Ok, I have two different kinds of socks on, my girlfriend just left me for someone else and I’m late to the show. My first assignment with Loudvine.com. Now this is a piece about a guy who grew up on hip-hop with a little rock sprinkled in getting thrown to the wolves and cracked over the skull by some good Punk Rock. Shit, what have I been missing?
I’d had a tough day and this turned out to be exactly what I needed. Live music has that ability to help people like me, it really took my mind off things.
I walk into The Echo, already I get a sense I am about o be part of something special. Really special. Right away I notice a woman in a pink striped dress (Josephine of Love is All) as she jumps on stage and just, quickly, seemed to kill any doubt in mind that I was not going enjoy myself. Everything about her made me want to move as she didn’t miss a beat playing crude, probing sounds from her old beat up Casio keyboard which she jokingly named, “Honey I Shrunk The Keyboard” that made me hang to every note.
I realized that there’s something so untouched when it comes to this scene. No corporate ventures or saturated glamour. It is just raw emotion and expression. For someone who grew up on the other side of things it was a true breath of fresh air. At a hip-hop show it’s formulaic, you know what to expect, like, “Put your hands up!!, Say hell ya!!!” And while it works, you know its coming.
As Love is All’s set was going it, place people were just doing that without being told. They were feeling it and I was feeling it. There is something so powerful about live music and tonight at the Part Time Punk show it was no different. Halfway through the show I realized that Love is All is one of new my favorite bands and I was going to pick up the disc before I left. I am not a punk rocker and and know very little about punk rock but this was something I’ll remember for a long time. After all, punk rock is a state of mind and Love is All is about it and they so show that attitude when on stage.
I enjoyed myself for many reasons but one reason most of all. In a venue such as The Echo and with its easy unscene-scene, I knew this was a celebration of good music. This was evident by the crowd, as if it was as it should always be about, just the live music. In other words, tell me when the next all day punk-rock festival and when I can hear great bands like Love is All is and I’m there to cover it for Loudvine.com.
J.Towers.
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Tags: Echo, Love, Love is All, Part, Punks, Time
