The Beatings, Caspian, Barnicle, The Subject

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On August 25th, 2005, Matt joined me at TT's for The Beatings and whoever felt like opening for them.

The Subject

We arrived late and only heard the last two songs of The Subject's set. The first one we heard was excellent post rock (in the Godspeed You! Black Emperor vein), and the second one we heard was bad indie (whatever that is).

Barnicle

Modern rock; sounded like that dog.. Wasn't amazing, but didn't suck.

Caspian

More post rock similar to The Subject, with a neat twist: a half hour after their set they have free CD-Rs of a song, live from the set that night. Worth seeing again.

The Beatings

One of my favorite Boston bands (I'll admit that I also have a crush on the bassist), and they were excellent as always that night. We even convinced them to get back on stage and play one more.