Feeling like an Outsider?
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and each year I save and save to be able to watch my favorite bands when they come into town.This means a couple arena festival shows and a sprinkling of small venue shows a year. Well, every year there is a huge festival each summer in Golden Gate Park, you may have heard of it… Outside Lands.
Usually the lineup is just okay, i won’t die if i don’t go… its so expensive anyways… NOT THIS YEAR. Foo Fighters, Metallica, Beck, Skrillex, Jack White, Franz Ferdinan, Stevie Wonder, Regina Spector, Bloc Party… I will stop there or I will start crying. I have been giving my boyfriend sad, puppy dog stares and hinting that if a bank robbery were to take place in order to secure tickets i would not turn him in. Alas, he is oblivious!
Why not just buy my own ticket? Well, it’s pretty much sold out AND I don’t wanna be so broke that I am forced to eat delicious Top Ramen for the next couple months. So my plan was to sadly sit outside the gates and listen to bits of music that drift into the streets. *tear*
However, my clever boyfriend has found a way for me and YOU to go for free! Click to see how clever he truly is… Read More…
Album of the Week… Linkin Park loves listening to Skrillex
Linkin Park’s newest album Living Things has finally arrived.
The reviews I have seen so far have been pretty brutal, but after first listen it is exactly what I have come to expect from Linkin Park.They deliver their album with an easy flow that links each track together and Chester Bennington breaks up the heavy guitar rifts with his seemingly softer tenor that scream sings you through the song transitions.
One of my favorite albums of all time, Hybrid Theory, has been ranked as one of the best albums of the 00’s and has been awarded Diamond status. This band has a distinctive sound that has lifelong fans. I think that Linkin Park would really have to pull a miracle to surpass Hybrid Theory’s success, but I will keep listening just in case. Living Things is a bit heavier on the electronic feel than usual and for a workout album it is not bad. Loyal Linkin Park fans will not be disappointed with this bass-heavy album.
Call Yourself A Nerd 