concerts & shows

i've been to lots in my short time on earth, so here's a lovely list of them! ignore some of the older ones... i was a kid, okay?

• active child
  • wild show put on by KCRW. we were all sat in the pews while he played harp & sung & smoke machines made a layer of fog at our feet
  • i was maybe 6, and i've never had such a mystical experience
here come the embarrassing ones! look away...
maroon five & the weeknd & others
katy perry
taylor swift
lorde
panic! at the disco
twenty-one pilots
• sylvan esso
  • one of my favorite bands :] i'll always enjoy them, even if they aren't always my most listened or whatever
• fall out boy & weezer & green day
  • still a little embarrassing, but really fun, regardless
  • green day was absolutely the highlight, though
  • really fun to go with my mom :]
• yoko ono tribute concert
• ebo taylor
  • oh my god, it was so full of life ! the dancing was surreal & amazing
  • god, i love jazz
• orville peck
  • i am so obsessed with him... literally spent the entire time jumping & squealing & throwing myself at my girlfriend
  • speaking of which-- very wonderful show with my girlfriend :]
• ty segall & freedom band
• y la bamba
• forsythia & the four & virtual nobodies
• hozier
• dengue fever & ‘daz & the demons’
• serpentwithfeet
  • very odd but cool... took on a sort of play / musical form despite being a concert?
  • beautiful storytelling, too-- followed a gay bar and the trauma & drama & struggles surrounding it with a main character & his romance as the focus. i cried
• the weirdos & the avengers & alice bag band & allison wolfe
  • Wild old people punk pit... kind of cool, kind of not
  • met alice bag which was a blessing
• black flag -- most fun i've had in a pit by far
• malarchy & while we sleep & this again
• BALTHVS
• sister wife sex strike & rent strike & moon bandits
  • okay THIS was the best pit i've ever been in
  • basically an exclusively trans and sick as fuck crowd
• fuck fent fest with gottlieb, whoremones, bimbo, sva, post, strathern, and wasted eternities
  • first two listed were my favorite! gottlieb has probably the best pit i've ever been in & awesome stage presence, and whoremones was amazing, but i was so exhausted by the time they played that i don't think i got to fully enjoy it
  • didn't get a chance to see bimbo or sva because we left early, and post was early on & chill
  • strathern & wasted eternities had solid music but the band's vibes were horrid

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recently

here's what last.fm says my most recent listens have been:

and here's some musings of mine about my taste recently!

• i've not been listening to a lot of music lately-- i think mainly because i'm so focused on reading at the moment. i feel like i usually don't have space for consuming several types of media in my life. it's just a little overwhelming and draining, somehow. i still love music, though, and it's always so wonderful when i take time to really listen
• when i do listen, it's mainly been grunge and punk rock for a while now. folk, neosoul, hip hop, and r&b come out when i'm around people who can't handle punk all the time, too, but not much on my own time. i love a lot of different genres, though, and i sort of miss listening to jazz, blues, and country especially. i think there's a reason i'm in this punk rock headspace, though, and i'm sure i'll emerge from it when it's time
• been listening to a lot of Gottlieb, The Muslims, Sister Wife Sex Strike, Daisy Chainsaw, and all of the songs on this one 'our songs' sort of playlist for my girlfriend

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now you can check out some of the cassettes and CDs that i own and love! i actually have many more than just these because of collections i've been given by family, but this is just the collection i've created & cultivated myself

cassettes

CDs