Music

Some thoughts on going to see one of my very favorite bands for what is probably the last time. tinnitus.robweychert.com/2019/10/19/mis…

There is now no good way to filter your library by composer (among other useful data categories), which is a real bummer.

I get why Apple took the Artist/Album/etc filters out of the Songs view in the desktop version of Music (née iTunes) but I wish they hadn’t.

For most of their existence, and especially since the market for recorded music collapsed, the Misfits have been more of a fashion brand than anything, their logo adorning virtually any object that could conceivably accessorize with a shade of Manic Panic or a pair of Doc Martens. The unlikelihood of a proper Misfits reunion stemmed from the decades-long feud between founding members Glenn Danzig and Jerry Only over how those sweet merch profits should be… See more →

Finally saw my first live performance of Steve Reich’s “Music for 18 Musicians”… in the middle of a shopping mall. Capitalism rubs it in.

I came on here to complain about inconsequential bullshit and now I find out Kim Shattuck passed away. 😞

The shuffle just followed 00’s-era Scott Walker with ’80s-era Berlin and it… kinda worked?

Thanks to the guy on the C train blaring “Kung Fu Fighting” on repeat, I knocked out my quadrennial KFF listening quota in a single morning!

This is about the zillionth time I’ve seen @lowtheband and I think the first time I’ve seen them play “Do You Know How to Waltz?” What a gift. My favorite moment of 2019 so far.

So this is my day. Tune in to see if some of my old @Harmonix buddies and I are still any good at Beatles Rock Band after 10 years! twitter.com/alex_navarro/s…

today youtube recommended i watch a video of a guy playing enter sandman on drums with dildos and then i closed youtube

The books I read this summer.

Can’t wait to participate in this! Can’t believe Beatles Rock Band came out 10 years ago. Hopefully my skillz are still intact. twitter.com/alex_navarro/s…

you can make new music if you want but tbh you’ll be fine if you just cover gary numan songs

Ticket scalpers make me wonder if I should reevaluate my opposition to capital punishment.

When my friend Alex from my Harmonix days announced on Twitter that his first show playing drums for the NYHC band None Above All was coming up, I thought it would be fun to surprise him, see him do his thing, and catch up a bit. And it was! His band was on first and I figured I’d split when they were done. But as soon as I got there, the room’s overwhelming majority of… See more →

I wonder if they’ll round out the set with unlistenable nonsense just to piss off the audience, classic Bungle style. Regardless, I’m there! twitter.com/brooklynvegan/…

I know it’s punk rock and it’s the late show and everything, but this isn’t someone’s basement. A 30-minute set from the headliner? Weak.

Biggest difference between tonight’s @bssmusic show and when I last saw them in 2004 was the woman next to me doing a crossword on her phone

Black Midi is amazing and I am old. tinnitus.robweychert.com/2019/07/18/bla…

Teenagers have shown us on many occasions that they’re capable of making fresh, exhilarating music, but that music is usually rooted firmly in an existing paradigm: hip-hop, punk, etc. Teenagers are students and students are formalists. One of the most striking things about Black Midi’s fresh, exhilarating, teenage music is its lack of an obvious reference point. It is at times reminiscent of Slint and their math rock descendants, and the funk-tinged post punk of… See more →

I swallowed my pride and went to a Phish show. tinnitus.robweychert.com/2019/06/29/phi…

For years, Alice Cooper couldn’t put his finger on what was missing from his first draft, “School’s Out (for Presidents’ Day).”

[The Heights (1992) intro plays]
Me: [saxophone sounds]
Her: Put the sax away
Me: You’ll never learn to talk to an angel with that attitude

So I went to a Phish show. It was a big deal, not because I love Phish, but because my partner Leah loves them, and I emphatically do not. In our nearly 14 years together, this hasn’t been a problem (apart from the time she tried to make the case that a band I like is similar to Phish, and I, uh, did not respond well), but after I reluctantly agreed to finally go to… See more →

One of the things I like about standing-room-only venues is that any applause is a standing ovation.

I like Uranium Club so very much, and I was fully prepared to travel to see them (after I learned to speak the incantation that makes their sporadic, unadvertised tour dates appear momentarily in hexadecimal at the bottom of a beer bottle), but then they just showed up in my backyard.

I hadn’t been to Brooklyn Bazaar before, so I wasn’t quite prepared for its ballroom’s 250 capacity, which held about triple the amount of… See more →

Signing up via FB makes your Spotify username become a random number when you leave FB. Guessing who my friends are is actually kind of fun.

Fun fact: 25 years ago today, I met @Metallica. tinnitus.robweychert.com/1994/06/14/met…

In my dream, I agreed to produce a @HighonFireBand album, but had to come clean about being entirely unqualified and busy with summer school

4:30am, can’t sleep, listening to the funny Analyze Phish podcast to prep for a concert I’ll reluctantly attend at the behest of my beloved.

Saw a guy with a Tones on Tail shirt. Then saw another guy with a Blondie shirt. Looked down and suddenly my shirt had Siouxsie Sioux on it.

Just read some nonsense about how Hootie is actually more than middlebrow mush. What’s your most audacious pop-cultural reversal of opinion?

At @thetrocadero for the last time. 😢

The Big Mess Cabaret’s endearingly sloppy mix of queer-friendly vaudeville, drag, and burlesque was the first act booked when Joanna Pang took over ownership of the Troc from her father in 1994, making it a fitting finale for the venue 25 years later.

I so love the mere fact of an artist as singular as Björk that I often forget how little of her music actually grabs me. I’m a huge fan of her masterful millennial output, 1997’s Homogenic and 2001’s Vespertine, but given how much else she’s done that doesn’t move me like those records do, it’s probably not fair to call myself a big fan of Björk herself. Cornucopia, advertised as her “most elaborate staged concert… See more →

Reich Richter Pärt is a pair of collaborations between the American composer Steve Reich, the German painter Gerhard Richter, and the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. I’m an admirer of all three men, so this event was a no-brainer for me, and since I knew Frank would be into it too, I invited him along as a belated birthday gift.

The first performance pairs Pärt’s 2014 choral piece, Drei Hirtenkinder aus Fátima, with wallpapers and tapestries… See more →

Added a U.S. map to Tinnitus Tracker. As well as being an overview, it’s something I aim to fill in more. tinnitus.robweychert.com/state/