Sannhet – The Acheron 2013 [uncut#20]
Brooklyn, Saint Vitus 10 June 2013
Set List ~ Invisible Wounds > You Thy______ > Lion’s Eye > Moral > Memory Barge > Abescon Isle > Slow Ruin > Haunches > Flatlands > Still Breathing
Geek Specs
A/V ~ Sony HVR-Z5U with Sennheiser MKH418S M/S Stereo Shotgun Microphone > 1080i/60 HDV on Panasonic AY-DVM63PQUS > Sony GV-HD700 > Firewire > Final Cut Pro X > Compressor > H.264, 1280×720, 24fps, 8000kbps, AAC, 44kHz, 320kbps
Words by Fred Pessaro
In today’s climate of information now and sub-sub-sub-sub-genre within music, it makes total sense that a band like Sannhet, who incorporates so many different elements of music, would exist. I always think of Sannhet as the quintessential post-everything band: elements of post-rock and post-metal mix with hardcore and black metal to create a whole new sound that brings to mind bands like Russian Circles, yet veer into a path of their own. Despite their toes being dipped in so many different waters, Sannhet is far from contrived, creating epic and organic instrumental songs that open up and reveal themselves in about half the time that many long-winded post-rock peers do. Did I mention they rip too?
Lion’s Eye
Chelsea Wolfe – Saint Vitus 2011 [uncut#19]
Brooklyn, Saint Vitus 17 August 2011
Set List ~ Feral Love > Moses > Demons > Halfsleeper > Wasteland > Widow > Fight Like Gods
Geek Specs
A/V ~ Sony HVR-Z5U with Sennheiser MKH418S M/S Stereo Shotgun Microphone > 1080i/60 HDV on Sony DVM-60PR > Sony GV-HD700 > Firewire > Final Cut Pro X > Compressor > H.264, 1280×720, 24fps, 8000kbps, AAC, 44kHz, 320kbps
My heart bleeds the darkest blood [Shai Hulud, 1997]
Halfsleeper
Bikini Kill – UJZ Korn 1996 [uncut#18]
Hannover, Germany, UJZ Kornstrasse 20 March 1996
Set List ~ State Of Vindication > Capri Pants > Reject All American > New Radio > Strawberry Julius > Tony Randall > I Hate Danger > Distinct Complicity > Rah! Rah! Replica > Jigsaw Youth > Sugar > Carnival > Outta Me > Hamster Baby > In Accordance To Natural Law > No Backrub > Resist Psychic Death > Alien She > Rebel Girl > Demirep > Finale > Rockin’ Me > Don’t Need You > Feels Blind
Geek Specs
A/V ~ Sony CCD-VX1 > Sony EV-S5000 Hi8 Hi-Fi VCR > Apple ProRes 422 (HQ), 640×480 MOV 44kHz > Final Cut Pro X > Compressor > H.264, 24fps, 5000kbps, AAC, 44kHz, 320kbps
White riot, I wanna riot, white riot, a riot of my own [The Clash, 1977]
Rebel Girl
Spiritualized – Secret Project Robot 2013 [uncut#17]
Brooklyn, Secret Project Robot 02 April 2013
Set List ~ Here It Comes > Hey Jane > Electricity > Shine A Light > Lord Let It Rain > Let It Flow > Rated X > Oh Baby > Freedom > So Long You Pretty > Think I’m In Love > Take Your Time
Geek Specs
A/V ~ Sony HVR-Z5U with Sennheiser MKH418S M/S Stereo Shotgun Microphone > 1080i/60 HDV on Panasonic AY-DVM63PQUS > Sony GV-HD700 > Firewire > Final Cut Pro 7 > H.264, 1280×720, 24fps, 8000kbps, AAC, 44kHz, 320kbps
Words by Alfie Palao
Context is everything.
Upon hearing in the early hours of the morning that Spiritualized (one of my all time favorite bands) would be playing a last minute show at the incredibly small Secret Project Robot space, located mere blocks from my office, I knew I had to be there. Having already seen Jason Pierce and company blow away the massive club space Terminal 5, send grown men into tears at the legendary Apollo Theater, and recreate the renowned heartbreak of 1997’s Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space at Radio City Music Hall, I found myself curious as to whether or not SPR would be capable of containing the epic transmissions of the band’s catalogue.
The scope of the band’s live show is legendary, but stripped of the gospel singers and enormous speakers that usually accompany the band, what we were truly exposed to was not some intoxicating religious type of experience… just one of the better garage bands of our time playing powerful songs of mortality, love & addiction.
Let It Flow
Ex-Cult – Seaport Music Festival 2013 [uncut#16]
New York City, Seaport Music Festival 07 June 2013
Set List ~ Ties You Up > Don’t Feel Anything > MPD > Knives On Both Sides > On Film > Young Trash > Mr.Fantasy > Plain Jane > Shot The Beehive > Lights Out Club
Geek Specs
A/V ~ Sony HVR-Z5U with Sennheiser MKH418S M/S Stereo Shotgun Microphone > 1080i/60 HDV on Panasonic AY-DVM63PQUS > Sony GV-HD700 > Firewire > Final Cut Pro 7 > H.264, 1280×720, 24fps, 8000kbps, AAC, 44kHz, 320kbps
PUNK
The Wedding Present – Seaport 2010 [uncut#15]
New York City, Seaport Music Festival 13 August 2010
Set List ~ Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft > Corduroy > Deer Caught In The Head Lights > You’re Dead > Brassneck > Crushed > No > Thanks > Kennedy > What Have I Said Now? > Granadaland > Bewitched > Take Me > Be Honest
Geek Specs
A/V ~ Sony HVR-Z5U with Sennheiser MKH418S M/S Stereo Shotgun Microphone > 1080i/60 HDV on Panasonic AY-DVM63PQUS > Sony GV-HD700 > Firewire > Final Cut Pro 7 > H.264, 1280×720, 24fps, 8000kbps, AAC, 44kHz, 320kbps
Words by Greg Peterson
If it came down to one thing, it was the sound of the guitars that caught my ear; the way they kept getting louder and more distorted and yet somehow still more melodic. They were doing a cover of Elton John’s “Step Into Christmas” on a compilation called A Lump Of Coal when I first heard The Wedding Present. It was probably in November of 1992. I was lucky that a few weeks later the one music store in town had a copy of their cassette Seamonsters, and about two minutes and forty five seconds into the first song, “Dalliance,” when the guitars and drums explode out of nowhere, it felt like my brain was exploding too. I had a new favorite band.
Up until then, I wanted to play guitar like Peter Buck. But here was a sound I had never imagined before. The distortion was so rich and full of character and unpredictable, like the midwestern thunderstorms that turn everything yellow before they come crashing down. The singer had a voice that sounded to me at the time a little bit like a sarcastic frog with a broken heart, and even if I couldn’t understand half of the words, I could feel his pain (pretty much all of the songs are about betrayal, in one way or another). The sound of the album (my first taste of Albini) was completely addictive: the manic strumming, the huge propulsive drums, the catchy and melancholy melodies, and the chord changes that felt like your heart had stopped. . . eventually this would be one of the few albums that I owned on cassette, CD, and LP.
The guitarist Peter Solowka left the band pretty much as I was discovering them, but the sounds he made still take me right back to my white Dodge Horizon with the tiny speakers pushed to their limit, driving into the mysterious adult world that apparently existed just beyond high school.
Brassneck
Savages – Public Assembly 2012 [uncut#14]
Brooklyn, Public Assembly 19 October 2012
Set List ~ No Face > City’s Full > I’m Here > Another War > Shut Up > She Will > Husbands
Geek Specs
A/V ~ Sony HVR-Z5U with Sennheiser MKH418S M/S Stereo Shotgun Microphone > 1080i/60 HDV on Panasonic AY-DVM63PQUS > Sony GV-HD700 > Firewire > Final Cut Pro 7 > H.264, 1280×720, 24fps, 8000kbps, AAC, 44kHz, 320kbps
Don’t believe the hype [Public Enemy, 1987]
Shut Up
