It always happens: I start every year with concert enthusiasm, then lose it when February rolls around. Still, it does make for a good January, so here’s a rundown of some of the best/worst of the month:
Best way to start the year: Jucifer. First concert of the year in 2009, 2010, and 2011. 11 January @ the Black Cat backstage.
Best percussion: the thunderous force of Kylesa‘s dueling drummers. 20 January @ the Black Cat backstage.
Best cover: Eli “Paperboy” Reed‘s take on “Ace of Spades” [Motörhead]. 15 January @ Rock & Roll Hotel.
Best guest: Victor Griffin of Pentagram joining King Giant for a cover of Skynyrd’s “The Needle and the Spoon” (video here). 29 January @ the State Theatre.
Best tears: I’ll admit it: Lyle Lovett‘s “If You Were To Wake Up” brought me to tears; then I went home and learned to play it on guitar. The friend who came with me to this show forbade me from ever listening to two Lovett songs in a row, for my own mental health (an order I’ve since ignored, by the way). 18 January @ the Birchmere.
Worst crowd: sold-out IOTA for Eilen Jewell. I’m happy IOTA has expanded– don’t get me wrong– but a full house of talking fans sure does make it hard to hear an artist perform. 21 January @ IOTA.
Earliest show: Who would’ve thought a 7-band Saturday night metal lineup at the Ottobar would end by 10 PM? Sorry, kids, totally stinks to have a curfew. 22 January @ the Ottobar.
Cutest Swede: Lisa Milberg of the Concretes. (Perhaps not fair, since there were no other Swedes this month….) 25 January @ the Rock & Roll Hotel.
Favorite local band: Night and the City (and yes, totally cheating, since they’re all friends of mine, but whatever). 17 January @ the Velvet Lounge.
Kylesa in the backstage? Oooh… must have been visceral.
I didn’t go to a single show in January. Turns out bands don’t really like coming here when it’s -5 degrees all the time I guess…
Yeah, I thought their stuff came across a lot better live than on the album, actually, and the backstage was PACKED. Reviewed it for Express, here.
In January of ’08, I was living in northern Alberta, Canada, and it was -40 the whole time I was there– I almost made the 5-hour drive down to Edmonton to see A Place to Bury Strangers but decided against it at the last minute. So some bands aren’t afraid of touring in the dead of winter! :-)
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