no guitar amps. PONY LEG.green lady.
frustration village on tentacle island.
paying up/in/out.
jazzy snowlake, monitor misconduct, broken mic stands, jokes.....spaghetti
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TAXES assaulted the tiny audience with 120 dB of noise, challenging the stiffening hair cells within the cochleae of every kid without a ride out of town to compose a swansong that would ring through the night and into Saturday. The daring volumes where complimented by TAXES' adventurous and occasionally arrhythmic art-punk, with Sean Orr's reference heavy vocals surf atop the wave of noise. The set culminated with the former Green Party candidate lying on the floor, singing into a mic suspended inches above his face by a tangle of mic stands and cables hastily assembled moments earlier.FROM STEVEN J
I'm pretty into Taxes at the worst of times, but they were on fire on Friday. Best performance of their's that I've seen for sure. When Twin Crystals took the stage, Jesse quipped that he "(didn't) know how (they) could follow Taxes." Usually such statements - even when the opening band really delivers - are a polite way to give a nod to whomever went .. you, but as good as Twin Crystals consistently are, he may have had a legitimate point that night. That's not taking anything away from Twin Crystals, Taxes were just really on point.
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********Taxes, whom I caught for the first time at the Sweatshop two weeks ago, played a magnificent set of their unique brand of post-hardcore (think Drive Like Jehu on speed). Singer Sean Orr was a maniac behind the mic, pouncing all over the stage and commanding the attention of the entire audience. Despite Sean's mesmerizing on-stage persona, I found the real force of the band was the drummer, who lead the assault with his incredibly driving and technical drumming, and was very reminiscent of the lead drumming of Don Caballero's Damon Che. This band is a real force and I hope they can squeeze out a proper release sometime soon.
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5. Taxes - "The Suburbs Are Killing Us"
So, if you're ever trying to think of a recipe for a band, here's a good one: take three of Vancouver's hardest working musicians, team them up with one of the Terminal City's best known mouths, stir in some aural chaos, and then give them one sweet ass band name. The entire Crystal Gravy EP is worth your attention (so go cop that), but since the suburbs almost killed me for over two decades, I decided to pick this track for the mix. Like JPDNRDS, the sweet guys in Taxes gave me their whole EP and let me do the picking.
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Hey!! Came here to add you up in here, but we are already homeboys! Thanks for the cd and the rad tourguiding around your fine town! Made crossing the border and all its unreal horror totally worth it and sweet!! See you soon!
