I went to the Cold War Kids show in Seattle last Wednesday

And they were great.

But a little word of advice, Crystal Antlers. Don't expect everyone from Seattle to not have any concept of geographical demographics.


The story: Me and a couple colleagues went to see Cold War Kids but the opening act was a band by the name of Crystal Antlers.

Now my friend (whom I consider my post-hardcore friend) told me they were good.

(sidenote: Whenever me and this friend talk about music, our rule of thumb is whenever one tells the other that a band is good on any capacity, we automatically assume that we will dislike said band.)


As was the accenting opinion of the entire crowd. (this was not out of snobbery, it was just a preference, which I'll explain later.)


ANYWAYS my point is this;

If you're a lower-middle class bourgeoisie foursome of white kids, NO ONE will believe you're from Compton, as was their claim at the show.

It was worse when they said, "We're Crystal Antlers and we're from Compton, California" I gut-laughed a little to hard and they heard me. I hadn't gotten the hairy eyeball from the performers like that since I tried heckling a local rapper (he had it coming) and almost got my ass kicked.

AND when I got home at 2am the only thing that was on was that Carson Daly show. It was at the end of the show and Carson is saying (and I'm paraphrasing here) "Hey check this band, they're called Crystal Antlers and they're from Long Beach, CA. Ya know, like Sublime, blah blah blah."

Cut to me standing in my underwear about to fall asleep and whispering "Mother fuckers."