I was out for blood on Wednesday. Not having attended a proper all-ages punk event since last summer, I wanted to taste danger and smell teen spirit at the show at the Encore Room headlined by the consequential Washington D.C. based hardcore band Pure Disgust.
During its best moments, the abrasive jamboree looked and sound a lot like this. Shuttlecock documented the evening with a photo set.
After paying the $8 cover charge, I joined a distressingly meager audience of about 75 (including the members of the five bands and their significant others) as Agent made a racket on the low-slung stage of the venue adjacent to the Uptown Theater. The band’s defiant slovenliness and the blood smeared on the face of the front man put me in mind of Sex Pistols. The amateurish insolence of The Drippies evoked Sorry Ma-era the Replacements.
Incomprehensibly loud, Blindside’s set sounded like a plague of locusts descending on a bowling alley. With my ears blown out by Blindside, I only managed to track Pure Disgust’s surprisingly nimble rhythm section during the quintet’s exciting but abrupt set.
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I yakked about Isaac Cates & Ordained on KCUR yesterday.
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My selections are among The Kansas City Star’s compilation of Top Albums of 2016 lists.
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I previewed Andy McKee’s concert at the Bottleneck for The Kansas City Star and Ink magazine.
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I write weekly music previews for The Kansas City Star and Ink magazine.
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I reviewed a concert by the Floozies, Autograf and Linear Symmetry in December.
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I felt thousands of brain cells dying horrible deaths as I listened to Chief Keef’s Two Zero One Seven- and I enjoyed the sensation. I won’t argue with anyone who insists that the first important rap mixtape of 2017 is infantile trash, but a willingness to get stupid has long been an integral component of the form’s history.
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The late George Michael was the Justin Timberlake of the late 1980s. The pop star’s unexpectedly wonderful album Faith received an inordinate amount of spins in my home in 1987 and 1988.
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The jazz fusion giant Alphonse Mouzon has died.
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Bobby Previte’s Mass is recommended if you like Bill Laswell, noble but failed experiments, Black Sabbath.
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I like what J. Cole is trying to do. I just wish he did it better. 4 Your Eyez Only is RIYL thoughful hip-hop, Big Sean, maudlin raps.
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Quality control is an issue on Whale Mafi 2, Rich the Factor’s fifth album in nine months.
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Kindred the Family Soul’s Legacy of Love is RIYL the Isley Brothers, love, Ashford & Simpson.
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Hey! Van Der Graaf Generation releaseed a new album last year. RIYL: Soft Machine, lovable geezers, Kevin Ayers.
(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)
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