www.jessemalin.com | www.myspace.com/jessemalin During ‘Wendy’, Malin asked that the song be broken down, and the band stripped out an extended bass/guitar/drum solo allowing Malin to address the audience and let them know they were in for a long night of music. During his stellar live rendition of “Bastards Of Young” (by the Replacements) he asked...
www.theairbornetoxicevent.com | www.myspace.com/theairbornetoxicevent For their second set of music, the band played ‘Happiness is Overrated’ and ‘Gasoline’ without the quartet, bringing them back out for the third of their set onwards. The third song of set two was a stellar rendition of William Garvey’s ‘Goodbye Horses’, a track made eerily famous in Silence Of The...
www.theglitchmob.com | www.myspace.com/theglitchmob Utilizing a mixture of live drumming, integrated samples, programmed loops and three Lemur Input Devices, The Glitch Mob delivered one of the coolest live electronic performances I have seen in a while. Their Lemurs were aimed towards the audience so we could all watch the band serve up their material as the...
www.melvins.com | www.myspace.com/themelvins Since the Melvins have not come to Canada for a decade, their performance was a celebration of their disfigured creations over the last twenty-five years. The band opened with the opening tracks from their latest album “The Bride Screamed Murder” before jumping into fan favourites from albums like 1993’s “Houdini” and 2006’s “(A)...
www.apocalyptica.com | www.myspace.com/apocalyptica www.direngrey.co.jp | www.myspace.com/direngrey I keep a running list of about a dozen bands that really SHOULD be seen live, and Apocalyptica are definitely on this list. Watching three Finnish fellows shred on cello’s for 80 minutes is something every music fan should experience at least once. The addition of Mikko Sirén on...
