Jun 30 : "Can't Go Home" - Roadkill Messiahs

Philly Music!

And headlining at The Fire that night was Philly band "Roadkill Messiahs", which was another act I was hearing for the first time.

I also found out that Sean Svadlenak, whom I originally saw playing in Philly band "Babar" is now playing in Roadkill Messiahs. Well, there's a dramatic change of style. :)

Current song playing right here on my blog page is "Can't Go Home" by Roadkill Messiahs.

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6/27/20 UPDATE! ::: OOPS! Looks like the band removed this song from their webpage!

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To visit Roadkill Messiahs, here is the click ::: Roadkill Messiahs (CLICK HERE)

Jun 23 : "Diamondback Shuffle" - Something Like a Monument

Philly Music!

David decided to stay at Johnny Brenda's to hear the headliner. I wasn't that much into that band, so I decided to do a mix and match and head over to The Fire, where I heard Philly band "Something Like a Monument" play for the first time.

Current song playing right now is "Diamondback Shuffle" by Something Like a Monument.

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6/27/20 UPDATE! ::: OOPS! SORRY Lost this link!

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To visit the band, here is the click ::: Something Like a Monument (CLICK HERE)

Jun 17 : "When Fire Burns Out" - Juston Stens and the Get Real Gang

Philly Music!

On Thursday night for the first time in a long time I went out to hear music. (Having to stay in each night to get up early in the morning to wait for the electrician who never came and took over a month to do a short job WHEW! Glad that's over).

But getting back to music on Thursday was good because David had that same night on his calendar to go out, so we started the evening by going to Johnny Brenda's. First up was "Juston Stens and the Get Real Gang", whom neither of us had heard before.

Both of us liked the show. Here's a sample of their music, "When Fire Burns Out" :::

To visit Juston Stens on line here is the click ::: Juston Stens and the Get Real Gang (CLICK HERE)

May 23 : "Hot Summer" - Jackie Paper

Philly Music!

Blown Away ............................ Again!

Friday night I went to see Jackie Paper play at IHOP Estate. The first time I had seen Jackie Paper was at Comly Haus Basement Sound Laboratory a couple months ago. That first night Josh Dowell, mastermind behind Jackie Paper was performing as a solo act with Iam Mick joining in halfway through. The feel and tempo of the music was similar to what can be found on Jackie Paper's web page.

What caught my attention that first night and what made me a fan after just hearing Josh play his first bar was the chord progressions.

On Friday night at IHOP Estate Jackie Paper was a full band. There was even a flute as part of their lineup. The signature beautiful chord progressions were there (blown away again), but this time the feel and tempo of the music had a more intense rock beat.

Jackie Paper doesn't currently have samples of the faster-tempo music on their web page, but I'm featuring a song whose style was what made me like the outfit to begin with. Current song playing right here on my blog page is "Hot Summer" (from 2009) :::

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6/27/20 UPDATE! ::: OOPS! Looks like the band removed this song from their webpage!

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To visit Jackie Paper's web page, here is the click ::: Jackie Paper (CLICK HERE)

This was a good show; I had a great night. My only regret was that I couldn't stay longer to hear even more bands, but I had a meeting the next morning where I needed to be awake and alert, so I had to make it an early night. :)

I'm looking forward to seeing Jackie Paper again.

May 20 : "pRODUCT pLACEMENT [2012]" - 185668232

New Sounds / Freshly Arranged (2012)

On Wednesday I went to The Fire to see 185668232. As usual The Fire jumbled up the order that the bands played, so that the playing order was different than what was on their website. I don't even expect that place to stick to what their page says any more.

185668232 has a continuous free-flowing stream of personnel that changes from show to show. Wednesday it was mainly Iam Mick with a spoken-word backup from Sadie Fissinger. I adjusted the first line of this blog to accommodate Iam's perception of his work and to maybe update my perception of work of today's artists in general. While I have normally identified new work as "New Music / Freshly Written & Recently Released", Iam told me that he doesn't consider himself a musician (even though I've seen his proficiency playing several instruments), but one who works with "sound", including more sound than what constitutes traditional music. ... And in my conversation with him and another artist learned that there is no way to "write" down in notations on paper what those sounds are in a way that would be similar to writing music on a piece of paper. If you wanted to perform what you're doing tonight again five years from now, you would have to recreate it. There's no way to write down on paper what it would be so you could read it and do it again in five years.

This is an interesting concept to learn as my own horizons or understanding of "music" and "sounds" are also being redefined.

I've seen Iam's more recent work move off into the areas of new "sounds". And with a focusing on the bands that were to be playing that night (that he was largely instrumental in putting together), I've seen him show an interest in "Chalk Harmonica Vibe". And after listening to Chalk Harmonica Vibe on their web page before the show and listening to their music at the show, I would venture to say that maybe they had a little influence in the stylings of 185's specific performance Wednesday night.

One of 185's more experimental pieces is pRODUCT pLACEMENT [2012], which is a continuously evolving work that features a wide array of stylings and techniques. And it's playing right here on my blog page.

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6/27/20 UPDATE! ::: 185 removed the original version from their page and replaced it with a newer version. The recording below is actually from 2014.

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185668232 has a show scheduled for tonight at the Meatlocker in Montclair, NJ..

To visit 185668232 otherwise, here is the click ::: 185668232 (CLICK HERE)