Live Music in 2024
I saw, and was involved with, a lot of great performances in 2024. Here’s a (nearly) complete rundown.
Woolly Bugger 2023 Top 10
Will make it nice and easy and break it down into the standard 5 categories everyone uses to present their best-of-year of list. San Francisco Continues to Over-Perform As Good Now as Then (Live and on Wax) Local (Tokyo) Greatness The Indie Kids (Now and Then) are All Right The New/Old School Will share Bandcamp …
The Mountain Goats in Woolly Bugger #1
Interview with the Mountain Goats from early 1994. Originally appeared in Issue #1 of the fanzine Woollybugger. Fully affiliated with Union Pole Tapes.
Yo La Tengo in Woolly Bugger #1
Interview with Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan in early 1994. Originally appeared in Issue #1 of the fanzine Woollybugger. Fully affiliated with Union Pole Tapes.
Budweiser Pale Lager & NYC Ghosts and Flowers
It just can’t any get worse. Bottom of the barrel. Anheuser-Busch – Budweiser Pale Lager Sonic Youth – NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Feel This Coffee IPA & Hypercaffium Spazzinate
No way the numbers could add up here, must be the coffee and the alcohol taking to each other. Mikkeller San Diego – Feel This Coffee IPA Descendents – Hypercaffium Spazzinage
India Pale Ale & Damaged
Damaged in red and black. Lagunitas – India Pale Ale Black Flag – Damaged
Blanche & E2-E4
Das ist gut in the 92 range. St. Bernardus – Blanche (Witbeir) Manuel Gottsching – E2-E4
Optimator & Mama’s Gun
Spaten – Optimator Erykah Badu – Mama’s Gun
Focal Banger & White Light/White Heat
Perfect scores in black and white. The Alchemist – Focal Banger The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat