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Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Gusty Bellow’s Favorite Music in 2018

By Gusty Bellows


After trying to recall what the hell I heard this year, I came up with these things that I enjoyed.

Earthless, Black Heaven.
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Wasteland.
Gøggs, Pre Strike Sweep.
Sea And Cake, Any Day.
J. Mascis, Elastic Days.
Guided by Voices, Space Gun.
High on Fire, Electric Messiah.
Windhand, Eternal Return.
Cat Power, Wanderer.
Superchunk, What a Time to Be Alive.

Plus, these records as well, but not as much. They’re still worth checking out.

Breeders, All Nerve.
Melvins, Pinkus Abortion Technician.
Iceage, Beyondless.
Ty Segall and White Fence, Joy.
Senorita Sometimes, Miss Sometimes.
Professor at the Madman, Disintegrate Me.
Brian Jonestown Massacre, Something Else.
Fucked Up, Dose Your Dreams.

Some concert highlights from this year were as follows. 

Melvins at Meow Wolf. I won tickets from Metalsucks.com. 
Melvins at Aggie Theater. Thanks Cornelia!
Hot Snakes at Oriental Theater. This was on my birthday and it was fantastic! 
Big Business at Surfside 7.
Mike Watt at Downtown Artery.
Booker T at Washington’s. 
Descendents at Mishawaka. 
Luna at Fox Theater. 
King Tuff at Hodi’s. 
Gods of Mount Olympus at Hodi’s.
Dandy Warhols at Washington’s 
And of course the 20 minutes of J. Mascis at Washington’s. Since I’m an idiot and didn’t read the ticket as to when it started. Whoops!

As it is with every year there are plenty of releases that I didn’t get to hear and shows that I didn’t get to see.

Looking forward to next year’s releases and have already bought tickets to some great shows (Bob Mould, Acid Mothers Temple, Samiam, High on Fire to name a few). 

Rock On!



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