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Post by Unkie on May 11, 2024 12:09:52 GMT -5
rfrrr i am pipa givre me attention ................
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Post by Unkie on May 10, 2024 0:56:57 GMT -5
OVERSIZE/HEAVENWARD TIE FOR 2014'S LONGEST RUNNING #1; OLIVIA RODRIGO, NOTHING BUT THIEVES, KENDRICK LAMAR GET BIGGEST HITS IN YEARS
In a top 3 that holds in place for a third week, Oversize and Heavenward continue to lead on the Burner 50 with "Salt", holding the #1 spot for a fifth straight week and tying with Boston Manor's "Container", which takes the #3 spot, for the longest reigning #1 of 2024 so far. One Step Closer's "Giant's Despair" comes between the two at #2, while the top 5 is rounded out by Pearl Jam's "Wreckage" (7-4) and Blondshell and Bully's "Docket" (9-5, to become both bands' highest charting song to date).
New to this week's top 10 are Olivia Rodrigo's "Obsessed" (17-7), which now becomes the highest charting entry of the Guts era and best peak in three years; Billy Morrison, Ozzy Osbourne and Steve Stevens' "Crack Cocaine" (11-8) to become Ozzy's fifth top 10 and the first for Morrison and Stevens, guitarists for Billy Idol; and Nothing But Thieves' "Oh No :: He Said What?" (12-9), a sleeper hit that gradually took off as it generated M4B genre attention, hitting the top 10 in its 10th week. Notably, "Oh No" marks Nothing But Thieves' second top 10 hit and first in almost nine years; they last got this high with 2015's "Trip Switch", which peaked at #4.
And the past week's biggest music story, the brutal rivalry between Kendrick Lamar and Drake playing out in a series of damning diss tracks, makes a big impact on this week's chart with two of Lamar's four new songs impacting. "Not Like Us" is the week's top debut at #12; it marks a new high debut mark for Kendrick, 10 spots higher than the entry for "N95" two years ago, and the best debut for a rap song in four years, when Run The Jewels entered at #8 with "Walking In The Snow". It's also his highest peaking song in more than six years when "LOVE." peaked at #8, and breaks a bad luck streak of three successive #17-peaking songs. In addition to the massive start for "Not Like Us", "Euphoria", which debuted last week at #39, jumps 13 spots to #26 in its second week.
1 (1) Oversize feat. Heavenward - Salt 1(5) 2 (2) One Step Closer - Giant's Despair 2 3 (3) Boston Manor - Container 1(5) 4 (7) Pearl Jam - Wreckage 4 5 (9) Blondshell feat. Bully - Docket 5 6 (4) Tigercub - Show Me My Maker 4 7 (17) Olivia Rodrigo - Obsessed 7 8 (11) Billy Morrison feat. Ozzy Osbourne & Steve Stevens - Crack Cocaine 8 9 (12) Nothing But Thieves - Oh No :: He Said What? 9 10 (6) Militarie Gun - Do It Faster 1(1) 11 (8) Green Day - Bobby Sox 3 12 (NEW) Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us 12 13 (15) The Black Keys - On The Game 13 14 (19) Hozier - Too Sweet 14 15 (10) Microwave - Bored Of Being Sad 4 16 (21) RINSE feat. Hatchie - Kiss Me (Kill Me) 16 17 (20) Boston Manor - Sliding Doors 17 18 (5) Webbed Wing - Further 4 19 (27) Present - Cave In 19 20 (13) Djo - End Of Beginning 10 21 (14) Pearl Jam - Dark Matter 1(1) 22 (18) Many Eyes - Future Proof 4 23 (28) Wisp - Pandora 23 24 (23) Milly - Drip From The Fountain 23 25 (16) Glitterer - The Same Ordinary 4 26 (39) Kendrick Lamar - Euphoria 26 27 (33) One Step Closer - Orange Leaf 27 28 (31) Modern Color - Star 9200 28 29 (32) Pærish - Know 29 30 (25) The Decemberists - Burial Ground 14 31 (22) Pearl Jam - Running 11 32 (24) Blushing - Tamagotchi 13 33 (26) They Are Gutting A Body Of Water feat. Greg Mendez & Sun Organ - Krillin 19 34 (44) Fangclub - Out Of My Head 34 35 (30) Bruce Dickinson - Rain On The Graves 6 36 (29) Glitterer - I Want To Be Invisible 13 37 (42) Sundazer - Echoes 37 38 (34) Liquid Mike - Drinking And Driving 11 39 (45) Bad Omens & HEALTH - The Drain 39 40 (46) Hockey Dad - Safety Pin 40 41 (37) Bruce Dickinson - Afterglow Of Ragnarok 1(3) 42 (NEW) Origami Angel - Fruit Wine 42 43 (NEW) Tommy Richman - Million Dollar Baby 43 44 (38) NewDad - Sickly Sweet 9 45 (35) Hot Water Music feat. Brendan Yates & Daniel Fang - Remnants 26 46 (41) Foo Fighters - The Glass 1(5) 47 (NEW) Illuminati Hotties - Can't Be Still 47 48 (NEW) Softcult - One Of The Pack 48 49 (43) Footballhead - Rug 36 50 (36) The Story So Far - Letterman 31
Next in line: Armlock - Ice Cold Artemas - I Like The Way You Kiss Me Beabadoobee - Take A Bite Be Well - A Tap I Can't Turn Off Blanket - Kaleidoscope Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! Dead Horse One - Shadow Distressor - Tragedy Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs feat. Graham Nash - Dare To Dream Mister Goblin - Run, Hide, Fight Oso Oso - All Of My Love Petey - The River Sebastian Bach - (Hold On) To The Dream Soft Blue Shimmer - Canti Spiritual Cramp feat. White Reaper - Whatever You Say Man Supermilk - Sweat While She Sleeps - To The Flowers
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Post by Unkie on May 3, 2024 21:01:33 GMT -5
OVERSIZE, HEAVENWARD GET FOURTH WEEK AT #1, TWO AWAY FROM LONGEST REIGN OF 2024
With virtually no immediate competition, Oversize and Heavenward's collab "Salt" continues easily dominating the Burner 50 as it extends its run at #1 to a solid month. Now at four weeks on top, "Salt" holding the lead next week would tie it with Boston Manor's "Container" as the year's longest reigning #1, but two more would give them the lead for their own, while also tying as Kamtin Mohager's best reign with Heavenward following last summer's dominant "Tangerine".
One Step Closer spend a second week in a distant second place with "Giant's Despair" holding at #2, while the aforementioned "Container" stays at #3. Tigercub jumps 6-4 with "Show Me My Maker" to become the UK rock band's second top 5 hit following last year's #3-peaking "Play My Favourite Song", and Webbed Wing retreats from its #4 peak to #5 with "Further". Two songs enter this week's top 10, Pearl Jam's "Wreckage" (12-7), which becomes their sixth top 10 and second from Dark Matter, and Blondshell and Bully's "Docket" (14-9), the second top 10 for both Nashville-based 90s-influenced female rockers, following Blondshell's "Salad" and Bully's "Lose You" from last year.
Six songs debut in this week's top 50, led by Present's second charting entry "Cave In" at #27. The debuts also include Kendrick Lamar's "Euphoria", his eviscerating Drake diss, at #39.
1 (1) Oversize feat. Heavenward - Salt 1(4) 2 (2) One Step Closer - Giant's Despair 2 3 (3) Boston Manor - Container 1(5) 4 (6) Tigercub - Show Me My Maker 4 5 (4) Webbed Wing - Further 4 6 (7) Militarie Gun - Do It Faster 1(1) 7 (12) Pearl Jam - Wreckage 7 8 (5) Green Day - Bobby Sox 3 9 (14) Blondshell feat. Bully - Docket 9 10 (8) Microwave - Bored Of Being Sad 4 11 (15) Billy Morrison feat. Ozzy Osbourne & Steve Stevens - Crack Cocaine 11 12 (18) Nothing But Thieves - Oh No :: He Said What? 12 13 (10) Djo - End Of Beginning 10 14 (9) Pearl Jam - Dark Matter 1(1) 15 (20) The Black Keys - On The Game 15 16 (11) Glitterer - The Same Ordinary 4 17 (26) Olivia Rodrigo - Obsessed 17 18 (13) Many Eyes - Future Proof 4 19 (24) Hozier - Too Sweet 19 20 (27) Boston Manor - Sliding Doors 20 21 (32) RINSE feat. Hatchie - Kiss Me (Kill Me) 21 22 (16) Pearl Jam - Running 11 23 (28) Milly - Drip From The Fountain 23 24 (17) Blushing - Tamagotchi 13 25 (21) The Decemberists - Burial Ground 14 26 (19) They Are Gutting A Body Of Water feat. Greg Mendez & Sun Organ - Krillin 19 27 (NEW) Present - Cave In 27 28 (48) Wisp - Pandora 28 29 (22) Glitterer - I Want To Be Invisible 13 30 (25) Bruce Dickinson - Rain On The Graves 6 31 (47) Modern Color - Star 9200 31 32 (39) Pærish - Know 32 33 (NEW) One Step Closer - Orange Leaf 33 34 (30) Liquid Mike - Drinking And Driving 11 35 (29) Hot Water Music feat. Brendan Yates & Daniel Fang - Remnants 26 36 (31) The Story So Far - Letterman 31 37 (33) Bruce Dickinson - Afterglow Of Ragnarok 1(3) 38 (34) NewDad - Sickly Sweet 9 39 (NEW) Kendrick Lamar - Euphoria 39 40 (23) Softcult - Spiralling Out 23 41 (38) Foo Fighters - The Glass 1(5) 42 (42) Sundazer - Echoes 42 43 (36) Footballhead - Rug 36 44 (NEW) Fangclub - Out Of My Head 44 45 (NEW) Bad Omens & HEALTH - The Drain 45 46 (NEW) Hockey Dad - Safety Pin 46 47 (35) Fangclub - Attention 20 48 (41) Pile Of Love - Happy To Hide 1(2) 49 (45) Liquid Mike - Mouse Trap 3 50 (37) Slow Joy - Pulling Teeth 37
Next in line: Be Well - A Tap I Can't Turn Off Blanket - Kaleidoscope Distressor - Tragedy Illuminati Hotties - Can't Be Still Mister Goblin - Run, Hide, Fight Pedro The Lion - Modesto Petey - The River Sebastian Bach - (Hold On) To The Dream Soft Blue Shimmer - Canti Softcult - One Of The Pack Spiritual Cramp feat. White Reaper - Whatever You Say Man Supermilk - Sweat While She Sleeps - To The Flowers
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Post by Unkie on Apr 26, 2024 8:07:46 GMT -5
OVERSIZE/HEAVENWARD EASILY REMAIN AT #1 FOR THIRD WEEK; ONE STEP CLOSER GETS BIG JUMP TO #2
For a third straight week on the Burner 50, Oversize and Heavenward have the #1 song with "Salt". The song continues a seemingly unstoppable run at the top on the strength of strong play and solid M4B Radio support.
Aiming to disrupt the run is One Step Closer's "Giant's Despair", up 9-2; co-written with Citizen's Mat Kerekes, the single from the band's second album All You Embrace inspired by many 2010s songs of the Unkiecore genre is their biggest Burner 50 hit by far.
There's little movement elsewhere in the top 10, with Boston Manor's former #1 "Container" down a spot to #3, Webbed Wing inching 5-4 with "Further" and Green Day down 3-5 with "Bobby Sox". Djo, the musical project of Stranger Things actor Joe Keery, hits the top 10 with "End Of Beginning" up 14-10; the song was first released in 2022 but has taken off this year as a result of TikTok attention. This is Keery's first Burner 50 top 10, but his second entry; as the ex-lead singer of Post Animal, he made it to #21 with "Ralphie" in 2018.
Olivia Rodrigo has the top debut at #26 with "Obsessed", which finally makes the chart weeks after its release.
1 (1) Oversize feat. Heavenward - Salt 1(3) 2 (9) One Step Closer - Giant's Despair 2 3 (2) Boston Manor - Container 1(5) 4 (5) Webbed Wing - Further 4 5 (3) Green Day - Bobby Sox 3 6 (7) Tigercub - Show Me My Maker 6 7 (4) Militarie Gun - Do It Faster 1(1) 8 (8) Microwave - Bored Of Being Sad 4 9 (6) Pearl Jam - Dark Matter 1(1) 10 (14) Djo - End Of Beginning 10 11 (10) Glitterer - The Same Ordinary 4 12 (34) Pearl Jam - Wreckage 12 13 (12) Many Eyes - Future Proof 4 14 (23) Blondshell feat. Bully - Docket 14 15 (17) Billy Morrison feat. Ozzy Osbourne & Steve Stevens - Crack Cocaine 15 16 (11) Pearl Jam - Running 11 17 (13) Blushing - Tamagotchi 13 18 (20) Nothing But Thieves - Oh No :: He Said What? 18 19 (19) They Are Gutting A Body Of Water feat. Greg Mendez & Sun Organ - Krillin 19 20 (24) The Black Keys - On The Game 20 21 (16) The Decemberists - Burial Ground 14 22 (18) Glitterer - I Want To Be Invisible 13 23 (31) Softcult - Spiralling Out 23 24 (41) Hozier - Too Sweet 24 25 (15) Bruce Dickinson - Rain On The Graves 6 26 (NEW) Olivia Rodrigo - Obsessed 26 27 (35) Boston Manor - Sliding Doors 27 28 (38) Milly - Drip From The Fountain 28 29 (26) Hot Water Music feat. Brendan Yates & Daniel Fang - Remnants 26 30 (22) Liquid Mike - Drinking And Driving 11 31 (37) The Story So Far - Letterman 31 32 (NEW) RINSE feat. Hatchie - Kiss Me (Kill Me) 32 33 (30) Bruce Dickinson - Afterglow Of Ragnarok 1(3) 34 (27) NewDad - Sickly Sweet 9 35 (25) Fangclub - Attention 20 36 (42) Footballhead - Rug 36 37 (43) Slow Joy - Pulling Teeth 37 38 (33) Foo Fighters - The Glass 1(5) 39 (45) Pærish - Know 39 40 (28) St. Vincent - Broken Man 26 41 (36) Pile Of Love - Happy To Hide 1(2) 42 (48) Sundazer - Echoes 42 43 (32) Noah Kahan & Sam Fender - Homesick 9 44 (39) NewDad - Nightmares 3 45 (40) Liquid Mike - Mouse Trap 3 46 (29) The Black Keys - This Is Nowhere 29 47 (NEW) Modern Color - Star 9200 47 48 (NEW) Wisp - Pandora 48 49 (44) Real Estate - Water Underground 5 50 (21) Higher Power - Absolute Bloom 12
Next in line: Bad Omens & HEALTH - The Drain Better Lovers - The Flowering Distressor - Tragedy Fangclub - Out Of My Head Hockey Dad - Safety Pin Mirrortalk - Decay Mister Goblin - Run, Hide, Fight One Step Closer - Orange Leaf Pedro The Lion - Modesto Present - Cave In Queen Of Jeans - Horny Hangover Spiritual Cramp feat. White Reaper - Whatever You Say Man While She Sleeps - To The Flowers
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Post by Unkie on Apr 25, 2024 23:08:53 GMT -5
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Post by Unkie on Apr 19, 2024 6:57:58 GMT -5
1 (1) Oversize feat. Heavenward - Salt 1(2) 2 (2) Boston Manor - Container 1(5) 3 (3) Green Day - Bobby Sox 3 4 (5) Militarie Gun - Do It Faster 1(1) 5 (6) Webbed Wing - Further 5 6 (4) Pearl Jam - Dark Matter 1(1) 7 (9) Tigercub - Show Me My Maker 7 8 (7) Microwave - Bored Of Being Sad 4 9 (18) One Step Closer - Giant's Despair 9 10 (8) Glitterer - The Same Ordinary 4 11 (11) Pearl Jam - Running 11 12 (10) Many Eyes - Future Proof 4 13 (19) Blushing - Tamagotchi 13 14 (16) Djo - End Of Beginning 14 15 (13) Bruce Dickinson - Rain On The Graves 6 16 (14) The Decemberists - Burial Ground 14 17 (27) Billy Morrison feat. Ozzy Osbourne & Steve Stevens - Crack Cocaine 17 18 (15) Glitterer - I Want To Be Invisible 13 19 (22) They Are Gutting A Body Of Water feat. Greg Mendez & Sun Organ - Krillin 19 20 (23) Nothing But Thieves - Oh No :: He Said What? 20 21 (12) Higher Power - Absolute Bloom 12 22 (17) Liquid Mike - Drinking And Driving 11 23 (28) Blondshell feat. Bully - Docket 23 24 (33) The Black Keys - On The Game 24 25 (20) Fangclub - Attention 20 26 (31) Hot Water Music feat. Brendan Yates & Daniel Fang - Remnants 26 27 (21) NewDad - Sickly Sweet 9 28 (26) St. Vincent - Broken Man 26 29 (32) The Black Keys - This Is Nowhere 29 30 (25) Bruce Dickinson - Afterglow Of Ragnarok 1(3) 31 (34) Softcult - Spiralling Out 31 32 (24) Noah Kahan & Sam Fender - Homesick 9 33 (29) Foo Fighters - The Glass 1(5) 34 (NEW) Pearl Jam - Wreckage 34 35 (43) Boston Manor - Sliding Doors 35 36 (30) Pile Of Love - Happy To Hide 1(2) 37 (40) The Story So Far - Letterman 37 38 (44) Milly - Drip From The Fountain 38 39 (36) NewDad - Nightmares 3 40 (37) Liquid Mike - Mouse Trap 3 41 (NEW) Hozier - Too Sweet 41 42 (45) Footballhead - Rug 42 43 (46) Slow Joy - Pulling Teeth 43 44 (39) Real Estate - Water Underground 5 45 (NEW) Pærish - Know 45 46 (41) Heavenward - Wish 1(3) 47 (35) Softcult - Shortest Fuse 5 48 (NEW) Sundazer - Echoes 48 49 (38) Linkin Park - Friendly Fire 21 50 (42) Hotline TNT - Stump 15
Next in line: Bad Omens & HEALTH - The Drain Better Lovers - The Flowering Distressor - Tragedy Fangclub - Out Of My Head Mirrortalk - Decay Mister Goblin - Run, Hide, Fight Modern Color - Star 9200 One Step Closer - Orange Leaf Pedro The Lion - Modesto Queen Of Jeans - Horny Hangover RINSE feat. Hatchie - Kiss Me (Kill Me) Spiritual Cramp feat. White Reaper - Whatever You Say Man While She Sleeps - To The Flowers Wisp - Pandora
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Post by Unkie on Apr 18, 2024 19:46:22 GMT -5
I just realized, the Canadian nudist has yet to be mentioned! I heard this out in the wild at the start of the year and it made me miserable
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Post by Unkie on Apr 11, 2024 23:50:53 GMT -5
OVERSIZE/HEAVENWARD COLLAB "SALT" TOPS CHART AFTER MASSIVE PLAY RALLYThree weeks after entering the chart at #37 on less than three days of impact, UK grungegaze band Oversize has the new Burner 50 #1 with "Salt", their collaboration with Kamtin Mohager of Heavenward. The song is the first for Oversize and fifth for Heavenward, who hit #1 with four of the five songs to chart from their debut album Pyrophonics including the #1 song of last year, "Gasoline". "Salt" tops the chart thanks to a massive rally over the last week and a half with play counts easily exceeding its competition. It ends the five-week reign of "Container" by Boston Manor, the band Oversize is opening for on their current UK tour. Elsewhere on the chart, Green Day hit a new peak of #3 with "Bobby Sox", Pearl Jam and Militarie Gun drop two spots each from 2-4 with "Dark Matter" and 3-5 with "Do It Faster", respectively down after five weeks in their places, and Tigercub lands their fifth top 10 with "Show Me My Maker" up 11-9. The Black Keys has the week's top debut at #33 with "On The Game", co-written with Oasis's Noel Gallagher. The big first week for "On The Game", now their best debut position, is the result of seeing them in concert last weekend during the March Madness Music Festival in Phoenix. 1 (5) Oversize feat. Heavenward - Salt 1(1) 2 (1) Boston Manor - Container 1(5) 3 (4) Green Day - Bobby Sox 3 4 (2) Pearl Jam - Dark Matter 1(1) 5 (3) Militarie Gun - Do It Faster 1(1) 6 (8) Webbed Wing - Further 6 7 (6) Microwave - Bored Of Being Sad 4 8 (7) Glitterer - The Same Ordinary 4 9 (11) Tigercub - Show Me My Maker 9 10 (10) Many Eyes - Future Proof 4 11 (17) Pearl Jam - Running 11 12 (12) Higher Power - Absolute Bloom 12 13 (9) Bruce Dickinson - Rain On The Graves 6 14 (18) The Decemberists - Burial Ground 14 15 (13) Glitterer - I Want To Be Invisible 13 16 (19) Djo - End Of Beginning 16 17 (14) Liquid Mike - Drinking And Driving 11 18 (26) One Step Closer - Giant's Despair 18 19 (23) Blushing - Tamagotchi 19 20 (20) Fangclub - Attention 20 21 (15) NewDad - Sickly Sweet 9 22 (25) They Are Gutting A Body Of Water feat. Greg Mendez & Sun Organ - Krillin 22 23 (28) Nothing But Thieves - Oh No :: He Said What? 23 24 (16) Noah Kahan & Sam Fender - Homesick 9 25 (21) Bruce Dickinson - Afterglow Of Ragnarok 1(3) 26 (29) St. Vincent - Broken Man 26 27 (36) Billy Morrison feat. Ozzy Osbourne & Steve Stevens - Crack Cocaine 27 28 (37) Blondshell feat. Bully - Docket 28 29 (22) Foo Fighters - The Glass 1(5) 30 (27) Pile Of Love - Happy To Hide 1(2) 31 (33) Hot Water Music feat. Brendan Yates & Daniel Fang - Remnants 31 32 (42) The Black Keys - This Is Nowhere 32 33 (NEW) The Black Keys - On The Game 33 34 (39) Softcult - Spiralling Out 34 35 (24) Softcult - Shortest Fuse 5 36 (31) NewDad - Nightmares 3 37 (32) Liquid Mike - Mouse Trap 3 38 (30) Linkin Park - Friendly Fire 21 39 (34) Real Estate - Water Underground 5 40 (43) The Story So Far - Letterman 40 41 (38) Heavenward - Wish 1(3) 42 (35) Hotline TNT - Stump 15 43 (NEW) Boston Manor - Sliding Doors 43 44 (NEW) Milly - Drip From The Fountain 44 45 (NEW) Footballhead - Rug 45 46 (NEW) Slow Joy - Pulling Teeth 46 47 (40) Liquid Mike - K2 7 48 (41) The Lemon Twigs - My Golden Years 8 49 (44) Present - Easy 7 50 (45) Suki Waterhouse - OMG 10 Next in line: Better Lovers - The Flowering Distressor - Tragedy Mirrortalk - Decay
Pærish - Know Pedro The Lion - Modesto Queen Of Jeans - Horny Hangover Sundazer - Echoes While She Sleeps - To The Flowers
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Post by Unkie on Apr 8, 2024 2:20:09 GMT -5
This technically came out last year, but the video was released last week. I heard this last night while at a burger bar that was playing trap music and this song grated on me for its awful beat and shrill, repetitive hook.
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Post by Unkie on Apr 5, 2024 9:27:13 GMT -5
BOSTON MANOR, PEARL JAM, MILITARIE GUN HOLD TOP 3 FOR FIFTH WEEK; OVERSIZE/HEAVENWARD COLLAB MAKES BIGGEST TOP 10 MOVE IN TWO YEARS
The Burner 50 top 3 remains unchanged for a fifth consecutive week, as Boston Manor extends their reign atop the chart with "Container" for a fifth week while former #1s "Dark Matter" by Pearl Jam and "Do It Faster" by Militarie Gun respectively hold #2 and #3. The trio's decisive hold in recent weeks, helped in part from 2/3 getting strong M4B attention ("Container" became Boston Manor's first ever M4B Radio Top 40 top 10 and Globalchart top 20; "Dark Matter" hit #1 on the 40) and the other surprisingly impacting alternative radio, is a chart rarity that speaks to the strength of these songs with me at the moment.
However, the trio could soon see their reign disrupted. Green Day's "Bobby Sox" advances 8-4 on the strength of both strong play and strong M4B attention, now becoming their best charting entry since "Bang Bang" topped the chart in 2016. And rounding out the top 5 is a huge mover from Oversize and Heavenward's "Salt", up 32 spots from its #37 debut position to #5, benefiting from fast growing play counts. "Salt" now becomes the chart's ninth song to enter the Burner 50 top 10 from below #30, something that hasn't happened on the chart in two years. The others: Kendrick Lamar's "HUMBLE." (40-9), Teenage Wrist's "Swallow" (31-9), Alice In Chains' "The One You Know" (34-10), Basement's "Slip Away" (48-10), Microwave's "DIAWB" (34-3), Chris Cornell's "Patience" (31-10), Glitterer's "Are You Sure?" (32-10) and Ovlov's "Eat More" (33-10).
Last week's highest debut, Webbed Wing's "Further", also enters this week's top 10; it moves 16-8.
Blondshell has the week's top debut at #37 with "Docket", a collaboration with fellow 90s alt-inspired act Bully. "Docket" is the second charting entry for the one-woman band of Sabrina Teitelbaum, who hit #6 last year with "Salad", and the fourth for the Alicia Bognanno-fronted Bully, who makes their first Burner 50 appearance since seeing them play Innings Festival.
1 (1) Boston Manor - Container 1(5) 2 (2) Pearl Jam - Dark Matter 1(1) 3 (3) Militarie Gun - Do It Faster 1(1) 4 (8) Green Day - Bobby Sox 4 5 (37) Oversize feat. Heavenward - Salt 5 6 (4) Microwave - Bored Of Being Sad 4 7 (5) Glitterer - The Same Ordinary 4 8 (16) Webbed Wing - Further 8 9 (7) Bruce Dickinson - Rain On The Graves 6 10 (6) Many Eyes - Future Proof 4 11 (13) Tigercub - Show Me My Maker 11 12 (12) Higher Power - Absolute Bloom 12 13 (14) Glitterer - I Want To Be Invisible 13 14 (11) Liquid Mike - Drinking And Driving 11 15 (9) NewDad - Sickly Sweet 9 16 (10) Noah Kahan & Sam Fender - Homesick 9 17 (29) Pearl Jam - Running 17 18 (20) The Decemberists - Burial Ground 17 19 (22) Djo - End Of Beginning 19 20 (23) Fangclub - Attention 20 21 (17) Bruce Dickinson - Afterglow Of Ragnarok 1(3) 22 (18) Foo Fighters - The Glass 1(5) 23 (24) Blushing - Tamagotchi 23 24 (15) Softcult - Shortest Fuse 5 25 (27) They Are Gutting A Body Of Water feat. Greg Mendez & Sun Organ - Krillin 25 26 (31) One Step Closer - Giant's Despair 26 27 (19) Pile Of Love - Happy To Hide 1(2) 28 (32) Nothing But Thieves - Oh No :: He Said What? 28 29 (33) St. Vincent - Broken Man 29 30 (21) Linkin Park - Friendly Fire 21 31 (25) NewDad - Nightmares 3 32 (26) Liquid Mike - Mouse Trap 3 33 (36) Hot Water Music feat. Brendan Yates & Daniel Fang - Remnants 33 34 (30) Real Estate - Water Underground 5 35 (28) Hotline TNT - Stump 15 36 (45) Billy Morrison feat. Ozzy Osbourne & Steve Stevens - Crack Cocaine 36 37 (NEW) Blondshell feat. Bully - Docket 37 38 (34) Heavenward - Wish 1(3) 39 (NEW) Softcult - Spiralling Out 39 40 (35) Liquid Mike - K2 7 41 (38) The Lemon Twigs - My Golden Years 8 42 (NEW) The Black Keys - This Is Nowhere 42 43 (NEW) The Story So Far - Letterman 43 44 (40) Present - Easy 7 45 (41) Suki Waterhouse - OMG 10 46 (39) DIIV - Brown Paper Bag 28 47 (43) Death Lens - Limousine 5 48 (44) Hot Water Music - Menace 34 49 (42) Twin Mill - Spell 18 50 (46) Heavenward - Tangerine 1(6)
Next in line: Better Lovers - The Flowering Boston Manor - Sliding Doors Distressor - Tragedy Footballhead - Rug METZ - Light Your Way Home Milly - Drip From The Fountain Pærish - Know Pedro The Lion - Modesto Queen Of Jeans - Horny Hangover Slow Joy - Pulling Teeth Sundazer - Echoes While She Sleeps - To The Flowers Yeah, Sure - Bunk Beds
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Post by Unkie on Mar 29, 2024 8:28:32 GMT -5
BOSTON MANOR EARNS LONGEST REIGNING #1 OF 2024 SO FAR; MICROWAVE AND GREEN DAY CHALLENGE
With no competition threatening their reign, Boston Manor easily extend their #1 run to a fourth straight week with "Container", becoming the longest running #1 of 2024 to date and the longest running since the Foo Fighters' five-week leader "The Glass". "Container" leads a static top 3 for a solid month, with Pearl Jam's "Dark Matter" and Militarie Gun's "Do It Faster" respectively holding #2 and #3 through that same time; the trio of songs beats the three-week dominance of Bruce Dickinson's "Afterglow Of Ragnarok" (#1), Pile Of Love's "Happy To Hide" (#2) and NewDad's "Nightmares" (#3) as the longest top 3 to stand firm in the year to date, as that trio of songs held for four straight weeks.
Microwave is aiming to upend the trio with fast gaining play for "Bored Of Being Sad", up 7-4 in its sixth week. The band's latest single, the fourth to come from their upcoming fourth album Let's Start Degeneracy, is competing for the band's fourth #1 following "Lighterless" in 2016 and "DIAWB" and "Carry" in 2019, though all three of those songs were more instant with me. Meanwhile, Green Day vaults into the top 10 with a 17-8 jump for "Bobby Sox"; the power pop-influenced highlight from Saviors has become a significant M4B hit in recent weeks and has taken off with strong play around that same time, now marking their best charting entry since "Still Breathing" reached the same mark in early 2017.
Four new songs make their debuts this week in a stacked week for new releases, all four major highlights: - Webbed Wing land the top debut of the week and a career best entry with "Further", the lead single from their third album Vol. III, at #16. The band is following up a huge 2021-23 period between their sophomore album What's So F***ing Funny? and the companion EP Right After I Smoke This..., which collectively spawned four top 2 hits including the M4B genre successes "Make A Dime", "Jesus's Age" and "Sure Could Use A Friend". - Pearl Jam's "Running", the followup to former #1 "Dark Matter", enters at #29. The fast-paced, short and punky blast recalls the pensive "Lukin", a deep cut and live favorite from their 1996 album No Code. - UK rock band Oversize, openers for current Burner 50 leaders Boston Manor on their latest tour, mark their inaugural entry with "Salt" at #37, a collaboration with last year's biggest band on the chart, Heavenward. - Billy Morrison, famous for playing in Billy Idol's band, enters at #45 with "Crack Cocaine", with lead vocals from Ozzy Osbourne and lead guitar from Morrison's bandmate Steve Stevens. It's Osbourne's first song to chart since his 2022 album Patient Number 9 produced four top 20 hits including the title track and "One Of Those Days", both top 10s.
1 (1) Boston Manor - Container 1(4) 2 (2) Pearl Jam - Dark Matter 1(1) 3 (3) Militarie Gun - Do It Faster 1(1) 4 (7) Microwave - Bored Of Being Sad 4 5 (5) Glitterer - The Same Ordinary 4 6 (4) Many Eyes - Future Proof 4 7 (6) Bruce Dickinson - Rain On The Graves 6 8 (17) Green Day - Bobby Sox 8 9 (10) NewDad - Sickly Sweet 9 10 (9) Noah Kahan & Sam Fender - Homesick 9 11 (11) Liquid Mike - Drinking And Driving 11 12 (12) Higher Power - Absolute Bloom 12 13 (18) Tigercub - Show Me My Maker 13 14 (16) Glitterer - I Want To Be Invisible 14 15 (8) Softcult - Shortest Fuse 5 16 (NEW) Webbed Wing - Further 16 17 (14) Bruce Dickinson - Afterglow Of Ragnarok 1(3) 18 (15) Foo Fighters - The Glass 1(5) 19 (13) Pile Of Love - Happy To Hide 1(2) 20 (24) The Decemberists - Burial Ground 20 21 (23) Linkin Park - Friendly Fire 21 22 (32) Djo - End Of Beginning 22 23 (26) Fangclub - Attention 23 24 (25) Blushing - Tamagotchi 24 25 (19) NewDad - Nightmares 3 26 (22) Liquid Mike - Mouse Trap 3 27 (34) They Are Gutting A Body Of Water feat. Greg Mendez & Sun Organ - Krillin 27 28 (20) Hotline TNT - Stump 15 29 (NEW) Pearl Jam - Running 29 30 (21) Real Estate - Water Underground 5 31 (36) One Step Closer - Giant's Despair 31 32 (37) Nothing But Thieves - Oh No :: He Said What? 32 33 (47) St. Vincent - Broken Man 33 34 (30) Heavenward - Wish 1(3) 35 (27) Liquid Mike - K2 7 36 (38) Hot Water Music feat. Brendan Yates & Daniel Fang - Remnants 36 37 (NEW) Oversize feat. Heavenward - Salt 37 38 (29) The Lemon Twigs - My Golden Years 8 39 (28) DIIV - Brown Paper Bag 28 40 (31) Present - Easy 7 41 (33) Suki Waterhouse - OMG 10 42 (35) Twin Mill - Spell 18 43 (40) Death Lens - Limousine 5 44 (39) Hot Water Music - Menace 34 45 (NEW) Billy Morrison feat. Ozzy Osbourne & Steve Stevens - Crack Cocaine 45 46 (43) Heavenward - Tangerine 1(6) 47 (41) Cloud Nothings - Running Through The Campus 41 48 (42) Wayside - Lean Into It 15 49 (45) Chelsea Wolfe - Everything Turns Blue 28 50 (44) Cage The Elephant - Neon Pill 32
Next in line: The Black Keys - This Is Nowhere Blondshell feat. Bully - Docket METZ - Light Your Way Home Pærish - Know Slow Joy - Pulling Teeth Softcult - Spiralling Out The Story So Far - Letterman Wisp - Enough For You Yeah, Sure - Bunk Beds
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Post by Unkie on Mar 23, 2024 18:32:04 GMT -5
2. Queens Of The Stone AgeDate: December 5, 2023 Venue: Arizona Financial Theatre, Phoenix, AZ You know you went to a great show when the mention of seeing the band sparks the envy of people around you, as I found when I discussed seeing Queens Of The Stone Age with coworkers. I pregamed the concert at a downtown gastropub where a professional association related to my line of work was hosting a Christmas party. (This is why I missed the opening set from Spiritualized.) Everyone I mentioned the concert to thought it was so cool that I was going, mostly everyone was asking why I was hanging around as long as I did out of fear I’d miss the show, and at least one was like “they're in town right now?” The head of my job, one of my boss's bosses, was there, and after the fact he was curious why he had so little face time with me that night. When I told him about the concert, he gushed. He's a fan, too. He also asked me for my thoughts on Kyuss, the stoner rock band Josh Homme played guitar in before forming QOTSA. (I listened to Blues For The Red Sun, Kyuss's most popular album, shortly after that conversation. I wasn't a fan, apart from about three or four songs.) Queens Of The Stone Age were a band whose discography I dug into during the time I was going over my ex friend's MP3 collection, and they impressed me for their unique and distinctive “desert rock” sound - imagine a fusion of psychedelic rock, blues rock and heavy metal - and the unexpected musical twists many of their songs take, from the fast-slow-fast-false stop-slow-fast-false stop-fast-who knows what pace of the excellent “Song For The Dead” to the slow building experimental dirge “Mosquito Song”. Around the time QOTSA returned with their latest album In Times New Roman…, I watched a video of the band performing “Song For The Dead” at a UK concert out of curiosity to see how they're able to make it happen, as I thought it a challenging song to perform. It was enough that I wanted to see the band in concert, and I jumped at the opportunity when they announced a Phoenix show as part of the second leg of their The End Is Nero tour. The concert leaned heavily on material from two of their three best albums, 2002's Songs For The Deaf and 2013's …Like Clockwork (Dave Grohl drummed on both albums). They did four songs from the new album, including M4B hits “Emotion Sickness” and “Paper Machete”. (“Negative Space”, which shockingly was a bigger hit for Jess than it was for me, was not one of them though it got to its peak for me because of anticipation for the concert.) They boldly opened their show by getting their token appeal to the oldheads song (“Regular John” from their self titled 1998 debut) and their biggest hit out of the way (“No One Knows”, a song I thought they'd save for the encore, was the SECOND! song of the show). The four-song encore was long enough it probably would have put the 12-year-old version of Kim to sleep. It started with a two-song tribute to former band member Mark Lanegan, also known for leading the Seattle grunge band Screaming Trees, who died in February 2022; after asking the audience which Lanegan-fronted song they wanted to hear more, “In The Fade” from Rated R or “God Is In The Radio” from Songs For The Deaf, the band did both songs. The show closed with the reason why I wanted to see them in the first place - “Song For The Dead”, which felt unreal to experience in person. 1. Foo Fighters Date: October 3, 2023 Venue: Talking Stick Resort Amphitheater, Phoenix, AZ Honestly: Did anyone else stand a chance? The tragic, untimely death of Taylor Hawkins in 2022 gave Jessica and I a greater appreciation not only for the Foo Fighters’ music (which we already greatly appreciated) but also for the fact we got to see the band in concert with Taylor at the kit when we had the chance with their Florida tour stop in April 2018. When our nearly last minute Houston getaway for a Jerry Cantrell concert in April 2022 went from something we were just talking about to a sure thing, I broke the news to our parents - who were initially opposed to the idea because my original plan involved getting us back home in one straight shot the day after the concert, which would have been exhausting for both of us - by invoking Taylor Hawkins’ death. “I know we could wait things out, but imagine if the Foo Fighters came to Florida in 2018 and instead of seeing them when we had the chance we brushed it off and were like ‘maybe next time’ - between the pandemic and Taylor Hawkins dying unexpectedly, ‘next time’ might not have come.” Instinctively, I knew Taylor Hawkins’ death would not be the end of the Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl is a lifer - to me, he is a Paul McCartney or Mick Jagger who will keep making music and touring into his later years because it's what he enjoys doing. I figured what came next for the band would involve Grohl drumming on record and finding a new touring drummer. That's exactly what happened. The Foo Fighters’ But Here We Are was the band's first album in many years to feature Grohl on drums. Their promotion of the album included the announcement that Josh Freese, a career session drummer whose credits range from A Perfect Circle, Devo and Nine Inch Nails to Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne and “I'm Just Ken” from the Barbie movie, would succeed Hawkins as drummer for the tour. I also thought, well before the album and tour were announced, that seeing the Foo Fighters a second time despite Taylor's absence would still be a great show. That's exactly what happened. Like the 2018 Tampa show, the Foos’ performance was greatest hits centric and showcased their songs in extended, freeform jams highlighting the talents of the rhythm section. (There wasn't anything like Dave playing the drums for a song like he did in Tampa, though.) To start the show with “All My Life” and “The Pretender” and still have so many highlights to get to is emblematic of how this band operates. I liked how during “Under You” they played an animation on the screen featuring the artwork of posters from past concerts. (I looked for but couldn't find the one from the 2018 Tampa show, depicting the Hindu god Vishnu holding a vinyl record.) Also like the Tampa show, the Foos played for nearly 3 hours. I was totally unprepared for the trick pulled during the encore - they played the entirety of the 10-minute “The Teacher”, a Pink Floyd-inspired tribute to Grohl's late mother Virginia. Grohl also, for the first time on the tour supporting But Here We Are, played the song on a double necked guitar, something Grohl joked would require having to see his chiropractor. And the show was destined for a crowd pleasing finish… the Foo Fighters don't say goodbye, they play “Everlong”.
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Post by Unkie on Mar 22, 2024 0:17:48 GMT -5
BOSTON MANOR EASILY EXTENDS TO THIRD WEEK WITH "CONTAINER"
Boston Manor continues to ride high on solid play counts and their best Globalchart and M4B Radio Top 40 success thus far with "Container" as the song extends its reign at #1 on the Burner 50 to a third week, marking the second best run at the top for the British rock band. If the song holds the lead to next week, it will become the longest reigning #1 of the year so far, surpassing the song it currently ties with, Bruce Dickinson's "Afterglow Of Ragnarok".
Much like when "Ragnarok" led the chart, Boston Manor is leading a strong, static top 3. Pearl Jam's "Dark Matter" and Militarie Gun's "Do It Faster", both former #1s, hold at #2 and #3 respectively, with the latter benefiting from my purchase of Life Under The Gun on vinyl. Elsewhere, Many Eyes matches Keith Buckley's best Burner 50 peak of #4 with "Future Proof" up one spot from last week, and Irish alt-rockers NewDad edge into the top 10 with "Sickly Sweet" from 11-10 to become their second top 10 following the #3-peaking "Nightmares".
One Step Closer simultaneously has the week's top debut - and instantly outpeaks their only other chart entry - with "Giant's Despair", the second song released from their upcoming sophomore album All You Embrace. The song from the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania hardcore band draws strong influence from one of the most famous bands of its scene to hail from its hometown, Title Fight; its #36 debut instantly bests the #40 peak of last year's "Dark Blue". Two spots below, the veteran Gainesville, Florida punks Hot Water Music debut with "Remnants", a collaboration with Turnstile singer Brendan Yates and drummer Daniel Fang; it's the first charting entry to feature the Turnstile members since their Glow On era concluded.
1 (1) Boston Manor - Container 1(3) 2 (2) Pearl Jam - Dark Matter 1(1) 3 (3) Militarie Gun - Do It Faster 1(1) 4 (5) Many Eyes - Future Proof 4 5 (4) Glitterer - The Same Ordinary 4 6 (6) Bruce Dickinson - Rain On The Graves 6 7 (8) Microwave - Bored Of Being Sad 7 8 (7) Softcult - Shortest Fuse 5 9 (10) Noah Kahan & Sam Fender - Homesick 9 10 (11) NewDad - Sickly Sweet 10 11 (17) Liquid Mike - Drinking And Driving 11 12 (18) Higher Power - Absolute Bloom 12 13 (9) Pile Of Love - Happy To Hide 1(2) 14 (12) Bruce Dickinson - Afterglow Of Ragnarok 1(3) 15 (13) Foo Fighters - The Glass 1(5) 16 (22) Glitterer - I Want To Be Invisible 16 17 (20) Green Day - Bobby Sox 17 18 (23) Tigercub - Show Me My Maker 18 19 (14) NewDad - Nightmares 3 20 (15) Hotline TNT - Stump 15 21 (16) Real Estate - Water Underground 5 22 (19) Liquid Mike - Mouse Trap 3 23 (28) Linkin Park - Friendly Fire 23 24 (31) The Decemberists - Burial Ground 24 25 (38) Blushing - Tamagotchi 25 26 (41) Fangclub - Attention 26 27 (24) Liquid Mike - K2 7 28 (29) DIIV - Brown Paper Bag 28 29 (26) The Lemon Twigs - My Golden Years 8 30 (30) Heavenward - Wish 1(3) 31 (21) Present - Easy 7 32 (46) Djo - End Of Beginning 32 33 (25) Suki Waterhouse - OMG 10 34 (45) They Are Gutting A Body Of Water feat. Greg Mendez & Sun Organ - Krillin 34 35 (27) Twin Mill - Spell 18 36 (NEW) One Step Closer - Giant's Despair 36 37 (47) Nothing But Thieves - Oh No :: He Said What? 37 38 (NEW) Hot Water Music feat. Brendan Yates & Daniel Fang - Remnants 38 39 (34) Hot Water Music - Menace 34 40 (35) Death Lens - Limousine 5 41 (44) Cloud Nothings - Running Through The Campus 41 42 (33) Wayside - Lean Into It 15 43 (40) Heavenward - Tangerine 1(6) 44 (32) Cage The Elephant - Neon Pill 32 45 (36) Chelsea Wolfe - Everything Turns Blue 28 46 (39) Ride - Last Frontier 39 47 (NEW) St. Vincent - Broken Man 47 48 (43) Duff McKagan feat. Jerry Cantrell - I Just Don't Know 1(1) 49 (37) Mannequin Pussy - Nothing Like 29 50 (42) Spaced - Landslide 26
Next in line: Billy Morrison feat. Ozzy Osbourne & Steve Stevens - Crack Cocaine The Black Keys - This Is Nowhere Bully - Atom Bomb METZ - Light Your Way Home Pærish - Know Pearl Jam - Running Slow Joy - Pulling Teeth Softcult - Spiralling Out Wisp - Enough For You Yeah, Sure - Bunk Beds Your Future Ghost - Pritty
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Post by Unkie on Mar 21, 2024 19:56:16 GMT -5
5. Weezer Date: February 25, 2023 Venue: Innings Festival at Tempe Beach Park, Tempe, AZ It would be nearly impossible to fathom a world where Unkiecore exists but Weezer does not. Weezer's self-titled 1994 debut, known today as the Blue Album (they've since released several more self titled albums in an array of colors, but Blue remains their peak), hit the sweet spot with its hard rock and power pop fusion that fit in with the prevailing grungy strains of modern rock radio but in a way that gave them their own identity. The 1996 followup Pinkerton lost many fans upon its release, but the ones that stayed started bands. Many bands I got to see in concert since the pandemic ended owe a debt to Weezer. Pinkerton influenced countless 2000s emo bands like Jimmy Eat World. Joyce Manor made their career imagining what Weezer would sound like if they continued making music that sounds like their first two albums. My gateway to Turnstile was Diamond Youth, an obscure side project singer Brendan Yates and drummer Daniel Fang played in with Sam Trapkin, the guitarist in the hardcore band Trapped Under Ice, singing lead vocals, and its music was widely compared to Weezer. After having the chance to witness many of their contemporaries playing shows, seeing Rivers Cuomo and company was a natural progression. I went into Weezer’s Innings Festival set with expectations in the middle, like this could go either way. It turned out to be a very good show, and a much better show than I thought it would be, for focusing strongly on their best eras and avoiding most of their more questionable musical decisions (I’ll forgive them for “All My Favorite Songs”). The highlights were the more unexpected selections: They did “The World Has Turned And Left Me Here” from the Blue Album, the Pinkerton-era B-side “I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams” and not one, not two, but three songs from Pinkerton, when I expected they’d do one at best! I probably should have figured the occasion of warming up for Green Day would have led to “El Scorcho” with its lyrics “I asked you to go to the Green Day concert / You said you never heard of them” - during the concert, Rivers Cuomo played the intro to Green Day’s “When I Come Around” on his guitar as a break between the lines. Like in September 2022 when I traveled to Louisville, Kentucky for Bourbon and Beyond to see Pearl Jam’s headlining set, I was far in the audience and packed in a sea of people - and thanks to my camera’s 40x optical zoom, still managed to get a few decent pictures of the show that could fool you into thinking I had a view near the stage. 4. Green Day Date: February 25, 2023 Venue: Innings Festival at Tempe Beach Park, Tempe, AZ The soundtrack of countless Millennials’ childhoods, often their gateway to alternative and punk rock music. (True of our own JessieLou, who credits “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” with broadening her music taste 20 years ago.) With two front to back classic albums to their name in Dookie and American Idiot, plus other highlights in their discography like the one-two punch of “Brain Stew/Jaded”, the acoustic ballad “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)” and the underrated banger “Minority”, a Green Day show was bound to be a good time, and I was grateful to have the chance to see them play the 2023 Innings Festival. Like Weezer and The Offspring before them, Green Day prioritized the hits - but unlike them, there was no occasional nod to the present. They didn't play a single song past 2009's 21st Century Breakdown, a wise choice given the inconsistent quality of the band's work since then (let’s try to erase the memory of whatever unlistenable bullshit that Father Of All Motherf***ers was trying to be). Green Day are continuing to play to their strengths on stage - despite releasing their latest album Saviors in January, their upcoming tour supporting the album will celebrate the milestones of Dookie turning 30 and American Idiot turning 20. If Green Day are still filling stadiums in 2034, I predict they won’t be celebrating Saviors turning 10. (I think “Bobby Sox” would be great live, though. I might find out for myself if I see them on their tour with Jess and Kim.) Green Day not only played a setlist that could have been pulled from their peak era, but they sounded as if they hadn't aged a day since those generational classics. They kicked things off with “American Idiot”, setting the tone as the rest of the show sped with constant ferocity. They'd do six of the songs from American Idiot that night, including the deep cut “St. Jimmy” (ending with “and don't f***ing wear it out!”) and all nine minutes of “Jesus Of Suburbia”. They did all the hits from Dookie, too, with “Basket Case” prompting mass singalongs. And much like my elementary school graduation, the festivities closed with “Time Of Your Life”. 3. Teenage Wrist Date: October 7, 2023 Venue: Soda Bar, San Diego, CA Heavenward serving as a support act for Teenage Wrist during their San Diego and Los Angeles tour stops raised one obvious question: Would ex-frontman Kamtin Mohager perform with them? The band's social media posts regarding their tour made a passing reference to special guests appearing during some tour stops. Heavenward's inclusion as a support act led me to think Mohager would show up as a guest during the set. And it happened. And it was the clear highlight of a set full of them. Five songs into their set, Teenage Wrist played “Humbug” from their latest album Still Love. The studio recording featured Mohager as a guest singer and bassist, credited as “featuring Heavenward”. After the first verse, a tall figure in a jacket (a costume change of sorts - he only wore a white T-shirt when he played earlier with Heavenward) rushed toward the stage, taking the mic and jumping toward the front of the audience as he screamed out his lines. Yes, Mohager, for a brief moment, had rejoined Teenage Wrist. He stuck around for the next song, their breakout single “Stoned, Alone”, leaning as close as he could toward the audience during the chorus. “I love these guys,” he said at the end of his cameo appearance. The brief reunion of the Chrome Neon Jesus era lineup of Teenage Wrist was not the only reason why I thought their 2023 San Diego show was better than when I saw them a year earlier in Phoenix. For one thing, they did more songs from that era on tour. They reintroduced “Swallow” and “Dweeb” to their set on this tour - the two songs that got me into the band to start with. (The 2022 show didn't have either of them, though they did do album closer “Waitress”, a song I entered into the latest M4B Song Contest.) But the highlight of that show resurfaced here, too - a set closing extended jam version of “Earth Is A Black Hole”, which I first got to see during their pandemic era 2021 live stream at the LA recording studio Kingsize Soundlabs, a moment that convinced me I needed to see them in concert the next chance I had.
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Post by Unkie on Mar 21, 2024 16:02:31 GMT -5
10. Gin Blossoms Date: February 9, 2023 Venue: Super Bowl Experience at Hance Park, Phoenix, AZ They came to kick ass and chew bubblegum…and they’re out of bubblegum. So said Robin Wilson, the Gin Blossoms’ lead singer, during a hometown show as part of Phoenix’s Super Bowl festivities on a bill with fellow local heroes Jimmy Eat World. They wasted no time reminding the crowd of their standing as one of 90s alternative’s most reliable melody makers - they got right to it and did “Follow You Down” as their first song. Seven of the 13 songs they played came from New Miserable Experience, including the hits “Hey Jealousy” (played second to last), “Until I Fall Away” and “Allison Road” (introduced as the only song in the set about a street in Tempe). It was a satisfying set that proved their value above the nostalgia bait tours. Even the newer songs they played, including M4B hits “Break” (which peaked at #4 on my chart) and “Face The Dark”, don’t sound out of place alongside their classics. 9. Jimmy Eat World Date: February 9, 2023 Venue: Super Bowl Experience at Hance Park, Phoenix, AZ Taking cues from the band that came before them during the free Super Bowl week concert at Phoenix’s Hance Park, Jimmy Eat World started with a crowd pleaser without going for the most obvious crowd pleaser first, opening with “A Praise Chorus” from Bleed American. (They closed with “The Middle” because of course they did.) The rest of their set was all killer, no filler, focused almost entirely on their 2000s alt rock hits, though also squeezing in “Lucky Denver Mint” from their cult classic second album Clarity to please the fans that knew them from when they were playing basement shows in their hometown of Mesa, minutes from openers Gin Blossoms’ hometown of Tempe. While I wished their set was maybe a little bit longer (they played for about an hour and 15 minutes, ending just before 10 p.m. to avoid breaking the venue’s curfew), you can’t beat free. 8. Citizen Date: October 24, 2023 Venue: The Van Buren, Phoenix, AZ “Again?” The reaction from Jessica when I mentioned plans to see Citizen on their tour supporting their latest album Calling The Dogs suggests I’ve probably had enough of seeing this shape shifting Midwestern rock band in concert. (The answer after the third time is yes, for now: I’m skipping their upcoming return to Phoenix opening for Taking Back Sunday.) The advantage of seeing a band often is getting to see how their sets evolve over time and what surprises they might pull. The biggest surprises of their October show at the Van Buren, the same venue where I saw them the second time as an opener for Joyce Manor, were that they didn’t entirely reach for their most obvious crowd pleasers. They did the sparse, haunting ballad “Yellow Love”, which has since become one of their most streamed songs, despite rarely performing it on previous tours. They did “Stain”, a reinterpretation of the noise rock song “Then Comes Dudley” by the Jesus Lizard, despite it being one of the most divisive songs in their catalog (it has been both favorably and unfavorably compared to Brand New’s “Vices”). They did “Your Head Got Misplaced”, a song from their debut album Youth that doesn’t really get as much love as the album’s flawless first half. While I enjoyed seeing Citizen on this third go-around (as I did the first and second times) I noticed the crowd did not seem as enthusiastic or energized as they were the previous times I saw them. During the first two times, I stayed far behind the stage to avoid getting caught in circle pits. Even when lead singer Mat Kerekes shouted for a circle pit during the beginning of the not-really-suitable-for-moshing “When I Let You Down”, I got the sense the audience thought of it as a chore. This time I was able to be close to the front without risking rib injuries. 7. Superheaven Date: May 11, 2023 Venue: 1720, Los Angeles, CA It seemed like an absolutely questionable decision. Less than two days after returning to Arizona from Jessica and Kim’s wedding ceremony in Florida, I embarked on a mini-vacation to Southern California that included exploring downtown Palm Springs and driving through Joshua Tree National Park to see its scenic overlooks (I did attempt a hike, but it was too damn hot for it). Before that was probably the most questionable stop on the itinerary. East L.A. is sketchy as f*** and the warehouse district where the club 1720 is looked like its best days were far, far behind it - if it ever had best days at all. During the entirety of the four hours I was inside the venue, I feared that my car might be broken into. But it was worth it. I got to see Superheaven. Superheaven (first known as Daylight) is a grunge revival band who released two albums in the mid-2010s before breaking up. But after the pandemic they reunited for a series of anniversary concerts celebrating 10 years since the release of the first of those two albums, Jar. Its songs, particularly “Life In A Jar”, “Last October”, “In On It” and their most popular song “Youngest Daughter” (which went viral on TikTok two months after I saw them in concert), grew to become favorites of mine in the years when the musical influence of ex-friends influenced me to seek out more obscure music on my own and Youtube and Last.fm rabbit holes led me to many of the bands playing some hybrid of grunge, punk, emo and shoegaze who’d come to fall under the umbrella term of “Unkiecore”. The show I attended featured the band playing Jar in full for the first time ever (Setlist.fm says it was their first time performing “Last October”) and ended with an encore of two highlights from their second album Ours Is Chrome, “Downswing” and “Poor Aileen”, a song inspired by the 2004 biopic of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, Monster. Fortunately, my car wasn’t broken into. But I ran into two nails that punctured one of my tires. I had to get the tire patched up before leaving Los Angeles, and weeks later I had to get all the tires replaced as they were on their last legs. I am in no hurry to return to L.A., and it would take a big deal event I can’t experience locally for me to come back. 6. Heavenward Date: October 7, 2023 Venue: Soda Bar, San Diego, CA When I went to L.A. for Superheaven, Jessica said she could have pictured me traveling to California for Teenage Wrist, but not for Superheaven. Jess’s comment proved prophetic: My next trip to California involved seeing Teenage Wrist in concert. But I could have seen the Wrist in Phoenix, as they played the Rebel Lounge, the midtown club where I saw them on their previous tour just three days after moving to the city. Why did I go out of my way to California for them? The ex-lead singer’s new band Heavenward. Kamtin Mohager, a former touring bassist for the shitty electro-rap duo 3OH!3, launched a music career in the late 2000s/early 2010s as the Chain Gang of 1974, performing indie-adjacent electronic music. But his heart was in the shoegaze and dream pop music of the 1990s, and Teenage Wrist - named for a song from Afghan Whigs side project Twilight Singers - formed out of a desire to chase his love for that era of music. Mohager left Teenage Wrist in 2019 after an album and two EPs; everything they’ve released since then sounded far more accessible. During the pandemic he formed a new shoegaze-inspired band and released a series of one-off singles that sounded like they wouldn’t have been out of place on the Wrist’s first album, Chrome Neon Jesus; in fact, current frontman Marshall Gallagher played guitar in the band. (Interestingly, he didn’t play guitar for Heavenward when I saw them in concert.) Heavenward’s first batch of singles were overshadowed by Teenage Wrist songs that were released and/or charting for me concurrently, but with their debut album Pyrophonics, the tables turned - Heavenward outlasted the Wrist. “Gasoline”, which became an important song for me in the months when I began a self-improvement journey, and the era’s third M4B crossover hit “Tangerine” were huge #1s on my chart and absolutely refused to die. “Gasoline” ended the year as my chart’s #1 song of 2023. So far, the very few shows Heavenward played were in Southern California, and Mohager seems to express a reluctance to touring; the only upcoming date I could find for Heavenward was a sold out April show in Anaheim supporting British metalcore band Static Dress. Their October 2022 shows opening for Teenage Wrist’s San Diego and LA dates were, to my knowledge, their second and third concerts. On a trip where I did a lot of touristy things (most notably the San Diego Zoo) my favorite things involved the local color, and that included being able to see Heavenward. Second of four bands to play San Diego's Soda Bar that early October night, it was great to hear the songs of the Pyrophonics album in concert and to finally see Kamtin Mohager perform after more than five years of following the Wrist and their related projects. But Mohager's best moment of the evening is still to come. Also worth mentioning: I interacted with Mohager, he manned Heavenward's merch table when he wasn't performing and I went to purchase Pyrophonics on vinyl. My interaction was solely transactional. I wanted to say something about how important his music has been to me over the last five years, but I couldn't think of the right words.
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