# Artist Record Label 1 THE READY SET V1 [EP] Self-Released 2 JOHNY DAR “Gigi” [Single] Self-Released 3 CIMO FRANKEL “Never Give Up” [Single] Self-Released 4 NEGATIVE GEMINI Bad Baby [EP] 100% Electronica 5 ALISON WONDERLAND Awake Astralwerks 6 WHAT SO NOT, TOTO We Keep On Running Counter 7 KASBO Places We Don’t Know Foreign Family Collective 8 SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO Murmurations Wichita 9 DJ TAYE Truu [feat. DJ Paypal] Hyperdub 10 JOJI In Tongues [EP] 88Rising
# Artist Record Label 1 ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER Hope Downs Sub Pop 2 KEVIN KRAUTER Toss Up Bayonet 3 NATALIE PRASS The Future And The Past ATO 4 SNAIL MAIL Lush Matador 5 SOFT KILL Savior Profound Lore 6 HANA VU How Many Times Have You Driven By [EP] Luminelle 7 FATHER JOHN MISTY God’s Favorite Customer Sub Pop 8 CUT WORMS Hollow Ground Jagjaguwar 9 HALF WAIF Lavender Cascine 10 MOANING Moaning Sub Pop 11 TOMEMITSU The Cave (Deluxe Edition) S.A.D. 12 SHACKS, THE Haze Big Crown 13 DR DOG Critical Equation We Buy Gold/Thirty Tigers 14 LEBANON HANOVER Let Them Be Aliens Optika 15 BEACH HOUSE Seven (7) Sub Pop 16 WINTER Ethereality Everything Blue 17 NO THANK YOU All It Takes To Ruin It All Lame-O 18 NIHILIST CHEERLEADER Riot, Right? Perfect Attendance 19 ICEAGE Beyondless Matador 20 US GIRLS In A Poem Unlimited 4AD 21 AMEN DUNES Freedom Sacred Bones 22 OCEAN HOPE Rolling Days Hush Hush 23 GOBBINJR ocala wick Topshelf 24 TT LoveLaws Love Leaks/Caroline 25 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Sex & Food Jagjaguwar 26 FORTH WANDERERS Forth Wanderers Sub Pop 27 FUTO In Heaven, All My Jokes Will Kill Marching Banana 28 HALEY BLAIS Let Yourself Go [EP] Self-Released 29 MORMOR Heaven’s Only Wishful [EP] Don’t Guess 30 SERPENTWITHFEET soil Secretly Canadian
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1 VIRGINIA WING Ecstatic Arrow Fire 2 TANUKICHAN Sundays Company 3 SUGARPLUM FAIRIES Payday Flowers Starfish 4 CLAIRE MORALES All That Wanting Self-Released 5 THEM ARE US TOO Amends Dais
This is going to be a story about how I got my first guitar pick. Now, this was a very important moment of my life because it was when I become a savage.
It was November of 2014, and my mom and I decided to go see Pop Evil in Fayetteville. They were having a free show, and it was almost my mom’s birthday, so we decided to go out and celebrate. The show was in the parking lot of a strip club, so you should know that this is going to be a good story when we’re jamming out in the strip club’s parking lot. Anyway, my mom and I were hanging out, chit-chatting with other people at the show. I got asked if I was going to go to the after party that would take place inside the strip club… I was shook. I literally wasn’t even 16 yet.
Pop Evil was my favorite band around this time and when they came on, I was jamming! I knew every word to every song that they had, and the bassist and vocalist shot me the goat (the rock symbol). Typically, at the end of a show, the band would throw things into the crowd (drum sticks, water bottles, set lists, towels, and guitar picks, etc.), the bass player looked dead at me AND THREW HIS PICK AT ME. I don’t have the best hand-eye coordination… so I didn’t catch the pick. BUT I did see where it landed, and I was determined to get that pick. Well homegirl in front of me saw the guitar pick too, and she decided she was going to bend down and pick it up. Not today! I ran towards the pick, saw a beer can on the pavement, kicked the beer can at her when she was bending down, and I dove head first for the pick (maybe a bit too dramatic, but come on… The Saw doesn’t half-ass anything). When I came back up, I came back victorious with the guitar pick in my hand. My mom saw the entire thing… and most parents would frown upon it, but not my mom. When I made eye contact with her, she had a huge smile on her face and her arms were wide open (que the song With Arms Wide Open by Creed) ready to embrace me in a hug. She yelled “MY BABY!!!” when I came up with the pick. She was proud of me for being a straight savage. If you ask her what her proudest moment of me is, she will tell you this story.
From that point on I have been a savage at shows, so watch out. I ain’t afraid to use a beer can if I have to.
# Artist Record Label 1 ALIEN WEAPONRY Tu Napalm 2 ELECTRIC WIZARD Wizard Bloody Wizard Spinefarm 3 GHOST Prequelle Concord/Loma Vista 4 BORN OF OSIRIS Tomorrow We Die Alive Sumerian 5 BETRAYING THE MARTYRS The Resilient Sumerian 6 CANNIBAL CORPSE Red Before Black Metal Blade 7 VEIL OF MAYA False Idol Sumerian 8 AS I LAY DYING “My Own Grave” [Single] Self-Released 9 SKINLESS Savagery Relapse 10 UPON A BURNING BODY Straight From The Barrio Sumerian
# Artist Record Label 1 ALISON WONDERLAND Awake Astralwerks 2 DJ TAYE Still Trippin Hyperdub 3 NHOAH 120 Red Skies [EP] R.O.T 4 KONGSTEAD, TEMMPO “Boomerang” [Single] universal 5 PEGGY GOU Once [EP] Ninja Tune 6 TESHA Dreams Vol. 1 Self-Released 7 WHAT SO NOT Not All The Beautiful Things Counter 8 DRUGZZ “Someone Other Than Me” [Single] Super Serious 9 CUSTARD SQUARE “We Live They Sleep” [Single] Self-Released 10 TELEPORT X In Dreams [EP] Polyptych
# Artist Record Label 1 NATALIE PRASS The Future And The Past ATO 2 SNAIL MAIL Lush Matador 3 KEVIN KRAUTER Toss Up Bayonet 4 TT LoveLaws Love Leaks/Caroline 5 SOFT KILL Savior Profound Lore 6 FRANKIE COSMOS Vessel Sub Pop 7 ICEAGE Beyondless Matador 8 BEACH HOUSE Seven (7) Sub Pop 9 OCEAN HOPE Rolling Days Hush Hush 10 HATCHIE Suger & Spice [EP] Double Double Whammy 11 CUT WORMS Hollow Ground Jagjaguwar 12 NIHILIST CHEERLEADER Riot, Right? Perfect Attendance 13 KING TUFF The Other Sub Pop 14 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Pinned Dead Oceans 15 FORTH WANDERERS Forth Wanderers Sub Pop 16 ORA COGAN Crickets Hand Drawn Dracula 17 COURTNEY BARNETT Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom + Pop 18 FATHER JOHN MISTY God’s Favorite Customer Sub Pop 19 LITTLE JUNIOR Hi Grand Jury 20 SAM EVIAN You, Forever Saddle Creek 21 SHACKS, THE Haze Big Crown 22 DRINKS Hippo Lite Drag City 23 CURRENT JOYS A Different Age Danger Collective 24 MOANING Moaning Sub Pop 25 NO THANK YOU All It Takes To Ruin It All Lame-O 26 HABIBI Cardamom Garden [EP] Modern Sky Entertainment 27 SHOPPING The Official Body Fat-Cat 28 NO AGE Snares Like a Haircut Drag City 29 PETAL Magic Gone Run For Cover 30 US GIRLS In A Poem Unlimited 4AD
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1 MOURN Sopresa Familia Captured Tracks 2 ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER Hope Downs Sub Pop 3 BLESSEDii [EP] CoinToss 4 FUTO In Heaven, All My Jokes Will Kill Marching Banana 5 NEIGHBOR LADY Maybe Later Friendship Fever 6 KADHJA BONET Childqueen Fat Possum 7 RVGA Quality Of Mercy Caroline
1 NATALIE PRASS The Future And The Past ATO 2 ICEAGE Beyondless Matador 3 SOFT KILL Savio rProfound Lore 4 TT LoveLaws Love Leaks/Caroline 5 OCEAN HOPE Rolling Days Hush Hush 6 US GIRLS In A Poem Unlimited 4AD 7 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Pinned Dead Oceans 8 AMEN DUNES Freedom Sacred Bones 9 HOP ALONG Bark Your Head Off, Dog Saddle Creek 10 HALEY BLAIS Let Yourself Go [EP] Self-Released 11 CURRENT JOYS A Different Age Danger Collective 12 NO THANK YOU All It Takes To Ruin It All Lame-O 1 3SHOPPING The Official Body Fat-Cat 14 GOBBINJR ocala wick Topshelf 15 DR DOG Critical Equation We Buy Gold/Thirty Tigers 16 PREOCCUPATIONS New Material Jagjaguwar 17 EZRA FURMAN Transangelic Exodus Bella Union/PIAS 18 SALINE You Did It To Yourself Perfect Attendance 19 FRANKIE COSMOS Vessel Sub Pop 20 VOWWS Under The World Anti-Language 21 SCREAMING FEMALES All At Once Don Giovanni 22 HABIBI Cardamom Garden [EP] Modern Sky Entertainment 23 POST ANIMAL When I Think Of You In A Castle Polyvinyl 24 COURTNEY BARNETT Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom + Pop 25 KISSISSIPPI Sunset Blush Bug Crusher 26 SHACKS, THE Haze Big Crown 27 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Sex & Food Jagjaguwar 28 LAS ROSAS Shadow By Your Side Greenway 29 FATHER JOHN MISTY God’s Favorite Customer Sub Pop 30 LA LUZ Floating Features Hardly Art
I know, this is not a metal show. BUT I brought metal to the Post Malone show. My best friend loves Post Malone and so her and I had a girl’s night out and went to the show! This tour was supporting Post Malone’s new album, Beerbongs & Bentleys, which is really good. It is one of my favorite non-metal albums of the year. He brought 21 Savage with him to open up for him because their song, Rockstar, is really popular (trust me, you have heard it at one point or another).
For those of you who are not as familiar with Post Malone, he is a 22 year old singer/rapper from Texas. He hit the spotlight with his song White Iverson and he then went on tour to open up for Justin Bieber. He then dropped his first record, Stoney, in 2016 and realeased his second album, Beerbongs & Bentleys, in April of 2018. Some of his most popular songs are: Déjà vu, I Fall Apart, Congratulations, Better Now, Rockstar, and Psycho.
Post Malone is also a metalhead!!! He used to be in a metalcore band when he was in high school, and there are videos of him with some metal bands! There is a video of Post Malone with Knocked Loose singer, Bryan Garris jamming out on a tour bus. He also has big fans within the metal community such as: Levi Benton from Miss May I, Chris Fronzak from Attila, Myke Terry from Volumes, and Seth Blake from Wage War (Seth is such a big fan, he dressed up as Post Malone for Halloween).
I enjoy Post Malone’s music, and I support fellow metalheads, so I was super excited to hang out with my best friend and see Posty! But we all know that I will bring The Saw’s Butcher Shop to any show that I go to. You see, your Master Butcher has different types of aprons that I wear to shows. I have one specifically for rap shows. But the story about my different aprons is for another time. With that being said, I looked the part as a heavy metal kid. No, I didn’t wear an extremely offensive band shirt or corpse paint (even though that would’ve been really funny), I wore the attire that is in every metalhead’s closet (besides band shirts), leather. And let me tell you, I stuck out like a sore thumb.
My best friend and I
Literally every girl there looked the same. All of them wore high waisted shorts, a tank top, and black converses (you can see two pairs of black converses in the picture above). So, it’s easy to say that I was really easy to spot.
And oh my god, there were so many teenagers there!!! Like they all looked like they were sophomores/juniors in high school and they were all in huge groups of people. I swear, I would turn around and there would be a group of like 15 girls screaming and jumping on each other when they would see one another. C’mon now… I know y’all saw each other literally 3 hours ago at school. I could easily spot the older people (and by older, I mean people in their twenty’s and in college) because there would be a group of two or three people glaring at the group of 15 girls (me and my friend are included in this older group).
A DJ came on first and got the crowd hyped up! He kinda made me mad because he wouldn’t play full songs and would cut the song off RIGHT WHEN THE GOOD PART WAS ABOUT TO COME ON! It’s like he was personally trolling us. During the DJ, some guy threw a full beer can in the air and homeboy beside me caught it, drank it, and then threw the empty can in the air. We all started hollering, “WOOOOO!!!!!” and hyping him up during this. It is safe to say that nothing beats crazy rednecks no matter what the setting is.
21 Savage was next and of course, it started pouring down rain. But that didn’t stop us from jamming out!! We were all dancing in the rain, getting soaked but it just made the night more fun! My friend and I made some friends and we were dancing with them and rapping along with 21. He commented on how many people were in the lawn (aka us) and said we were crazy. For this show, I didn’t try to get close seats to the stage (because those are $$$$) and lawn is wayyyy more fun! There is no point in getting close while in lawn so, we were just having a blast singing and dancing in the back! 21 Savage played some of his most well-known songs such as Bank Account, Mad High, Dip Dip, and Bartier Cardi.
21 Savage
And now, what we have all been waiting for: POST MALONE!!! While we were waiting for Posty, people were literally crowd surfing in the lawn. I would see all these people going up and since this isn’t a show that would usually have crowd surfers (like a metal show), the majority of the people were dropped. I have no idea where the crowd surfers thought they were going because you literally can’t go anywhere in the lawn section, but hey, A+ for effort! This one girl was in a lawn chair, and crowd surfed while sitting in the lawn chair. That girl is my spirit animal.
Post Malone opened up with Too Young and everyone was vibing with the music, jumping around, and singing every word. On his records, Post Malone’s songs are really chill, but live, they still had the chill aspect but were more hyped so people could sing and dance. He also played some of my favorite songs such as Better Now, Candy Paint, No Option, Stay, and Go Flex. When he sang I Fall Apart, everyone was singing along with him way louder than any other song. He dedicated that song to “the bitch that broke his heart” and we all started chanting “F*** that bitch.” He ended the show by playing one of his most well-known songs: Congratulations. I swear no one was still during this show. Post Malone also commented on how many people were in the lawn and said we were some crazy mother*******.
Post Malone
The Post Malone show was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed myself! It was way different than a metal show, but it was a great experience! If you are thinking about listening to Post Malone, DO IT!! He has some really great music! I hate that someone broke his heart, but damn, some great music came out of it. I would also suggest watching videos of him, he is a real funny guy.
Overall, the show was a success and I wouldn’t mind seeing Post Malone again!