With the Wilco retrospective just above this article, it looked like the design on her gown could be the YHF cover made all swirly and psychedelic, man.
Though I got this album shortly after it came out, it always felt like it existed long before my senior year of high school, like a hand-me-down. Maybe it truly is timeless, or maybe I just lump it in with the bundle of CDs (some earlier Converge, Cave In, Botch, Jawbreaker, ATD-I, etc) my brother gave me around that time that informed much of my late-high school/college listening.
Anyway, this album is very important to me and I've been lucky to see Converge a bunch of times over the last 20 years.
Oh yea, it's very good and I was so nervous I'd hate it. Though I've come around to Love Is Dead, Screen Violence is pretty much immediately excellent. Violent Delights is definitely a stand out.
So far, this fucking rules! Just about through the first half and can agree that it feels insanely cohesive.
Count me among the listeners who are drawn to this because of TR/AR. I've always been curious about Halsey because a lot of what I read about her makes me think I'd love her but I fall into the camp of, "I don't always love her voice..." I was seriously impressed by one of her SNL episodes a few years back, but couldn't get into whatever album she was promoting at the time.
The verse in Bells in Santa Fe that starts out with "Jesus needed a three day weekend..." that's some good shit. And it sounds like that wailing at the end of Easier than Lying is a sample of her screaming processed to sound like some radical (as in, tubular) klaxon in some fucked up stereo field.
As for her vocal affectations that have been noted elsewhere as being endemic to this generation of popstars - I think the woman who sings the Sealab 2021 (Julie Stepanek from Calamine) should be acknowledged for pioneering whatever you might call the vocal delivery style.
Cool! Looking forward to listening to these. I've been holding off on listening to the singles from Screen Violence, because the album roll out for Love Is Dead kinda wore me - and maybe most everyone else? - out.
I've warmed up a lot to Love Is Dead, though the dubstep/pop elements shoehorned in still make me cringe a little/a lot. Really hoping they lean hard back in to the darker, gothier stuff for the whole album.
Glad to see that they're not on the same night so Nate can get a break. If I thought there was anyway I'd be able to make it to LA for this, I would.
As much as I love Jane Doe (and Until...), my dream would be to see You Fail Me (orrrr AWLWLB) & White Silence sets, respectively. Or bring back the Blood Moon supergroup.
I love the first Darkside record, but nothing else that Nico has done sticks with me like it does. I don't think I've ever even checked any of Dave's other music out. Might be that the new one doesn't do much for me.
Hopefully not, because the LP I forgot I had preordered will be here on Monday.
This is nice, I'm a sucker for recorded piano that sounds like its coming from another room or from an open window of the second story of a brownstone.
Was also hoping this would be a cover of this Travis jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6evBAR5qG_4
I was just old enough to get caught up in all of the Woodstock '94 hype as it happened, and failed as a 15-year old to convince my parents to let me go to '99. My mom did order it on Pay-Per-View for me, and I remember noticing a shift in the energy while watching, and eventually the fires. Finding out what happened in the following days was a bummer.
The RATM and Metallica sets were some of the earliest music I downloaded when my family got cable internet. I also remember Collective Soul's set being one of the few stand outs, as well as being largely disappointed with the lineup and glad I wasn't allowed to go after all for lots of reasons.
Something about the poster reminded me of Lodge 49, so I went a-snoopin' for clues. No apparent connection, but the guy who wrote Back to School wrote this movie AND Paris Jackson is in it.
I guess at heart I will always be a massive Weezer fan but around the time of the White Album I was all Rivers'd out. Might check this out later, though.
I've always thought the "Stevie Wonder Isn't Blind" and "Fake Avril Lavigne" conspiracy theories were so absurdly hilarious... but if someone were to present some compelling evidence that Grimes has been A.I. or something since right around "We Appreciate Power" I would believe them without a shadow of a doubt.
Aside from NIN being one of two most important bands of my life, and it never NOT being cool seeing Trent win, I figured this score would be a shoe-in. The Jon/Trent/Atticus approach was a genius decision and provided maybe the most symbiotic score for a film I've ever heard/seen.
Holy shit. Darkside with some stank?
I'm in my late 30s, and there are a few bands that I still secretly/not-so-secretly daydream about being asked to join. Darkside is one of them.
For a while, U2 would tack on an "extra verse" that fans call the Shine Like Stars version of With Or Without You... which is really just an extended outro/crescendo and I encourage everyone to hear it because it takes the song to a whole new level, especially when Bono throws in some Love Will Tear Us Apart:
https://youtu.be/rr9LWb6yMK8?t=236
Spine tingling shit. If consumer level Time Travel ever exists in my lifetime, I am pretty sure I'll use it to follow U2 on tour from ~1986-1997.
Shocking. Anyway, I noticed that his Twitter bio reads like a series of vinyl decals on the rear window of a pick-up truck:
"WALL-EN. Southern boy by God's grace. Love Jesus, music, and my fam. RIP Grandad RIP T Cliff"
I love how they both sound like if Level Plane Records came to life and got lost in different sections of Hot Topic looking for HORSE the band merch.
Also DOS Ex Machina is def frontrunner for song title of the year.
Every chorus is a breakdown! This rules!
As an aside, I've spent a lot of the pandemic (finally!) learning how to program and sequence drum machines/synths/etc. and I feel like I've gotten pretty good... until I hear something like this and my brain starts doing circles trying to figure out HOW?!?!
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