Archive for February, 2009
Deathbed Repentance, Romance
Deathbed Repentance To See Rating 6.8/10 Just Curious Rating 4/10 Band Members Sange De Sade - Vocals Steve White - Guitar Meds - Bass, Vocals Eric James Peterson - Drums What’s with this rating? This is another good time to talk about The Rating System. The “To See Rating” is a performance driven recommendation regardless of taste or genre; the “Just Curious Rating” is how [...]
Sound Off! Brier Rose, Makeup Monsters
Brier Rose To See Rating 7.2/10 Just Curious Rating 7.2/10 Riley Taylor - lead vocals, guitars, pianos, keys, etc. Nick Taylor - backing vocals, bass guitars Michael Rath - backing vocals, guitars Nathan Gemmet - drums, glockenspiel, etc. Sound Off Audience Choice Award Winners! (They were robbed…) Brier Rose has talent beyond their years. The is the only justification that I can come [...]
Hotels, The Animals at Night
Hotels To See Rating 7.2/10 Just Curious Rating 7.2/10 Band Members Blake Madden – Bass Vocals Kyle Frankiewich – Keys Brendan Malec – Guitar Max Wood – Drums SOLD OUT! I was wedged uncomfortably between people as I heard someone from behind say, “I didn’t know Hotels were this popular.” Neither did I to be honest. But, from being one in the crowd of many, here are a few [...]
The Appleseed Cast, By Sunlight
The Appleseed Cast To See Rating 7.5/10 Just Curious Rating 7.0/10 Band Members: Christopher Crisci – Vocals, Guitar Aaron Pillar – Guitar With Nate Whitman – Bass John Momberg – Drums The Appleseed Cast put on a highly anticipated show. In discussing the show with a fellow music writer, he mentioned that he was looking forward to seeing how much of the new album Sagarmatha [...]
Sol
To See Rating 8.0 Just Curious Rating 8.0 Band Members SOL aka Solzilla Moravia "SOL! ... SOL! ... SOL! ... SOL! ,,, SOL! ... SOL! ... SOL!" Sol had an album release party on Friday the 13th and what a party it was. Chop Suey was PACKED! It's a sure thing that all the homies were there to see him because, once the next act Scribes(aka Smoke Break) came on, the place all but cleared [...]
NO! Majesty – MAD RAD
To See Rating 8/10 Just Curious Rating 8.5/10 Band Members Terry Radjaw- Rapper, Singer, Beard Wearer Buffalo Madonna - Rapper, Singer, Floor Dancer P Smoov - Rapper, Singer, Music Composer Darwin - Live DJ, Hypeman, Erk & Jerker When I do these write ups, I usually watch the video clips so I can be in the same head space that I was in when I saw the show. With Mad Rad I had a problem. [...]
An Interview with Mad Rad
So here it is. If you are a Line Out reader you have probably been hearing banter about this band for a while now. Quoted From 206 Proof: "I heard they got into a fight and as a result are no longer performing with Blue Scholars/Common Market." Quoted From a post by Eric Grandy: "Apparently over the weekend they got into a fight that ended up involving security and eventually cops (some [...]
NO! Majesty – The Beats, Man and GMK
The Beats, Man To See Rating 6/10 Just Curious Rating 5/10 Band Members Casterwhiler- Beats, Vox, Unsettling Extravagance Jumbo- Beats, Vox, Delicate Pop Sensibility WTF? These dudes were absolutely ridiculous! Granted, I'm sure their accolades were intentional, but come on! The only reason I am even posting anything about this band is because they are like a rolling head; even though [...]
Sleepy Eyes of Death, Blue Light Curtain
Sleepy Eyes of Death To See Rating 8.0/10 Just Curious Rating 7.5/10 Band Members Keith ::: Moog, Roland, Beats, Programming Brandon ::: Industrial Light and Magic Cassidy ::: Gibson J Andrew ::: Korg, Fender, Sampler, Vocoder Joel ::: Moog, Roland, Beats, Vocoder Question. If you can't judge a book by it's cover, can you judge a band by their title? In this case the answer is yes. [...]
The Album Leaf
To See Rating 8.0/10 Just Curious Rating 6.0/10 Band Members Jimmy Lavalle - Everything Live Band: Drew Andrews - Guitars, Keyboards Matthew Resovich - Violin, Guitar, Glokenspiel, Vocals Luis Hermosillo - Bass Timothy C. Reece - Drums, Keyboards Andrew Pates - Live Visuals With such a drastic difference in my "To See Rating" and my "Just Curious Rating" of this event, this is the [...]
