Dead Meadow | Black Mountain | Blood on the Wall (Granada)
Dead Meadow is one of those bands that you probably either love or hate, depending on how much pot you smoke. Of course, an affection for Sabbath, Blue Cheer and stoner rock goes a long way towards pushing you to the former, as Dead Meadow has presented a fairly consistent discography of the aforementioned sounds over the past several years. Their live shows ( I've somehow managed to see several over the years) are a bit hit or miss in my experience, and you often get both in the same set. The molasses slow blues based sludge can often be powerful and compelling, but long songs and longer solos often seem to creep into their sets, making patience a necessary virture for the second half of the show. All that being said, the band has become somewhat iconic over the years in certain circles, and if you're into this kind of guitar based psyche rock, you probably can't go wrong with these dudes, dude. Black Mountain could perhaps be described in a similar manner, but they're noticeably more accessible to the general public, focusing on more pop and even folk-tinged psyche oriented material while perhaps trimming down some of the fat the DM indulges in at times (check "Tyrants" on their Myspace for a little taste of this). And they really seem to like Zep, too. I'm personally a bigger fan of BM side project Pink Mountaintops than I am of Black Mountain itself, but I hear a pretty decent live experience here. And finally, Blood on the Wall have been compared to grunge influenced, early DGC era Sonic Youth, and I guess I can see that. It's also by far the worst era of Sonic Youth, ps. In fact, I think I'd rather listen to BOW's first record than Dirty. Don't reject me.

Also, Cool out at the Cavern. Cool Out dudes have a little treat for you that we'll be posting a little later as well.

blood on the walls were pretty samey.

STONER ROCK FOR THE SWEATER CLAD.

bands are last century - time for something that is not safe and sanitized - Post Bands Music

another can of worms?

And my brisket Burns!

And I VOTE BARAK!

I didn't get out of class in time to see Blood on the Walls. Were they good?

I only counted two tie-dyed t-shirts and one pair of fringe moccasin boots last night. Low hesh dog turnout.

no one saw blood on the walls?

Black Mountain was awesome. Dead Meadow was okay, I left before they finished.

sober and select @ house of blues next monday as well as last night.

The show last night was really fucking rad. every act really impressed me, and of the 4 times I've seen dead meadow, this was by far their finest show.

LAKE TOMATO WILL NOT SAVE ITSELF

IT CAN NOT

SOMEONE BUILD A WEATHER MACHINE

ITS FOR THE CHILDREN

no, actually black mountain kind of ruled

fuck yeah arbys. black mountain kind of sucked, they had no energy. dead meadow ruled on the other hand.

son of a brisket... my ancestors spit on your haircut!!!
or at least floppers w/crayons...

i got a chicken parmesan sandwich from arby's for lunch! shit was good!

...sheople,power to the sheople,baby sheople with mint jelly,YUM!

I like chicken parmesan

here's a novel idea: like what YOU like, not what the sheople like.

I saw Black Mountain open up for the Mountain Goats. Black Mountain was....s oo. . ... boring.

Black Mountain!!!!!!! WooooHoooo!!!!

butthelakeroseinitsaftermath

thetomatoburntdown

savelaketomato

Yeah, Chief.

go post it on your blog.

when chief played with them last time they were here, they said we were "too heavy."

lame!!