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This just in. If you were planning on catching The Assassins when they open for Kill Hannah next week (because why else would you be at a Kill Hannah show?) you’re out of luck since the concert is plum sold out. However you can count yourself a lucky ducky since they’re playing at Darkroom tonight! This crew is a favorite of ours and their shows are always incredible so strap on the galoshes, wrap around the scarf and get the to the show tonight.
Tomorrow night will up the ante on the hot-show-of-the-week-O-meter as both The Cupcakes and The Assembly take the stage at Double Door. We’ve gone on and on about these groups before as well so unless you want us to call you a “backward looking aural luddite” we expect to see you bobbing and bopping along to the tunes tomorrow night.
Saturday night sees The Frogs and Mommy And Daddy landing at Beat Kitchen. While we personally think Jimmy Frog’s oversized butterfly wings are growing a little tattered and long in the tooth – if you’ve seen the train-wreck that is a Frog’s live show you would immediately forgive our mixed metaphor here – but we’re glad to see the band is still out and about from time to time. It gives us a weirdly burning sensation that could either be sentiment or a warning that we should probably see a doctor post haste. The real treat here is NYC duo Mommy And Daddy, a two-piece injecting some honest life into the shambling remains of the electropunk movement.
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But what if I don't WANNA shake my ass??
Hrmmm. Lets see. Band that sold 100,000 records, (Kill Hannah) or band that got dropped from label. (Assasins). I say that both make a darn good show. What's wrong with Kill Hannah? They have outlasted nearly all Chicago bands, and have actually played more Chicago shows than the Pumpkins.
I've gone into Kill Hannah's weaknesses at great length in the past and don't feel like either rehashing that territory or turning this into a piece about them, really. I'll stand by my view that while I like a few guys in the band that's not enough for me to overlook the weak and derivitive songs written by Mat(t). It's just my criticism, though, and I'm not forcing anyone else to embrace it so chill.
I will say that record sales and label behavior have nothing to do with a band's worthiness. Are you telling me I should respect Creed? I mean, they sold millions of records, right? So if I should like Kill Hannah for selling 100,000 discs then I should love Creed, right.
And I should probably start humping any Johnm Tesh disc I come across too since he's sold an ass-load of records over the years!
You have a weird take on music...I wouldn't think that YOU would have to like Creed because they sold lots of cd's, but I certainly wouldn't harass anyone for liking any music, or even condescend Creed or any other band.
Ultimately, nobody really gives a shit what kind of music you listen to or like. To that point, I would say that the more cd's that sell, the more worthy the band is since more people seem to agree that it's good music.
I think Tankboy's reply harks of highschool kids that judged others by what music they liked. I liked the Pet Shop Boys in high school, and people thought I wasn't cool. Oh well...they were wrong.
By the way, where are your writings about that other band? I'm curious now.
Man oh man do you miss the point, but I'm not going to get drawn into a fight about frickin' Kill Hannah over a piece that's actually about a bunch of other bands fan-boy.
However, you can peep my review of their last disc here. Try to keep in mind it's meant as rock criticism, and not the holy writ of law.
Now it all makes sense.
oh goodness. children. they're BANDS for fscks sake. If someone says they're good or they're bad, neither is right because "good" and "bad" are opinions and everyone has their own. also, on the part of the assassins being dropped and kill hannah selling a lot (i for one agree) but has anyone ever read the poem The Rhodora by emerson? yeah it's like that.
"I also tend not to trust bands that only play one or two clubs in Chicago and don't seem to tour much. It usually leads me to believe they have a powerful but limited fan base that doesn't extend to crowds larger than four people once you get fifty miles out of the city. "
um. i don't know about the chicago part but they definitely go lots of other places.
I love Kill Hannah. They are better than you.
I love me some Kill Hannah, but I don't get why people are even on here defending them. If they like them, that's great and all that should matter, right? Different strokes for different folks.