2021 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.

Upcoming Shows:

8/19 - Pyscho Swim (Las Vegas, NV)
8/20 - Psycho (Las Vegas, NV)
8/21 - Psycho (Las Vegas, NV)
8/22 - Psycho (Las Vegas, NV)
8/27 - Modest Mouse
9/22 - Gorija, Deftones
3/9/22 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
7/2/22 - Ween
10/4/22 - King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

My Top 50 Albums of 2020

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My Top 100 Albums of 2010-2019

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2020 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.

1/10 - Shooter Jennings
1/29 - Author & Punisher, Tool (Nashville, TN)
3/10 - PUP
3/11 - Tool

My Top 50 Albums of 2019

I listened to 152 2019 releases. Here is my top 50:

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
2. Cass McCombs - Tip of the Sphere
3. Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
4. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
5. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
6. Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
7. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
8. 100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs
9. Lana Del Ray - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
10. Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild
11. Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
12. Denzel Curry - ZUU
13. PUP - Morbid Stuff
14. Yola - Walk Through Fire
15. Thom Yorke - ANIMA
16. Alex Lahey - The Best of Luck Club
17. Dream Theater - Distance Over Time
18. Davido - A Good Time
19. Vampire Weekend - Father Of the Bride
20. Tool - Fear Inoculum
21. Ride - This Is Not a Safe Place
22. Meat Puppets - Dusty Notes
23. The Menzingers - Hello Exile
24. The Felice Brothers - Undress
25. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
26. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
27. Orville Peck - Pony
28. (Sandy) Alex G - House of Sugar
29. Swans - leaving meaning.
30. The Mountain Goats - In League With Dragons
31. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats' Nest
32. Tyler Childers - Country Squire
33. FKA Twigs - MAGDALENE
34. James Blake - Assume Form
35. Ty Segall and The Freedom Band - Deforming Lobes
36. Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury
37. Polo G - Die A Legend
38. Wilco - Ode To Joy
39. Bon Iver - i,i
40. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
41. Mannequin Pussy - Patience
42. Leonard Cohen - Thanks for the Dance
43. Sunn O))) - Life Metal
44. Wand - Laughing Matter
45. Ariel Pink - Oddities Sodomies (Vol. 2)
46. Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
47. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana
48. Battles - Juice B Crypts
49. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Hiding Places
50. Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love

2019 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.

3/11 - Paperback Writer (Casa Grande, AZ)
3/18 - Low
3/23 - The Black Queen
3/26 - James Blake
3/28 - Sea Moya, Bright Light Social Hour (Spokane, WA)
4/19 - Budos Brothers
6/8 - Jimmy Buffett (Dallas, TX)
6/21 - Built To Spill (Spokane, WA)
6/28 - Jim James + Claypool Lennon Delirium (Jacksonville, OR)
7/10 - Alice Cooper (Madison, WI)
7/14 - Planning For Burial, Have A Nice Life
7/21 - Lillie Mae, Raconteurs
8/4 - Diesel (Shaquille O'Neal), Sharon Van Etten, Kacey Musgraves, Meek Mill, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, Ariana Grande, Perry Ferrell's Kind Heaven Orchestra (Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL)
8/16 - YOB, High On Fire, Goatwhore, Electric Wizard, Perturbator, En Minor (Psycho, Las Vegas, NV)
8/17 - Mork, Old Man Gloom, Triumph of Death, Carcass, Mark Lanegan, Sumac, The Misfits, Full of Hell (Psycho, Las Vegas, NV)
8/18 - Mogwai, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Truckfighters, Beach House, Deafheaven, Opeth, Power Trip, Amenra (Psycho, Las Vegas, NV)
8/22 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
8/30 - Sponge
9/6 - Iron Maiden
9/21 - John Prine
10/8 - Nick Cave
10/30 - Built To Spill
11/1 - Built To Spill
11/24 - Phil Anselmo & the Illegals, Ministry, Primus, Slayer (Spokane, WA)
12/2 - Lingua Ignota, Daughters
12/5 - Raconteurs
12/13 - Static X

My Top 50 Albums of 2018

I listened to 118 2018 releases. Here is my top 50:

1. A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant
2. Low - Double Negative
3. Jeff Rosenstock - POST
4. Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine
5. Olafur Arnalds - re:member
6. Preoccupations - New Material
7. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
8. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
9. Against All Logic - 2012 - 2017
10. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch Ep
11. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
12. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
13. Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meat Space
14. Daugthers - You Won't Get What You Want
15. John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness
16. MGMT - Little Dark Age
17. Matthew Dear - Bunny
18. Saba - CARE FOR ME
19. John Hopkins - Singularity
20. Jeff Tweady - WARM
21. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
22. Amen Dunes - Freedom
23. Sleep - The Sciences
24. Phosphorescent - C'est La Vie
25. Titus Andronicus - A Productive Cough
26. Gorillaz - The Now Now
27. Shame - Songs of Praise
28. Tierra Whack - Whack World
29. Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
30. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
31. Kamasi Washington - The Choice
32. Robyn - Honey
33. SOB X RBE - GANGIN
34. David Byrne - American Utopia
35. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
36. Lil Peep - Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 2
37. Curtis Roush - Cosmic Campfire Music
38. The Black Queen - Infinite Games
39. Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
40. Kendrick Lamar - Black Panther the Album
41. U.S. Girls - In A Poem Unlimited
42. Glen Hansard - Between Two Shores
43. Okkervil River - In The Rainbow Rain
44. Iceage - Beyondless
45. Beach House - 7
46. Mastersystem - Dance Music
47. The Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
48. Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxory
49. Eminem - Kamikaze
50. Arctic Monkey - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino