Music

To my Philly people: I’m not saying I hadn’t been to an R5 show in ages, but the last time I saw the sound guy, he was clean shaven.

You know you’re listening to a completely phenomenal live album when you start clapping on the bus.

3 states, 3 planes, 3 trains, 2 shuttles, 2 cars, 1 cab, 2 friends, 1 relative, 4 legendary thrash bands.

Today’s agenda: 1. Drive across the desert with @essl and @VictoriaMia. 2. yfrog.com/h0bjeifj

Indio’s Motel 6 is currently dirtbag central. We are home.

I'm at The Big 4 Festival in Indio, CA gowal.la/c/459Fh

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En. Ter. To. The. Realm. Of. Sa. Tan. (@ Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) w/ 280 others) 4sq.com/flnoBB

Heavy Metal, you damn well better appreciate what I’m doing for you. yfrog.com/gznnkgej

Oh man. That first Boston record. You know?

Puzzled as to why musicians with taste are willing to subject their music to the established filmic conventions of the music video.

Okay, Kanye is the appropriate beverage to understand about the boardwalk. — thatcan.be/my/next/tweet

A free four-song live EP from The Misfits, and the Catholic Church. Wow. — thatcan.be/my/next/tweet

Four different versions of TV on the Radio’s new album on @amazonmp3. When did Microsoft become a record label?

Trying @songkick. Looks promising, but it failed to import 50 of my past gigs from @lastfm, which is definitely the wrong foot to start on.

Yowza, there’s a ton of great stuff in this month’s 100 $5 albums from @amazonmp3. I picked up ten of ’em. amazon.com/s/ref=amb_link…

Listening to the Dysrhythmia catalog reverse-chronologically, which is the wrong way to do it. I forgot how much their craft snowballed.

Okay, fine, I’ll go see Low three times in one month.

Thin Lizzy without Phil always seemed like a bad idea, but holy hell am I glad I saw them tonight. He’s gone but certainly not forgotten.

By all means, bring your identity-starved girlfriend accessory to the metal show and clutch each other all night like junior high is ending.

Mixed feelings about Godspeed You Black Emperor tonight. Iffy setlist, but great to hear them live and insanely loud again after so long.

Building a dynamic HTML guitar with @shauninman. @ Hampton Inn Downtown gowal.la/c/3JTGn

Two Morphine albums’ worth of hand-cut, blank business cards awaiting personalization at SXSW. instagr.am/p/CJQmi

It was worth tomorrow’s dragging ass to stay up past tonight’s bedtime to decipher a great song on the guitar.

Getting a late start on 2011 music with a great little EP from my reverb-drenched Boston pals The Fagettes: thefagettes.bandcamp.com

Angel Witch on the Barcade speakers. I win.

I don’t like the execution, but the idea is adorable.

And today’s award for “Unconscious Lettering Influence Taken From Megadeth’s Logo” goes to…

This is more like it.

Watched Odd Future’s Fallon performance like five times today. Just fucking fantastic. youtu.be/XlGWRPnp0ok

I wish there was more information here. Is this inflation-adjusted? How are sales distributed across singles, albums, etc?

Why must everything be ten times more difficult when the tape is rolling? And why can’t the capo and B7 be friends?

Got my tickets for TV on the Radio City Music Hall. Now to devise some sort of Japanese game show to determine who gets my extra ticket.

How was I supposed to take religion seriously when it insisted I be terrified of this man? youtu.be/5P4uir-GSVg

First SNL episode I’ve seen in ages. Surprising number of laughs, and not just the Dana Carvey throwback stuff. Funniest part? Linkin Park.

Cranking up Black Rose: A Rock Legend in honor of the late Gary Moore. Rest in peace.

Old song, new meaning.

Tonight I danced my ass off to a live Dismemberment Plan set for the first time in seven years.

A day that @essl and I discuss heavy metal is a day that the word “dude” is very safe from extinction.

I’m not sure there has ever been a subject more deserving of a documentary probe than this one.

Hüsker Dü’s “Reoccurring Dreams” works surprisingly better in practice than in theory.

Can someone explain Rihanna’s appeal? She always looks and sounds so bored. How does she convince anyone to feel differently?

Every so often, I’ll remember that there is still a band out there that thinks it is The Misfits, and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Ownership of the Zen Riffer means being the punch line to the joke that is the Zen Riffer. zenriffer.com

Travis’s vocals on “What Do You Want Me to Say” are kind of terrible, but they sound fucking great otherwise. Can’t wait to see them next week.

Therapy?’s Troublegum may be the perfect ’90s teen angst record. Maudlin lyrical literalism, the perfect synthesis of abrasive and melodic.

If your film’s trailer uses “In the Hall of the Mountain King” or “Baba O’Riley”, go directly to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.

If Archers tour, my show-going ratio of current bands to reunited bands may just tip irrevocably into "you are old and irrelevant" territory.

Stunned and saddened by Trish Keenan’s untimely passing, but glad I got to see Broadcast while she was still with us. avclub.com/articles/rip-t…

Reconnecting with early Skinny Puppy, annoyed by all the inessential junk they crammed into the reissues.