Music Monday

Music Monday will be my new weekly feature!  I'll be writing about bands I've seen during the week.

In the past, I've tried and failed at having a regular feature on my blog.  "Shop and Destroy" and then "Pink Friday" came and went.  I admire Sara Mari and other bloggers who do it regularly.  "Music Monday" will be easy because I see a lot of bands.  I go out almost every night of the week, so I can write about at least one or two

As anyone who has read my blog knows, I love rock and roll!  Metal, Punk, Garage, Indie... I love it all, except, it seems, the rock bands that get played on Top 40 stations.  Coldplay?  *vomit* Maroon 5? *vomit*  Red Hot Chilli Peppers? *vomit**vomit**vomit*  My sincerest apologies to anyone who likes them!

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The first band I will document is Obscura, a death metal band from Germany!  I saw them last night.

To me, death metal is like pizza... it's always good, even when it isn't that good.  That's how much I like the genre.  I can enjoy death metal, even if the band isn't extraordinary.  Music like rap or hip hop, on the other hand?  It's almost always unbearable to me.  Unless a hip hop musician is incredibly creative and talented and special, I cant stand the music.  Even then, I usually hate it.

Obscura was pretty good, even by death metal standards.  The singer did some of the guttural, Cookie Monster singing that is standard to the genre, but also more melodic singing.  There were five bands total, some local.  Because of the number, the bands didn't play for very long--it seemed like the set up time between bands was as long as their set. 

The show was at the DNA lounge, which I very rarely go to.  They have a goth dance night most weeks, I think.  It's a couple of doors down from Slim's.


The anticipation culminates as Obscura takes the stage.


Obscura performs, their hair blown by unseen winds. ;)

If you're interested in their music, check, them out on MySpace music:
http://www.myspace.com/realmofobscura

Just a word about MySpace: Everyone makes fun of MySpace for being an outdated social networking site.  Yes, no one uses MySpace anymore, but for music MySpace is the best!  You can listen to playlists of FULL songs from most bands.  Facebook totally sucks when it comes to music.

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Unrelated to the show, but somewhat metal:

My husband, a friend and I went to Rocket Fish in Portrero Hill before the show. My husband got this toxic cocktail that had all manner of disgusting stuff in it. We don't usually take photos of our food, but we both thought this was worthy of documenting. :)  Yuck!!