Swans...

[vegas532]

I got a chance to hear "My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope To The Sky" in advance and I'll definitely be laying down my cash for M. Gira and crew's latest when it's released. The album is both bleak and beautiful, and it is an incredibly passionate work.

I only wish the tour were coming to CA.

[Din Of Win]

Already have my tickets to their DC show

[Gav4003]

That's me jealous

[BassBrass]

I well remember the first time I heard the Swans...I was working as a prep cook in Harvard Squ. and what I came to know as "Filth" came on the radio. Holey shite what a sound! I guessed maybe 2 drummers in a cavern and a bass with giant high tension wires instead of strings. Found the record at the Coop a day later. Ugliest cover ever.
M. Gira kept my attention through all his incarnations. Children Of Light at the Middle East down stairs was the most beautiful music I've ever heard. (Gira on 12 string etc) From the most horrific to the most beautiful. What A Voice and sound concept.

[fu22ba55]

Big +1 for the Swans.

[dbass66]

I saw the SWANS @ the Palace in Hollywood which is now called the Avalon in the late 80's it was a free show...and an amazing show at that! Time to dust off the LP's and revisit their music.

[geezerjpj]

I have tried and tried to get into them...just can't do it. I liked their contemporaries Live Skull better. I really like what their original drummer Jonathan Kane is doing though.

Jonathan Kane's February is like krautrock minimalist boogie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlLLVA29Irs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFmsPcbb0xU