“A Scrupulous Cultural Ignorance” – A Recap of The 2011 PRF BBQ Auktoberfyst

This piece originally appeared in DocAwk’s own blog, Martian Dance Invasion!.

Gothamist: “It just seems from my perspective that there aren’t many bands that are making dark or ugly music anymore.”

Steve Albini: “Well, it sort of depends on the idiom really. There’s a lot of sort of grungy metal and punk stuff where every single band is trying to make aggressive music.”

Gothamist: “Yeah, I guess I’m referring more to the…”

Steve Albini: “Bands that play at the clubs you go to.”

Steve Albini is at his quotable best in this interview over at The Gothamist blog, in which he shares his always smirk-inducing opinions on New York City, the asinine Odd Future dustup (“It was a message board thread about Odd Future and I happened to have an anecdote about them so I share my anecdote and what passes for Journalism these days is repeating things that other people link to you on Twitter so that’s what it boils down to”), and his interactions with mainstream popular music:

I’m an exceptionally lucky man in that I’ve never heard a note of Lady Gaga’s music and you could sit her on my lap and I wouldn’t recognize her. I know that she’s a cultural force at the moment but I’m quite satisfied in having dodged that one. It’s like a truck drove by spraying shit from a nozzle over the entire neighborhood and I happened to be under an awning. You know?

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Nice Live at PRF Auktoberfyst 2011

The newest band to the PRF Auktoberfyst 2011 lineup was a band called Nice. They’ve got a Bully, a guy with Two Hands, a fictitious Limb, and a dude with no shirt. Really, what else could you ask for? They plowed through their inaugural set with poise and solidarity for all the funk rockers that have gone before them. There were also notes, voices, and rhythm.

For more info on Nice, please visit Nice on Facebook.

MP3 Downloads

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Max Benson Live at PRF Auktoberfyst 2011

Max Benson performs a special solo show filled with songs about girls, beer, and booze. Max helped kick off the first day of PRF Auktoberfyst 2011 on Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at Quenchers Saloon in Chicago, IL and gave an awesome performance.

For more info on Max, please visit Max Benson on MySpace.

MP3 Downloads

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LGX Live at PRF Auktoberfyst 2011

There’s still room for a lot of firsts in land of PRF BBQ’s, but being the first Rap Group has officially been crossed off the list. If you’re a fan of Snookie, David Hasselhoff, or beer, you will be right at home with the boys of LGX. They kicked off PRF Auktoberfyst 2011 on Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at Quenchers Saloon in Chicago, IL.

For more info on the band, please visit LGX on Bandcamp.

MP3 Downloads

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Live Streaming from Klas, PRF Auktoberfyst 2011

We hear there is internet access at Klas that we can use. If we can get it working, we’ll be streaming Friday and Saturday’s shows at this internet location for those of you who can’t make it.

Until then, you can tune into our last broadcast, recorded live from Caffeinated Recordings, of Nonagon by hitting play below!



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