Megadeth Quarantine Playlist - Part II

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1. Dread and the Fugitive Mind - Megadeth
2. Fabulous Disaster - Exodus
3. Trip at the Brain - Suicidal Tendencies
4. Mechanix-Remastered - Megadeth
5. Angel Witch - Angel Witch
6. Gangland - Tygers of Pan Tang
7. Miracle Man - Ozzy Osbourne
8. She-Wolf - Megadeth
9. Thrasher's Abattoir - Carcass
10. Poisonous Shadows - Megadeth
11. Beneath the Remains - Sepultura
12. Lucretia - Megadeth
13. Fast as a Shark - Accept
14. Angry Again - Megadeth
15. Nightmare Logic – Power Trip
16. Skin o my Teeth - Megadeth
17. Reach for the Sky - Cloven Hoof
18. Night of the Blade - Tokyo Blade
19. Tornado of Souls - Megadeth
20. Grim Business - Iron Reagan
21. Rattlehead - Megadeth
22. Insecurity - Excel
23. Bite the Hand - Megadeth
24. Mr Freeze - Dr. Know
25. Money Talks - Cryptic Slaugher
26. Peace Sells - Megadeth
27. Bombs of Death - Hirax
28. Riot of Violence - Kreator
29. Wake Up Dead - Megadeth
30. You Can't Stop Steel - Midnight
31. Kick the Chair - Megadeth
32. Take No Prisoners - Megadeth

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84 Bands on Dark Star Records

1.      A Beautiful End

2.      A Rising Force

3.      Aeraco

4.      Akcay Karaazmak

5.      Ambitious Noise

6.      Angeles

7.      Betrayed With A Kiss

8.      Black and White

9.      Blackfinger

10.  Blackjack Sass

11.  Blood Of Heroes

12.  Bloodstream Parade

13.  Bloody Mary

14.  Boy Hits Car

15.  Breed of Aggression

16.  Conquest

17.  Cosmic Fury

18.  Cruel Season

19.  Daisy Chain

20.  DD Rand

21.  Death Pop Radio

22.  Deepest Symphony

23.  DiAmorte

24.  Dirty Deeds

25.  Domination

26.  Drop

27.  Elliott Waits For No One

28.  Every Mother’s Nightmare - heard of this band; never listened to this band

29.  Fierce Heart

30.  Freedom Heartsong

31.  Grigori 3

32.  Haf Bitten Moon

33.  Hammeron

34.  Herman Ze German - I think this is Herman Rarebell, former drummer in the Scorpions

35.  House Of Holland

36.  Jeff Swan

37.  Jenny Franck

38.  Leaving Eden

39.  Lords of Meat

40.  Low Twelve

41.  Lydian Sea

42.  Matt Mercado

43.  Metal Hall of Fame All Stars

44.  Metal Shop

45.  Methane

46.  Midnite Blues Band

47.  My Infected Soul

48.  Obszon Geschopf

49.  Operus

50.  Paranoid Star

51.  Pist

52.  Pivot Man

53.  Pulse

54.  Puppyslut

55.  Rev Jones

56.  Richrath Project 3:13

57.  Ript

58.  Rival

59.  RJ Kaneao

60.  Sacred Dawn

61.  Scott McClellan

62.  Sectara

63.  Shatter Their Illusion

64.  Shooting Hemlock

65.  Silver Springs

66.  Slam Bang

67.  Slave Driver

68.  Supermercado

69.  Sygnal To Noise

70.  The Absence Project

71.  The Blushing Gun

72.  The Jorgensens

73.  The Projectionists

74.  The Spacing Effect

75.  The Theory

76.  Tony Martin

77.  Torie Jock

78.  Trip 6

79.  True Witness

80.  Two Ton Anvil

81.  Unbreakable

82.  Vante

83.  Voodoo Moonshine

84.  Whitecross

 

Probably not Going to Gabes soon

This is a list of 18 upcoming concerts at Gabes. I have heard of NONE of these bands.

1. MAR 10 Minor Moon
2. MAR 16 Tongues Of Fire
3. MAR 17 Yam Yam
4. MAR 20 HIT LIKE A GIRL
5. MAR 25 Been There Done That
6. MAR 27 7th Annual Slap Frost Tour
7. APR 06 The Talbott Brothers
8. APR 12 Smokepurpp - Iowa City, IA
9. APR 16 Jon Wayne & The Pain Album Release w/ Reggae Rapids
10. APR 22 Armchair Boogie
11. MAY 01 TRANSVIOLET
12. MAY 03 Desperate Electric
13. MAY 06 THE TAYLOR PARTY: TAYLOR SWIFT NIGHT
14. MAY 15 Demrick
15. MAY 15 Dizzy Wright
16. MAY 27 Remo Drive
17. JUN 16 The Cactus Blossoms
18. JUL 14 Ratchet Dolls

8 Bands that I Can't Hum

8 Bands That Are HUGE in Europe but Not America

I am Soooo Out of Touch with the Music Industry!

I am out of touch with the music industry. 

I don't think this is a sudden new reality in my life. Instead, for as much as I have always tried to have my finger on the pulse of the music industry, I have continuously been overwhelmed by the number of bands that exist. I still receive "music industry-related" emails from publicists and often, the bands that are in these emails that advertise a new album or EP often have existed for decades, but only through the email do I learn of their existence. Several years ago, I realized that for every band I know and like, there's a strong possibility that other bands exist that (likely) sound very similar to the bands I like - their existence has just never made it to my finger that was trying to feel the pulse of the music industry, for whatever reason. Just because I haven't heard of the band doesn't mean that they didn't exist, to paraphrase and re-purpose the saying "If a tree falls and no one hears it, did it make a sound?" For me, if a band exists and tours and I don't know of its existence, does that band exist? Well, of course, the answer is yes.

So, at this festival later this year, there's a list of bands that are playing. In fact, this is the list of bands that are playing in alphabetical order. If a band is in bold below, it is a band I have heard of in the past. I am making a distinction between hearing of a band and actually listening to a band. A band that I have listened to is in bold/italics below. 

Spoiler Alert: I've heard of 6 bands (6.451612903225806 %)and I have actually listened to 4 bands (4.301075268817204 %), which means I'm at a pitiful point in my music awareness. I imagine that the target audience for this festival knows over 90 % of the bands in this list.

Here is the list of bands playing at the Firefly Festival in Delaware in September 2021:

1. Almost Monday
2. Aluna
3. Anna of the North
4. Arlo Parks
5. Atlas Genius
6. Badflower
7. Band of Horses
8. Big Wild
9. Billie Eilish
10. Binki
11. Blackbear
12. Blossom
13. Cage The Elephant
14. Cannons
15. Caribou
16. Carolesdaughter
17. Cassy
18. Chris Lake
19. Claud
20. Clever
21. Clozee
22. Deep Sea Diver
23. Denzel Curry
24. Des Rocs
25. Diplo
26. Dominic Fike
27. Duckwrth
28. Duke Dumont
29. Elohim
30. Flo Milli
31. GG Magree and Mija
32. girl in red
33. Glass Animals
34. Gracie Abrams
35. Grandson
36. iann dior
37. Jordy
38. Judah and the Lion
39. JXDN
40. Kenny Mason
41. Kennyhoopla
42. Khruangbin
43. The Killers
44. Kim Petras
45. Laundry Day
46. Lizzo
47. Lost Frequencies
48. Lovelytheband
49. LP Giobbi
50. Machine Gun Kelly
51. Madds
52. Madeon
53. Marc Rebillet
54. Maria Isabel
55. Megan Thee Stallion
56. Michigander
57. Middle Kids
58. Missio
59. Mt. joy
60. Nelly
61. Noga Erez
62. Oliver Tree
63. ONR
64. Orion Sun
65. Peach Pit
66. Phoebe Bridgers
67. Portugal. the Man
68. Positive Movement Drumline
69. redveil
70. Remi Wolf
71. REZZ
72. Ritt Momney
73. Roddy Ricch
74. Role Model
75. Royal & The Serpent
76. Rossy
77. Rozet
78. Serena Isioma
79. Slander
80. $NOT
81. Sofi Tukker
82. St. Panther
83. Still Woozy
84. Sub Urban
85. Surf Mesa
86. Sylvan Esso
87. Taking Back Sunday
88. Tame Impala
89. Tate McRae
90. Trevor Daniel
91. Turnstile
92. White Reaper
93. Wiz Khalifa

Megadeth Quarantine Playlist - Part I

Yeah, I Don't Know if This is True or Not

The 50 Best Albums of 2019, per Pitchfork

The Bell is Silent

There's a 27 year-old bassist in Iowa City that lists the following bands as his influences, which I'm including here because I cannot hum a single tune by even one of these bands. I've heard of After the Burial, Parkway Drive and I've heard of Portishead, but none of the others ring a bell. That said, I am going to find these bands on youtube.com to learn what I am missing. As of right now, none of these bands would be on a setlist in my Ideal Band, but I allow for the possibility that I can be persuaded to the point where I would include one or all of these bands on my list of favorite bands.

Editor's Note: Gave up after 3 bands.

1. Aegaeon
2. ATB - my assumption is ATB means "After the Burial"
3. Chvrches
4. Daughter
5. Eisley
6. Imogen Heap
7. Japanese Breakfast
8. Kye Kye
9. Now Now
10. Parkway Drive
11. Portishead
12. Purity Ring
13. Silent Planet

Hell Would Have to Be an Ice Cube

I hope it's a successful festival.

I will say that

• NOTHING that would get me to this 3 day concert in IL, which starts tomorrow. It's a really crappy schedule. On Friday and Saturday, there is (literally) five minutes between the band ending on the "Failure Stage" (what an awful name!) and the band starting on the "Nuclear Blast Stage." What if you wanted to see bands on both stages?!? For example, I've heard of Milwaukee's Jungle Rot and Grave (don't know where they are from). Jungle Rot finishes on their set on the "Failure Stage" (what an awful name!) at 11:05 PM and, then, Grave starts at 11:10 PM on the "Nuclear Blast Stage." 
• 49 bands playing is quite impressive. That's 49 drum sets that have to be set up and torn down, at least 49 bass rigs, and at least 49 mics to set up for the vocalist. If there are two guitarists in each band, that's 98 guitar rigs to set up. Plus, if there are any backdrops with the band's logo? Plus any sort of stage things, like a platform for the singer to stand upon while he sings?
• I would love to be in the backstage area to learn what it takes to get the bands from the backstage area to the stage and then backstage. I sincerely hope all the bands are cool to each other and to the people who are putting on the festival.

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1. Buzzard
2. Eulogy in Blood
3. Crater
4. Pulchra MOrte
5. Summoner's Circle
6. Embludgeoment
7. A Hill To Die Upon
8. Bleed the Victim
9. Morbid Saint
10. Hatchet
11. Krisiun
12. Exhorder
13. Kataklysm
14. Saintbreaker
15. M.W.A.
16. Elbow Deep
17. Pains
18. Waco Jesus
19. Sexual Atrocities
20. Ground
21. Genocide Pact
22. Jungle Rot
23. Woundvac
24. Drag Them Down
25. Invidiosus
26. Wvrm
27. Toxic Ruin
28. Byzantine
29. Rhythm of Fear
30. Ringworm
31. Grave
32. Hammerhead
33. Prison
34. Poolside A.T.F.
35. Smash Potater
36. Arrival of Autumn
37. I.N.C.
38. Cast the Stone
39. Skeletal Remains
40. Vio-Lence
41. Cheese Grater Mast.
42. Confused
43. Wrath
44. Meet the Mailman
45. Incite
46. Unearth
47. Crisix
48. M.O.D.
49. Soulfly

Another Tour Commentary

CATTLE DECAPITATION - Summer Slaughter Tour w/ Carnifex, The Faceless, Rivers Of Nihil, Nekrogoblikon, Lorna Shore, Brand Of Sacrifice + More:

7/19/2019 The Complex - Salt Lake City, UT
7/20/2019 Summit Music Hall - Denver, CO
7/21/2019 Royal Grove - Lincoln, NE

Sorry, I don't really care if this tour DOES stop in Iowa City... I ain't gonna be there as I will be on vacation 7/19 - 7/28

7/22/2019 Wildwood - Iowa City, IA
7/23/2019 Cabooze - Minneapolis, MN
7/24/2019 The Forge - Joliet, IL
7/25/2019 Crofoot Ballroom - Pontiac, MI
7/26/2019 Westcott Theater - Syracuse, NY
7/27/2019 Heavy MTL Festival - Montreal, QC
7/28/2019 Opera House - Toronto, ON
7/29/2019 The Odeon - Cleveland, OH
7/30/2019 Oddbody's - Dayton, OH
7/31/2019 Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA
8/01/2019 Le Poisson Rouge - New York, NY
8/02/2019 Fete Ballroom - Providence, RI
8/03/2019 One Centre Square - Easton, PA
8/04/2019 SoundStage - Baltimore, MD
8/05/2019 Orange Peel - Asheville, NC
8/06/2019 Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
8/07/2019 The Firmament - Greenville, SC

HOLY CRAP!! 19 Days Straight of Gigs! before they get a day off.

8/09/2019 Gas Monkey Live - Dallas, TX + Born Of Osiris, Bad Omens, Spite, Kingdom Of Giants
8/10/2019 White Oak Music Hall - Houston, TX
8/11/2019 Come And Take It Live - Austin, TX
8/13/2019 Club Red - Mesa, AZ
8/14/2019 1720 - Los Angeles, CA

Fixation Spine Antagonize Rule Them All Jesus Piece Miracle Drug The Dividing Line Struck Nerve Drowse

I'm SOOOO out of touch with the music industry! The press release below specifies that Fixation will tour with

• Spine
• Rule Them All
• Jesus Piece
• Miracle Drug
• The Dividing Line

And how many have I heard in that list?!?

ZERO

Read more below:

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WAR Records will issue the latest rapid hardcore anthems from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's FIXATION, putting the final touches on the band's Into The Pain EP for release as a flexi and on all digital platforms May 10th. The cover art, track listing, and more have been issued as the band announces a run of East Coast spring tour dates.

With an emphasis on lyrical potency and fast, aggressive songwriting, FIXATION has pulled no punches since their formation in late 2017. Comprised of current and former members of Drowse, The Dividing Line, New Heart, and Time's Up, the band delivers combative, pointed hardcore for fans of Rival Mob, Nerve Agents, Arms Race, Youth Of Today, No Tolerance, and Infest.

FIXATION has taken their anthems on the road across the Eastern and Midwest US on several tours, performing alongside Strife, Regional Justice Center, Rule Them All, Vantage Point, Leeway, Miracle Drug, Chokehold, Vitamin X, Restraining Order, and others, and has performed at FYA Fest, This Is Hardcore, and other notable gatherings over the past two years.

Into The Pain explodes with FIXATION's take on classic, ripping hardcore, unloading four agitated tracks in under five minutes. The EP was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Wyatt Olberholzer at The Knife Lair (Year Of The Knife, Struck Nerve, Drowse) and finished with artwork by Linas Garsys (American Nightmare, Ceremony, World Be Free).

Watch for preorders, song premieres, and much more on Into The Pain to be released over the coming weeks ahead of its May 10th street date through WAR Records, the label founded by Andrew Kline of Strife and Berthold City.

Into the Pain Track Listing:
1. The Role
2. Spare Me
3. You Feel Nothing
4. No Class
FIXATION will tour live surrounding the release of the Into The Pain flexi and throughout the year. The band hits the Northeast on a run through Providence, Lindenhurst, and Philadelphia April 26th through 28th alongside Spine and Rule Them All. May sees them playing Richmond, as well as several shows scattered throughout Pennsylvania with the likes of Jesus Piece, Miracle Drug, The Dividing Line, and others. Additional tour dates are to be expected shortly.

FIXATION Tour Dates:

4/26/2019 AS220 - Providence, Ri w/ Spine, Antagonize, Rule Them All
4/27/2019 Brewhaus Pub - Lindenhurst, NY w/ Spine, Rule Them All
4/28/2019 No Face Studios - Philadelphia, PA w/ Spine, Rule Them All
5/06/2019 TBA - Wilkes Barre, PA w/ Lower Species
5/08/2019 TBA - Richmond, VA w/ Lower Species
5/12/2019 Emmanuel Episcopal - Quakertown, PA w/ Jesus Piece, Struck Nerve, Drowse, more
5/24/2019 The Burners - Bethlehem, PA w/ Miracle Drug, Dying For It, The Dividing Line

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2019 MUSINK Festival Band Performance Times

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The Promised List of Portland Bands

Other Portland musicians

• A Weather
• Ages and Ages
• Agalloch
• Dave Allen, former bassist for the post-punk band Gang of Four and former member of the band Shriekback
• Alex Arrowsmith
• Tarik & Julia Banzi
• American Me
• Beautiful Eulogy, a folk-influenced experimental hip hop trio
• Black 'N Blue
• Blind Pilot
• Blitzen Trapper
• Broadway Calls
• Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, were a folk duo from Portland
• Crazy 8s
• Alela Diane
• The Dimes
• Lee Dorsey
• Dualesc
• Epoxies
• Everclear
• The Exploding Hearts
• Josh Garrels
• Glass Candy
• Grails
• Grouper
• Hazel (including Pete Krebs)
• Collin Hegna of Brian Jonestown Massacre and Federale
• The Helio Sequence
• Hillstomp
• Hockey
• Horse Feathers
• The Hudson Brothers
• I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House
• It Prevails
• Jackie-O Motherfucker
• Gary Jarman of The Cribs
• The Joggers
• JonnyX and the Groadies
• Kind of Like Spitting
• Miles Kurosky, formerly of the San Francisco band Beulah
• Kutless
• Storm Large, a singer who was a contestant on Rock Star Supernova,^[15] currently guest vocalist with Pink Martini
• Lifesavas
• Loch Lomond
• Stephen Malkmus
• Scott McCaughey, leader of Seattle-based bands The Young Fresh Fellows and The Minus 5
• MDC, or Millions of Dead Cops, formed in Austin, Texas
• Menomena
• The Minders
• Napalm Beach
• Neo Boys
• Nu Shooz had a #1 Hot Dance Club Play chart hit with "I Can't Wait" in 1986
• Pete Miser
• Pink Martini
• Portugal. The Man
• The Prids
• The Punk Group
• Quarterflash
• Quasi, an indie rock band
• Ramona Falls
• Red Fang
• The Jackals
• Dan Reed Network
• Terry Robb
• Curtis Salgado whose chance encounter with John Belushi in Eugene helped inspire The Blues Brothers
• The Slants
• Sons of Day
• Esperanza Spalding, jazz bassist/singer
• Starfucker
• Stars of Track and Field
• Tyler Stenson
• Sweaty Nipples
• Swords (also known as The Swords Project)
• Talkdemonic
• Theatre of Sheep
• The Thermals
• The Upsidedown
• Laura Veirs
• Vektroid, also known as Macintosh Plus, among other aliases.
• Viva Voce, formed in Muscle Shoals, Alabama
• Christopher Walla, guitarist and producer for the band Death Cab for Cutie
• Wet Confetti
• Whip
• Wild Dogs, featuring current Journey drummer, Deen Castronovo
• Yacht
• Yellow Swans

Skipping IA is Okay

The closest this tour comes to Iowa is going from Lawrence, KS, to St. Paul, MN, and then to Chicago.

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Celebrating 20 Years - No Idea This Band Existed

Another Band Skips Iowa

From a press release email I received:

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After 12 years of relentless touring on a steady flow of EPs and LPs, underground rock mainstays The Coathangers took a moment to recalibrate and reconfigure before diving into the creation of The Devil You Know, their new 11 song album due out March 8 on Suicide Squeeze Records. Recognizing that each member had become entrenched in their own style of songwriting (guitarist/vocalist Julia Kugel excelled at the melodic pop songs, drummer/vocalist Stephanie Luke belted out the gritty rock tunes, bassist/vocalist Meredith Franco drove the post-punk and no-wave angles of the band), the trio became determined to meld their established takes on vitriolic punk, playful house-party anthems, and heartworn ballads into a new sound that captured the vitality of their early years while honing their individual strengths into new communal achievements. The result of this newfound discipline, depth, and dimension is the first Coathangers record written as a true unit, as each member learned how to imbue their bandmates' songs with their own personal touch.

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Then the tour dates that do not include a stop in Iowa:

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FRI JAN 25 - Calgary AB, Big Winter Classic
WED FEB 20 - Santa Ana, CA, Marty's On Newport
THU FEB 21 - Los Angeles, CA, Teragram Ballroom
FRI FEB 22 - Long Beach, CA, Alex's Bar
SAT FEB 23 - San Francisco, CA, Independent*
SUN FEB 24 - Reno, NV, Holland Project*
TUE FEB 26 - Bend, OR, Volcanic Lounge*
WED FEB 27 - Portland, OR, Mississippi Studios*
THU FEB 28 - Seattle, WA, Neumos*
FRI MAR 1 - Bellingham, WA, Shakedown*
SAT MAR 2 - Vancouver, BC, Imperial
TUE MAR 5 - Spokane, WA, The Bartlett*
WED MAR 6 - Boise, ID, Olympic*
THU MAR 7 - Salt Lake City, UT, Kilby Court*
SAT MAR 9 - San Diego, CA, Casbah*

THU APR 4 - Birmingham, AB, Saturn
FRI APR 5 - Nashville, TN, Exit/In
SAT APR 6 - St. Louis, MO, Old Rock House
SUN APR 7 - Kansas City, MO, recordBar
MON APR 8 - Minneapolis, MN, Turf Club
TUE APR 9 - Chicago, IL, Empty Bottle
THU APR 11 - Detroit, MI, El Club
FRI APR 12 - Cleveland, OH, Grog Shop
SAT APR 13 - Toronto, ON, The Horseshoe
SUN APR 14 - Montreal, QC, Let Ritz
MON APR 15 - Boston, MA, Great Scott
WED APR 17 - Asbury Park, NJ, Asbury Lanes
THU APR 18 - New York, NY, Music Hall of Williamsburg
FRI APR 19 - Washington, DC, DC9
SAT APR 20 - Philadelphia, PA, Underground Arts
*= with SadGirl

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Never heard of this band or the opener "SadGirl" playing in Iowa in the last 12 years.