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Long Beach’s Magic Lantern have finally gone and released a new sonic document after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. Eagerly anticipated by those who have been biding their time waiting for the band to get on with their uber limited cassette only and CD-R releases (their Self-Titled CD-R was limited to 30), “High Beams”, the band’s latest opus [...]
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Went to the Key Club last night to see what that band that has that song in the Snakes On A Plane movie and is played like 5 millions times a day on KROQ is all about. Why you ask. Because I had to go to LA to pick up an air mattress for my trip to Baja this weekend from my brother and I didn’t want to just turn around and drive back to Long Beach. And you know, just cause I could, is that a good enough answer.
Anyways it sucked as anyone reading might have expected and was exactly what I expected. I thought maybe The Sounds were going to play, maybe they did and I missed them, I don’t know. I got there around nine and there was some people on stage rapping and playing acoustic guitar, the only one I recognized was that singer from Fall Out Boy. Shitty. Then some kids with a keyboard and acoustic guitar played some really horrible Dashboard Confessional sounding stuff.
About at our limit, Cobra Starship played. It was pretty bad, the regular band (not the people from the single) and Gabe played 4 songs and then they got the guest performers from single (William Beckett of The Academy Is…, Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes, and Maja Ivarsson of The Sounds) to get on stage to perfrom the song, who by the way didn’t look all that enthused to be there. Is it just me or does that song’s chorus sound like the chorus in Kelly Clarkson’s “Since You’ve Gone” and the rapping part sounds like De La Soul’s part in the Gorillaz “Feel Good Inc.”.
After that Fall Out Boy was going to play, but we left. Thought about trying to catch Division Day and Birdmonster at Spaceland, but decided to just call it a night and went home.
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