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Music Was Here: Warn the Duke, Fat Heaven, Something Bitter, Sadlands @ Our Wicked Lady
When your friends ask you to help with the promotion of a show, you say yes. Or that is the Music Dies Here attitude towards these things. Especially with a line-up as good as this Friday’s was. Warn the Duke and Fat Heaven teamed up for a double release party, and invited Something Bitter and…
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Music Presented Here: Playing Dead, Something Bitter, Gone Stereo, Long Drag
Live music is one of our favorite things. February is one of our least favorite things. So after we saw Playing Dead play a killer set supporting Sammy Kay in January, we knew what we had to do to even things out: get a February party sorted. When we hit them up with the date…
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Music Was Here: The Casket Lottery, Taking Meds, Her Head’s On Fire @ Saint Vitus 02/04/2023
We love ourselves a good punk-rock show, but we’re not too cool to branch out to the bands with more emo and indie influences. Or post-hardcore? Really, it’s all the same to us, give us that roaring sound. When the Casket Lottery and Taking Meds announced this tour, of course we immediately bought tickets. When…
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Music Was Here: Crossed Keys, Neckscars, Space Cadet, Night Surf @ Gold Sounds
New York City, a place where staying in on a Saturday leads to as much FOMO as going out. There’s always fifty different things to do, places to be, people to see. Luckily, we have a knack for making the right decisions. Like this ridiculous line-up that made it over to Gold Sounds on January…
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Music Was Here: Danvers, Warn the Duke, Shrug Dealer, Something Bitter @ Monarch Side-Room
There’s a special kind of fun to be found on Sunday evenings. December 17th was one of those.
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MUSIC FESTS HERE – SATURDAY
HI 70 SETS IN ONE DAY. We are going to miss most of them. …and no we didn’t just go down the entire roster of everyone playing Saturday by time slot and copy/paste everything, though it may read like that! We are missing a lot of sets! Even some we may like. As always. 12:30pm…
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MUSIC FESTS HERE – FRIDAY
Fest is upon us, and if you’ve been following us, you know that most of our favorite bands will be playing. We’re taking a short break from Drinkscussing records to get drunk in Gainesville with our friends. Did you know we met at Pre-Fest in 2016? Or that this is Marcus his 11th Fest and…
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Music was Here: Tired Radio, Ramona, Sharkswimmer, Heavy Lag
Ever see the best kind of shows at the worst venues? This was one of those! So no venue name in the title – just some excited words. 07/21/2022 ~Heavy Lag~ After 10 hours we finally got a drink. Heavy Lag is playing And there’s a healthy audience. Yesssss to all of this I might…
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Music Was Here: Up For Nothing, Playing Dead, Vinny & the Hooligans, Horrible Timing @ Lucky 13 (or plz turn down the volume)
Up for Nothing had a release show and I ended up editing this review, because it was just a lot of “wow this show is waaaaay too loud, this isn’t fun” complaints back and forth. Marcus had earplugs and saw some bands. Maaike sat outside most of the show. Hey, life is what it is…
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Music Was Here: Elway, The Holy Mess, SKiTTiSH iSH @ Sovereign (or we had too many hangs to write much)
We went to shows, we drank and talked while at them and then… we did nothing. Time to make up for it, because this Elway / The Holy Mess / SKiTTiSH iSH show was a blast and a good return after leaving the country for three weeks. You are of closer proximity to bar so…
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Music Was Here: Skramz @ Saint Vitus and Jon Snodgrass @ Mercury Lounge (05/29)
You know what vacation does? It makes you forget about reviews. Back in May, Marcus went to a skramz show and we met up to see Jon Snodgrass. It’s a double-header for a day we almost forgot about! When normies call brunch I call skramz (matinee) hours What you call skramz hours I call getting…
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Music Was Here: Hamburg Booze Cruise
Hamburg Booze cruise…where, oh, where do we start? The worst train ride I’ve had so far! We wanna start with the journey that got us to Hamburg in the first place? Off your response, I assume we do. Haha. Our Swiss friend who was supposed to go had a sports injury. So we decided to…
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Music Was Here: Bristol Booze Cruise
Hey Marcus, remember how a month ago we were drunk in a foreign country? I think it’s about time we share those memories with our audience, what do you think? Sure! I think we (you) have finally shook off the worst of the jet lag, so I think we’re good to go on our reflections…
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Music Was Here: No Trigger, Heart & Lung, Neckscars @ Sovereign (or in excelsis fucking tonight)
LFG While Neckscars soundchecks, I am imagining how many steps you’re getting in In bathroom breaks. A lot, just you watch This is gonna be such a short review for the reason of “too much fun and friends” Damn Neckscars just doesn’t disappoint. New drummer seems to dig playing for them, has a more dynamic…
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Music Was Here: Topshelf Shake, Something Bitter, Wrecked, Two Minute Thrills @ Sovereign (or it’s always 311 somewhere)
Running late! I want to make excuses but really, I was laying on the couch staring at my phone and tried to cram 20 minutes of prep to get out in 5 Which as well all know turns to 50 minutes in reality because of that (also DOGS gonna DOGGGGGG) Oh dogs definitely make 5…
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Marcus was Here: SOM, Light Tower, Restless Spirit @ Elsewhere (or space rock is not Nyan Cat)
Posting about the gig from a basement with dodgy reception as ours lolol fade me Poor you. How’s it? Ok, test post works? It was ok. Probably not the most annoying when I get my bearings. Didn’t help I drank myself behind the 8 ball a bit en route. Ah yeah, our poor bank account…
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Music Was Here: Big D & the Kids Table @ Bowery Ballroom (or Marcus learns how to skank)
We forgot all about our drunk writing until a band or two in. We missed the Pandemics (again – will we ever end up seeing them?) and walked in during Rude Girl Revue, which was the most fun thing ever. Right after, this conversation became a thing. Marcus? You’re even at this show? Ohhhhh shit…
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Music Was Here: Dollar Signs & Taking Meds @ Knitting Factory (or Terrible Haircuts & Mustaches)
Yeah, we know Bad Luck and Camp Trash played as well. We missed Camp Trash and dipped out early after checking a Bad Luck song or two Surprising to have Taking Meds on first. Wouldn’t have suspected that. Or maybe we missed Camp Trash? Hm. Maybe? If this started at 730 exactly then we probably…
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Music Was Here: Pears, The Sad Tomorrows, Fat Heaven @ Our Wicked Lady (or partying like we have friends)
Hey welcome to another episode of Mostly Drinking Heavily at shows, as I said goodbye to my twenties and am assuming turning 30 today will automatically change everything 🙃 Great song tho Time keeps on drinking into the cosmic future you say You know it, the hangovers keep coming and they don’t stop coming The…
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Music Was Here: Hopeless Otis, Cherry Pop, The Brandon Richie Band, Action Park @ The Kingsland (or positive vibes are the best vibes)
Day 3! Been a while since I got this many positive vibes from a crowd! ~Action Park~ Hahah I’m not used to those Haha, that’s cause everyone smokes weed with their therapist these days cause they’re ~anxious~ without the high. This band is fun, how didn’t it make my radar before? For real. Daymn, this…
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Music Was Here: Russ Rankin, Karina Toriz @ BPH (or this deserved ten times the crowd)
Another day, another gig. Out here at the Russ Rankin show. Always a sign of a well-promoted show when your voice echoes in the venue. There’s one other person here. One. 88 fingers Louie hoodie dead giveaway haha True, ha. Two more people heading that way. That’s 5! Plus the sound guy Attendance is doubling.…
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Music Was Here: Dial Drive, Curly @ The Hideout (or who knew Bay-Ridge could be fun)
Scenes from the hideout 2 mins in: Cops summoned to retrieve a drunk person leaned over in front of the bar. Phish is the greatest band ever…and I quote. White lady, probably aged 57 And you’ve been there for what, ten minutes? Not even Out of context quote said in laughter: “You’re an anti-Semite Bob”…
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Music Was Here: Iron Chic, Somerset Thrower, Bacchae, The Sad Tomorrows @ St Vitus (or wow we made it to a sold-out Vitus show after saying we wouldn’t again over and over)
Hey, you at the venue yet? I was wondering if it was bands at 7 or show! Doors 7 Walking to vitus Here. That looks empty Yeahhhh, nothing’s happened. Assuming music around 8 …or not Haha first band now? Not sure. I do know it doesn’t seem like many more than bands and their friends/partners…
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Music Was Here: Mikey Erg, The Slow Death, Heavy Lag @ Trans Pecos (where we don’t know the difference between bears, raccoons and pandas)
Hoo boy, gonna be one of those gigs eh? anyway Rebecca black to heavy lag gig pipeline confirmed Oh it absolutely will be. Second friyay gig, may as well crank Friday for kicks Fifth time seeing Heavy Lag this year and I swear, I don’t do it on purpose. 4th I think? It is for…
