All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing.

7:30 at 8 Seconds. I’ve never seen this band live, but I wouldn’t have guessed they would have had a draw big enough for that venue. Hm.

Tigers Jaw is, to me at least, an early 2000’s emo/pop-punk throwback band. And I mean that in as nice a way as I can.

And yes, I’d skip Samiam to see these guys.

All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida.

Despite lots of talk, I will not actually be going to Fest again this year. Nevertheless, I’m going to spend the month posting songs by bands who are there. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing.

Friday, 6:25 at The Florida Theater of Gainesville

6:25? Shit. I’d have thought the bike had a bigger draw than a 6:25 on Friday show. I guess everyone else liked that new album about as much as I did.

Despite current sins, I love this band’s back catalog enough to show up for the show.

I forget on a pretty regular basis how great this band was. 

The show they played at Mac’s Bar in Lansing in 2004 is in my top 10 funnest shows.

La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit

I’ve been hating on this band since they started. I got why “the kids” loved them, but it did nothing for me at all. Their new album, Wildlife, made me eat my words.

Good job.

You can stream the entire album on the band’s Facebook page.

Cliff Meyer of Isis, Red Sparrows, and Windmills in the Ocean, before he was in any of those bands. 

I’m a big Young Widows fan and tend to eat up whatever they put out. This includes previous bands like Black Cross and Breather Resist and side projects like Brain Banger and Black God. Bad Secrets falls into the side projects category.

The band is Evan Patterson of Young Widows and Dan Davis of Kodan Armada. The whole album was improvised and recorded during three weekends, and it sounds like it. As much as I really want to love this record and its weirdness, I can really only listen to a couple of tracks before I have to stop.

So covers month is over. I posted a cover a day for the entire month. But I’ve posted covers before, including at least two I nearly posted again and one I accidentally did (and then deleted).

Here are the other covers I’ve posted.

Frank Turner - Thunder Road (Originally by Bruce Springsteen)

Crooked Fingers - When You Were Mine (Originally by Prince)

Lilly Allen/Mark Ronson - Oh My God (Originally by Kaiser Chiefs)

Johnny Cash - Hurt (Originally by Nine Inch Nails)

The Gaslight Anthem - Once Upon A Time (Originally byRobert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise)

The White Stripes - Jolene (Originally by Dolly Parton)

All posts in the month of August will be covers.

Yes, “Hurt” is a better song and “Rusty Cage” is sillier, but “Solitary Man” is pretty damn great. I actually have spent a fair amount of time this month trying to pick the right Cash cover to post. The American albums are full of covers, many of them good, but not that many really stick with me. "Solitary Man,“ "Hurt,” and “One” do.

All posts in the month of August will be covered.

Originally by Johnny Cash & June Carter

One for Jess.

All posts in the month of August will be covers.

Originally Kelly Clarkson

A second Kelly Clarkson cover? I didn’t see that coming.

I like this song, but it's not as good as the band’s cover of “Once Upon A Time” by Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise. But I already posted that in February, so here we are, with the silver medal winner.

Second place or not, this is still a great cover that sounds and feels so much different than the original. 

All posts in the month of August will be covers.

Originally by Minor Threat

Because I’m not cool, I knew this song before I knew who Minor Threat was. However, this band was my gateway into the world of indie/punk/hardcore or whatever the hell else we’re calling it these days. 

Thanks, ska-core.

All posts in the month of August will be covers.

Originally by ABBA

“I wrote this song about Derek.”