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I just got back from a fun show at the Rickshaw Stop in SF.  It was a “Prom Night” theme tonight and the Devilettes were performing.  I saw them once before, but I don’t recall them being so freakin’ hilarious.  Their dance moves are so silly and their facial expressions are so animated.  It was a blast to watch them.

The Barbary Coasters played at about 10:30 and they were really great.  I’ve listened to their records, but I’ve never had the opportunity to see them live until tonight.  I thought they were the best band on the stage.  The singer looks really familiar to me, I think I’ve met her before or seen her somewhere - oh well, it doesn’t matter.  They were really cool with their ventures-style guitars and 1950’s song lyrics. 

The next band to come on was the Ship Disturbers.  They were okay - a cover band doing 60’s soul music.  It was good background for the Devilettes. 

The Struts played last and they were good - but I wasn’t all that into them.  I like their 7″ that came out last year (?), but I didn’t really care much for their live show.  Sorry.  Maybe I was just tired by the time they came on.  I’ll have to see them again, perhaps.

Albert Ayler - Saints
Sun Ra - The Perfect Man
Bruce Haack - Song of the Death Machine
Ken Nordeen - Yellow
The Cinematic Orchestra - All that You Give
Blanketship & Qulfus - Sad Clown
The Knitters - Try Anymore (Why Don’t We Even?)
The Crooked Jades - World’s on Fire
Neil Hamburger - Jug Town
Echo & the Bunnymen - Rescue
Jeremy Jay - A Place Where We Could Go
Gay Beast - What You Want
Aqua Nebula Oscillator - Ready to Fly
Dead Kennedys - Riot
Bad Dudes - Heterosaucer
The Bell Rays - Psychotic Hate Man
Eddie & the Hotrods - Teenage Depression
Guns are for Kids - Not Bright Kid
The Penetrators - Lied to Me
Black Francis - The Seus
Rebuilding the Rights of Statues - A Death Bed Song
Serena-Maneesh - Don’t Come Down Here
Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
Retconned - Obvious
The Fall - New Big Prinz
Spinal Tap/Beastie Boys - These go to 11/14th Street Break
Coconut Coolouts - Coconut Weekend
The Cool Kids - A Little Bit Cooler
Dizzee Rascal - Sirens
Subtitle - Fast Food Death
Boris - Flower Sun Rain
Can - Tango Whiskyman
The Dirtbombs - Wreck My Flow
No Age - Eraser
The Buggles - Johnny on the Monorail
Teacher’s Pet - Little Arthur
Sebastian Robin Craig - Swallow Little Robin

Hans Zimmer - Spider Pig
Kali Bahlu - A Cosmic Telephone Call
Laibach - Across the Universe
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Bedazzled
Jarboe & Justin K. Broderick - I want To, I’ve Got To
Jeremy Jay - Beautiful Rebel
Animal Collective - Street Flash
Ladytron - Ghosts
Entertainment - Romance in the Rain
Fingathing - Themes From the Big Red
Githead - Jet Ear Game (Request)
Jeremy Enigk - Lizard
The Cramps - The Crusher
Free Kitten - Surf’s Up
Crystal Antlers - Until the Sun Dies (Pt. 2)
The Ex - Gonns Rob the Sperm Bank
The Restarts - Double Standards
Crush The Junta - Sunset
Liquid Liquid - Out
Snake & Jet’s Amazing Bullit Band - This City Got the Better of Me
PJ Harvey - When Under Ether
Tickley Feather - Python
Mike Flowers Pops - Light My Fire
Gang of Four - Anthrax
Cheap Time - Too Late
Times New Viking - Come Together
Sump Pumps - Shortest Fuse
The Beastie Boys - 14th Street Break
Pink Skull - Get In side (My Tiny Pyramids) (Request)
Videohippos - Sick Dolphin
Boris - Laser Beam
Agent Orange - Bloodstains
Teacher’s Pet - Hooked on You
Eppu Normaali - Oi Maa
Mission of Burma - That’s When I Reach for My Revolver
The Bell Rays - Coming Down
Betty Davis - He Was a Big Freak
Lene Lovich - New Toy
Tuxedomoon - Epso Meth Lama

I went and saw Jeremy Enigk last night, June 11, 2008 at the Cafe du Nord and it was much better than I expected.  I guess I didn’t really know what to expect because I had heard some rumors that he had found religion or something of that sort.  Well, he was quite the entertainer.  His guitar style is sort of classical and his voice is quite different than most singers - a mix of like Rod Stewart, John Lennon and Baby Huie (or some cartoon character - I don’t mean that as an insult, it’s actually very intense).  He also played piano on a few songs and he impressed me as a fairly accomplished pianist.  All and all it was a cool show, though I didn’t really dig a lot of his newer songs and I also didn’t really dig the audience (of course, I was one of them).  That is all. 

I saw Crystal Castles on Tuesday night June 10, 2008 and they were pretty darn good.  It was sort of like weird rave music with a goth singer on acid.  The crowd was mostly (but not entirely) young.  They had a strobe light going the whole time, which made watching the show tedious at times.  They played a very short set; it was less than an hour and they didn’t do an encore, even though the audience was going ballistic.  It was a strange and unusual sort of ripoff.  I think the audience was just getting warmed up for an all night dance party and then, at around 10:30, their dreams were shattered when the lights came on and the techs started taking down the equipment.

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wanted Man
PJ Harvey - Highway 61 Revisited
We March - Take Over the Reigns
Olivia Tremor Control - A Peculiar Noise Called “Train Director”
Free Kitten - Erected Girl
Jennifer Gentle - Always Been Together
Tuxedomoon - Wading Into Love
Nick Lowe - I Love MY Label
Jonathan Richman - When We Refuse to Suffer
Mission of Burma - Heart of Darkness
The Monkees - Porpoise Song
Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam
Be Your Own Pet - Zombie Graveyard Party
Angry Samoans - Attack of the Mushroom People
No Age - Ripped Kneeds
The Undertones - It’s Going to Happen
Ladytron - Black Cat
Meat Beat Manifesto - Hell Fire
The Roots - Thought @ Work
De La Soul - Plug One
Stereo Total - Mars Rendezvous
El 10 Eleven - Hot Cakes
The Okmonks - Teenage Timebombs
Black Bug - I Don’t Like You
Black Francis - The Seus
Pleasure Boaters - Unrivaled Subjectivity
Times New Viking - R.I.P. Allegory
Crystal Castles - Tell Me What to Swallow
The Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?
The Dirtbombs - Indivisible
The Bell Rays - Coming Down
Sump Pumps - Underwater
Tom Heinl - 3 way
Paul Dutton - Wolf Chant
Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism
Teacher’s Pet - Cincinnati Stomp
Los Reactors - Dead in the Suburbs
The Cure - I Want to be Old
Cheap Time - Push Your Luck
Thee Oh Sees - Block of Ice
Triclops! - March of the Half-Babies
The Moles - The Crasher
Unearthly Trance - Chaos Star
The Sword - The Frost Giant’s Daughter
Sun Ra - World’s Approaching

Grant Hart - 2541
Jeremy Jay - Till We Meet Again
Deerhoof - +81
Hazy Osterwald Jet Set - Swinging London
King City - The Chase
The Burning Hell - Grave Situation Pt. 2
Aaron Novik - To End All
Thee Oh Sees - Maria Stacks
The Night Marchers - I Wanna Dead Beat You
Nick Lowe - I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass
Delta 5 - Mind You Own Business
Spiritualized - Sweet Talk
George Korein - Lonely Fun
Busdriver - Go Slow
Brian Eno - Needle in the Camel’s Eye
Teacher’s Pet - Teenage Suicide
Snake & Jet’s Amazing Bullit Band - Kolmilan
Volt - Volt
The Dirtbombs - Indivisible
Oscar Brown, Jr. - But I Was Cool
Matmos - Rainbow Flag
J.C. Goleru - Les Visiteurs Du Soir…
Suicide - Rocket USA
Jay Reatard - Night of Broken Glass
Minutemen - This Ain’t No Picnic
Be Your Own Pet - Bitches Leave
The Prefects - Bristol Road Leads to Dachau
Alice Cooper - I Love the Dead
Better Beatles - Penny Lane
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Soiled Mattress & the Spring - Blanco’s Moon Dance
Cryptacize - Stop Watch
Figurine - Virtual Reality
Tickley Feather - The Python
Dizee Racal - Where’s Da G’s
Giant Panda - 3rd Party
Akrobatik - Black Hell Breaks Loose
Dee Dee King - Funky Man
Laibach - Sympathy for the Devil
Cheap Time - Too Late
Mary Halvorsen & Weasel Walter - The Art Deco Hairbush

Yes, I went to the reunion show of Swervedriver down here in Los Angeles at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Hollywood.  Unfortunately we arrived too late to see Film School, but we saw the whole Swervedriver set.  I have to say that it took them a few songs to really get things going, and they certainly did.  It seemed to me, however, that as soon as they got the wah-wah shoe-gazing groove going, they were saying “good-night.”  Then they did a short encore that was really mellow, leaving with a slow song that left us feeling like we didn’t get a proper ending.  It true, when the curtain came down, people were looking around in confusion.  I spoke with some people in the lobby afterward and they all said the same thing as I was feeling.  To their credit, Swervedriver played a lot of the songs I wanted to hear and their music sounded good.  They certainly switched guitars a lot.  All and all it was a good show, but I wish they had played longer and ended with a more rockin’ tune.