TAG: PORTLAND

Absolutely crushing.

I hate using promo photos, but I can’t find anything else on this band.

The Unobserved is like an alternate reality where Isis got meaner and more metal rather than boring.

Go buy this. Vinyl or digital.

Originally by Heart

All posts in the month of August will be covers.

During their Hazards of Love tour, the band would come out, say nothing, and play “The Hazards of Love in its entirety. Then take a short break and come back out, talk and play the hits. 

The second set would end with this cover. When I saw them, it was more over the top than it is in this recording. Though it's possible, it just seemed like that because I was actually there. 

I’ve never liked Full of Hell. I think its the vocals. Its either too Cookie Monster or too high pitched scream. 

The Body, I just kind of overlooked. I checked out “No One Deserves Happiness,” I remember some hype and something about Beyonce, but it didn’t do anything for me. But after listening to “One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache,” the collaborative album this track is from, I will be revisiting it.

The doomy sludge of this track is fantastic. 

I refuse to do anything but love a band that put out  a “record” (flexi postcard) covering Minor Threat’s “Straight Edge” and Black Flag’s “Wasted”. 

I've talked enough shit on this band to fill 2 sewage treatment centers, but I love this song."

“Of all the types of music you listen to, I hate this kind the most.”– My wife.

Slow and moody and maybe a little sexy?

I really like the first track from the almum, “My Fear” a lot. Its like the rest of the album, but with John Carpenter synths on top of it. Its really good, but not a great resprentation of the album as whole, “Womb” is beter at that.

All posts in the month of August will be covers.

Originally by Morrissey

I’ve got no love whatsoever for The Smiths or Morrissey. Not a drop. Every time I hear some cover I end up liking it, and I think “shit, maybe I was wrong and need to give it another go.” And every single time I get screwed by how much I hate it.

This song is from a 2005 EP called “Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey,” 6 tracks, all Morrissey covers.

Picking just one Decemberists song was no easy task.