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My name is Riley, and I play drums and write music for a band called Thrice.
This is where I ramble about music, sports, food, books, the interwebs and whatever else I deem worthy of sharing.
In addition to my ramblings here, I write a weekly column for Getting Blanked called "The Battle Of Los Angeles" and a bi-weekly column for PureVolume called "Everything In Its Right Place".
I'm also the co-founder of a baseball-specific twitter feed and blog with my good friend Ian, called Productive Outs.
In the past, you may have read my column at OC Weekly called "3hree Things", which ran every Tuesday for a couple of years, my writing on the Los Angeles Angels and Lakers for SB Nation Los Angeles, my newsdesk contributions for several of SB Nation's regional sites, or my sporadic contributions to Flip Collective .
And last, but not least, I have a bandcamp page and a soundcloud page that I'll be posting my own music and remixes on every once in a while.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions presented on this blog are mine and mine only, and do not reflect the position or views of Thrice as a whole.
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Random Start: Young Widows, “Future Heart”
My favorite track from my No. 3 Record of 2011. This band is so damn good.
Buy In and Out of Youth and Lightness here.
And Just Like That, I’m Buried In New Music
Buy Young Widows’ In And Out Of Youth And Lightness for $7 here.
Buy TV On The Radio’s Nine Types Of Light for $8 here.
Buy Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light for $10 here.
Buy Thursday’s No Devolucion for $8 here.
I picked these records up this morning, and while I’m happy to have all this new music, I’m scared that I’m not going to find adequate time to really sit and digest them all until later this year. I love release days like this, but hate them too.
What did you pick up today?
RANDOM START: YOUNG WIDOWS, “SWAMPED AND AGITATED”
Dilemma #1: I couldn’t find the album track of this song (or any Young Widows songs, for that matter) on YouTube, which is pretty disheartening because it means that not enough people have listened to this band. The live version above has audio that doesn’t really do the song justice, so I decided to find an alternative method of sharing this song with you. That lead me to…
Dilemma #2: Unfortunately, Tumblr won’t let me post an audio file larger than 10 MB (this song is 11MB), so instead I decided to post the audio version of the sound I heard in my head when my second option for sharing this song with you ended up being a no-go. If you have 99 pennies to spare (and trust me), you can buy the song here. Do it. If you hate it, I’ll give you a dollar next time we cross paths. How’s that for a guarantee?
Dilemma #3: The labeling of socks as L (left) and R (right) by certain companies has made losing a sock in the wash even more catastrophic than it had ever been before. What am I supposed to do with all these left-footed socks? Find an amputee?
Dile-
Wait…Young Widows.
I’ve already written a little about them in a previous Random Start (there’s video there as well), but I’ll add that if you like heavy, dischordant rock with great riffs, even greater tones, and a little slide guitar to boot, you need to get into this band immediately. When they break into half-time heaviness with that riff at 3:20 in this track, it makes me want to bang my head until it falls off.
RANDOM START: YOUNG WIDOWS, “DELAY YOUR PRESSURE”
Today’s Random Start was actually “Mid-Western” by Young Widows, but due to an unfortunate scarcity of their material on YouTube (live or otherwise), I bent the rules a bit and went with a live performance of “Delay Your Pressure”. At certain moments, these guys remind me of Botch, and a little of Barkmarket in others. Seeing as those are two of my favorite heavy bands, Young Widows found a permanent spot in my listening rotation. I’ve blown it so far, and haven’t had a chance (read: have failed through no one’s fault by my own) to see them live. That needs to change ASAP.
