Friday, July 22nd
summer in the city
Savages, “Fuckers,” live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/16/16
summer in the city
Savages, “Fuckers,” live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/16/16
only rock ‘n’ roll
Savages, live, England (Bristol), 2016*
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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
1. I Need Something New
2. The Answer
3. Sad Person
4. Evil
5. Surrender
6. Hit Me
7. Husbands
8. T.I.W.Y.G.
9. Adore
only rock ‘n’ roll
Savages, “The Answer,” 2015
only rock ‘n’ roll
Savages, live, Italy (Milan), 2013
only rock ’n’ roll
Here’s something from the show I saw the other night.
Savages, “She Will,” live, Chicago (Metro), 9/16/13
In the hope-I-die-before-I-get-old department, it occurred to me, as I was driving home from this show, that I’ve been doing variations on this particular theme—going out into the dark night to hear live music—for at least, uh, let’s see, yeah, it must be at least forty-five years, since it was 1968, when I was fifteen, that my brother Don and I, after seeing the Velvet Underground at Chicago’s Kinetic Playground, were arrested and taken to the police station. The charge? Curfew.
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it’s essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
—Bruce Springsteen
last night*
Savages (Jehnny Beth, vocals; Gemma Thompson, guitar; Ayse Hassan, bass; Fay Milton, drums), live, England (Glastonbury Festival, Somerset), 2013
*I saw them at Metro, a club on Chicago’s north side, near Wrigley Field. The way drummer Fay Milton rode the beat, like a wave that kept surging, surging, surging, reminded me at times of Keith Moon. Is there any higher compliment?
Why not start the week with a slap in the face?
Savages, “City’s Full,” “Shut Up,” “She Will,” “Husbands,” live (studio performance), Seattle, 2013
summer in the city
Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago (Union Park), July 19-21
Run The Jewels (El-P & Killer Mike), “36” Chain”
*****
Swans, “Oxygen”
*****
Savages, “She Will”
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lagniappe
found words
More are surviving crash landings
—front page headline, USA Today, 8/9/13
what’s new
Savages, “Shut Up,” 2013
only rock ’n’ roll
Savages, “City’s Full,” live, London, 2012
