8.20.2008

Whatchoo been doin'?

Yeah, you know me, maxin' in the shade. I'm workin' on shit, but tomorrow's my birthday, so please excuse the apparent sloth. Take a look at this here list of musical performers I've seen so far this year, in order:

1. Mr. Blotto
2. Cardiac Arrest
3. Averse Sefira
4. Belphegor
5. Immolation
6. Rotting Christ
7. National Jet Set
8. Church Key
9. The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza
10. See You Next Tuesday
11. Beneath the Massacre
12. Born of Osiris
13. The Mars Volta
14. Eluveitie
15. Týr
16. Turisas
17. Ensiferum
18. Rain
19. Urn
20. Daylight Dies
21. Candlemass
22. MC Chris
23. Romance
24. C'est La Mort
25. Darkest Hour
26. At the Gates
27. Mission of Burma
28. Sebadoh
29. Public Enemy
30. Fuck Buttons
31. Dizzee Rascal
32. Vampire Weekend
33. Elf Power
34. !!!
35. Extra Golden
36. Atlas Sound
37. Jarvis Cocker
38. No Age
39. Animal Collective
40. Boris
41. High Places
42. HEALTH
43. The Apples in Stereo
44. King Khan & the Shrines
45. Les Savy Fav
46. Occidental Brothers Dance Band International
47. Ghostface Killah and Raekwon
48. Spiritualized
49. Bon Iver
50. Dinosaur Jr.
51. The Go! Team
52. Holy Fuck (DJ set)
53. Gogol Bordello
54. Mates of State
55. Bloc Party
56. The Cool Kids
57. Radiohead
58. Steel Train
59. Dierks Bentley
60. DeVotchKa
61. Perry Farrell and Guests
62. Explosions in the Sky
63. Okkervil River
64. DJ Bald Eagle
65. Broken Social Scene
66. Lupe Fiasco
67. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
68. DJ Momjeans
69. Rage Against the Machine
70. Chromeo
71. G. Love & Special Sauce
72. Saul Williams
73. Flogging Molly
74. Gnarls Barkley
75. Girl Talk
76. Love and Rockets
77. The National
78. Flosstradamus
79. Nine Inch Nails
80. Kanye West

For comparison - and to waste more space - here's the complete 2007 list, which I never got around to posting. I'm obviously not gonna beat 188 acts this year...

1. Withering Soul (x3)
2. Abigail Williams
3. Enslaved
4. Dark Funeral
5. Andreas Kapsalis Trio
6. Will of the Ancients
7. Vesperian Sorrow
8. Slough Feg (x3)
9. Vreid
10. Månegarm
11. Dark Forest
12. Gwynbleidd
13. Earthen
14. Shroud of Bereavement
15. Hordes of Yore
16. Mael Mórdha
17. Obtest
18. Rudra
19. Skyforger
20. Bal-Sagoth
21. Asobi Seksu
22. The Appleseed Cast
23. The Monocles
24. Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
25. Man Man
26. Twelfth Gate (x5)
27. Mindwarp Chamber
28. Lupara
29. Belphegor
30. Krisiun
31. Unleashed
32. Clad In Darkness
33. Epicurean
34. Rise Against
35. My Chemical Romance
36. Murder By Death
37. The Tossers
38. The Reverend Horton Heat
39. Secret Chiefs 3
40. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
41. Magical, Beautiful
42. Parenthetical Girls
43. The Dead Science
44. Dark Tranquillity
45. The Haunted
46. Lord Mantis
47. Yakuza
48. Genghis Tron
49. Kylesa
50. Plaid
51. Shellac
52. Iggy and The Stooges (x2)
53. Light This City (x2)
54. The Number 12 Looks Like You
55. HORSE the band
56. Shatter Messiah
57. Suspyre
58. Benedictum
59. Solitude Aeturnus
60. Lethal
61. Thurisaz
62. Novembers Doom (x2)
63. Saturnus
64. Martyr
65. Atheist
66. Brandon and pal @ Red Line Tap open mic
67. Emperor
68. River of Ashes
69. The Muzzler
70. HeWhoCorrupts
71. Fuck the Facts
72. Regurgitate
73. Strange Days
74. Valkyrie
75. Widow
76. Crescent Shield
77. Bible of the Devil
78. Mr. Blotto (x2)
79. Ion Dissonance
80. The Faceless
81. As Blood Runs Black
82. Cattle Decapitation
83. Cephalic Carnage
84. Decapitated
85. Necrophagist
86. Drop
87. Donna the Buffalo
88. Brazil
89. Bob Weir & RatDog
90. Rusted Root
91. Beach House
92. Grizzly Bear
93. Fujiya & Miyagi
94. Battles
95. Professor Murder
96. Iron & Wine
97. Mastodon
98. Clipse
99. Cat Power and the Dirty Delta Blues Band
100. Yoko Ono
101. The Ponys
102. Menomena
103. NOMO
104. Craig Taborn's Junk Magic
105. Jamie Lidell
106. The Cool Kids
107. Of Montreal
108. The New Pornographers
109. De La Soul
110. Voltar
111. The Decemberists and the Grant Park Orchestra
112. Something for Rockets
113. The Race
114. Oh My God
115. Pit Er Pat
116. Dirty Dozen Brass Band
117. Russian Circles
118. High on Fire
119. Ghostland Observatory
120. Chin Up Chin Up
121. G. Love (solo)
122. Son Volt
123. Charlie Musselwhite
124. Viva Voce
125. Sparklehorse
126. M.I.A.
127. moe.
128. Blonde Redhead
129. Satellite Party
130. LCD Soundsystem
131. Femi Kuti and Positive Force
132. Daft Punk
133. Sound Tribe Sector 9
134. The Roots
135. Regina Spektor
136. Roky Erikson and the Explosives
137. The Hold Steady
138. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
139. Spoon
140. Patti Smith
141. Interpol
142. Apostle of Hustle
143. Peter Bjorn and John
144. !!!
145. Yo La Tengo
146. Modest Mouse
147. TV on the Radio
148. Pearl Jam
149. Knock-Out
150. Voodoo Glow Skulls
151. The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
152. The Changes
153. The 1900s
154. Bloc Party
155. Centaurus
156. Swallow the Sun
157. Insomnium
158. Scar Symmetry
159. Katatonia
160. Whorrid
161. Blue Razor Rust
162. Zoroaster
163. Withered
164. Queensrÿche
165. Alice Cooper
166. Heaven and Hell
167. Echoes of Eternity
168. Into Eternity
169. Edguy
170. Finntroll
171. Beirut
172. Phil Lesh & Friends
173. Lasting Vengeance
174. Ween
175. Wolves in the Throne Room
176. Aesma Daeva
177. Therion
178. Dead for Days
179. Macabre
180. Tom Brosseau
181. múm
182. Oppenheimer
183. They Might Be Giants
184. Cocaine Wolves
185. Tommy Tuesday
186. A Life Once Lost
187. The Dillinger Escape Plan
188. Anonymous Martyr



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