Saturday, October 14. 2006
We had a lot more entries this week after the Monday cutoff, and they will be considered next Monday. Our week 3 winner has not contacted us back as yet(Terscomay are you out there?), but the fourth week winner is a longtime user of our reptile site.We did not limit this contest to amateur photographers because we wanted everyone to participate, and our forth weekly winner is Stewart Stick a sports photographer from Peterborough, Ontario, Canada with this shot of Collective Soul.
If you would like to enter the contest to win one of our weekly T-Shirts or a chance to win Nikon's brand new 10.2 Mp D80 DSLR camera kit for Christmas, a $1000.00+ value, upload some of your best concert pics to our Photo Contest Gallery. Enter as many concert photos as you like and as often as you like.
Contest Rules
- You may enter as many concert photos as you like AS LONG AS THEY ARE PHOTOS YOU HAVE TAKEN!
- Entries must be posted before the end of the day on Monday midnight, C.S.T. according to the clocks on our systems. Posts made after this time will be left up, but will not qualify for prize consideration.
- You must include a valid email address on your post for it to qualify.
- Staff and volunteers of OnlineHobbyist and its associated sites are ineligible to participate in the contest though they may certainly post their photos as well.
- Anyone may enter, regardless of age, although for persons under 18 a parent or guardian must claim the prize.
- No purchase is required to participate.
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Friday, October 13. 2006
Wow. Late 2 weeks in a row! I need an assistant! I will have to ask my boss about that. It is now Friday October 13 and it is time to play WTF Friday, the game where you tell us the first 10 songs that come up on your music player when you hit the Random or Shuffle button. At stake is a classic kingsnake.com T-shirt and a chance to win the monthly grand prize, a black 30Gb video iPod. Also we welcome Metal Blade Records as a contest sponsor this month, so everyone that wins a shirt or iPod will also get a copy of Metal Blade's 2006 Summer Sampler with 18 bands including Cannibal Corpse, Unearth and more!
Here is my list... .
1. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper( More cowbell!!!)
2. The Stranglers - Golden Brown
3. Tool - Ticks and Leaches
4. The Cult - Love Removal Machine
5. Toadies - I Burn
6. Ultravox - I Want To Be A Machine
7. Offspring - Blackball
8. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
9. Cure - Just Like Heaven (Unplugged)
10. Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
Once again, we give away a kingsnake.com T-shirt to each of our weekly winners and the monthly winner gets a spankin new 30Gb video iPod! For the complete set of rules see http://club.kingsnake.com/index.php?/pages/wtfcontest.html
You MUST post your list TODAY, Friday, for it to qualify for the contest so POST AWAY.
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Wednesday, October 11. 2006
Wrath
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
http://www.myspace.com/wrathsite
Wrath Concert Photos
Hattrix (Racine, Wi.)
also: 2-West, Lazarus
When I did my first concert review, I got all excited looking at the line up. I was going to see Tracii Guns personally, but I had seen both of his openers- or so I thought. It wasn't the band I was expecting, but that Wrath wasn't so bad either. The band I saw has since changed its name to Conniption. This time I was seeing the Wrath I remembered from days of old.
I usually make it a point NOT to listen to new bands. I let their live show tell me about them. It may be backwards, but hey, it's how I had found my favorite bands. I'll tell you, I love Pantera, but I never loved their recordings. Might explain why I saw them around fifteen times. I like my music live. That's just me.
I also try not to let on that I'm reviewing a show. Bands know SOMEONE is there, but I don't want them to know who that someone is 'til after they're done. I don't know why I do this, but in my insane brain it works. I blew it. Met a nice guy before the show, my Club Kingsnake shirt did it. Got to talking and realized we knew a few of the same people including Auggie (who breeds bloods) the guy who designed his tattoo. Turned out to be John, the new singer of Wrath. Cover blown, oh well.
Continue reading "Concert Review: Wrath at Hattrix, Racine WI"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Hometown: New York City, New York
http://www.yeahyeahyeahs.com
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Concert Photos
Saturday, October, 2006
Stubb's Bar B Q (Austin, Texas)
also: Imaad Wasif , Ex Models
This sold out show is definitely among my most memorable for the year. So much energy and excitement. I can understand why the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have been labled by many to be the "it" band of 2006.
Opening the show was the incredibly talented Imaad Wasif who performed solo. Wasif, also the Yeah Yeah Yeahs auxilliary tour guitarist, did an acoustic set that could, and did, stand alone in its own right. The audience seemed to agree as well, with Wasif's style darkly meandering the edge between folk and garage rock. With intricate lyrics and subtle melodys, the passion that he puts into his music is plaintive and soulful.
Continue reading "Concert Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Stubb's Bar-B-Q, Austin, Texas"
Tuesday, October 10. 2006
MySpace has announced a FREE "secret" show with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs tomorrow night in Tampa. They're one of the hottest bands of 2006 - look for a review of their recent show at Stubb's in Austin later this week. For details on the show, see http://www.freeindie.com/2006/10/free_myspace_show_yeah_yeah_ye.html.
Friday, October 6. 2006
Austin City Limits Music Festival
Zilker Park
Austin, Texas
Friday, September 15, 2006
To describe ACL Fest's roster of artists as "esoteric" would not be far from the mark. They always pick excellent musicians, quite often people you have never heard, or heard of, before, not usually big mainstream artists, with the exception of the headliners. This is not the place to see Ashley Simpson, nor are you likely to see Metallica on the bill.
In fact, there didn't appear to be any metal bands represented at all. This is NOT a "rock festival" along the lines of a Lollapalooza, but more a sampling of what could be described as Austin's own musical direction. There were plenty of punk and wave bands, alternative rock, goth, alternative country, blues and they even found room in the mornings to get religion with a selection of gospel artists and to keep the children entertained with their own "kiddie" stage. Many of the artists defy description or can't be lumped into a single genre well. The worst part, try as you might, with eight stages going it's just impossible to see them all. And if you try, like I did, at the end of the three days, you're so exhausted you need a week to recover.
Taking advantage of the musical smorgasboard, I found myself moving from stage to stage sampling two or three songs from each band, and then moving on to the next stage. Although many people do that, those who do end up tripping over the "tailgaters," the ones who bring chairs, cooler, and the family and park at one stage. I found myself racing between the stages to try to catch many of the artists and luckily only missed one or two.
With no photo pass, I was attending this show as a "civilian" and was limited to using a small point and shoot digital from beyond the photo pit. For this show I picked the Fuji F30 because of its manual controls and its high ISO of 3200, just in case I had low lighting problems to contend with. As I made my way over to the AMD stage to catch Guster, I scanned the other stages to get the basic layout of the festival stages. This was going to be a long long weekend. A total of eight stages, four mains, three smaller stages, and the kiddie stage all spread to the four corners of the park. It was going to take a lot of fast walking and mission focus to acheive my goals.
Continue reading "Concert Review: ACL Fest Day One - Roasting On A Stick Part 2"
It is now Friday October 6 and it is time to play WTF Friday, the game where you tell us the first 10 songs that come up on your music player when you hit the Random or Shuffle button. At stake is a classic kingsnake.com T-shirt and a chance to win the monthly grand prize, a black 30Gb video iPod. Also we welcome Metal Blade Records as a contest sponsor this month, so everyone that wins a shirt or iPod will also get a copy of Metal Blade's 2006 Summer Sampler with 18 bands including Cannibal Corpse, Unearth and more! Congrats to September's iPod winner Grover Heath!
Here is my list... .
1. Bob Marley - Exodus
2. The Doors - L.A. Woman
3. System Of A Down - Will They Die For You
4. Pearl Jam - Crazy Mary
5. Jethro Tull - Bungle In The Jungle
6. Gang of Four - Anthrax
7. Earshot - Get Away
8. Transplants - California Babylon
9. Rev. Horton Heat - 400 Bucks
10. Svendust - Waffle
Once again, we give away a kingsnake.com T-shirt to each of our weekly winners and the monthly winner gets a spankin new 30Gb video iPod! For the complete set of rules see http://club.kingsnake.com/index.php?/pages/wtfcontest.html
You MUST post your list TODAY, Friday, for it to qualify for the contest so POST AWAY.
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Wednesday, October 4. 2006
Hatebreed
Hometown: New Haven, Connecticut
http://www.hatebreed.com/
Hatebreed Concert Photos
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
La Zona Rosa (Austin, Texas)
also: The Black Dahlia Murder, Napalm Death, Exodus, First Blood, Despised Icon
I feel pretty old as I write this review. I mean, I remember hearing Exodus before they even released their first record, and they were a very influential band for me in 80s. Paul Baloff was a nut case which is exactly what I wanted to see and hear for a band like Exodus, but when they got the next singer they lost me for a while. The band's lyrical content and style was altered and I was just not into it. Still, after over a decade of not seeing the band live I was anxious to see them.
So they take the stage, and the only original member is Gary Holt, a guitar legend in my eyes, and what kind of freaked me out a bit was he looked so much the same after all those years. Then to my surprise they open with the title track of their first record, Bonded By Blood. I just about fell over. Talk about a flashback, I mean I saw the original lineup many times and this incarnation was delivering the goods as it should have been, played with the “fuck all trends, we are who we are� attitude and man, I was just shocked at the presence they had. They emanated true Bay Area thrash and it was freakin' awesome.
Then I'm noticing this new singer (new to me anyway). He was fat, gross, obnoxious, and well......I was thinking: Has Paul Baloff's spirit been reincarnated in this new madman? I really think they have found the perfect frontman. A friend of mine was telling me that their new record was great and they played a track off it and I thought it sounded pretty damn good.
Continue reading "Concert Review: Hatebreed, Exodus, Napalm Death, Black Dahlia Murder at La Zona Rosa"
Monday, October 2. 2006
Reverend Horton Heat
Hometown: Dallas, Texas
http://www.reverendhortonheat.com/
Reverend Horton Heat Concert Photos
Friday, September 29, 2006
Stubb's Bar B Q (Austin, Texas)
also: The Horror Pops
It's been said that, along with the Cramps, Reverend Horton Heat was one of the founders of the "psychobilly" genre. Combining a wicked sense of humor, a fine country twang, and a song list that sounds like it could be found in the discount 8-track carousels at finer truck stops everywhere, Dallas-based Reverend Horton Heat has been cranking out trailer park punk in Austin since the 80s in just about every live music venue in town.
Revving up the tour bus once again, the good Reverend made his customary Austin tour stop at Stubb's Bar B Q on Friday. The Reverend's reps were kind enough to supply me with a ticket to review the show, and thanks to Stubb's standard camera policies I was able to capture a few shots for the site with my little Point 'n' Shoot Fuji.
Opening the show was a Danish band called the Horror Pops, possibly best described as the offspring of some twisted breeding experiment between death metal and rockabilly gone horribly awry. They sure had a lot of fun onstage, and it was crowded up there with their backup singers/dancers. Musically they are definitely in the punkabilly genre and bear more than a passing resemblance to the band X, only a tad more poppy and bouncy. Plus lead singer Patricia Nekroman plays this enormous standup bass, and I believe I have mentioned before that I am a sucker for anyone with big strings. They played a great set and were a well chosen opener.
The venue was packed by the time the lights dimmed for the headliner. In a bright red jacket with blue flashing, the Reverend hit the stage to a crowd more than wamed up. They couldn't have been halfway through their first song before I saw the security crew chucking the first crowd surfer out. By the time they were into "Wigglestick" the mosh pit was threatening to engulf the entire area before the stage. I hung up in front of the P.A. for as long as I could stand it, before fading towards the back for a cold frosty beverage and some breathing room.
After about five or six songs, the band took a short set break before coming back with the Reverend dressed in black and continuing the set. I lost track of the number of songs and the set list, after wandering back up front and getting sucked into the mosh pit. Pocketing the camera I pushed and shoved and bopped and bounced with the best of them, eventually emerging at the end of the show hot, sweaty and tired but no worse for the wear. What a great show. Once again I ended up seeing lots of locals from the rockabilly scene as well as Austin's old punk community. Austin's alternative culture continues to thrive and it's great to see the old schoolers from back in the day attracting such a diverse and enthusiastic crowd.
If you can get there in time, free club.kingsnake T-shirts will be given out this weekend at the North American Reptile Breeders Conference in Chicago (Tinley Park). We will give out roughly half on Saturday and half on Sunday. Past experience has shown them to be gone after the first hour or so, so plan on getting there early if you want one. We only have a thousand to give away. The first hundred or so will also get a free Metal Blade 2006 Summer Sampler CD
(if they arrive in time). Get them while suppplies last!
Of course if you miss us there, you can win one free by partcipating in our weekly contests here.
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