i’m losing my hearing
i haven’t really been blogging, and i don’t have the energy for another long ‘top 20 concerts of the year’ post. but to make you squirm, here’s an alphabetical list of shows that i’ve seen fairly recently. i’m sure there’s more that i’ve forgotten.
the #1 of 2011 was soundgarden, by the way.
3, A Perfect Circle, Adrian Belew Power Trio, Al Green, Alain Johannes, Alan Parsons Project, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Anthrax, Anvil, Aquabats, Avett Brothers, the B-52’s, BB King, Band of Skulls, the Bangles, Baroness, Bassnectar, Beach House, Beck, Billy Joel, Bjork, Black Heart Procession, the Black Keys, Bob Dylan, the Budos Band, Charles Bradley, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Children of Bodom, Chris Cornell, Chromeo, Crystal Castles, the Cure, Cynic, Daft Punk, Danzig, David Byrne, Dax Riggs, Dead Weather, Devin Townsend, Devo, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dinosaur Jr, Earthless, Echo and the Bunnymen, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Electric Six, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Faith No More, Fever Ray, Fiona Apple, Foo Fighters, Four Tet, Gary Numan, George Michael, Gil Mantera’s Party Dream, Gil Scott-Heron, the Go Team, Gogol Bordello, Gorillaz, Gwar, Holdsworth Bozzio Levin Mastelotto, Imogen Heap, J Mascis, Jane’s Addiction, Jets Overhead, Jim Bianco, Kate Miller-Heidke, King Khan and the Shrines, Leonard Cohen, Les Claypool, Liam Finn, the Magnetic Fields, Man Man, Mark Guiliana, Mark Lanegan, the Mars Volta, Mayer Hawthorne, Megadeth, Melvins, Melvins Lite, Metallica, Mike Patton, Mogwai, Morrissey, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, the New Regime, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nine Inch Nails, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, Old Crow Medicine Show, Opeth, Owen Pallett, Paul Gilbert, Paul McCartney, Pavement, Peeping Tom, Peter Murphy, Philip Glass, Pinback, the Pixies, Porcupine Tree, Portugal the Man, Primus, Prince, Public Enemy, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Rammstein, Red Fang, Roger Waters, Scott Kelly of Neurosis, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, She and Him, Sheila E, Shonen Knife, Slayer, Sleep, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Soulsavers, Soundgarden, Stevie Wonder, Street Sweeper Social Club, Styx, Sunny Day Real Estate, Superchunk, TV on the Radio, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Telekinesis, Testament, That Dog, Them Crooked Vultures, Thom Yorke, Throbbing Gristle, Tim and Eric, Tobacco, Tool, Toxic Holocaust, Underworld, Urge Overkill, Wanda Jackson (w/ Jack White), Weezer, Wild Beasts, William Elliott Whitmore, X, YOB, Yeasayer, Yo Gabba Gabba, Yo La Tengo, Zappa Plays Zappa.
I will see Van Halen in 2012, just so every letter of the alphabet is covered.
