Got back from seeing Serpent Throne and Pearls and Brass in Brooklyn long enough ago to cook up a couple chicken sausages and some edamame and call it a meal while watching an episode of Squidbillies and bemoaning tomorrow’s impending workload. The show was killer, the sausages delicious and the squids fantastic. The workload I could do without, but we’re approaching the semester, and there’s not really anything I can do to stop it. Reportedly it’s my last.

I thought we’d close out this week with a new jam that the guys in Asteroid posted on their Thee Facebooks page called “Bigger Than Asterix.” It’s reportedly not anything that’s going to show up on a new album (at least not in this form), but it’s Asteroid jamming out, anyway, and that’s better than most anything else I could think of posting, so hope you dig it. I know I do. Bands like this are the reason I’m applying for a Fulbright to Sweden.

Tomorrow night I head back to Saint Vitus (the bar) in Brooklyn to catch Totimoshi, and I hope next week to have reviews up of both tonight’s and tomorrow’s shows. I was stoked to see Pentagram on Sunday, but that’s a no-dice. Hazards of NYC shows. I asked for access too late and there are more important-types looking to get in. Some you win, some you lose. Anyway, two nights of shows in a row — especially after last weekend, from which I’m still reeling — should be plenty. Still psyched for Totimoshi tomorrow though. That new record, which was reviewed this week, really is stellar.

So I don’t know about you, but I’ll look forward to those writeups (some pics as well, hopefully one or two decent enough to post), and disc reviews of Finnish psych-outs The Fërtility Cült, Atriarch and Freedom Hawk, an interview with Faces of Bayon guitarist/vocalist Matt Smith — also formerly of Warhorse — and on Wednesday, a track premiere from Rwake‘s new album, which has surprised the hell out of me in how good it is. I figured I’d dig it and all, but wow. Much more to come on that.

We’ll also have another installment (fingers crossed) of the Orange Goblin studio report on progress for their new record, and on Monday morning, an announcement about a killer show The Obelisk and BrooklynVegan have joined forces on for September. Stoked on that for sure. There’s probably a ton more I can’t think of because it’s 2AM and that’s when my brain shuts down, so I’ll leave it at that. Hope you have a great and safe weekend wherever you are. See you on the forum and back here Monday.

Tags: Asteroid, Sweden

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