as douchey as this is going to sound, I wouldn't expect people who are going to pay upwards of $50 for a black keys show to walk away realizing st vincent writes and plays circles around them, so there's no real risk of the opening act upstaging them, at least not from a majority of the audience's perspective. aside from the obvious answer of "increased exposure and paying the bills," i can't see why an artist of her caliber would want to be sandwiched in between cage the elephant and the black keys outside of a festival. but cool on them for bringing her along

[Edited on May 9, 2014 at 8:13 AM. Reason : .]

5/9/2014 7:44:29 AM

^
*people going to arena shows in general

why the fuck would i want to see st. vincent in TWC arena haha

5/9/2014 8:16:04 AM

^^yea wish st. vincent was headlining a smaller venue instead of that nonsense. anyone see that beck is playing red hat july 23rd?

5/10/2014 4:37:52 PM

^ yup, got my pit tickets...and they're still available.

5/10/2014 5:27:05 PM

^^ She just played Haw River.

5/10/2014 7:05:36 PM

I think it's pretty daring. Seems like something she would do. Dingus don't feel bad, i thought the same thing. I don't think she will upstage them as far as crowd enthusiasm in that venue.

For Black Key bros who care, I recommend "Marrow" as your first St. Vincent song.

5/10/2014 9:53:57 PM

do i feel bad though?

5/10/2014 10:24:23 PM

I've never seen a Black Keys show. Do they do much "show" stuff? Their aesthetic would suggest not but there's no way of telling.

I ask only because the last run of St. Vincent shows were some of the most technically-advanced/choreographed/"showy" indie rock shows I've ever seen.

Whether she'd pull that out for a support slot is 50/50, I suppose, but still.

5/10/2014 10:47:11 PM

there wasn't much show stuff the 2 times i saw them, but both of those times were at festivals. as a casual black keys fan who liked some of their very early songs, the first show i saw was fun because i was hammered with a bunch of friends, but there was no "show" stuff. dan auerbach just kind of ran around everywhere. the second time was on the main stage at bonnaroo, and it was pretty boring. but maybe they do more stuff now. i don't intend to find out.

i doubt annie clark will carry over much of anything from her most recent tour. i thought it was great, but i can't see that going over well with a bunch of people who might not be familiar with her work.

5/11/2014 2:38:43 AM

The theatrical interludes will probably go, but I don't know why they wouldn't keep the song-specific lighting rigs.

5/11/2014 12:30:10 PM

i just assume they wouldn't go through the trouble of setting up any of that stuff for her if she's not the main act, but i also don't know how long it takes to set up and break down

5/11/2014 2:07:50 PM

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"Swans in Charlotte July 1. my birthday. oh man "

got my tix tonight. so pumped.

5/12/2014 11:00:56 PM

and they're playing in the grungy ass neighborhood theatre. going to be so awesome.

5/13/2014 8:21:07 AM

I need to vent, sorry in advance

So I preordered the Black Keys album, which I don't even like that much, so I could get access to the presale tickets. Then they go and let any asshole with a Citi card participate in the presale. I was all ready to go at 10 AM today and by the time I hit search all GA tickets sold out already for Brooklyn. I wish I could return the album

5/13/2014 10:41:42 AM

^ damn that sucks

there are often presales via the band or fan club before the larger tickmaster presales...did they not have one for that show? were you refreshing the page every couple seconds starting at like 9:59:45?

i had a similar thing happen with the Avett Brothers NYE show. from what i can tell, all the pit tickets sold out in the fan club presale as there were none available during the ticketmaster presale.

5/13/2014 11:33:46 AM

I wasn't aware of any other presale, but could have happened, I'm not in their fanclub.

I was on the site refreshing beforehand yes...maybe they just didn't have GA tickets during the presale, I would guess they did.

The other thing that's bs is on Ticketmaster it says this artist has opted for "Paperless Tickets" for this event, meaning you have to bring the credit card you bought the tix with to the event. Yet there are 1400 tix on Stubhub already that can be sent via UPS. How did those people get actual tickets?

5/13/2014 12:19:27 PM

Wow I just looked into that show. Can't find any fanclub presale or anything, and that's a huge GA section so I don't know how they could sell out *that* quick. Crazy. I'm sure the scalpers are good but I doubt they're that good.

I'd definitely contact TM to figure out what's going on.

The only GA tickets on SH are like $6000, so I wouldnt worry about that. Only some of the tix are paperless. Cheaper ones are not.

5/13/2014 12:49:11 PM

I sent Ticketmaster and email, but I'm sure their response will be "presale tickets were limited, sorry you didn't get any"

Mostly I'm just pissed that they didn't give album preorder people even like a 20 minute headstart on Citi card holders. Kind of defeats the purpose of preordering an album...outside of getting access to the presale, what exactly would the benefit of preordering be at this point? Everyone can buy it and download it at the same time, besides they opened it up fro streaming last week anyways...if you want a physical copy you can go to the store today and get one before the one you preordered is delivered. So I'm left with the presale, which was open to all those limited amounts of people who have an account with this tiny bank Citigroup.

We'll see if I get them when the general sale is up on Friday I guess

[Edited on May 13, 2014 at 1:21 PM. Reason : aasdf]

5/13/2014 1:20:31 PM

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"and they're playing in the grungy ass neighborhood theatre."

i haven't been since they remodeled it last year, but have heard it's a much improved room.

5/13/2014 8:51:06 PM

they built a new bar, but the stage area seemed about the same a few months ago. i like it that way. best place for swans to play in charlotte, other than the milestone.

5/13/2014 10:05:54 PM

^milestone would have been perfect.

5/14/2014 5:57:55 PM

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"if you want a physical copy you can go to the store today and get one before the one you preordered is delivered."

Not sure where you preordered from, but these days most preorders ship so that they arrive on or before release date.

5/14/2014 7:01:55 PM

Titus Andronicus will be at Local 506 on Tuesday. Looks like tickets are still available on the website.

5/14/2014 8:00:09 PM

Agalloch @ Kings June 27th http://kingsbarcade.com/2014/06/27/agalloch-with-vex/

Just bought my ticket - $15.04 including fees

5/15/2014 11:46:09 AM

^^ I preordered from Black Keys website...it arrived on release date

5/15/2014 12:35:00 PM

Got tickets for the Black Keys show today. Also got tickets to the three practice rounds of the US Open at Pinehurst today too, twas a good day

5/15/2014 9:05:28 PM

Was on the system today before 10AM all set up with 3 different browsers on 2 different computers. First few searches for 4 GA tickets as soon as it opened? nothing

After about 15 minutes of searching for just 1 ticket I was able to get 1. Since then been continually searching for 1 GA and got nothing...I give up

5/16/2014 10:57:17 AM

i can remember when the black keys weren't even big enough for cat's cradle yet. pretty surprising that it's that difficult to get tickets to their shows now.

5/16/2014 2:14:08 PM

motherfucking George Clinton and P-Funk at Red Hat very shortly

5/17/2014 7:05:25 PM

^^ surprising because they were small once, and are now big, or surprising because you dislike their music?

5/17/2014 7:12:38 PM

gd, trioscapes tore it up Saturday at Legit Biz in Greensboro. Maybe 25 people there but they were outstanding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r41zTwJ7d8

5/19/2014 10:08:32 AM

^^ the former more so than the latter. you don't see too many bands that toil for as long as they did before achieving that level of success. there are plenty of bands I don't like but can totally understand why they're popular. the black keys are one of them, but that's not why I made the statement. that being said, i do have a couple tracks from thickfreakness on a "hanging out drinking beer" playlist

5/19/2014 12:19:23 PM

i went to the nascar all star race last weekend and hootie sang the national anthem. haha

5/21/2014 10:32:31 AM

I hadn't seen them before, but I thought that Body Games killed it tonight.

5/25/2014 1:16:52 AM

King Khan next week

5/28/2014 10:58:10 AM

Diarrhea Planet at King's tonight. Come.

5/29/2014 2:09:32 PM

Diarrhea Planet are very entertaining.

But goddamn, that is the least tasteful shredding I've ever seen.

Yonatan Gat played another set downstairs after the show, which was rad.

5/30/2014 11:28:43 PM

^
Saw Yonatan Gat at Snug Harbor tonight. fucking incredible show

5/31/2014 2:50:30 AM

near the end they said "we have one more for you guys", then played some crazy awesome shit for 30 more minutes

5/31/2014 1:38:43 PM

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"anyone see that beck is playing red hat july 23rd?"

I was absolutely all over that one. His show at Reynolds Coliseum (Odelay tour) was the 2nd best show I've ever seen.

6/1/2014 11:43:40 AM

my upcoming shows:

6/12 - vampire weekend/raleigh
7/1 - swans/charlotte
7/5 - fucked up/raleigh
8/17 - arcade fire/dc

6/2/2014 8:53:38 PM

Has anyone attended the Duke Garden's shows? I went to the King Khan & the Shrines show a couple nights ago, and for the most part, the crowd was kinda lame. Almost everyone sat the entire time, and half the people weren't even paying attention to the band. Finally, on the last song and the encore, a few dozen people finally made there way to the stage and danced. I think it's probably just due to the fact that it's at 7:00 in the garden, it was a lot of families, and I think a lot of the people didn't really come for the band (and might not have even heard of him) but instead for the event.

SPiderbags and the Rosebuds are playing there on the 18th and 25th of this month.

6/5/2014 1:07:45 PM

Weezer show was good. Sound was surprisingly good. DPAC still isn't my favorite venue for a rock show by any means, but I'd go back for the right band(s).

Rivers said they'd be back here in the fall, but I haven't seen any mention of where/when they'd be returning anywhere else. Anyone else have any knowledge about another Weezer show in the area coming this fall?

6/6/2014 11:21:47 AM

why on earth would you believe a word he says?

6/6/2014 12:08:11 PM

clearly i've invested quite a bit of trust in him. i mean, i made a whole post on the wolf web based on something he said. he also gave me some great stock tips after the show that i need to follow up on.

6/6/2014 12:24:59 PM

the men tomorrow
andrew bird on monday
tune-yards next friday
sharon van etten on 6/17

6/6/2014 3:05:44 PM

ears still ringing after seeing the men last night

6/8/2014 1:39:38 PM

Quote :

"Has anyone attended the Duke Garden's shows? I went to the King Khan & the Shrines show a couple nights ago, and for the most part, the crowd was kinda lame. Almost everyone sat the entire time, and half the people weren't even paying attention to the band. Finally, on the last song and the encore, a few dozen people finally made there way to the stage and danced. I think it's probably just due to the fact that it's at 7:00 in the garden, it was a lot of families, and I think a lot of the people didn't really come for the band (and might not have even heard of him) but instead for the event."

Lame crowd for sure. Quieter folk bands can barely be heard when it's super packed (and I've never been there and it wasn't shoulder to shoulder picnic spreads) and the audio is bad to begin with. I was thinking about Spider Bags or The Rosebuds maybe.

6/8/2014 6:25:36 PM

andrew bird was spectacular, as usual. really don't think he's even human.

6/10/2014 12:11:30 AM

Swearin' and Potty Mouth at Pinhook Wednesday

both rule

6/10/2014 1:14:27 AM