Czarbles

These three guys were the second opener for Youngblood and holy cow they blew me away. Imagine a middle-aged dad version of Battles, but more prog-y and with totally syncopated, fast, crazy riffs. I have no idea what time signature they were using half the time but I was feeling the punk rock! I loved them. 

Czarbles, a local Madison band, at the Majestic

Jazz at Five

Madison has free Wednesday afternoon jazz concerts by the capitol for a couple of weeks. I checked out one of the shows for an hour back in August while I was technically homeless during moving week.

Youngblood Brass Band

Concert Season is BACK! After a slow summer, I was super excited when all the Madison venues started releasing their fall tour schedules. I've already bought tickets for 8 shows, with hopefully more on the horizon!!

I kicked things off with Youngblood Brass Band at the Majestic and it was essentially a perfect concert.  To give some perspective on these pictures, YBB has two trombone players, two saxophonists, two trumpeters, a tuba player, and three drummers, all of whom switch sets and one of whom raps. Last night was their record release party for Pax Volumi since a couple of the guys are from Madison. I was front row, got the set list, and they sounded so freaking fantastic.

A third of Youngblood

Some more horns

The singer took this pic of the audience during the show. I'm just to the right of the picture, but I thought it looked cool still!