted:Whatever "post rock" means, this sounds like it to me and if anyone can ID the band/song I would appreciate it, tia That song is awesome and definitely rock of a postal sort. I wanna say it's old Do Make Say Think but it's not. drat it! Someone solve this mystery!
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I finally saw Russian Circles live for the first time tonight. The sound ranged from just okay to really loving great. It was kind of a 50/50 mix. Half was just alright and the other half was incredible. The crowd was pretty loving weird. 90% of it was white dudes, which makes sense, but there were several bro dudes, drunk guys that started a pit and literally got into a fistfight with people who tried to stay out of the pit, drunk girls that were making out with each other on the floor, guys and their girlfriends who were PDAing throughout the whole show, etc. The bro dudes were the ones who went craziest out of probably the entire crowd, and by went crazy, I mean they were throwing up bullhorns, waving their hands around a couple inches away from the guitarist and bassist, yelling douchey remarks both in between and during songs (at one point one of them yelled "Play something in Russian, Circles!"  ), etc. Although everyone in that bitch went nuts for songs like Deficit and Youngblood. Overall it wasn't the worst post-metal show I've been to but it wasn't the best either. I'd been waiting to see them for years and it felt like they delivered in some ways but not others. Maybe I'd see them again, maybe I wouldn't. I don't know. I'm not already looking forward to seeing them again, though. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Feb 11, 2014 |
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If there's one thing I've learned about post-metal bands, it's that they have some truly awful fans. I think the worst offender in this regard, that I've personally seen, is Jesu.
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I saw 65daysofstatic in Sheffield years ago and there was a guy literally popping pills in the front row.
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Stoat posted:I saw 65daysofstatic in Sheffield years ago and there was a guy literally popping pills in the front row. Why is that bad? I'd see that band on Ecstasy or painkillers, both would be interesting ways to enhance it. Or is "popping pills" associated with a certain sort of person in the UK?
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Has there been much talk of Cloudkicker in here? The man behind it put together a short tour in April with Intronaut as the band, and I decided I need to go to it. http://blog.cloudkickermusic.com/post/74729258459/tour-details http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/570496 Turns out I'm seeing the first show on March 29th before the tour officially kicks off  . I live in the man's home town, so this is cool as all hell. I'm kinda excited for it, even though it feels sorta far away.http://cloudkickermusic.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfm_ROTbUCw I'm not huge on Intronaut, but I remain hopeful they'll be a good fit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1LmYsCzAgw
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precision posted:If there's one thing I've learned about post-metal bands, it's that they have some truly awful fans. I think the worst offender in this regard, that I've personally seen, is Jesu. This is disappointing to hear, I still haven't seen Jesu, and I love his music. People who talk through post-rock/metal shows are generally the most irritating, especially when it's during the quiet parts.
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nomapple posted:This is disappointing to hear, I still haven't seen Jesu, and I love his music. People who talk through post-rock/metal shows are generally the most irritating, especially when it's during the quiet parts. I think I said it before, probably in this thread, but people talking all the way through Eluvium when he was supporting EITS in Manchester made me sad. I love Eluvium but could barely hear him. 
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New ...Of Sinking Ships album coming on 3/25 and it sure does sound pretty so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP9kFfali50 Doesn't sound as simple as the first album, which I really loved about that album, but I dig this too.
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zxqv8 posted:Has there been much talk of Cloudkicker in here? The man behind it put together a short tour in April with Intronaut as the band, and I decided I need to go to it. They're also touring with TesseracT, who in my opinion are (along with Uneven Structure, Vildhjarta, and Ever Forthright) one of the few really good bands to come out of the "djent" scene.
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