It's been just over 5 years even since I updated this blog. Trends come and go, I suppose. But, my lust for music goes on unabated, as today I entered my 5000th CD into the database. Click on the CD List link above to bask in the splendor of my mania. And don't expect another update to the blog until 2017.
On a decidedly un-prog note, I saw The Futureheads on Friday at the lovely Webster Hall in New York. My devotion to this band is more or less obsessive; I own every EP, 7", and CD single that they've released in their brief existence, and let me assure you: that's a lot of music. They are one of those devious British bands who will release a single in three parts- say, two CDs and a picture 7"- and each will have an exclusive b-side. Bastards! It helps that a lot of those non-album cuts are really good, but
Anyway, the show was great. We were lucky enough to miss most of the opener, The French Kicks, who play the most generic indy guitar pop you can possibly imagine. I just don't understand how a band can put so little into its stage show. Have these men never seen a good live band? Can they possibly imagine that it's at all entertaining to watch five stone-faced indy rockers just stand there ? One of the guitarists looked like he couldn't fucking wait until the concert was over and he could punch out. I curse