Yesterday in Toronto it all went down!! At the Lula Lounge, a great place (tables and a comfy booth!), with a reletively small capacity (bonus) and Sloan!!!!

The show comprised of all new tracks off of the new album - Never Hear the End of It. They played for about an hour, no opening band. All I can say is that it was greatness, greatness! It was definitely worth the long drive.

From what I remember (I'm still learning song titles) they played Fading into Obscurity, Who Taught you to Live Like That?, HFxnsHC, Golden…

Last Thursday went to see another show with Sarah (3x1minus1) YAY!

In Buffalo on Thursdays during the summer they put on free outdoor shows and this was the only one worth seeing. SLOAN!!!!

After suffering through 2 opening acts (ugh). Well in actuality the first one was ok, well at least they somewhat brought the rock, a local Buffalo band called Johnny Nobody, meh whatever and the second act I couldn't stand, bored me to tears, and I was getting very very anxious to see Sloan so I was even less interested than I normally would be.…

Sonic Youth played an absolutely amazing show this past Tuesday, with the help of The Go! Team who opened for them.

Coming into the show I had only ever heard 2 songs by The Go! Team, both of which they played: Junior Kickstart and Huddle Formation. They started their set off with a track called "untitled" which was also rockin'.

I am still up in the air about The Go! Team. I know that they rock, I saw it for myself, and I hear many things that I like in their music, and a Sonic Youth influence…

July 29 and 30 in Chicago's Union Park was the Pitchfork Music Festival. Two days, 41 musical acts with record/cd vendors, poster artists, lots of food, beer, and scorching sun. Altogether a great time.

I have not the time, energy, desire or required attention span to go through every detail of the 2 days, so I will just go over personal highlights. I have seen other journals that go into much more detail so my doing it would be superfluous. Here we go…

Day 1: the festival started off with local Chicago band Hot Machines. I felt that their…

Saw this in a friends journal, needed to kill some time, so I filled it out.

Put your music player on shuffle.
Put on all songs or just a play list
Press forward for each question.
Use the song title as the answer to the question even if they don't make sense.

How am I feeling today?:
The Commercial

Will I get far in life?:
The Light Dies down on Broadway

How do my friends see me?
The Refugee
hahahaha

Where will I get married?
You Rascal You

What is my best friends theme song?
Love Song
….I don't think…

A friend of mine (same one that lent me The Power to Believe) introduced me to a great band…

The group is Jerseyband and they are the most unique outfit that I have ever heard.

They refer to themselves as in a genre unto themselves that they call "Lungcore", but I would explain it as Jazz/Metal/Zappa/Dixieland/Prog.

The album "Little Bag of Feet for Shoes?" is a mostly instrumental assault on the senses.

Each track is a dense complex jam of the tightest horn section that you have ever heard mixed with a thrash/speed metal guitar style (he plays a…

I was introduced to this album yesterday by a friend.

It is great to see that after over 30 years King Crimson is still creating music that is challenging, different and has the ability to move you.

This album does not adhere to any notions of what a good album should be. The songs are not 4 minute pop ditties, and the lyrics range from the philosophical to the funny, for example Happy with what you have to be happy with consisits of lyrics that satirize the typical pop-song structure while at the same time introducing complex polyrhythms and meter…

Interpol has been my latest obsession.

For some reason right before Christmas I decided to throw on my copy of Turn on the Bright Lights, vinyl of course. Well it was only a matter of time before I was spinning it non-stop, which then resulted in my recording it onto my computer (so much more convenient) and listening to it so that it 'counted'. I checked their site constantly, sort of discovering the world of Interpol, learning the guys names and their other scattered releases and history and what not.

I was, for some reason, surprised to see that…

Out of all the "the" bands that all of a sudden came to the forefront of the popular music scene a few years back, ca. 2000/2001 I think that The White Stripes are the only ones that will be around for the long haul.

At first listen the album White Blood Cells does not sound like the beginnings of a very important career in music, but listen closer, the seed has been planted. What I really want to say is howElephant, commonly seen as the sophmore effort (though it clearly is NOT) is quite a breakthrough, and…