Happy New Year metalheads! 2011 was a good year for the underground, with lots of solid and promising releases by newer and unknown bands, but for the old guard it wasn’t such a hot year. Lots of disappointments for me personally (Morbid Angel, Anthrax, Mastodon, Opeth etc….) but one of the sadder announcements last...
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I am literally running out the door to catch a flight to San Francisco, but couldn’t help sharing the latest from the Chelsea Wolfe camp. A few days ago Chelsea tweeted that she was ‘living inside an XXL biggie smalls t-shirt‘. What seemed an odd statement at the time now makes sense. Full time...
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Lagwagon – Duh / Trashed/Hoss/Double Plaidinum (Reissues) (Fat Wreck Chords, 2011) Remasters, reissues, demos, outtakes, studio sessions — I usually don’t buy into these things. It’s just too overwhelming to try to keep up with new music AND try to immerse myself in every sound that came out of making an album I loved...
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Seminal post-hardcore band At The Drive-In are reuniting after 11 years of silence. Well, not exactly silence, we have had Sparta and The Mars Volta. But for those of us who were huge fans back in the day, those bands were hardly consolation prizes for our dedication. The start of the reunion consists of...
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My first exposure to the sisters Söderberg was the tail end of their opening set for Lykke Li at the Ogden Theatre back in November. Regrettably missing the majority of their set, I couldn’t help but think of Neko Case while a girl next to me suggested a female Fleet Foxes. I don’t think...
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Grimes (aka Claire Boucher) first sparked my interest with 2010′s Halfaxa, became one of my favorite new artists with her daytime performance at FFF6 and left me wanting more with this year’s Darkbloom. According to GvB the wait will not be long for the next full length LP, Visions. What was originally slated for...
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ILSUDH2 has its roots in an e-mail distribution list that started out with about 10 people. When I moved to San Francisco I would send out e-mails to my friends about albums, shows and events that I thought they might be interested in. I first used the words ‘I Listen So You Don’t Have...
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Highlights include Jason Isbell, Chad Price, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Wilco, White Denim, Jedi Mind Tricks, BLKHRTS, Reno Divorce, Doomtree, Dengue Fever, Winter on the Rocks, The Jayhawks, Descendents, etc.
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ILSUDH2 still prefers to listen to albums in their entirety, which makes it very hard to put together a list of ‘best tracks’ at the end of each year. This year was no exception. Therefore, what follows is a massive soundtrack to the reality show known as 2011. To say these songs represent the...
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For as long as I can remember, the name Golden Voice has been pretty synonymous with great punk and metal shows. I believe my first ever punk show (GBH/The Accused) was a Golden Voice sponsored tour, so when I showed up at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on Sunday night I was proud to...
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There were countless releases in 2011 and ILSUDH2 got through over 600 of them. Although it was very hard to decide what would make the list in this uneven year of music, these are the albums that defined 2011 for this blog. In order to give a clear picture of the past year, this...
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