I’m at Milk watching a couple local bands. The first band was great, a noise pop trio, mostly percussion, that was just an amazing act, especially from the drummer. 24 minutes of straight playing–mostly percussion. Not my usual cup of tea, but after a few minutes i realized tha these guys are really good, and the rest of the way agape at the awesome virtuostic performance. A kind of sonic enema, cleansing the system of melody and pop and cliche and just delivering toe tapping rhythm.
The next band, Scrabbel, I find to be kind of sleepy. They try to be lyrical and retro, but it doesnt always work for me. When I see all six of them on stage (3 guitars: string, electric, bass; drummer; cello; and backup vocalist/percussionist) I think: there’s a good band in here somewhere. And that’s often the case. Somewhere in all the instrument changes there’s occasionally a good song, and a good combination of instruments really grooving together. But there always seems to be at least one member who is left out at any one time.
Looking forward to the final set by a band called dealership. They’re good. (wwww.dealerkids.com).
But i get the feeling the first band will be the best tonight.
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(Later)
So, dealership was great, but they had an extremely short set because they club told them they only had so much more time. Which sucked. Between the bands they had DJ sets, where all the kids would dance. I think their dance music sucked, and the DJ kept shouting “Frisco! Let me hear you!” which I found annoying.
But Dealership was good. Evidently the bassist and drummer are in a band called Citizens Here And Abroad, which I’d like to see sometime.
Photos of Dealership
