The performance felt and looked like a juxtaposition of elements meeting in contradictory terms.
It felt hopeful and brimming with hopefulness.
It felt joyous and lachrymose.
It was like a meeting of doppelgangers at opposite ends of the spectrum.
It was one of the best experiences that we’ve had at the Observatory. The sound was great (it could’ve been a little bit more louder). The crowd was respectful on all sides, they were quiet and if they needed to move they would do so in a polite manner. They were loud and responsive when the show required for them to be such.
And the visuals were amazing.
Having 4 projectors running at the same time and having someone manually change the film to convey the images it gave the show another layer.
This is the setlist:
Hope Drone / Bosses Hang / Anthem for No State / Fam/Famine / Undoing a Luciferian Towers / Moya /BBF3
Directed by Ava Hazelmyer “We’re very excited to have a video for our song ‘Don’t Forget To Breathe,” directed by the hyper-talented Ava Hazelmyer. Hopefully there will be more collaborations with her in the future,” said Buzz Osborne. “We can’t wait for people to hear Pinkus Abortion Technician and for them to see both of these killer bassists on our upcoming tours!” “I like to make scenes devoid of context or overt meaning, explained Hazelmyer. “I like taking everyday things and dropping them into an absurd setting. I like the idea of something being experienced without any preconceived notions or connections.”
The eight-song album is the band’s first to feature two bass tracks on every song, with the bass players being Steve McDonald (Redd Kross, OFF!) and Jeff Pinkus (Butthole Surfers).
With it now they have shared the video for the song “Too Tough To Kill”.
The director Colin Marchon says, “The project is a kind of America-sploitation video in response to the frustratingly stagnant state of the country. The song felt like the perfect context to speak to that. Technically speaking I don’t really consider myself an animator. It just feels really fun and cathartic to cut up images that speak to me or make me laugh and play with them in front of a camera. The editing is a little more complicated but as a full time commercial filmmaker the medium is just a very easy outlet to let out my subconscious after work.”
Per the press release from the label’s site:
A couple of years ago, A Place To Bury Strangers made one of those big decisions Ackermann speaks of on “Never Coming Back.” They were in search of a new drummer and Lunadon met Lia Simone Braswell who was playing shows around Brooklyn where she had recently relocated from Los Angeles. After seeing her play, Lunadon was moved to ask Braswell if she’d want to come to a band practice sometime.
“As things go on, you don’t want them to be stagnant,” Ackermann remarks. “Being a band for ten years, it’s hard to keep things moving forward. I see so many bands that have been around and they’re a weaker version of what they used to be. This band is anti-that. We try to push ourselves constantly, with the live shows and the recordings. We always want to get better. You’ve got to dig deep and take chances, and sometimes, I questioned that. It took really breaking through to make it work. I think we did that.”
They are already on tour supporting the album and will be playing (hopefully very loud) at the Casbah on June 7th. Supporting that show will be Sextile and Keepers.
Here’s the rest of the tour schedule:
06/01/18 Austin, TX – Barracuda w/ Prettiest Eyes / Xetas
06/02/18 Dallas, TX – Club Dada w/ Prettiest Eyes
06/03/18 San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger w/ Prettiest Eyes / My Education
06/05/18 Sante Fe, NM – Meow Wolf w/ Prettiest Eyes
06/06/18 Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar w/ Sextile / Strange Lot
06/07/18 San Diego, CA – The Casbah w/ Sextile / Keepers
06/09/18 Los Angeles, CA – The Regent Theater w/ Sextile / Prettiest Eyes
06/10/18 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall w/ Sextile / Prettiest Eyes
06/12/18 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios w/ Sextile / Tender Age
06/13/18 Vancouver, BC – Fox Cabaret w/ Sextile / Dopey’s Robe
06/14/18 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile w/ Sextile
7/14/18 Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw
10/12/18-10/14/18 – Joshua Tree, CA @ Desert Daze
New music from Papa M / David Pajo, ‘A Broke Moon Rises’ music for four acoustic guitars, is out August 17th via Drag City, you can listen to the first single “Walt’s” on Papa M’s bandcamp.
“Following his phoenix-like rise from the ashes in late 2016, Papa M strikes back with just four acoustic guitars and a bit of drums. Naturally, it’s completely spellbinding and hypnotizing!” – Drag City Records.
Here is “Shillelagh” brutally remixed by Panicker, off the new Dead Cross EP available via Ipecac Recordings.
The video was produced by the talented Eric Livingston, who created the cover art for both Dead Cross full-length debut and this EP. Dead Cross will begin their first European Tour on June 2nd at Primavera Sound.
Have you listened to Wand’s “Perfume” EP?, if not, you should!, it’s available now via Drag City.
They are performing tonight at Casbah San Diego, you can get tickets at the door, don’t miss this show!
Get lost in “Black walls”, new song by Chromatics, taken from the long awaited album ‘Dear Tommy’, to be released via Italians do it better later this year.
You Were Never Really Here is a movie directed by the amazing Lynne Ramsay with Joaquin Phoenix in the lead role of a war veteran suffering from PTSD who is a hired gun for rescue missions of children in sexual exploitation situations and abuse by human traffickers.
The movie is not for the faint of heart. The themes are heavy. The situations are grim. The acting is impeccable. The score is exceptional. The directing is perfect.
Yet, the movie experience is difficult. It’s difficult because of the subject matter. Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) gets called for another job in which he has to go rescue the daughter of a politician who has been kidnapped. After the succesful, and mesmerizing, rescue mission is done, this is were everything starts to go wrong for Joe and he has to go deeper into the rabbit hole to help the girl.
Mind you, that is only one of the themes in the movie. You, as a viewer, still have to go through the journey with Joe in dealing with his demons. And how these demons are always on his shoulder. Sometimes carrying him. Sometimes drowning him. Sometimes just not letting him be him.
Jonny Greenwood’s score is the glue that holds together the anxiety of going thru this movie experience. And just like his previous scores for Paul Thomas Anderson, this is amazing. The score itself is another performer in the film.
This movie could also serve the purpose, for those out there that suffer from depression, that they’re not alone. That what they do IS worthwhile for someone. To seek help and to allow that help to comfort them in dealing with said demons.
I do hope that the trio of Lynne Ramsay, Joaquin Phoenix and Jonny Greenwood work together again. Because they could create films that need to be seen and experienced.
If you care about film, you need to go see this movie.
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