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Amy Winehouse // “Back to Black”

I thought about it. I did love her. I do love her. No surprises, and that’s the worst part of it.

That 27 Club is no joke.

RIP

M here, finally. A mix is next, but first a quick love letter to my favorite band of all time: 

Nine Inch Nails.

But here’s some adulation in a weird, different way.

I realized that some of my favorite newer bands are NIN-affiliates. 

Example #1: The Dillinger Escape Plan

Even when I stray, I’m loyal.

They’ve performed with NIN, and currently are touring their new album Option Paralysis. It rules. So does this single, “Farewell Mona Lisa”.

I saw them live at the Glasshouse, and their new interactive light set-up reeks of NIN’s Lights in the Sky tour and stage design. Pretty awesome. Panels of LED lights behind drummer Billy Rhymer, pendant strobe/LED/sound-and-touch sensitive lights that hang above Ben Weinman, Greg Puciato, Jeff Tuttle and Liam Wilson. Flashing lights that pulse with every growl of distortion.

Yuh-um!

This band melts. my. face. off. whenever I see them live. The energy from these guys can level you and simultaneously drive you to jump deep into that mosh pit. Being an old bitch, I kept my distance from the pit for most of the time. What? I was wearing heels. Anyway. Even when you stand far back, looking at these guys onstage gives me the sensation that I’m staring into a glowing, nuclear, mushroom cloud that is inching towards my face.

And then I’m in love. And deaf for the next day, at least.

Love this band. Sop up their work with Mike Patton too, since nobody can shut up about that record and era of DEP. Shit’s good.