road trippin.....

First of all, you better believe Kickapoo Joy Juice will get 26 fourteen year old girls jacked up for a Volleyball Match quicker then cocaine or speed ever could. Secondly here's some albums that were getting some heavy rotation on my ipod while i tried to drown out the sound of people singing Taylor Swift loud enough to rattle the bus windows. :)

My Heart to Joy [2009] Season in Verse : Been talking to these guys lately about how they need to come to AK to do a show. Can't wait to move back to states to see this band again. This record is always great, on a bus, on a plane, with ham, etc
Kidcrash [2004] New Ruins : For some reason anytime i hear any of these songs, they make me smile. Love this band, definitely still my favorite record by them, wish they would buy back the rights and put it on vinyl.
Polemarch [2008] La Fiesta De Disfances : Continuing to be blown away by this band, probably gonna put up a Static Future[EP] pretty soon here.
Minus the Bear [2009] Into the Mirror [SINGLE]  : Kind of sick of waiting for these guys to just fucking put out there new album. And i keep saying, "fuck MTB if they want to ignore me and my wants, then FINE." But then i quickly take it back and hope the MTB gods didn't here me and smite me with a longer wait.
Alexisonfire [2009] Old Crows/Young Cardinals: It's always great when bands you love mature and make even better music. It's even better when you agree and support the direction that they want to take their new sound in. It's fucking fantastic, when that new sound is fucking awesome. 
Saosin [2003] Translating the Name :Rumors about this getting repressed on Vinyl have really been getting me all hot and bothered. Had to go back and re listen to those fan-fucking-tastic drums again.
Minus the Bear [2005] Menos El Oso :There is no instance in which this record is not 100% worth listening to from start to finish. Had to play this one while zoning out to mile after mile of snow covered mountain tops, and Dr. Seuss looking trees.. Made me miss the ocean, like it was a long lost friend [which most MTB records do].

What do you guys listen to on roadtrips?

Saosin - (2003) Translating The Name

sound: Post Hardcore/ Progressive Rock
length:7 songs, 21.3 minutes
myspace, click on the song translating the name
1. Seven Years (3:12)
2. Translating The Name (3:26)
3. 3rd Measurement In C (2:38)
4. Lost Symphonies (2:55)
5. They Perched On Their Stilts, Pointing And Daring Me To Break Custom (2:51)
6.3rd Measure in C (acoustic)
7. Seven Years (acoustic)


Ok, so for about ten minutes today i thought i might be a Saosin fan. But then i took a deep breath counted to ten and came to my senses. It turned out i was actually just still an Anthony Green fan because the man is a musician worthy of praise, and a vocalists capable of  amazing feats most men would not dare. Besides that hes capable of  conveying a great deal of emotion and managing to some how command  your attention over the music. Not to mention he is a prolific fucking lyricist.....but that's enough hand jobbing  Anthony Green for one post.
When really i just want to talk about the fucking drummer. Pat McGrath, a drummer Saosin pulled in for this single EP, a man who had never played a single show with them live. They simply asked him to emulate the voracious sound of This Day Forward. Well, he pretty much took that direction and blew it out of the fucking water. Honestly if they'd managed to keep  these two this band would have been fucking outrageous, possibly way too fucking talented. Maybe its better for the universe that Green went on to Circa Survive, who boasts another great drummer by the by.  And as for Pat Mcgrath, well he went back to the fucking Underworld from whence he came, where he shall remain, until he is whole once again.
This EP is a constant battle between these two very talented musicians putting on one hell of a fucking show over 4 tracks. If you are a Circa Survive fan do not skim over this, it is an absolute treasure.

sounds like: Circa Survive, This Day Forward

bump.