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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Oatsdad on May 06, 2005, 04:54:00 pm
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I got a Pollstar update that listed they'll play the 930 6/25, and it's also on their website. What's the scoop with tickets?
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New shows are normally added on Thursdays...keep your eyes peeled. When the show is listed on this website, then tickets are available.
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oats -- i'd actually suggest that you keep on eye on tickets.com and s-k's website if you want to get them early ... tickets will probably go on sale before they're announced by the club
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Do y'all think this show will sell out that fast? I think it will sell out eventually, but I'm not sure it's one I'd fret over...
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eventually but not too fast
i'm so there.
and wilco the next day...woop woop
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From Other Music:
SLEATER-KINNEY
The Woods
(Sub Pop)
Maybe you've heard the buzzing rumors, and I'm here to tell you that they are all true. Seven albums in, and Northwest pop-punk heroes Sleater-Kinney have made a sharp left turn and delivered the best, weirdest, heaviest album of their career. I'm told that when the band jumped ship from Kill Rock Stars to super-indie Sub Pop, they began casting around for a producer who could help them shake up expectations on their new LP, and met with Dave Fridmann, the talented board-op behind the now famous orch-pop-psych sound of the Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev's last few records, as well as many other new classics. As the story goes, Fridmann told the girls that he pretty much hated all their albums, best known for a thin, intense two guitar interplay, frenetic drumming, and Corin Tucker's manic tremolo Jello Biafra vocal style. Despite, or perhaps because of, that bitter come-on, they agreed to retreat to Fridmann's Tarbox Road Studios in upstate NY to explore some new ideas, and the rough and raw beauty of The Woods was born.
Those familiar with Fridmann's resume might be expecting a produced pop masterpiece, replete with strings and horns and bubbling organs to compliment the hooks and energy that have always made Sleater-Kinney so exciting on stage. But from the opening guitar explosion, that will no doubt make you double check your player to confirm that you are hearing the right record (and then will force you to either crank the volume or turn it down right quick, depending on the hour and your neighborly attitude), it's clear that this is a new direction for both band and producer. I'd be shocked if you are not glued to the speakers for the remaining 10 tracks.
Raw, loose, impassioned and powerful, The Woods showcases a band who, against all probability, has continued to grow artistically through the most common onset of rock and roll maladies--namely success, age, and the dreaded family responsibilities (there is a baby or two waiting on the tour bus these days). The playing is intense, with pounding grooves (alternately rock solid and hypnotically off-kilter), and dense, overloaded guitars swooping and crashing and buzzing all over the place. Tucker's vocals still have that manic warble, but she and Carrie Brownstein sing both sweet and dirty throughout the disc, and Fridmann lets the powerful playing lead the way, often leaving Tucker shouting in the wind of her own amplifier, to intoxicating effect.
To be completely honest, I'm not 100% sure that all of Sleater-Kinney's longtime fans will be completely thrilled by the band's explorations. Although much of their trademark sound is still intact, with hypnotic guitar interplay, powerful, idiosyncratic vocals and thoughtful, intelligent and poetic lyrics, there is no doubt that the band has stepped out on a limb here, and an artist that is this popular would be defying the laws of physics (and probability) if we all followed them out there. But the band has made a primal, heartfelt statement, and in the end I'm confident that most of their longtime fans, as well as many new ones, will be moved. The rumors are true; Sleater-Kinney has made the best album of their career. [JM]
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talentless dross
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They are great live.
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Amazing live. I'm seeing them in San Francisco next weekend. I'll give everyone a preview. Funny though, I've never loved their records, but seeing them live they're terrif.
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Fantastic live. I've seen them five or six times and they've never disappointed me.
I'm extremely bummed to be missing the show next month, especially after hearing the new album, which, in my opinion, should make for a raging live performance.
The closest show I could make would be Toronto, but I'm boycotting Canada. I'll have to hope they do a second leg of the tour and hit Charm City.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
The closest show I could make would be Toronto, but I'm boycotting Canada.
Okay, what did Canada do now? They didn't send down another cold front did they?
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actually with the reviews the new album is getting I think it has the potential to sell out fairly quickly so keep an eye out for when they go on sale
I too will miss this concert but saw them at Recher last year and at 9.30 on the One Beat tour and they were fantastic
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Originally posted by O'Mankie:
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
The closest show I could make would be Toronto, but I'm boycotting Canada.
Okay, what did Canada do now? They didn't send down another cold front did they? [/b]
Worse -- they sent down a sonickteam.
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Personally, I'm stoked about the house concert they are doing at my crib. They'll be flying in special after playing Cork. It'll be a right Hootenanny with Your Pal opening.
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I hear the wind blowing.
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Originally posted by bearman:
Amazing live. I'm seeing them in San Francisco next weekend. I'll give everyone a preview. Funny though, I've never loved their records, but seeing them live they're terrif.
Exact reaction of several of my friends. In fact, one friend just sent me this in response to the reveiw above:
"I don't even listen to their records, yet I'll wade through flaming snot half a mile thick (to quote Valerie Solanis) to see one of their shows."
He's seen them at least five times with me, along with some others who either don't or only rarely listen to their albums.
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I really don't care for the production on Dig Me Out, I'm giving the new one a chance though. I just ordered it and am waiting for it to arrive. For some reason I really love watching them play live. First time I saw them was at Constitution Hall opening for Belle and Sebastian. Since then, I've seen them a few times and they always put on a consistently great show.
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Originally posted by bearman:
First time I saw them was at Constitution Hall opening for Belle and Sebastian. Since then, I've seen them a few times and they always put on a consistently great show.
Congratulations for hanging on and seeing them again after that. I thought that show (for SK) was a complete debacle. Terrible venue and situation for them to play, with everyone (or, the third or less of the audience in the auditorium and not out drinking up before they went to their seats) sitting and not quite sure how to take them. And they did not 'go' with the twee B&S sound.
Loved B&S, by the way. Their stage set up and light show was like some grand variety show from the late 60s....
Every other SK show I've been to has been incredible. And, they in fact seem to get better and better (though the first is often best, as that's when I was blown away ...)
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The new album is terrific. I'm amazed how much this band has grown.
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I agree....the woods is a surprisingly good disc, actually one of the better things Ive heard this year
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I'm definitly enjoying the new album.
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Another band I would have to kill but not as bad as Mates Of State, and believe me, that's not saying much at all. Yes, I have, unfortunately, seen them live and wished that I were dead while they were playing. I could not wait at all for them to get off the stage and out of my life. In fact, when they come on the radio, I have to turn it off.
Cheers, Relaxer.
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interview with carrie brownstein (http://www.theonionavclub.com/feature/index.php?issue=4122)
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Originally posted by Jaguär:
Another band I would have to kill but not as bad as Mates Of State, and believe me, that's not saying much at all. Yes, I have, unfortunately, seen them live and wished that I were dead while they were playing. I could not wait at all for them to get off the stage and out of my life. In fact, when they come on the radio, I have to turn it off.
Cheers, Relaxer.
Thanks babe, I hope you're well.
A friend of mine has the new album and I don't much like it. However, I have to show admiration for Let's Call it Love. Hearing S-K commit a 6+ minute guitar solo to tape is certainly unexpected. Of course, what makes it especially nice is that we get a rest from her yelping gulpy wail. And there's no way you can call that guitar solo particularly skilled.
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Originally posted by Bags:
[QB]Congratulations for hanging on and seeing them again after that. I thought that show (for SK) was a complete debacle. Terrible venue and situation for them to play, with everyone (or, the third or less of the audience in the auditorium and not out drinking up before they went to their seats) sitting and not quite sure how to take them. And they did not 'go' with the twee B&S sound.
Yeah, I was there and was totally perplexed as well. Props to S-K for still rocking out even though no one in the audience seemed to give a crapola. I would be very interested to know how that pairing came about.
(in other news, that's probably the only time Ian MacKaye will ever attend a Belle & Sebastian concert!)
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Did the Post review it. I didn't see a review anywhere.
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Sleater-Kinney's 'The Woods': Dark and Deep
By Joe Heim
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, May 29, 2005; Page N05
It seems not much of a stretch to interpret the title of Sleater-Kinney's new album, "The Woods," as a metaphor for the uncertain times in which we live. If getting out of the woods means finally reaching safety, then being lost deep in them can be worrisome, even cause for panic. There's little on this 10-song CD, the band's loudest, hardest, thrashingest effort yet, to suggest that Sleater-Kinney senses less-troubled days anytime soon.
Beginning with the sonic roar that kicks off the first song, "The Fox" -- a fierce post-rock parable -- "The Woods" is a blistering work of strategic venom, artful despair and unbridled, unflinching passion. It is angry and caustic, exciting and unnerving. It is sweeping in scope. It rocks like nothing you've heard in years.
Guitarists and vocalists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein and drummer Janet Weiss are the three women, along with producer Dave Fridmann, responsible for this 45-minute maelstrom of sound and ideas. The band's first release on Sub Pop, after years on the independent label Kill Rock Stars, is nothing less than its strongest start-to-finish album. For a group with several unimpeachable, time-tested releases already, that is no slight accomplishment.
Weiss is a brazen and aggressive drummer, heroic even. And Brownstein still plays guitar like she is chain-sawing through power lines. But a full decade into their career, it remains Tucker's ululating, otherworldly warble that most distinguishes Sleater-Kinney songs. An instrument all its own, her freaky vibrato is distress signal, call to arms and ward against evil all at once.
On the scathing "Wilderness," about both a couple and a country, she howls, "We're split right in half / It's making me crazy / A two-headed brat / Tied to the other for life." And on the Zeppelinesque "Let's Call It Love," an 11-minute hurricane-force rocker, her voice is equal to threats like "Show me your darkest side / And you better be my bloody match." Brownstein, too, takes her shots. On "Entertain," a blast at those simply rehashing art and music styles, she snarls: "You come around sounding 1972 / You did nothing new with 1972 / Where is the [expletive] you? / Where is the black and blue?"
Only on the sardonic "Modern Girl" does Sleater-Kinney throttle back its all-out rock approach. Sung by Brownstein, the deceptively gentle and melodic pop song reveals its fangs in increasingly bitter lyrics about unfulfilling lives and the emptiness of a culture in which everything is for sale.
There is little evidence of optimism in the other songs either: "Jumpers" is a tale of suicide; "Rollercoaster" frets about relationship stability; "Steep Air" growls at the status quo. By the final song, "Night Light," the pressures seem almost overbearing, and perhaps that is why it allows an admission of uncertainty and includes pleas for direction and purpose. "How do you do it?" Tucker sings. "This bitter and bloody world / Keep it together and shine for your family. How do you do it?"
Once again, Sleater-Kinney asks all the right questions. All the questions the times demand. We're not out of the woods yet. Not even close.
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It really is a solid record. I'm seeing them at the Warfield in SF on Saturday and Mary Timony is opening up, I am SO excited. I think it will be a great show. I'll give you a report.
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Holy crap...what an unbelievable show. Pretty much all the new record was played and towards the end SK sounded like a combination of peak-era Who and Sonic Youth. During "Let's Call It Love" they were all facing each other, rocking out, and Janet Weiss was just DESTROYING her skins. I have to say that I couldn't even stick around for the encore because I didn't want it to spoil what a high note the main set ended on. It was just stunning.
DON'T miss this tour folks. I sincerely hope that Janet can hold out because she has one hell of a job to do night after night. At least Keith Moon had pills, speed, coke, etc. to keep him sailing. Easily one of the best shows you'll probably see this year, and a bargain at 15 bucks.
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damn - makes me even more dissapointed I am going to miss the show in DC
Originally posted by bearman:
Holy crap...what an unbelievable show. Pretty much all the new record was played and towards the end SK sounded like a combination of peak-era Who and Sonic Youth. During "Let's Call It Love" they were all facing each other, rocking out, and Janet Weiss was just DESTROYING her skins. I have to say that I couldn't even stick around for the encore because I didn't want it to spoil what a high note the main set ended on. It was just stunning.
DON'T miss this tour folks. I sincerely hope that Janet can hold out because she has one hell of a job to do night after night. At least Keith Moon had pills, speed, coke, etc. to keep him sailing. Easily one of the best shows you'll probably see this year, and a bargain at 15 bucks.
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Originally posted by bearman:
Janet Weiss was just DESTROYING her skins.
In my opinion she is the reason this band SMOKES on tour. She is simply amazing. By far the best musician among them...
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Without a doubt one of the most underrated drummers out there. She KILLS. I couldn't take my eyes off of her, and as the show went on she seemed to pick up more and more steam. I am seriously thinking about going up to Philly as well. The tension in the music that came out of those three was brilliant...and it definitely comes with the experience of playing together. I always thought of SK as a really good band, but now I consider them truly great.
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I am so bummed to miss this show. I have meetings/conferences all that week, so I can't even hit Philly or New York.
woe is me.........
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I hope you all check out her drumming on the Quasi albums, I happen to think their music is better than S-K but I know I am in the minority.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
I am so bummed to miss this show. I have meetings/conferences all that week, so I can't even hit Philly or New York.
woe is me.........
Ditto, I'm outta town. :(
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GGW and Bags, you guys buy the CD version of the Woods with the live DVD? That's a little preview (but not quite as stellar as the show that I saw). They seemed much tighter.
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Nope, haven't gotten it yet. I will...I've mentioned before that live they're one of my top five or ten bands. Overall, they fall lower on the list...
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Originally posted by bearman:
GGW and Bags, you guys buy the CD version of the Woods with the live DVD? That's a little preview (but not quite as stellar as the show that I saw). They seemed much tighter.
Got it but haven't watched the DVD portion yet.
I've seen S-K six times or so and it's always a fantastic show. In listening to the new album it struck me how well it would translate live. Your review just confirmed it.
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bump - in case Relaxer was missing the SK thread :D
SK talk to the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1501525,00.html)
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Anyone else going to the show tomorrow night? I'll be there for sure.
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yes, i'll be there.
and it seems i have an extra ticket.
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You betcha.
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Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
yes, i'll be there.
and it seems i have an extra ticket.
might be interested in this ticket if still available.
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Originally posted by bearman:
Anyone else going to the show tomorrow night? I'll be there for sure.
I started the thread, so yeah, I'll be there!
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My friend and I are going tomorrow.
I called in asking about ticket availability and the club said that this show wouldn't sell out.
My other friend, therefore, didn't buy her ticket. :(
Does anyone have an extra ticket?
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I saw them at Roseland in NY on thursday. they were awesome. I have never been really enamored with their records but they are a different band live. i've seen them a few times and this was the best show i've seen by them. and the new album totally hits it live. enjoy tonite.
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I'll be seeing these three fine ladies rocking 9:30 tonight.
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This is going to be such an awesome show. Look for the bearded guy front in his Germs t-shirt left rockin' out. :)
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ROLLERCOASTER!!!!!!!!!
:D
Awesome show...those ladies rock.
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What an amazing show. No fucking bullshit.
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Does anyone have a setlist from last night.
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I thought it was great, but San Francisco was mind-blowing and even more intense. They seemed more relaxed last night. Better crowd in DC though. "Let's Call It Love" is just incredible.
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Awesome, awesome concert. One of the best concerts of the year. I've seen SK four times now, and these gals never disappoint. Great audience. Very energetic and appreciative.
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Originally posted by Darth Ed:
and these gals never disappoint.
I was disappointed.
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Um, OK... Let me rephrase. These gals never disappoint me.
By the way, I was impressed with Dead Meadow a lot. At first the muddy, fuzzy sound that drowned out the lyrics disinterested me, but they won me over. I wanted to buy one of their albums after the show, but they wanted $15 each for them, so I passed.
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you were there??? I hard that hard to believe, given your pathologic hatred of this band
Originally posted by Relaxer:
Originally posted by Darth Ed:
and these gals never disappoint.
I was disappointed. [/b]
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Originally posted by brennser:
you were there???
No, I wasn't. Just really really disappointed.
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Anyone catch em on Letterman last night?
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I like this quote regarding certain new bands:
Carrie Brownstein said, "these bands all sound like Gang of Four... if Gang of Four sucked."