Tuesday, September 16, 2008

It List: Tuesday


These Are Powers/When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth (The Lounge): When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth's follow-up to their 2006 debut, "Snacks," bears an appropriate and purposely annoying title, "Not Noiice," which has to be the most obnoxious name since two guys from Ft. Worth decided to call themselves Best Fwends. And of course, when you do something like that, you're bound to make as many enemies as "fwends." I can respect that WDRTE definitely go out of their way to grate on the listener with whatever it takes; two drummers, two singers, a small army on stage, and all of it just to get under your skin with a sound that is shrieking, screeching chaos and spidery guitar lines, jarringly interrupted by low-blood pressure sludge rock. You get the feeling they want to make you nauseated, which shouldn't bother you if you're already sick.

These Are Powers blend noise and dissonance into their song structures in a rather different way, though an easily recognizable way where it's immediately apparent the band is determined to be taken more seriously than the aforementioned pranksters. Theirs is a throbbing, thudding attack, with some tribal-like pummeling as well as some willfully machine-like rhythms. Some of the extended monotone moaning sounds somewhat like the vocals in Live Skull, or the mini-genre of groups that "kind of sounded like Sonic Youth" in the mid to late 80's. Both acts certainly have their moments and that shouldn't be overlooked due to either their occasional mischief or pretense, respectively.

Ratatat/Panther/E*Rock (Granada) THIS SHOW JUST SOLD OUT: In my mind, Ratatat is a band that must be experienced live. Some might see that as a backhanded compliment of sorts, and maybe it is, but it also happens to be the truth. Most of Ratatat's recorded material is solid, dance leaning instrumental music that takes cues from influences as diverse as DJ Shadow, Bollywood and Iron Maiden, embracing heavy metal's past in one instant while looking towards abstract hip hop in the next. This is all well and good, but the experience of sitting down and listening to an entire Ratatat album on an Ipod can be a little bit tedious at times-- the songs tend to get a bit repetitive and eventually become a tad difficult to pay attention to. Live, however,the band is certainly more than a worthy experience. I've been able to catch them several times in the past few years, and watching them do what they do on-stage is highly entertaining in and of itself. Mix this with a lot of volume and an appropriately excited atmosphere, and Ratatat transforms into a can't miss show.

Disqo Disco (Fallout Lounge): This is an after-party for the Ratatat show, and The Frenz will have copies of their new ep.

Both, DL and SR, contributed to today's post.

27 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

so stoked for the ratatat show tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!
i've already called in sick tomorrow.

5:20 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Both, DL and SR, contributed to today's post." - this goes out to all the haters. so don't pick on DL today please.

5:27 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You can pick on me. I don't mind. It's usually really funny.

5:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

New Ep available tonight?

6:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

who's in charge of commas around here?

6:26 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

fuck Ep tonight?

6:28 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe someone can get me a copy.......hehehe!!!


We are testing the non-rock material tonight for a new concept ep coming out in a few weeks.

When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth are quite good. Worth checking out.

6:28 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

oh yeah....don't forget "FUCK WANZ"

6:33 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ratatat is pretty boring live. and on record. zzzzz.

7:36 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

DL's a trick-ass ho.

7:56 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

if you look real close you can see daniel franky doyle drumming behind shirtless singer for WDRTE

8:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think he was trying to do his little solo project and some drunk dudes wandered on stage to give him a hand.

8:41 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

oh shit! i almost forgot...

FUCK WANZ! you'll get a copy when i give you one, sucka!!

8:57 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"testing" the new material? what you're doin' stand-up now? why don't you just go ahead and get into sensitivity training already??

8:59 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

actually, i'm thinking they look like every other band on the face of the earth currently, pretty much.

9:06 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

6:41, pretty funny. 7:06, pretty stupid. anyone else?

9:37 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

it's nice to see you kids working together.

11:08 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

RATATAT FUCKING BLOWS

11:29 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

and a partridge in a pear Tree.

Peace in the middle east!!!!

9:25 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the bid D is gonna be chock full of off-beat white dancing tonight fo shizzle!!

ratatat! woot!

=w=
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11:28 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

even wanz is hating on himself... what the?

12:41 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey WANZ! Aren't you ALWAYS testing out material that doesn't rock?
HEYOOOOOOO!

2:16 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

FRIDAY

FREE SHOW

RUBBER GLOVES in DENTON

BAD SPORTS

THE UPTOWN BUMS

SOME DJ

10PM

3:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anyone see the ravers with glowsticks at Ratatat last night? Douche bag central, who knew their music was in a major motion picture?

3:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

it was a brodeo

9:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Both, DL and SR, contributed to today's post."

*they move away from the mic to breathe

11:22 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

yep

8:57 PM  

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