at The Gorge

Oh Monday! Dear third day of camping, hair unwashed, everything I own smelling like sunscreen. After packing everything up post-haste we hoofed it to see one of the two early shows that day, the Heartless Bastards. I'd heard scattered ruminations about them but didn't know much and I'm patting myself on the back for checking them out. The Heartless Bastards are a Cincinnati-by-way-of-Texas band fronted by Erika Wennerstrom, whose soulful Patti Smith/Chrissie Hynde voice unites with the rough and tumble southern sound of her Austin band to form a rich and raucous kind of alt-country that is anything but boring.

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2008 was an interesting musical, and personal, year for me. I listened to a lot of indie rock, electronica and went to a shit-ton of shows (one of which was the best I've ever seen, thanks Of Montreal).

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Just a quick note to glory in the beautiful reworking Deerhoof has done on the Parenthetical Girls' song "GUT Symmetries" from PG's new album, Entanglements.

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To those uninitiated to Deerhoof, Friend Opportunity is a good place to start. In 36 minutes this album packs in a song about dogs, choo-choos and beep beeps, plenty of changing syncopated rhythms and even a ten-minute plus noise-esqe song.

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Her lyrics — mesmerizing pieces of shattered poetry in broken English, Japanese, and Spanish — make me check under my bed for dolls with sharp instruments and a blood lust.

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