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All of these are from seeing the bands play live! Iāve got a few more in my closet, but here are some favorites/ stories (in no particular order)
- Fuming Mouth is fronted by the older brother of a high school classmate, so I got this shirt right when the album dropped! - the Vein.fm shirt was from a benefit concert for the frontman of Fuming Mouth to help treat his leukemia (he has since made a full recovery!!), and it was also the second performance EVER for the band Fleshwater - I got a shirt from them as well, but an ex girlfriend has it - GSY!BE (the green shirt) was the closest Iāve ever gotten to a religious experience at a show, I saw them in an old theater during a thunderstorm, absolutely stunning - I lied, I never saw Mayhem live, but that shirt came from 666 records in Beijing, China - I begged my teacher to let me go there during a high school trip to China I was on, and it was 100% worth it! - The Cryogeyser shirt was from her solo acoustic tour with Karly Hartzman of Wednesday, and the merch guy was Wednesdayās drummer!
- Fuming Mouth is fronted by the older brother of a high school classmate, so I got this shirt right when the album dropped! - the Vein.fm shirt was from a benefit concert for the frontman of Fuming Mouth to help treat his leukemia (he has since made a full recovery!!), and it was also the second performance EVER for the band Fleshwater - I got a shirt from them as well, but an ex girlfriend has it - GSY!BE (the green shirt) was the closest Iāve ever gotten to a religious experience at a show, I saw them in an old theater during a thunderstorm, absolutely stunning - I lied, I never saw Mayhem live, but that shirt came from 666 records in Beijing, China - I begged my teacher to let me go there during a high school trip to China I was on, and it was 100% worth it! - The Cryogeyser shirt was from her solo acoustic tour with Karly Hartzman of Wednesday, and the merch guy was Wednesdayās drummer!
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Jun 23, 2025
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Thank you! The Have a Nice Life one I picked up while seeing them last month and itās already probably one of my go-to T-shirts, one of my favorite designs out of all of them, and the Vein.fm one was a mainstay for me my senior year of high school!
Jun 23, 2025
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Danny Brown in 2013 at a tiny college gymnasium. My parents wouldnāt let me go to the after party. My mom almost didnāt let me go to the show after she listened to XXX and said to me verbatim one Sunday morning before church: āHave you listened to the lyrics?! āMy dick so big it left stretch marks on her jaw?!?āā
Death Grips in 2015, got punched in the head so hard (by accident) in the pit that I threw up then stayed the night at my friends house in Baltimore before driving 6 hours through rural Pennsylvania the next day to be a counselor at church camp.
Mitski in a small basement venue in 2016 on the night of a comet shower. The first show my husband and I saw together but I had a very unfortunate stomachache, thankfully I could sit down.
Alex G and Porches in 2016 at my favorite now-closed venue. My husband asked him to play āMisā but he said he didnāt really remember it, thankfully the bassist remembered it so they did and it was lovely.
LVL UP at their final tour in 2018 at another small bar venue. Husband requested āBig Snowā and boy did it rip, spicy hot gumbo!
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Canāt really pick between them, this is mostly a note to self to remind me of some of my favorite live music experiences. 2010ās was a truly great concert era for me.
Danny Brown in 2013 at a tiny college gymnasium. My parents wouldnāt let me go to the after party. My mom almost didnāt let me go to the show after she listened to XXX and said to me verbatim one Sunday morning before church: āHave you listened to the lyrics?! āMy dick so big it left stretch marks on her jaw?!?āā
Death Grips in 2015, got punched in the head so hard (by accident) in the pit that I threw up then stayed the night at my friends house in Baltimore before driving 6 hours through rural Pennsylvania the next day to be a counselor at church camp.
Mitski in a small basement venue in 2016 on the night of a comet shower. The first show my husband and I saw together but I had a very unfortunate stomachache, thankfully I could sit down.
Alex G and Porches in 2016 at my favorite now-closed venue. My husband asked him to play āMisā but he said he didnāt really remember it, thankfully the bassist remembered it so they did and it was lovely.
LVL UP at their final tour in 2018 at another small bar venue. Husband requested āBig Snowā and boy did it rip, spicy hot gumbo!
Honorable mention to Sleater Kinney in 2014 because Lizzo opened from them and she threw me a packet of Famous Amos cookies which is just a funny story to retell today and to think about her opening for Sleater Kinney at one point.
Canāt really pick between them, this is mostly a note to self to remind me of some of my favorite live music experiences. 2010ās was a truly great concert era for me.
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Sorry this is 6 concerts but this is technically my top 10% so I think thatās good enough.
When I moved to NYC the first concert I saw here was weyes blood, about six months after titanic rising came out, and it was one of the few times Iāve cried at a show. One of my first āpost-Covidā shows was japanese breakfast at brooklyn steel, and that show just felt so whole and I think about it often.
I got to see IDLESā sold out Bowery ballroom show earlier this year and that one was just so fun and memorable for me. Love a good mosh pit, love a room full of people who are all there because they love the artist/band just as much as you do. Julia Jacklinās solo acoustic show earlier this year was hauntingly beautiful and it made me a bigger fan of her for sure.
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