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Cold Fur have released a blistering new track off their upcoming LP Altamont Every Night, which I'm very excited about. This is just hair-raising, this tune. This is what I was raving about a couple weeks back, which I'd seen over at Maxwell's. The new record gonna be good.

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Ralph Cuseglio, lead singer of Cold Fur, shows the world what he's got at Maxwell's last Friday night, during the Killing Horse 3-year anniversary. Playing second, they stole the show for me, best act I saw in an evening of great acts—they absolutely kicked ass all over the place. They are recording (or have recorded already?) a kickstarter-funded record with Steve Albini, I'm really looking forward to it. And holy freaking crap, their guitar player. And their drummer, and their bassist, and their singer. What a rock band.

This may seem premature, but this is a very different band than I last saw of them, and I think they're going to be better than Rye Coalition, Ralph and drummer Dave Leto's much acclaimed former group. 

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Cicada Radio

I feel like I'm always spelling the first part of their name wrong when I type it. Or fail to guess a URL. ANYWAY! I was at the Killing Horse Records 3-year anniversary show at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ last Friday evening [yes, I do cross the rivers to attend shows, not just when I'm playing them], and one of the stand-out performances was by Cicada Radio, a band I haven't seen play in over a year or so. They pretty dang good before, but I was really impressed with their set and what seems to be perhaps a shift in their tone or tune-age, or however one should put it. Used to be more screamo-core (or... shout-emo?), and now it sounds more like an emo hardcore act being informed by Modest Mouse  or Built To Spill, things are getting more intricate and there's more going on. In particular, this tune went over dang well with me and the rest of the crowd:

<a href="http://cicada-radio.bandcamp.com/track/oceans" data-mce-href="http://cicada-radio.bandcamp.com/track/oceans">Oceans by Cicada Radio</a>

Funny thing, the rhythm guitar that night was "low" compared to this recorded  arrangement, and the bass was a lot louder, everything rode on the drums and that bass line, the rhythm guitar really at a just-right volume thanks to a Marshall head that wasn't cooperating, and it sounded gorgeous. 

In sum: really impressed with how far these guys have come, and they had their own audience of die-hard fans to show for it, who knew a lot of the lyrics. Nice work, fellas.