Posted onApril 3, 2011byKirk Kline|Comments Off on Video: The Main Street Gospel – “Beyond Repair” Live in the Studio
The Main Street Gospel’s new song “Beyond Repair,” recorded and filmed live in Columbus, Ohio at The Alter.
Directed and Edited by: Brian Polk
Director of Photography: Victor Matkovic
Audio Engineer: Brian Simakis
Produced by: Outsider Entertainment outsidere.com myspace.com/themainstreetgospel
Trevor from Montreal’s The High Dials contacted me a few weeks ago, asked if maybe I’d throw something up on Donewaiting about his band’s upcoming Columbus show. Though The High Dials have released four full-lengths since 2003, the name didn’t ring a bell to me, but I took Trevor up on his offer to send me a copy of Anthems for Doomed Youth.
Too bad I didn’t hear this thing earlier in this year as it would definitely have ended up on my year-end favorites list. I’m not sure about their past work, but on Anthems for Doomed Youth, The High Dials are an unadulterated, timeless power-pop band that write songs about broken relationships (“Teenage Love Made Me Insane”, “I’m Over You (I Hope It’s True)”, “What You Call Love is a Lie”).
There’s bits of Teenage Fanclub, Mike Viola and the Candybutchers, the Pernice Brothers and Fountains of Wayne in the dozen tracks and, not sure if this is a ringing endorsement or not, but my wife – who very rarely shows interest in what I’m listening to – asked me who I was listening to last week when I had this playing on the iPod boombox.
The High Dials join Dayton’s Lab Partners and Columbus’s The Main Street Gospel at Carabar on Monday night. As always, it’s a free show. Expect things to kick off at 10pm.
Posted onApril 19, 2010byKirk Kline|Comments Off on Tonight in Columbus: Dead Meadow at The Basement
Dead Meadow is rolling through town with their psych rock freak out and are ready to melt faces and blow minds supporting their latest lp/super-epic dvd release, “Three Kings.”