The Mazinga cd release show was fun. It was packed. People got crazy. We sold cds and it was good. I missed the after party cause I was tired, but I heard it was rocking' till about 4-5am. The opening groups Invader and JWPP were both high energy rock groups and they were really good. Nice to see actual rocking bands in an area so over run by the Bitchfork generation. Really though, nothing against indie-rock bands, I never liked most indie-rock/college rock music going all the way back to the 80's. It's just not my thing. I enjoy loud fast guitars and bands that go out and explode on stage. I always try to give new music a chance. I work for AMG so I hear tons of new music on a daily basis. I can't stand 95% of modern indie-rock or most of what is covered by spin or pitchfork or the blogs. If you think that makes me uncultured or close minded then so be it.
I love it when the current music scene rips on the old music scene about being an exclusive insiders club, when actually the current scene is just as exclusive, if not more then the last one and the next one will be as well. It is what it is."Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." R.E.H.
Mazinga has always been on the outside looking in, when we've bothered to look at all. We've never been excepted by any scene to our knowledge and I think that may be a good thing. We were never retro enough for the garage rockers. We aren't punk enough for the punkers, and we're to rock n roll for the hipster indie set. All of us (except the drummer) are over weight. None of us are very fashionable at all. We're all over 30. We don't have beards. Guess we're fucked.
Oh well, move along...move along...
Mazinga is playing at the RAW house this Friday night. It's an ALL AGES DIY show space/house in Ann Arbor, MI. We're playing with FAS, Dead Ringers, and Serpent Men; doors @ 6pm; $3. See you there.
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