After a silent rejoice about the fact that I was on the appropriate list I made my way into the main stage area of the Crocodile mere moments before Doomtree were to take the stage.
The Chop Suey was packed with folks eager to see what Memory Tapes had to bring to the stage and seeing that it was a Tuesday night, that's definitely saying something about Dayve Hawk, the man behind the band.
Part of Michael Benjamin Lerner's plan to follow the success of his Telekinesis! debut was to get out of town. "For this new record I had this idea of going away and writing," says Lerner. "It was the greatest thing I could've ever done."
I arrived to The Paramount Theatre with such a flutter of emotion in my heart that for a brief moment I thought I might need to invest in a pacemaker to make it through the evening.
Sleighbells is Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss and they make some of the best distortion heavy, screamy, and hard hitting electro/noise rock that you could ever want.
Yesterday morning I was purchasing a couple of tickets to last nights La Roux how at the Showbox Market. I was getting progressively frustrated as the damn ticket price kept increasing upon each click of the mouse. Convenience charge here, random fee there, but this is how it goes. I was so very tempted to just get the tickets at the door because c'mon, who knows about La Roux? This show won't sell out. I decided however to stay put and buy the golden tickets on-line as I've made the mistake of hoping on a prayer and it totally not working out. (Sleighbells and Yeasayer tonight for example, but that's another story for another day.)
Saturday is Record Store Day. This third Saturday in April has been marked as the day that artists, labels, and stores come together to celebrate your independent local record store.