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| Howard Hamlin (Better Call Saul spoilies)
...just had to suffer one more indignity. (Well, several, I suppose.) They really did my boy dirty. Anyways, list is concerts I'm going to through the end of July in order to take my mind off things. | | 1 |  | No Devotion
Permanence
Playing Das Ottobar 7/14 (hey, that's tomorrow wooohooo!): Glad to see this wasn't just a one-off, and though it seems highly improbable the myhtical new album will have materialized within the next 24 hours, pumped to see them regardless. | | 2 |  | Jeremy Enigk
Return of the Frog Queen
Opening for No Devotion. Kind of a strange pairing, but I guess this is the Hey, Let's Talk About Something Else Tour. Never got as much into his solo stuff as Sunny Day, but definitely excited to see him in this setting, definitely a more intimate space than you'd catch SD these days. (Also opening is Nate Bergman, whom I don't really know at all.) | | 3 |  | Alexisonfire
Otherness
Playing The FIllmore Silver Spring 7/22: Was excited to nab these tickets on sale a couple months ago, but also a bit nervous since I did so before the album dropped. Now that it has, I'm even MORE excited. (No openers announced, at least that I've seen.) | | 4 |  | Lucy Dacus
Home Video
Playing Ram's Head Live 7/25: Rescheduled show from earlier this year, very glad it's finally happening. She really has gotten better and better with each album, and Home Video definitely grew its way into my personal top ten of last year, so glad to round out my live viewing of the boygenius contributors. | | 5 |  | Samia
The Baby
Opening for Lucy Dacus; like Nate Bergman, another act I'm not all that familiar with, but def will be interested to watch with an open mind. | | 6 |  | Coheed and Cambria
Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
Playing The Anthem on 7/26: Back-to-back show with Lucy Dacus, which...I'm not as young as I once was, so not ideal (already took off the next day haha, so at least there's that), but when the time coes, ya gotta 'Heed the call (see what I did there?). Good timing here, at least, in the sense that just got my box set in the mail, uh, yesterday. Gonna blast The Aftermen and Vol. 1 as prep alongside it (I already know everything prior to those by heart, so no need, and Color Before the Sun is best avoided). | | 7 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Jackpot Juicer
Oh snap, psych! | | 8 |  | Alkaline Trio
From Here to Infirmary
Opening for Coheed (and replacing DGD): I truthfully never got super into these guys back in the day, but my partner very much was, so this tour lineup maneuver was definitely trading up as far as she's concerned. | | 9 |  | Mothica
Nocturnal
Also opening for Coheed, and yet another band I don't really know. Last time I went to the Anthem, the line was such that even getting there at doors, we ended up missing the first opener altogether, so I at least won't be heartbroken if that happens again here, even if I pray it doesn't. | | 10 |  | mewithoutYou
[Untitled]
Playing Baltimore Soundstage 7/31: I'm always a bit skeptical when a band this "young" (relatively speaking, I guess) announces a retirement, but hey, any excuse to see a career-spanning set by these masters is good enough for me. Was hoping we'd get a "final" EP out of the bargain, as well, but no such luck, it seems, and they went out on a damn fine swan song as it is. Anyways, I'll also be there for the reunion tour in 5-10 years. | | 11 |  | Why?
AOKOHIO
Opening for mwY, I'm dimly aware of this band, will have to do a little more homework in the next couple weeks. Holding out hope for a second opener, as well, but we shall see; if it means a longer set time from the headliner, fully okay with that. | |
thecheatisnotdead
07.13.22 | Edit: Posted this before I even saw today's news about #1; new track is expectedly great, but unfortunately looks like the full album isn't out 'til September. So it goes. | Trebor.
07.14.22 | Lalo is like an RPG character with every stat maxed out | thecheatisnotdead
07.14.22 | Haha that is a great description. | Trebor.
07.14.22 | Including pride | ConcubinaryCode
07.14.22 | Oh shit, update us if No Devotion play new songs. | Deez
07.14.22 | You deserve some indignity for these shows (minus Why? ) | Mort.
07.14.22 | 'Lalo is like an RPG character with every stat maxed out'
yeah lalo is one of my least fav parts of the show. im sick of incredibly charismatic skilled psychos in art that will only meet their downfall due to hubris. | thecheatisnotdead
07.14.22 | @Code: Will do fo sho!
@Deez: Pile it on!
@Mort.: I hear ya, but Tony Dalton def brought his a-game to what's sort of become a stock template in a lot of crime/thriller stuff these days. | Rowan5215
07.14.22 | Lalo was the best part of the show foh | onionbubs
07.14.22 | id give that award to nacho but near every second of lalos screentime ruled too yea | Ryus
07.14.22 | best part of the show is the jimmy/kim dynamic. the cartel/gus stuff is a lot weaker than it was in breaking bad imo | thecheatisnotdead
07.14.22 | Welp, No Devotion cancelled. Sounds like that damn 'rona. The indignities just keep on comin'. Huge bummer, but still more than happy to see my boy Jeremy, though.
Anyways, yeah, Nacho was consistently incredible to and through the bitter end, my man Howard got better and better each season, and I completely agree that there's been more than one arc/season where I felt more invested in the Jimmy/Kim side of things than anything to do with the cartel storyline, which is NOT a take I was expecting to come away with. | ConcubinaryCode
07.14.22 | ^massive bummer. They at least say they'd reschedule or offer refunds? | thecheatisnotdead
07.14.22 | No word on either, but I'm fortunate in the sense that I have a "season pass" type deal for the venue, otherwise I'd be considerably more upset about it haha | thecheatisnotdead
07.14.22 | (From the look of it, show was surprisingly cheap even without the pass, though, like $14.) |
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