These are the bands I've photographed at one of their concerts, either with my good camera, or with my camera phone. Click here to have a look at my collection of concert photos on flickr.

65daysofstatic [2]

A Balladeer
Aides
Alamo Race Track [2]
Amatorski
Amsterdam Klezmer Band
An Gardai
And So I Watch You From Afar [2]
Ólöf Arnalds
Awkward I [4]

Balthazar
Band of Skulls
BlackboxRed [2]
Lou Barlow
Bettie Serveert [2]
Blood Red Shoes [2]
Bombay Show Pigs
Buffalo Tom
Buke and Gass

Anna Calvi [3]
Cloud Nothings
C-Mon & Kypski
Coldair
The Crookes
Cuibul

Dancing Dollekamp [2]
Daughter
Death Letters
dEUS
DeVotchKa
Dinosaur Jr.
Dio
Drums Are for Parades [2]
Dry the River
DVA
DZA

Eckhardt
Efterklang
El Pino & The Volunteers
Caro Emerald
Sharon Van Etten
Ewert & The Two Dragons
The Ex + Tom Cora
EZ Basic

Faun
Liam Finn

Gogol Bordello [2]
Goslink
Gram
Grinderman

Hallo Venray
Heidevolk [2]
Honey For Petzi
The Horse Company
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These are the bands I remember seeing live. If the names are in bold, I've seen the band more than once.

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65daysofstatic [3]
77 Bombay Street

A Balladeer [2]
Absynthe Minded
Agent Fresco
Agent Side Grinder
Aides
Akaga
AKS
Alamo Race Track [3]
Amariszi
Amatorski
Amsterdam Klezmer Band [2]
An Gardai
And So I Watch You From Afar [4]
Annasaid
Anthony's Putsch
Arling & Cameron
Ólöf Arnalds
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
Avery Plains
Awkward I [5]

Baby Guru
Bad Religion
Band of Skulls [2]
Lou Barlow
Bazzookas
Balkan Beatz [2]
Balthazar
Beans & Fatback
Guido Belcanto
Benjamin B.
Bernhoft
Kris Berry
Bettie Serveert [8]
Andrew Bird
Bismuth
Blaas of Glory
The Black Atlantic
BlackboxRed
Blaudzun [2]
Blood Red Shoes [3]
Blumfeld
Boemklatsch
Boh Foi Toch
Bombay Show Pig [3]
La Boutique Fantastique
Brandt Brauer Frick
Brainpower
Goran Bregović & The Wedding and Funeral Orchestra
Broeder Dieleman
Buffalo Tom
Buke and Gass
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With the morning spent cruising Kansai Gaidai's student festival (decent Wipers cover band, but nasty cabbage and hot dog 'tacos'), I cruised down to Socrates to rehearse for our Femdom event. Leila and Minako were there, and we did a run through of the performance before heading to Second House for some decent spaghetti (the cake looked good, but I was too stuffed to even consider it).

DJ Tama provided us with about 45 minutes of generic trance before the show. Maria was on first. Dressed in white (for a change), her set was basically vocoder and laptop noise. Leila and Minako changed into their clothes (Minako notable for her painted whiskers, black suit and cat tail).

Taking over from DJ Tama, I started Panther and the Virgin Meet and Leila and Minako started prowling around the crowd dancing; many of them did not initially notice that the performance had started. After Minako (the Panther) began to put her moves on Leila (the Virgin Mary), I rumbled into the mic, "Mary, I am an angel sent by God. …

Getting Rid of the Albatross: Craig McDermott’s 20 Definitive Punk & Post-Punk Tracks, 1975-1980. Part I

Editor's note: Just discovered, to my utmost embarrassment, that Wipers' "Youth of America" was released in 1981, not 1980, thus disqualifying it from this list. As such, I'm adding it to the beginning here as a special honorable mention, and shaking up the list a bit while adding in the song's worthy replacement.

HM. Youth of America. The Wipers. Youth of America. 1981.
A ten-minute assault. Not that The Wipers waste any time getting to the point. The jaw-dropping opening line ("Youth of America/is living in the jungle/fighting for survival, but there's no place to go!") kicks so much ass it requires its own punctuation mark, a.k.a the most legendary single chord in punk history. The song's searing musical backdrop stuns in its ferocity. Not that it has any choice when it's setting the tone for lyrics like "they're trying to put you six feet underground!"…

Fellow Americans,

Are you ready for the three-day Independence Day weekend? BBQ? Fireworks? Patriotic musical mixes that feature Miley Cyrus's "Party in the USA"? I was working on a menu for lunch at my parents' house on Monday, and it ended up involving micheladas and roasted corn with lime. Super patriotic, right? Hahaha.

Anyway, here's the music I played last night. Enjoy.

Things that Are Square 6-30-11
(*) = New release

Low - Venus - A Lifetime of Temporary Relief

(*) Blanck Mass - Chernobyl - Blanck Mass
(*) EMA - Breakfast - Past Life Martyred Saints
Xiu Xiu - Clowne Towne - Fabulous Muscles
(*) Sebadoh - Not a Friend - Bakesale: Deluxe Edition

Akron/Family - Woody Guthrie's America - The Woody Project
(*) Woods - Pushing Onlys - Sun and Shape
Do Make Say Think - Executioner's Blues - You, You're a History in Rust

(*) Beach Fossils - What a Pleasure - What a Pleasure (For Eric in Tustin, CA)
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Napalm Beach - Rock & Roll Hell - now available on vinyl

Unlike past versions of Rock & Roll Hell, this album contains no live material, just the studio tracks produced by Wipers' Greg Sage, plus Napalm Beach's Trap Sampler tracks (also produced by Sage).

title track Rock & Roll Hell on youtube:
http://youtu.be/d1uPFHpQPOY

This 300-copy run is the first vinyl release of this album. It is available online from BurkaForEverybody.com, or check the following locations:

Clear Spot (nl) / Revolver-Midheaven (us) /
P.trash (ger) / Xmist (ger) / Superfluous records (ger) /
Terminal Picnic (esp) / Bcore (esp) /
Trabuc (esp) / Nat records (jap) /
Discos Humeantes (esp) / Sorry State (us) /
Death exclamations (us) / Base records (jap) /
Carnus records (esp) / Grave Mistake (us) /
Hardware (ger) / Feral Ward (us) /
Atmosfera Abrupta (esp) / Red Lounge (ger) /
Convulsive records (uk) / La vida es un mus (uk) /
Permanent records (us) / Sacred Bones (us) /
Discos Amapola (mx) / Mama vinyla (es) /
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