Four people sent the same link inside a minute, none of them having checked whether the others already had. That is how a certain kind of person finds out a band they had quietly written off is playing again.
Oakland built this sound across forty years, and most of what followed — the slow heavy bands, the ones with no chorus and no hurry — is downstream of it. The shows are famously not fun in the ordinary sense. Volume gets treated as a physical material, songs take eleven minutes to arrive somewhere, and the lighting has historically been nearer to total darkness than to anything a venue would bill as production. People describe leaving these gigs the way they describe leaving a long hike.
Two nights into a new year is an odd slot for it, which is exactly right. Everyone in that room chose this over recovering.
The Wiltern, Saturday January 2, 2027, 7pm. Earplugs are not optional and nobody will think less of you.
Four people sent the same link inside a minute, none of them having checked whether the others already had. That is how a certain kind of person finds out a band they had quietly written off is playing again.
Oakland built this sound across forty years, and most of what followed — the slow heavy bands, the ones with no chorus and no hurry — is downstream of it. The shows are famously not fun in the ordinary sense. Volume gets treated as a physical material, songs take eleven minutes to arrive somewhere, and the lighting has historically been nearer to total darkness than to anything a venue would bill as production. People describe leaving these gigs the way they describe leaving a long hike.
Two nights into a new year is an odd slot for it, which is exactly right. Everyone in that room chose this over recovering.
The Wiltern, Saturday January 2, 2027, 7pm. Earplugs are not optional and nobody will think less of you.
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Four people sent the same link inside a minute, none of them having checked whether the others already had. That is how a certain kind of person finds out a band they had quietly written off is playing again.
Oakland built this sound across forty years, and most of what followed — the slow heavy bands, the ones with no chorus and no hurry — is downstream of it. The shows are famously not fun in the ordinary sense. Volume gets treated as a physical material, songs take eleven minutes to arrive somewhere, and the lighting has historically been nearer to total darkness than to anything a venue would bill as production. People describe leaving these gigs the way they describe leaving a long hike.
Two nights into a new year is an odd slot for it, which is exactly right. Everyone in that room chose this over recovering.
The Wiltern, Saturday January 2, 2027, 7pm. Earplugs are not optional and nobody will think less of you.