Last night at The Faint was a hot show in every sense of the word. It was frenzied and frantic, all sweaty moshing all-ages and pulsing, pounding, electronic/new-wave indie rock. I needed that.
All my pictures are up on Facebook, shot tentatively on my handy dandy new Canon Rebel XTi, a humblingly-tremendous early birthday present from my family. Watch out! I plan on having fun with this thing.
CONTEST UPDATE: The new album also came out yesterday, and the randomly selected winner of The Faint vinyl contest is Josh — Josh, let me know where to have it sent!
On August 5th, Nebraska dance-punk band The Faint will return with a new self-released album, Fasciinatiion(on their own blank.wav label). They’ll be kicking off a tour in support of it, and I’m looking forward to catching them towards the opening end at Denver’s Ogden Theatre on Tuesday night, for what is sure to be a rad show.
I’ve not seen The Faint in concert before but friends who’ve gone cite the live action as simultaneously a huge amount of fun with perhaps a thread of dark fear running through it (stay out of the daylight!). This is not a bad combination, but hopefully the ratio of fun to fear will be proportionately higher than that time I saw Marilyn Manson in 1995 at now-defunct Edge nightclub in Palo Alto — still scarred from that one. Anyways . . . I woefully digress.
NEW CONTEST! Thanks to the folks at blank.wav, I have one double gatefold 180-gram vinyl of the new album Fasciinatiion to give away to one lucky winner. Please leave a comment if you’d like to win — and if you’ve seen ‘em live, tell me what I have in store for me. Posed to death!
Fasciinatiion Track List: 1) Get Seduced 2) The Geeks Were Right 3) Machine in the Ghost 4) Fulcrum and Lever 5) Psycho 6) Mirror Error 7) I Treat You Wrong 8) Forever Growing Centipedes 9) Fish in a Womb 10) A Battle Hymn for Children
And the tour starts tomorrow night, rocking Des Moines:
THE FAINT TOUR DATES July 27 Des Moines, IA – Peoples Court July 28 Sioux Falls, SD – Ramkota Annex July 29 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre July 30 Salt Lake City, UT – In the Venue July 31 Boise, ID – Big Easy Boise Aug 01 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Aug 02 Seattle, WA – Showbox at the Market Aug 03 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom Aug 04 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore Aug 05 San Francisco, CA – Grand Ballroom Aug 07 Los Angeles, CA – Henry Fonda Theatre Aug 08 Los Angeles, CA – Henry Fonda Theatre Aug 09 San Diego, CA – Soma Aug 11 Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa Aug 12 Dallas, TX – Palladium Aug 14 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse Aug 15 Carrboro, NC – Cats Cradle Aug 16 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club Aug 17 Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero Aug 18 New York, NY – Terminal 5 Aug 20 Worcester, MA – Palladium Aug 21 Toronto, Ontario – Opera House Aug 22 Chicago, IL – Vic Theatre Aug 23 Omaha, NE – Sokol Auditorium
In yesterday’s post I mentionedSaddle Creek as being the home of danse-macabre band The Faint, and as I typed that sentence, I wondered what was going on with their punk new-wave selves.
Turns out that the news today is that they’ve actually left Saddle Creek to form their own label called blank.wav, and that they’ll have a new record coming out August 5th called Fasciinatiion (with that many “i”s). If you wonder to yourself why this is anticipated news ’round these parts, please check a few of my favorite tunes that The Faint have had their hands into these past few years:
It’s also been said that The Faint puts on one of the best live shows humanly possible, so I am uber-looking forward to seeing them this summer:
THE FAINT TOUR DATES July 27 Des Moines, IA – Peoples Court July 28 Sioux Falls, SD – Ramkota Annex July 29 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre July 30 Salt Lake City, UT – In the Venue July 31 Boise, ID – Big Easy Boise Aug 01 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Aug 02 Seattle, WA – Showbox at the Market Aug 03 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom Aug 04 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore Aug 05 San Francisco, CA – Grand Ballroom Aug 07 Los Angeles, CA – Henry Fonda Theatre Aug 08 Los Angeles, CA – Henry Fonda Theatre Aug 09 San Diego, CA – Soma Aug 11 Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa Aug 12 Dallas, TX – Palladium Aug 14 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse Aug 15 Carrboro, NC – Cats Cradle Aug 16 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club Aug 17 Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero Aug 18 New York, NY – Terminal 5 Aug 20 Worcester, MA – Palladium Aug 21 Toronto, Ontario – Opera House Aug 22 Chicago, IL – Vic Theatre Aug 23 Omaha, NE – Sokol Auditorium
Name: Heather Browne Location: Colorado, originally by way of California Giving context to the torrent since 2005.
"I love the relationship that anyone has with music: because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part..."
—Nick Hornby, Songbook
"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel." —Hunter S. Thompson
Mp3s are for sampling purposes, kinda like when they give you the cheese cube at Costco, knowing that you'll often go home with having bought the whole 7 lb. spiced Brie log. They are left up for a limited time. If you LIKE the music, go and support these artists, buy their schwag, go to their concerts, purchase their CDs/records and tell all your friends. Rock on.
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