July/August Wrap-Up
The Smashing Pumpkins Asheville residency show I caught may have left me wanting, but I have decided that I love Zeitgeist. I know this is certainly not an opinion that many critics are going to share, but I think there are some reasons for that. Of course Billy Corgan’s personality is going to put off some people and the lack of original members makes some people not take this work as seriously as they should. Also, I believe the album employs many sounds that are not particularly in style at the moment and there is nothing really ground-breaking about it. All of that said, this is just simply a really great album. The more familiar I become with it, the more I enjoy it. I have always been a James Iha fan, but I no longer believe he is necessary for the Smashing Pumpkins franchise to be legitimate.
Smashing Pumpkins : Zeigeist : United States
I skipped most of the Corndogorama for Pitchfork Music Fest in Chicago. It was really fun and despite sound problems, all and all a pretty sweet fest. Our coverage:
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3/Wrap-Up
We got some good photos of Parade‘s in-store Criminal Records show. Remember they are playing for free this Saturday night.
Marnie Stern exceeded my high expectations with her amazing show and is one of 2007′s best artists in my opinion. I swear we’ll have video from the show up soon.
Another great summer show I caught was Portugal The Man. Two things I took from the show is that I didn’t think a band could fit 10 people on the Drunken Unicorn stage jamming/dancing/working lights at one time and Portugal The Man‘s new blues-rock sound on Church Mouth further displays how much stylistic range this band has.
Biggie C went down to Savannah to catch the Daniel Johnston show.
Thanks for reading! Come down to the ‘park this Saturday night and have some beers on us.
- Posted by Davy Minor on September 3, 2007 at 10:56 pm
