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mt.st.helens
10/29/2009 8:00 PM at @ Reggies w/ The Ghost & Oceans (nope, it’s not 2003)
2109 S. State St., Chicago, Illinois
Cost:
Thu. Oct. 29 - 8:00 pm - 17+ -
THE GHOST
The best way to avoid a genre label is to write music that doesn’t fit a label. The Ghost convincingly disavow screamo, post-hardcore and culture in general. Steve Albini mixed their last release, and the guru’s influence lingers, each nervy guitar note poking a hole in stretched-taut rhythm tracks already stressed from the impact of big beats. Singer/guitarist Brian Moss grimly speaks of disasters, doubt, and patriots in mortuaries. "Erase the labels," he seethes. "Let’s keep music dangerous/The movement is dead/We need a resurrection." Here it is.
MT.ST.HELENS
With the flux of bands begging their fans to understand and accept their "lighter side", finally comes an band that hits hard and lets the waves of sound accentuate rather than take over. Terribly catchy in a way that is hard to describe. This is pretty, tense, emotional music, with lyrics that will touch anyone who’s ever found themselves sitting alone in a field wondering what went wrong.
BURN TIBET (members of Poke and Johnny Bodacious And The Bad Attitudes) - mp3
Meet Burn Tibet, what you might expect to hear if Glen Danzig fronted a band comprised of Peter Hook, Angus Young and Rick Allen (after the accident). We might not blow your mind, but we’ll let your [insert female next of kin, by relationship] blow all of us simultaneously (we’ll all fit; word is she’s all mouth). You might say we’re engineers, researchers with one common goal: to scientifically craft rock’n’roll capable of curing cancer. We’ll be holding a lecture for you. Wear loose clothing. Consume many fluids.
OCEANS - mp3
an instrumental juggernaut [that]...can lull you to sleep with a post-rock swagger but then clobber you over the head with a vicious math rock swing all in the same song.
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