3 posts tagged “pennsylvania”

Hardworlder 9 comments

Fire Lances Of The Ancient Hyperzephyrians 8 comments

  I was once watching Henry Rollins talk about meeting William Shatner for the recording of “I Can't Get Behind That” from his album, Has Been. In the story, he recalls the Shat asking him, “Henry, do you hear a guitar?”

His reply: “No, but I hear a high pitched whine in my right ear since 1982.”

This quote kept replaying itself in my head as I watched The Sword and Slough Feg destroy the Neurolux in a way that would make Slayer proud, and now I'm hearing it loud and clear despite the high-pitched whine in my own right ear. While Children dropping off the bill was rather disappointing, it gave the other bands much longer sets to work with, making the $10 cover more than worth it. Both bands played for roughly an hour, and didn't let up for a second.

San Franciso's Slough Feg (formerly The Lord Weird Slough Feg) is a band that started life in 1990 in Pennsylvania. Their sound is a more traditional, hard rock style of metal with a doomy edge. Vocalist/guitarist Mike Scalzi spent as much time standing on the floor monitors as he did standing on the stage and the band ripped through their set with more energy than most bands half their age. Between songs, Mike asked trivia questions and threw records to the people who answered them correctly. He also seemed to be all about posing for pictures whenever he saw a camera. The band sounded tight, and were a lot of fun. Definitely worth catching on their own.

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Both of these bands are still on tour. Unfortunately, Slough Feg will only be playing with The Sword for two more shows, in Salt Lake and Denver. The Sword is touring through July, including an east coast tour with Torche and Stinking Lizaveta, and then a European tour with Metallica! I can't emphasize enough that this band is about to be inconceivably huge, so catch them in a tiny club while you still can!

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Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies West Coast Tour 2007 Tour 2007 10/10 Las Vegas, NV Art Bar 10/12 Phoenix, AZ, Casablanca Lounge 10/13 Tucson, AZ, Dry River 10/14 San Marcos, CA, The Jumping Turtle 10/16 Los Angeles, CA, Knitting Factory 10/17 San Luis Obispo, CA Frog & Peach Pub 10/18 San Francisco, Edinburgh Castle 10/20 Redding, CA, Red White & Brew Pub 10/21 Eugene, OR, The Black Forest 10/23 Portland, OR, Kelly's Olympian 10/25 Seattle, WA, The Mars Bar 10/26 Olympia, WA 4th Ave. Tavern 10/27 Bend, OR 541 Lounge 11/03 Las Vegas, NV The Beauty Bar Discography [2005] How I Remember Them (EP) [2007] Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies Band Members ♥ Steve Goldberg ♥ Donald Norman ♥ Mink Shoals ♥ J.J. Josephs

Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies - The Spy (Part 1)

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You should keep an eye (or an ear) out for this band, Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies. This Pennsylvania, band are about to set sail for their "Cheesy Western Tour '07".

"The Arch Enemies" was a term that Goldberg used to call his backing musicians when he was playing shows around Pittsburgh as a solo artist in 2005. The nickname stuck and now represent any band members (which currently looks like there are three of them).

His debut album was recorded over a span of eight months while studying abroad in England last year. The result was a record full of abnormal instruments (at least unconventional in a pop record).

I have to tell you that this is a fantastic record. You can hear all of the songs on their website, but I will go through some of the songs that stood out for me.

"Julia" - Contains the best lyrics:

Julia, you got a lovely uvula
I wanna take you to Florida
so please say yes
We'll start a family
play lots of D&D
and watch the Goonies
on VHS

"The Spy (Parts 1 & 2)" - The two songs are very different in style, but they are tied together in some strange ways. In the first part, it's mostly about a spy who's cover has been blown and now goes into hiding and finding out that he's quickly has nowhere to turn.

The second part seems to be through the point of view of the loved one that the spy have left behind.

"23rd Century Identity Crisis" - An absolutely cute song about wanting to be a robot because they would have a self-repairing heart.

I wanna live on logic
with gears and sprockets
and forget how loneliness feels

The other song that kind of has similar theme is "February Third" which is about a garage sale - that is until you realize it's a garage sale of his heart.

Being a cover lover, I did notice that he's covered The Magnetic Fields' "The Book of Love" on his EP (although I haven't heard his version yet). I think any fans of indiepop should feel right at home with Steve Goldberg.

 09/26/2007 23:48:52  vu my♥posts vu@weheartmusic.com www.stevegoldbergmusic.com

The Lightning Bug Situation - The New Dad

The Lightning Bug Situation

The Lightning Bug Situation the stage name for Brian Miller, from San Francisco, California. He is also half of another band called The Speakers, who are Miller and Peter Musselman. They are childhood friends from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

A Leaf; A Stream is one of those albums that needs to be listened to in one entire sitting because each track flows into each other. Just keep that in mind when you listen to the audio track that I've picked out for you: "The New Dad".

This album came to me via, Brent, a massive fan, who's convinced that the A Leaf; A Stream (2007) album is the alternate soundtrack to Solaris (1972). He even went so far as to setup a myspace page for his theory.

Fortunately, in my 2,000 DVDs, I do have the Criterion Edition of Solaris and the first thing I did was compared the minutes: they obviously don't match up. Solaris is a very long movie, clocking in at two hours and forty-nine minutes, while the A Leaf album is only 51 minutes (you will have to repeat the album more than three times).

To test this theory, I followed the instructions by Brent and will include an excerpt on our Stage6 Video. Let me know if this theory holds up. The two songs featured in the Solaris video is "Under Your Jacket" and "Topher's Last Song".

Also, The Lightning Bug Situation and A Leaf; A Stream album was recently featured on NPR's Open Mic

I know lately I've been putting in a lot of videos, and especially Stage6 which requires you to download and install their web player. I personally prefer Stage6 because they offer high-definition content, but many people don't want to install additional software like the divx web player... but trust me, once you get a taste, you will not go back to the poor youtube quality.

 August 19, 2007 10:36 PM  vu my♥posts vu@weheartmusic.com thespeakers.info