2018 Shows

As usual, for the shows I've attended, I'll list the bands I saw. If I didn't list an opening band, it's because I didn't see them. 

All shows in Portland unless otherwise noted.

1/14 - Wolf Parade
1/20 - Tuck & Patti, St. Vincent
1/26 - Queens of the Stone Age
2/19 - Shame
2/24 - Mike Doughty
3/17 - Sorority Noise
3/24 - Titus Andronicas
4/3 - Hand Habits, Kevin Morby
4/7 - Dodgy Mountain Men (Sandpoint, ID)
4/26 - No Age (Madison, WI)
5/13 - Pennywise, The Offspring
5/14 - Afghan Whigs, Built To Spill
5/19 - Paul Simon
5/23 - Fever Ray
5/24 - Jeff Rosenstock
5/25 - Hippo Campus, The Suffers, Vince Staples, Tash Sultana, David Byrne, Thundercat, Bon Iver, Snakehips, Tyler, The Creator (Sasquatch! Music Festival, George, WA)
5/26 - Bread & Butter, Pickwick, Polyrythmics, Wilderado, Tyler Childers, Curtis Harding, Mimicking Birds, Girlpool, Magic Swords, Algiers, Japandroids, White Reaper, Grizzly Bear, Jlin, Shakey Graves, Spoon, TV on the Radio, Modest Mouse, Explosions in the Sky (Sasquatch! Music Festival, George, WA)
5/27 - Jacob Banks, Too Many Zoos, Tank and the Bangas, (Sandy) Alex G, Choir! Choir! Choir!, Charly Bliss, Tune-Yards, Japanese Breakfast, Perfume Genius, Ray Lamontagne, Slowdive, The National, Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals  (Sasquatch! Music Festival, George, WA)
5/31 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
6/1 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
6/2 - Cascade Crescendo, Worlds Finest
6/4 - King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
6/5 - Okkervil River
6/6 - Lord Huron
6/25 - Mastodon, Primus
7/8 - Converge, Neurosis
7/25 - Animal Collective (Denver, CO)
8/3 - Finger Guns, Melefluent, Black Happy (Spokane, WA)
8/11 - Jack White
8/17 - Ween
8/18 - Ween
9/2 - Trego, Dodgy Mountain Men (Fall Fest, Sandpoint, ID)
9/6 - Growlers
9/7 - Andrew WK
9/14 - Queensrÿche, Scorpions (Tampa, FL)
9/29 - The Jesus Lizard
10/12 - My Bloody Valentine
10/26 - A Perfect Circle (Voodoo Music Festival, New Orleans, LA)
10/27 - Anna Lunoe, Odesza, Marilyn Manson (Voodoo Music Festival, New Orleans, LA)
11/5 - Tyler Childers
12/5 - Metallica
12/15 - Tenacious D (Fuck Yeah!)

My Top 50 Albums of 2017

I listened to 143 2017 releases. Here is my top 50: 1. Slowdive - Slowdive

2. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream

3. Sorority Noise - You're Not As _____ As You Think

4. Ride - Weather Diaries

5. Lil B - Black Ken

6. St. Vincent - MASSEDUCATION

7. Broken Social Scene - Hug Of Thunder

8. Lil Peep - Come Over When You're Sober Pt. 1

9. Fever Ray - Plunge

10. Converge - The Dusk in Us

11. Gorillaz - Humanz

12. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.

13. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gumboot Soup

14. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard -Polygondwanaland

15. The Shins - Heartworms

16. Mountain Goats - Goth

17. The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

18. GAS - Narkopop

19. Mutoid Man - War Moans

20. Blanck Mass - World Eater

21. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying  Microtonal Banana

22. Kevin Morby - City Music

23. Brand New - Science Fiction

24. Moon Duo - Occult Architecture Vol. 2

25. Ryan Adams - Prisoner

26. Queens of the Stone Age - Villains

27. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural

28. Arcade Fire - Everything Now

29. Alvvays - Antisocialities

30. Craig Finn - We All Want The Same Things

31. The National - Sleep Well Beast

32. Perfume Genius - No Shape

33. King Krule - The OOZ

34. The xx - I See You

35. Spoon - Hot Thoughts

36. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers

37. Conor Oberist - Salutations

38. Ex Eye - Ex Eye

39. The Barr Brothers - Queens of the Breakers

40. Beck - Colors

41. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun

42. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3

43. White Reaper - The World's Best American Band

44. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe

45. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

46. Liars - TFCF

47. Lorde - Melodrama

48. Iron & Wine - Beast Epic

49. Kelela - Take Me Apart

50. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Sketches of Brunswick East