"Brad"

SO I am really excited about the recent Anthony Kiedis announcement of a new Chili Peppers album to come out right around *THIS GIRL*'s birthday. Boo yah. Dr. Johnny Skinz's Disproportionately Rambunctious Polar Express Machine-head

I'm reading Scar Tissue right now, on the recommendation of my good pal Eric, and it is awesome, which is why I can't stop listening to old RHCP lately and or talking about Anthony Kiedis. Ask me anything about Anthony Kiedis and I will creepily recite facts at you. There are few bands I feel this strongly about. Seeing RHCP at Penn State my sophomore year of college was one of my top 5 concerts ever. Such a story behind that concert and how I came to finally be in its attendance.... lol. (ok whatever sometimes a grown ass girl has to throw a temper tantrum in the middle of a farm party to get everyone's sympathy and prove her point.)

But it all worked out in the end ( ... for everyone but Braham.)

By the Way had just come out, which is arguably my favorite Chili Peppers album... up there with Blood Sugar Sex Magik and Californication. It was so important to me in that time and space and I can still play it in its entirety today. So as my side of the story goes, Braham was stricken with the plague, by Jesus, for omitting me from his large Chili Peppers ticket purchase (2003, not over it yet lol) and our friend "Brad" got to go in his place a few hours before doors. We pregamed at my friend Erica's, we all rolled in as Queens of the Stone Age (2nd opener) was ending their set all boisterously with No One Knows and we are like 9 people deep and 7,584 red bull and vodkas deep and only missing a few friends, including my good friend "Brad"who was already inside....


Now you should know right now that 9 times out of 10 I am not this girl. I am perfectly content at a concert as long as I can see and hear and have a little space to bop around. But I lead everyone through the crowd on the floor; pretending I was returning to my rightful, earned, camped out, Paternovilled position; calling out "Braddd!"and not really actively looking for Brad at all.

I get right up to the gates, front row. Who do I see dead in front of me? F*cking B-rad. Unbelievable. "I wasn't even really looking for you, dude." I watched the whole show pressed against the gates with 9 of my best college buddies and they played every song I wanted to hear. It could have only been improved with the addition of tube socks. It was awesome.

At some point I think my other friend "Dan" convinced me to get on his shoulders and flash Flea, (which I was later called out on by a classmate who was also at the show, which was NOT embarassing.) Two enthusiastic thumbs up. Hope I get to see them again this summer!

Back to SUPER groups

If I had to pick a close 2nd to Them Crooked Vultures, it would be The Dead Weather.

Pleading Neo-Gonzo journalism, I shall now cite WIKIPEDIA!!!:

The Dead Weather is an American alternative rock supergroup formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2009. Composed of Alison Mosshart (of The Kills and Discount), Jack White (of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs), Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes)[1],

We already know how I feel about Miss Mosshart. Likewise, I think Jack White is a genius. A creepy genius who likes taxidermy-raccoons but a genuis NONETHELESS! I love that he switches it up as the drummer in this SUPER group and Horehound, as a whole, is a great album. It's like a spooky, garage-y, at times goth, blues, rock and roll joint. It's absolutely filthy. I love it.

On a side note, I feel like they should start making SUPERs of other things besides bands... like super CHEESES: Get Brie and Buffalo Mozzarel and Aged Smoked Gouda together and say like HEY we're a new SUPER cheese, rehearsals are on Thursdays! Our new SUPERcheese name is The OOC RIDICULOUS.

I would buy that cheese's album. Fo sho.

Vanilla Ice and girls in camo on a stage in Erie, PA on a Thursday at 9 pm

The aforementioned would be a "Block Party."

I would like to talk about Bloc Party because unlike the already aforeaforementioned it makes me want to dance. My friend Julie brought them to my attention a few years ago and I saw them royally dominate Lollapalooza a few years after that. Citing influences such as The Cure, Joy Division, Song Youth and Radiohead I'm not shocked I like them. Plus they're British. Sooooo.. Cute, funny accents and stuff...

(ps - go back....Not that it wasn't cool when Vanilla Ice performed Ninja Rap and invited Northwestern PA's finest women on stage to shake their muffin tops... that actually entertained me.)

Silent alarm is one of my favorite albums and this is one of my favorite songs:



I don't know where the hell they went though I'm worried they broke up... No one has seen or heard of them in like 2 or 3 years. I feel like putting them on a milk carton just to make a point.



sorry for partying.

Showing up in the 4th quarter

So I really like Local Natives. They're very cool, very harmonious and L.A. and it makes me happy. But I also didn't know who they were like 6 months ago. My friends played Gorilla Manor for me at Happy Hour in the Fall and I had a few other credible persons tell me to check them out...Time out and P.S. If there's one thing that's disgustingly UN-hipsterlike it's being tardy for the party (I hate you Kim Zolciak. You stop singing immediately!!!! I hope your babies look like monkeys....)

You like that Romy and Michelle jawn? I thought you would...








lol.

Like Captain Planet. But better...

SO I get that to understand and appreciate SUPER GROUPS you have to have an inert sense of music snobbery. This is mostly to be able to identify and freak out screaming over what bands the other members of the super group are from.... Sorry, SUPER GROUP....

And to have an inert sense of music snobbery you have to sometimes sit in or around a beanbag chair with holes ripped in it while smoking a hookah and/or think about enrolling in art school and/or already have graduated from art school.

If this doesn't describe you, there might be some basic questions floating in your head:

What is a SUPER GROUP?
CAN I JOIN A SUPER GROUP?

The answers are Shut up. And also, No, unless this is Springsteen and Ringo sitting in a room reading this together, in which case please return my voicemails about the SUPER GROUP...

Arguably the best of this new musical trend is Them Crooked Vultures. Josh Homme (decently awesome but not worth Biebering over), Dave Grohl (totally awesome. I loved you at first Mentos) and John Paul Jones (are you shitting me???).

Open letter to Dave Grohl, if you're the one in charge, please come to Philly and play a show in my apt. Or anywhere near where I live. I make really good spinach artichoke dip you have to like that.... Anyways this song is my favesies. Ugh it's like those crooked ass vultures know that 80% of the time all I wanna do is have my mind erased. Preferably at the Gingerbread Man in Happy Valley or at Calamari's in Erie, PA.

"We're a Rock N Roll Band"

Grace Potter had me at "We're a rock and roll band." Truest statement ever.

I'm only labeling GPN as hipster shit bc not enough people know about them. I'm also labeling them as non hipster shit because more people should know about them. They are my favorite band at this exact moment. And I realize and accept the full boldness of this statement. You can fucking notarize it. Grace has the most brilliant vocals I have ever heard and I read about her in Rolling Stone and she is my idol and if I met her I would cry. For real. I like GPN more than anyone other band at this exact space and time in this world and I can't believe I didn't write about them first.

This is gonna be a long post mmk?





If every hair on your arm doesn't stand up from the 2:50 mark until the end of this next song, you're an idiot and I hate you.


3:28.....serial.

Alison turned me full-on hipster

If obsessing over Alison Mosshart (of The Kills and The Dead Weather) makes me a hipster than someone please pierce my face right now and give me an effing Keffiyeh and a PBR. Ughhh. Shut. Up. I don’t even care. I will own this one. I seriously love her. Like worship her. I saw her at Lollapalooza in Chicago and it had to be 100 degrees and she wore black skinny jeans, a big white Tee, a scarf and a hat so I went out and bought black skinny jeans, a big white Tee, a scarf and a hat. 

But TIME OUT I also think Helena Bonham Carter mated with the killer rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail to create her.... only explanation. That bitch is dynamite.

If you've heard this next one you might still be able to "fall into the GAP" as they say.



But if you know this last one you're totally doomed to near emo-dome. But it's cool because we're in this borderline boat together right? Plus this song is amazing. Point hipsters.