My friend Theo really likes Hope for a Golden Summer.\u00c2\u00a0 I heard their CD and thought it was pretty good, spooky, haunting.<\/p>\n
Monday March 19th
\nHospital
\n1021 S. Walnut St.
\nDoors\/Show 8:00pm
\n$5.00<\/p>\n*Drakkar Sauna* (Lawrence, KS, Marriage Records) —
\nhttp:\/\/www.drakkarsauna.com\/<\/a> and http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/drakkansasauna<\/a>
\nIf you haven’t caught this band in Bloomington yet then you’re a bad
\ncatcher. And not catching this band is as bad as not catching a
\nNational League pitcher’s weak line drive to center field that will lose
\nthe game for you. I’ve tried so many times to describe what these two
\nmen do — the close harmonies, the Louvin Brothers melodies, the Talking
\nHeads-ish lyrics, the loneliness, the humor, the one-man-bandness, the
\nbeards, the mustaches… but usually I just describe them as my favorite
\nband in America that sounds like classic country written by a crazy
\nstreet prophet, or acid-damaged Every Brothers with a one-man band
\nsitting in, or something. They will make you love life again — and if
\nyou haven’t stopped loving life, you’ll love it more. Here is a great
\nDaytrotter article about them —
\nhttp:\/\/www.daytrotter.com\/article\/78\/drakkar-sauna-to-fear-the-murder-ballad-is-to-not-know-the-murder-ballad<\/a><\/p>\n*Dark Meat* (Athens, GA, Orange Twin Records) —
\nhttp:\/\/www.myspace.com\/darkmeats<\/a>
\nDark Meat is a big band. “We call it a family band,” says bassist Ben
\nClack. “It’s kind of a weird association with old psychedelic bands.
\nEvery single person in our group, regardless of contribution, is equally
\nimportant. This is what we want to share with people. The aesthetic of
\nthe ’60s, the whole environment is what we want to recreate. We don’t
\nwant to make music that is reactionary; we want to make music that
\nexpresses our love for each other. That’s the bottom line.” Dark Meat
\nstarted two years ago as a four-piece Neil Young cover band. But when
\npeople kept coming over to listen when the group practiced, Clack says,
\nit felt really natural to have them join in. A month later, Dark Meat
\nhad 12 people. Last month they had 18. Dark Meat is: Dr. Cal Barfton,
\nT.J. Onions, Richard “Cheese” Mangana, F. Dartanion Bougnier and The
\nSpirit Bird, with Turkles Embrochure, Melville Honeytoast, Roosevelt
\n“Chirps” Cantrell, Theodore “Tedd” Hep, Quebeque Dinero, Barbi
\nBarbituate, John Fernandes and Harley McIllvaine as the Vomit Lasers,
\nand O.C. Toshira as the Energy Center, and Duter “XXX” Anomie as He Who
\nWears The Coat and Lil’ Tomato. There’s also Alice B. Tokas, and Hairy
\nAiry Ola as the Sub-Tweeters. Among the aforementioned, members of
\nVicariously Through Cats, Hope for Agoldensummer and The Olivia Tremor
\nControl are in the band. Expect epics at every turn, and get there early
\nto find a place in the room.<\/p>\n*Hope for Agoldensummer* (Athens, GA)
\nhttp:\/\/www.myspace.com\/hopeforagoldensummer<\/a> and
\nhttp:\/\/www.hopeforagoldensummer.com\/<\/a>
\nIn trying to find some stock reviews for this band all I was
\nsuccessfully able to drum up was an intense desire to see how great they
\nmust be live. Three women making timeless, southern, creepy, beautiful
\nmusic, is the best I can describe what I’m hearing at their MySpace
\npage. Amazing harmonies, incredible instrumentation (they list slide
\nguitar, bowed guitar, saw, accordion, slide whistle, etc.), and
\nincredible songs. They will, most likely, open the show — so get there
\nearly. This is from an old review, and despite a recent change (it
\nseems) in personnel, the review captures what I’m hearing. “Hope For
\nAgoldensummer have a stage set up that resembles a musty corner of a
\ntime worn attic; it’s(a little)dark,<\/p>\nquiet and stuffed with eclectic
\nitems certain to entertain and amuse. A wooden crate full of
\nold-fashioned glass Coke bottles languishes at the drummer’s feet while
\noff to the right, a saw awaits its turn to sing. To the left,a dinner
\nbell beckons the listener to sit down for a musical stew hearty enough
\nto satisfy the ears and the soul,chockfull of throaty blues,
\nexhilarating familial harmonies and lilting cello accompaniment…
\n[V]ocals come primarily from [Claire] Campbell and her sister Page, by
\nday an independent film maker, whose voices weave together to complement
\neach other in a hauntingly resounding way that befits their shared
\nblood. …So, besides vox humana, how many instruments do they handle?
\n“Probably around 15 different ones”, says Claire, “but that’s not
\ncounting the whistles and bells we just add, a lot of little toys we
\ntravel with”. Will Taylor (formerly in Grace) is a classically trained
\ncellist who dabbles in pennywhistle, while Deb Davis (formerly in The
\nJosh Joplin Group) alternates between guitar, accordion, xylophone and
\nthe aforementioned dinner bell. Percussionist Jamie Shepard plays a wide
\nvariety of percussive instruments (including trap drums, bells, and
\nthose Coke bottles) and occasionally banjo and concertina.”<\/p>\nThis show will be amazing. See you at 8pm on Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My friend Theo really likes Hope for a Golden Summer.\u00c2\u00a0 I heard their CD and thought it was pretty good, spooky, haunting. Monday March 19th Hospital 1021 S. Walnut St. Doors\/Show 8:00pm $5.00 *Drakkar Sauna* (Lawrence, KS, Marriage Records) — http:\/\/www.drakkarsauna.com\/ and http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/drakkansasauna If you haven’t caught this band in Bloomington yet then you’re a… Continue reading drakkar sauna, dark meat, hope for agoldensummer. 8p. $5.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lets-go","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-h0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}