I am going to ignore the fact that this is a complete corporate sell out for all the bands involved, but hey, Jay/Black Lips/King Khan are a little older now, they don’t shit and spit (well…) on each other that much more these days, and HEY, it can’t be cheap paying for an apartment that you never live in, but regardless, the best bands in the world will be playing the free Scion Garage Fest, coming to Portland, Oregon on October 17.
The festival will go down at four venues: Satyricon, Berbati’s Pan, Someday Lounge, and Dante’s. Roky Erickson, the former 13th Floor Elevators frontman and general all-around psych-rock O.G., will headline. The bill also includes Black Lips, Jay Reatard, the King Khan and BBQ Show, the Almighty Defenders (the supergroup featuring the Black Lips, King Khan, and Mark Sultan), the Dirtbombs, the Deadly Snakes (reunited!), Simply Saucer, the Dutchess and the Duke, Harlem, Box Elders, the Beets, Fresh & Onlys, the Coathangers, and many others.
May I also say that I wish I lived in Portland, too?
I kinda really wish I lived in California just for this. It’s not often that my top two favorite bands of all time play consecutively at the same venue.
Stage 1: Black Lips: 11:00pm – 11:45pm
No Age: 10:05pm – 10:40pm
Tim & Eric Special Musical Performance: 9:05pm – 9:45pm
F* Up: 8:00pm – 8:40pm
Wavves: 7:05pm – 7:40pm
Times New Viking: 6:15pm – 6:45pm
Dan Deacon: 5:10pm – 5:55pm
Crystal Antlers: 4:15pm – 4:45pm
The Strange Boys: 3:25pm – 3:55pm
Woods: 2:35pm – 3:05pm
Avi Buffalo: 1:45pm – 2:15pm
Cymbals Eat Guitars open along with The Depreciation Guild for The Pains of Being Pure At Heart at the Middle East Downstairs this Saturday, September 5.
Comment: This album is reminiscent of early Animal Collective, except a tad bit noisier and a tad bit more random. If you are noise/electronica/slowcore kind of person, this will please you. The deal with albums like this is that the listening experience is subjective. Unlike with most other albums that came out this year, there are going to be a wide variety of sentiments that come with the listening experience. My 8.5 might be a 10 to one person and a 5 to another.
I can honestly say that I feel for those high-schoolers who right as I am typing this are scrambling to complete their summer assignments. Finishing stuff on the last day before school started was an annual tradition (up until last year when I completed roughly 1/3 of my work in the morning of the first day ) for me. Waiting ’til the last minute wasn’t a particularly bad thing, though. The saying of the words “I’m done” thirty minutes before heading to school is amongst the greatest of adolescent feelings. Completing everything days and weeks in advance of school is a bit anti-climatic, no? This year I don’t have to worry about any of the shit that I had to worry about for four straight summers! It’s truly amazing. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Strangely, though, I wouldn’t necessarily mind going back to high school per se, provided there were no summer assignments to discuss. I have nothing to compare to not going back there. Anyway, as classes soon start, I soon will have to worry. It’s been a top-notch summer in as much as I read purely for self-pleasure, entertainment, and intelligence instead of problem solving and group discussion. Oh yeah and until this summer I hated to read. That’s what honors and AP English classes (with corresponding summer assignments) did to me. And a final general note: fiction sucks. It made me hate reading before I even had to read. God bless the people who actually read assigned fiction for English class.
Guardian.co.uk
The Walt Disney empire is to buy the superheroes stable Marvel Entertainment for $4bn (£2.5bn) in a star-studded Hollywood deal that unites family names such as Mickey Mouse with lucrative characters including Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and the X-Men.
Disney hopes to put Marvel’s 5,000 characters to work on its television channels and in video games, theme parks and movies. The agreed takeover is for a mixture of cash and stock, with Disney shares accounting for roughly 40% of the buyout price.
The tie-up unites two companies with similar business models – they both take characters which capture the popular imagination and promote them vigorously around the world on every possible media platform and through third-party licensing deals.
This vastly continues the rampant pandemic known as infantilization.
Band: Cymbals Eat Guitars
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 