Thursday, January 2, 2020

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