Our first show ever on September 20 will be tonight in the year 2019. Stay tuned.
This Day In KLYAM (September 19)
2015: Nice Guys (tour return), Feral Jenny (last show), Et Al, The Cavemen – Grandma’s House; Grass Stains featuring Andy California, Mini Dresses, Candy Miami, Anjimile, Shepherdess, Creature From Dell Pond, Picniclunch- Davis Square Park
2014: Ty Segall, La Luz, Boytoy – Great Scott [REVIEW]
2009: The Walkmen- Here We Go Magic- The Dig- Middle East Downstairs (REVIEW)
This Day In KLYAM (September 18)
2014: Illegally Blind Presents (in association with Kids Like You & Me, BUFU Records, Boston Hassle, and FAST APPLE): Boston En Masse Night 1: Nice Guys, Miami Doritos, The Monsieurs, Boogie Boy Metal Mouth, Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser – Church
2009: The Walkmen- Here We Go Magic-The Dig- Middle East Downstairs (REVIEW)
Check Out Will from Healers Mix
Get on over to I Heart Noise and check out Will from Healers Altered Cultures Mix.
Quite a treat and not shy to bounce around from disparate styles. For fans of music discovery. It is wild and says a lot that the only song on here that I had heard before was the Mickey Bliss Band’s “Venus Dressed In Plastic Garbage”. This is a really incredible playlist. Thank you Will.
And before, or after, you listen to the mix go on over and pull up Healers visual album Healers Paradise.
This Day In KLYAM (September 17)
2010: Those Darlins/Strange Boys/Gentlemen Jesse and His Men- T.T. the Bears (REVIEW)
This Day In KLYAM (September 16)
2013: Deerhunter, Marnie Stern, Mas Ysa – Royale
This Day In KLYAM (September 15)
2013: September 15 – Boston Underground Summit 6 featuring Dylan Ewen, Ronnie Nordac’s Crying Lessons, Storm or Howl, Funeral Cone, Sleep Crimes, Immigrants, Fume Hood, Trashawk, Skinny Bones – Cambridge Elks Lodge
This Day In KLYAM (September 14)
This Day In KLYAM (September 13)
2018: MC50: MC5 50th Anniversary, Detroit Cobras – Paradise
2014: BUFU Records End Of Summer w/ Free Pizza, The Lentils, Ian, Littlefoot, G Gordon – Democracy Center
2013: Fagettes, Screaming Females, Waxahatchee, Tenament – Middle East Downstairs
2012: VPAC Presents: Fat History Month, Big Mess, Masingo- UML Fox Common [REVIEW]
Reflecting on Daniel Johnston
G: Let me get this straight. Did you first hear of Daniel Johnston through The Devil and Daniel Johnston?
C: No. I first heard Daniel Johnston through Nirvana interviews and stuff. ’03 to ’05. I remember distinctly reading about him in Heavier Than Heaven. The first time I heard his music was in the movie Kids in the scene where the character Casper and several other kids beat the shit out of another kid in Washington Square Park. Even then, the music didn’t register to me. Between the Nirvana influence and it being in the Kids sound track, I asked you to burn a mix for me with “Casper The Friendly Ghost.” It really stood out to me for the first time on a mix. I never heard anything like that before. Didn’t have any means of comparison. That doesn’t happen much anymore.
G: So after “Casper,” where’d you go from there?
C: I would Wikipedia or YouTube him. I bought “Hi How Are You” and “Continued Story” and “Fun” after that. I rented The Devil and Daniel Johnston, we watched it.
G: Did we watch in your bedroom?
C: Maybe. I remember the next day I went to UMASS Lowell on a tour. I was on a bus thinking about Daniel Johnston. Not the college.
From there, it is a little more static. The history. Daniel Johnston was monumental for establishing a standard of how odd music could be. Yes, there’s the great pop song beneath the music. But for me, it was an introduction to the whole idea of that odd. So different from what you would call music. You show him to the average music fan, maybe some of the songs they will like. You show “Casper” to the average music fan and they would think it is non-sense. It was a different way of writing or making music. Similarly, the first time I heard The Stooges it gave me a headache. I had heard heavier music, but I remember listening and being like woah what the fuck. Same with Black Lips. Those first experiences were so special.
G: Were you interested in Daniel beyond just the music?
C: He was fascinating. You can’t fake how it was. He had some serious mental issues. I didn’t get too wrapped up by that. More fascinated by the music.
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