Prediction: The New Lighting Bolt LP - stays in genre ghetto? underground smash hit? or 2003 - the year NOISE broke

a couple of ppl on drone on went wild abt this LP.

but first you say they will not 'break' and then you cite 'nirvana' which broke into mainstream. explain?

On a side note, the Blood Brothers have a good shot to break the mainstream. No question, with the MTV2 tour thing and being on Artist Direct.

Looking at my mp3 list at home for blood brothers seems to indicate that they were in a Tony Hawk game!

subpop had distro connections with caroline by the time nirvana broke. they had a mechanism to get the merch in the major chain stores. i don't see too many albums by Load getting in there. Bulb/Hanson didn't either... so andrew wk stepped up to mercury to get his record out.

i mean... the fact that matt st. germaine (of the freedom from label) was on jackass because of his friendship with andrew has to mean something.

lightning bolt can and perhaps will get written up in spin and/or rolling stone, but will the decisions be made to up the marketing of the merch to breakthrough?

m.

I'm actually curious how they'll handle things when they play with Sonic Youth and Black Dice later this month.

Agreed on your LB part though.

for two, nobody cares about this band except for a few thousand people who coincidentally are rabid internet users.

msp is right on the money... AWK is the noise representative to the new guard of music, although most of his fans would find his previous output a little offsetting compared to the good feelin' bombast.

no radio station will play it. justin talks about blood brothers being on sublabel of epitaph (with major distro)... that's about as big as it's gonna get.

As far as the large upcoming shows, I've heard a few rumors as to what they'll do.

MOVING PLATFORM ABOVE THE CROWD.
HAVE ORTHRELM, PINK & BROWN, AND WOLF EYES PLAY ALONG WITH THEM (HAHAAHHA)
PLAY IN THE BATHROOM

I think lightning bolt could get some mainstream appeal if they mix the distorted vocals higher in the mix... I'd like that!

i suppose it's what you've been exposed to over the years.

perhaps bb will break with that sound ... cause the bands they sound like are pretty gone and will never be back. bb would probably fit on a ozzfest type of deal. of course, that's not gonna propel anyone into nirvana heights.

it's just not catchy enough.
m.

Not to be snarky, but that's saying a lot!!

Lightning Bolt haven't really captured me either. Still, I'd like to hear a new album and give it another go.

in large venues
after touring for a while

I saw the pretour show and it was amazing. They mvoed the show into the center of the street outside the club and people danced on cars!

I've heard tons of local hardcore bands do similar things.

yeah... but the difference probably is that those bands are probably aping LB....

LB is hardly new... most well-treaded hardcore kids had probably heard their stuff by last summer...
m.

that would be funny to see a 27 second long blast/grind video on MTV.

yeah... that way the time between commercials can be even shorter...

m.

We'll all find out tonight now, won't we? Playing at Lupo's in Providence, which has a ridiculously high capacity. I'd venture a guess into the range of 700+. And the crowds are getting ridiculous--even the 'secret' show the other night was packed (though the venue was v. tiny.)

I sort of wonder how much of their popularity is based on the 'hipness' factor--nowhere near that number of people were there to see Mindflayer when they played recently, or Lord Sun Sun when he played.

But will they break into the mainstream? No. Given that at Ocean's the other night they played an excruciatingly long, Lungfish-esque heavy metal dirge (which I think is one of the new ones, though I could be wrong..) they won't be getting much airplay with that. On the other hand, they've been spotted on the local music show on WBRU.

I haven't heard it myself, but according to my friend Eli they were indeed played on "Home Brewed" or whatever their lame local music show is. Probably played between Pickle Spill and Itchy Fish or something.

I guarrantee That if I ask any of my friends or anyone I know from CT or NYC they would not have clue who any of these bands are. Don't get me wrong I like local music I would love it if one of you all made it out of there but come on "the lightning bolts" who the hell are they.

If anything, my ulterior motive for Blood Bros. becoming big is so some of the other furious locals here like Akimbo, Teen Chthulu, Swarming Hordes, The Whip, etc. will get some passing recognition.

They didn't play 13 Monsters. (Was this because they didn't want to play it or they knew the crowd would be unmanageable?) Without another song as catchy as 13 Monsters, I don't seem them getting much more popular.

Holy shit that was fun though!

-J

new mp3 up.... clearly better than most stuff to date

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