I stood behind a couple of bros during a portion of Limp Bizkit's concert Sunday at the Granada. (Here's my review.) Not only did they know every word to every song, the ecstatic dudes appeared to associate specific memories from high school with hits like "My Way." Limp Bizkit was obviously their favorite band- then, now and always.
I envy that sort of single-minded dedication. My love of most everything makes obsessing on just one thing impossible.
That's why I was delighted when I encountered the handiwork of a kid in my neighborhood. I can't remember the last time I scrawled a musician's name on a driveway in pink chalk.
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Mac Lethal is an author.
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Making Movies made a video for "Cuna De Vida".
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"The Loon" is a new name-your-own-price track by The Jinxed. RIYL: Ben Folds Five, Pablo Cruise, Ha Ha Tonka.
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I'm digging Made To Break's Provoke. RIYL: Ken Vandermark, Matthew Shipp, skronk.
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Maybe I'm not taking the right drugs, but I'm not hearing what everybody else is hearing in Daft Punk's Random Access Memories. While I enjoy the acclaimed album, it's just an homage to the dance music of 1976.
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Remember Urge Overkill? The band's free concert at a suburban shopping mall last weekend was superb.
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The week's new releases of the most interest to me come from David Binney, Camera Obscura, Future Bible Heroes, the Giovanni Guidi Trio, Megadeth, Luis Perdomo, Queens of the Stone Age, Quercus (June Tabor, Iain Ballamy and Huw Warren) and Third Reel. I'll get to those albums after I tire of my sordid little fling with Gretchen Wilson's new album of cover songs.
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Kansas City Click: The XX appear at the Uptown Theater on Tuesday.
The Bryant Carter Band perform before The Royals' game on Wednesday.
Richard Thompson may perform the bleakest song ever written at the Folly Theater on Thursday.
Cowboy Indian Bear headline the free Crossroads Block Party on Friday.
(Original images by There Stands the Glass.)
