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Nevertheless David Pajo’s (Slint, Tortoise, Royal Trux, Zwan, etc) 9-song Misfits cover album, “Scream With Me” is killing me.  

Friday, 8:45 at The Florida Theater of Gainesville.

This is posted out of order because Lifetime, a band everyone loves, but I couldn’t give a shit about, had to drop off Fest due to babies. But still wanting to play, members of Lifetime remembered they had this other band that the kids are into, and now Kid Dynamite is playing.

There are no other bands that even come close to how badly I want to see this band. Sorry, Great Explainer and Touche Amore, you lose.

Friday, 10 at 8 Seconds.

With Touché Amore playing at 9:50 and these guys playing at 10, a choice has to be made. Skip Banner Pilot? Skip Touché Amore? Or try to see parts of both sets and hope there isn’t a line.

By the time Fest rolls around, Banner Pilot should have a new album out. If it’s even ½ as good as Collapser, I’m going to be stoked.

Friday, 7:50 at The Atlantic.

Last year I ended up running (let’s be honest, chubby guy fast walking) from the No Idea house to 8 Seconds to try to see this band. I missed the 1st half of their set, but what I did see was great.

I love this band (whoever the hell is in it now) and would gladly run (chubby guy fast walk) to see them again.

The band is Evan Patterson of Young Widows and Dan Davis of Kodan Armada. The whole album was improvised and recorded during three weekends, and it sounds like it. As much as I really want to love this record and its weirdness, I can really only listen to a couple of tracks before I have to stop.

Originally By Fugazi

I’m not sure that this version is better than the Atom & His Package version, but it’s pretty great.

All posts in the month of August will be covers.

I’ve always kind of thought the album version of this song had a sadness to it (probably just the tempo). Drag’s version of this song turns that sadness up a few notches (not just with tempo). 

All posts in the month of August will be covers.

During their Hazards of Love tour, the band would come out, say nothing, and play “The Hazards of Love in its entirety. Then take a short break and come back out, talk and play the hits. 

The second set would end with this cover. When I saw them, it was more over the top than it is in this recording. Though it’s possible, it just seemed like that because I was actually there. 

All posts in the month of August will be covers.

Atlantic City is easily one of my favorite songs of all time, if not the favorite. Hell, it was the first song posted here. So it’s no easy task to make a version of this song I’m going to like, but The Hold Steady did.

The piano intro is a great melancholy intro, exactly what you would expect for this song, then the balls kick in. It’s such a perfect ape of the “big Springsteen” sound.