thursday april 11 paint it black will be playing out front of the sailor jerry store. beer, rum, punk = awesome.

ford used an american idol rendition of should i stay or should i go for a recent commercial.see the video after the jump for yourself.

using the guy from dirty jobs is acceptable advertising for ford. but come on. ford? boo.

firewater is doing a world tour in support of the ir new record golden hour. they will be in philly sunday may 25th at the north star. the new record is being released by bloodshot due to their previous label folding. tod a, the singer, has been traveling thru india, pakistan and israel recording this record and it shows with some of the recordings both raw and full of interesting instruments. the last time they came through the city it was a good time. so mark those calendars.

if you dont know who this dude is. much respect.

god! i hate the electric factory. i have had very few good experiences there and yet we still went last night to see the pogues. the opening band was godawful and people booed. as bad as a band is i am not going to boo them cos at least they have the balls to go up on stage in front of a bunch of wankers. the pogues for the most part played well and played all the hits though im betting since the sound was subpar in the audience i can only imagine what the monitor mix they were listening to sounded like. a few songs spider was ahead of the rest or drums were a bit off time from the rest. it was an odd night and i felt bad for the lads. the crowd were a bunch of drunken louts and not the good time. i am kinda over people with this false sense of connection to ireland and just using it as an excuse to drink and obnoxious. after visiting ireland it allowed me to connect a bit more with the heritage, personality and the past that i only slightly knew and these fat ‘philly irish’ have no idea about. i enjoyed the show tho overall cos they are all good musicians and the songs have a special place in my heart no matter what. next time they should play at the TLA and have streets of sorrow on the setlist.

hailing from seattle and featuring a member of wormwood this band can be filed under anarcho-celtic punk. there has been a surge in folky celticy punk bands recently and one thing they all miss is the fight, the anger the revolution that is what makes celtic music what it is. it is easy to sing about drinking but its another to add real rebellion into the mix and thats what meisce do. bring the rebellion back to the bars. the revolution in ireland began in the bars with most meetings happening in central pubs in dublin. meisce is bringing those ethos to the modern day so drink up and plan the next rebellion lads!
*edit find them online*
official
myspace
fistolo records site<--buy stuffs here

this record blew away my expectations. it hit me in the same way when tragedy released ‘vengeance’ in that a band you would think is somewhat pigeon holed went in a direction and totally surprised you. until this release PiB were fun live but to be honest kind of meh on the ole ipod. dudes pooled from their reservoir of inspiration and put together a hardcore record that breaks some boundaries. i didnt want to list but here goes some of the influences i hear: big black, fracture, and naked raygun. i slept on the record release shows but am psyched to hear these songs live.

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a catch up day of sorts due to a bunch of stuff clogging the tubes.