1. "Lord Knows" - !mindparade
2. "Riverside" - Plateau Below
3. "Heavy Love" - Metavari
4. "Jumped Off the Face of the Earth" - Chris Dance and the Holy Echo
5. "No Brain, No Way" - Raw McCartney
6. "Seriously, Chill" - Rob Funkhouser
7. "Jack the Ripper" - Chives
8. "Juicy Brown" - Chieftan
9. "Victory Lap" - David Barajas
10. "Space Eraser" - Seria Mau (Little Montana Records)
     

As ever there's a lot of stuff happening this week. In life. In shows. In this playlists. In countries you forgot existed. In your brother's lake house. And so on.

Tuesday night, DRGN KING out of Philadelhpia will ride the wave of Dave Segedy (of Sleeping Bag), Birdbath, and !mindparade down at the Back Door in Bloomington. It's another shows sponsored by Backwash because Backwash sponsors everything, Did you know that? Now you do because you're definitely reading this paragraph. !mindparade's "Lord Knows" pops up in the playlist--it's off their split tape with VOWS called Hero. I reviewed that tape in October. October is in the past, but you can read the review in the present or in the future. It's a good tape.

Zag right in to Wednesday night and Celestial Shore, SAND, and Plateau Below will guitar music it up at Joyful Noise in the Murphy. You will go see these bands and will agree with me: "Yes, they have played their guitars and they have played them very well and I am glad that I listened to Taylor and attended this show." Listen to Plateau Below's "Riverside" to get ready. It's in the playlist. That's how this blog post works if you haven't already figured it out.

Thursday night's a double header. One head is conceptual--the very thoroughly cool sounding Quakers Meeting #5 at Listen Hear for which there is no music actually in the above playlist because of REASONS--and the other is, you know, a concert featuring Metavari, Nightbabies, and Chris Dance & the Holy Echo at the White Rabbit.

Friday night, then, is another double header, featuring this time an assortment of concepts and musics including but not limited to Raw McCartney, Sky Thing, Phases, John Flannelly, and Taylor Peters' Journalistic Ethics. First off, starting at 9 at the State Street Pub you've got Gloryhole presenting The Hussy, Phases, and Raw Mccartney. It'll be loud and fun and there will be beer.

Then at 10 at General Public Collective, things will go freeform and noisy with John Flannelly, Rob Funkhouser, Sky Thing, Fourth Wife from Cincinnati, and Squirming. FULL AND TOTAL DISCLOSURE REGARDING THIS SHOW: I, Taylor Peters, am the one who organized it and I'm in the band Squirming. I also played in Fourth Wife for a while but was fired after an embarrassing scene at a Wendy's in north Kentucky. But, don't let that scare you off, because the whole reason I collected the folks on this bill is because they make music that I think is truly and thoroughly awesome. Peep a Rob Funkhouser track in the above playlist if you don't believe me.

And finally, on Saturday night at the lovely Kismet at 8pm, Chives, LALA LALA, Manners, Please, and Chieftan will teach you what it means to be alive and listening to music at the Kismet. You will learn the lesson the hard way or the easy way--it's up to you--but you will surely learn it.