My Appleseed Valentine?
O.K., I'll admit it, I am seriously confused. The last time I really listened to
The Appleseed Cast was waaaay back when I would actually talk to
Deep Elm Records founder John Szuch on the phone semi-regularly because I loved his label so much ... and this was before he signed Triple fast Action! I dug
Brandston's Mould-ish sheets of guitars, thought
Muckafurgason was absolutely hilarious, and generally just dug about every band he brought on-board. (Please, before you freak out, keep in mind that while we called these bands emo at the time we had no idea what that phrase was going to turn into over the next 15 years.)
Anyway, The Appleseed Cast fit in the mold of most of his other bands and played serious minded but really melodic heavy rock. I had their first couple of albums and enjoyed the tracks I heard of their on various samplers, but pretty much lost track of them years ago. A few days ago their new album,
Sagarmatha, shows up in my mailbox and whoah was I not prepared for what I heard after throwing it through my earbuds.
When did The Appleseed Cast go shoegaze?!
Now, I am NOT knocking this new direction of theirs nut I am wondering just how new it is? Has this been a long time coming and I'm only just know growing hip to it, or is this some sort of sudden lurch in a new direction? I mean, the guitar volume makes sense, but I don't remember their vocals ever lying under so much dreamy reverb nestled amongst epic length jams.
I like it!
They'll be at Bottom Lounge February 27, and I think I'm gonna try and catch them.
Happy Fat Tuesday everyone! Anyone 
Anyway, I am almost positive Jane's Addiction will headline with the original line-up. They've already played a few small shows, Eric Avery looked to be having a blast, so it seems obvious that they will want to celebrate with one HUGE show.
I had no idea the dude from Nerfherder wrote what is one of may favorite YouTube video songs, "Hamster On A Piano." Nor did I realize my favorite video was removed due to a lame legal request!
Greetings my technologically savvy friends, and welcome to another new week here! Chicago has had a reinvigorating burst of high temps and near Spring-like weather, so yesterday I took advantage of that to a) clean my apartment and air it out and b) finally get a MyBook 1 TB external drive. I backed up my music and such last night, but since I have so much space to spare I'd like to also just back-up the whole computer too. I don't want to pay for the software included on the drive, so can anyone recommend freeware that does a good job?
O.K., I'll admit it, I am seriously confused. The last time I really listened to The Appleseed Cast was waaaay back when I would actually talk to Deep Elm Records founder John Szuch on the phone semi-regularly because I loved his label so much ... and this was before he signed Triple fast Action! I dug Brandston's Mould-ish sheets of guitars, thought Muckafurgason was absolutely hilarious, and generally just dug about every band he brought on-board. (Please, before you freak out, keep in mind that while we called these bands emo at the time we had no idea what that phrase was going to turn into over the next 15 years.)
