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June 12th
Years
2026
70
PlaybackListensHours
48h215
7d245
30d7015
23 shows
31 tapes
2025
14
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d51
30d143
49 shows
59 tapes
2024
33
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d92
30d338
36 shows
46 tapes
2023
20 shows
27 tapes
2022
5
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d00m
30d51
54 shows
79 tapes
2019
15 shows
20 tapes
2018
30
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d103
30d306
27 shows
31 tapes
2017
7 shows
8 tapes
2016
4
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48h00m
7d00m
30d41
19 shows
21 tapes
2015
28 shows
34 tapes
2014
3 shows
3 tapes
2013
1
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d00m
30d118m
27 shows
50 tapes
2012
25 shows
36 tapes
2011
34
PlaybackListensHours
48h62
7d62
30d3410
36 shows
60 tapes
2010
11 shows
20 tapes
2003
38
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d103
30d3811
36 shows
67 tapes
2002
20
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48h240m
7d83
30d206
31 shows
61 tapes
2001
28
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48h233m
7d258
30d289
6 shows
9 tapes
2000
36
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48h00m
7d102
30d369
29 shows
51 tapes
1999
20
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d00m
30d204
37 shows
60 tapes
1998
18
PlaybackListensHours
48h00m
7d00m
30d184
14 shows
22 tapes
1997
2 shows
4 tapes
2018
5/23/18
Hope Drone
15:06
Mladic
20:53
Bosses Hang
14:50
Fam/Famine
12:14
Undoing A Luciferian Towers
13:45
Dead Metheny
18:05
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III
32:02
FIN
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Taper: Erik Massie
2:06:55
Rating:
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Taper:
Erik Massie
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View NotesThe lights dim, and that ominous Dead Flag Blues/"the car is on fire" drone starts up, tickling your spine. There's no extra glitz, glamour or fanfare, just a ghostly drone and some empty chairs, amplifiers, about 300 guitar pedals and enough cable to circle the globe twice. Slowly but surely, one by one, each member appears out of the dark corners of the stage like an aberration and start's obsessively fiddling with their chosen instrument of noise, but beautiful noise it is. They start fucking with the knobs, strings, cymbals, screwdrivers and whatever the hell else they have sitting on stage, and things suddenly don't seem so bad. Your job might suck. Your friends might've blew you off and left you stranded. Maybe you missed the train and are now running late. Perhaps you had your heart broke by someone close. Or yet, maybe you're on that "heartbreak ridge" of whatever peak you're attempting to scale, and the last mile has turned into what feels like ten. Each step is heavier and slower than the last. You hate everything at that moment, but you know and realize you got to push on and keep going. Enjoy the misery, the suffering, the loneliness. You can still breathe. You might need to crawl through some crap, but who cares? It'll wash off. You can still stand. And so I did, just as Godspeed You! Black Emperor roared to life, with my head down leaned into the squall.