Sunday, February 15, 2009

The Builders and The Butchers



Parker took me to the Murder by Death concert at the Bluebird in Denver today (yesterday?) and it was really fantastic. The first band, Fake Problems, was ok and seemed like pretty cool guys (and also had a shirt for sale with a polar bear on it... like ours, but not as good), but the second band, The Builders and the Butchers, was amazing. If you like Rock Plaza Central, which you should, you will love these guys. They had a singer with an acoustic guitar, two drummers that traded off and did other things like mandolin, an acoustic bass player (with an excellent, excellent mustache) and a mandolin/ banjo player who looked enough like Brian Posehn to make me very happy (I GOT TO SHAKE HIS HAND AND TELL HIM HOW AWESOME HE WAS AFTER THE SHOW). My favorites so far are Bottom of the Well and Coal Mine Fall. Give them a listen.

Needless to say, Murder by Death was extremely good, despite Denver's weird aversion to...showing any emotion at all towards music really. One of the best Valentine's Days in recent memory, which is good because it's usually miserable. I also played D&D for about 7 and a half hours today (which reminds me: Murder by Death mentioned a drinking game called Wizard's Death. You keep drinking beers until you have enough cans to stack up and make a staff, the lead singer informed us that he's a level 21 Wizard) which was also incredible cool.

Happy fake holidays people! I certainly hope you were not miserable, but if you were, listen to some Builders and the Butchers and cheer up, or revel in Murder by Death's incredible stark look at American life. Or drink.

You hold the keys to your future!

2 comments:

  1. Mikhail. MIKHAIL. They are beauutifulll. I have listened to approximately 20 seconds of one song and I know this already. I'm glad your date with Parker went well. So cute.

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  2. OK SERIOUSLY. GO LISTEN TO BOB DYLAN RIGHT NOW. BLOOD ON THE TRACKS and THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN'. SERIOUSLY.

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