The Evens

Happy Sunday! It's been a task to sit down in  front of the computer and get anything done, I picked up my daughter from the ATL airport the day before yesterday(!!!!!)...we haven't seen each other in about 7 months as her mom and her live in Oklahoma(Ft. Sill). The irony of that is I moved from north Dallas to where I am now to be closer to her....anyway it is absolutely fabulous to have her here.....I cannot speak on that feeling of seeing her walking through those ... MORE

Hello kids. Hope everyone is having a fun-filled friday. After a much painful,sorrowful wait I give you track 11 from The Evens live @ Ahisma House called No Money. From this recording I learned that the Ahisma House is a "community/activist building in the Brisbane suburb of west end(www.ahimsahouse.com.au/index.html)". "Historically the West End has been the radical heart of Brisbane and despite recent gratification remains a diverse, multicultural place. It turned out... MORE

Good evening my fellow music fascists. Track eight from a live show I picked up at www.archive.org...The Evens live @ Ahisma House Brisbane,Queensland, Austraila, Cut From The Cloth. Hope everyone enjoys....by the way just out of morbid curiousity has anyone seen the video for "Vowel Movement" from Mr. MacKaye and Amy Farina? If not youtube it....great stuff. Have a good night friends.

Morning my fellow Moggers......to continue with a complete show-posting of The Evens playing live @ the Ahisma House in Brisbane, Queensland,Austriala, I offer  track six "You Won't Feel A Thing" . Hope everyone has a great day.Enjoy Kiddos!

. Hello all. The new features that have been added to our favorite site are pretty cool, I must say. Anyway Happy Father's day to all those Dad's out there(including me!) I give you track 10 from a live show of The Evens....Eventually. Interesting Conversation at the end of this one, note on the show read....."The audience loved the show,all except for one guy who just didn't get it,after "Eventually" he started shouting nonsensical questions and heckles at Ian. The guy g... MORE

Afternoon kids. This is track #12 from a live show in Brisbane, Austraila....supporting band The Evens(Ian MacKaye, Amy Farina). I picked this show from the Internet Archive(www.archive.org), great site with a lot of archives shows, texts, moving images etc. So we will by track, post this whole show  throughout the next few days. Hope everyone has a great Thursday...Enjoy!

And the show rolls on.......track number nine from The Evens playing live at the Ahisma House in Brisbane, Queensland, Austraila. The song, Mt. Pleasant Isn't. Hope everyone has a great day, I leave you with Ian MacKaye and The Evens!

Afternoon kids. In my dire need to appease the MOG gods....I am posting song by song in reverse order(like my recently added to digital collection)a live show from The Evens 02/25/07 @ the Ahisma House Brisbane,Queensland, Australia.Hope everyone enjoys...Have a great day kids!

but great lake swimmers tonight normanoak had to cancel thursday. for reasons that make chad suspicious.i was bummed. for about four minutes i sort of felt how this song sounds. _formed in the autumn of 2001, the evens released their self-titled debut on Dischord in the spring of 2005. With a more laid-back sound than MacKaye's earlier work (outside of some tracks on Fugazi's 1999 Instrument soundtrack) and a somewhat less angular approach than the Warmers, the Evens... MORE

I went to see Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina's Evens, a couple of weeks ago in Peterborough, NH (of all places), and had a really great time. Here's a bit from my PopMatters review which went up last Friday: " MacKaye is just as surprised to be in New Hampshire-and almost as happy about it-as we are. Cursed by proximity to Boston (and, to a lesser extent, Northampton), New Hampshire has almost no live-music venues. Even the college towns are bereft of decent spaces. (I onc... MORE

As soon as I got to the Evens concert last Friday night, I recalled the stories of the earliest Fugazi concerts. Instead of caring about Fugazi, a band that would go on to be one of the purest voices of alternative rock in the 1990s, the fans attended because “that dude from Minor Threat” was playing in the band. Since the formation of Fugazi, alternative rock has come and gone as the most popular form of pop music in America, and independent rock has changed from a smal... MORE

The Evens - Get Evens CD albumI've been playing this a lot recently, I'm trying to work out if I like it or not. For anyone who liked Minor Threat, Fugazi was a strange one at first listen, I read a review describing the first Fugazi lp as "something to play on a sunday afternoon whilst recovering from a hang over." Then I went to see Fugazi play live and realised what an incredible live band they were and got home with my head on fire....certainly not a chill out on a sun... MORE

My friends and I saw The Evens (Ian Mackaye & Amy Farina) at the MERCYhouse in Amherst the other night. It was a benefit for The Flywheel, a nonprofit music space in Easthampton. Here's a video from that show, performing one of my favorite songs "You Won't Feel A Thing" Sheer awesomeness and inspiration:

Get The Evens newest album Get Evens, it is excellent. Their extreme minimalism makes for white hot head bobbing stomp. But as angry as they are, their sound is relentlessly happy. The Evens are about positive resistance, reminding us to march instead of chuck Molotov cocktails. They are not so much a duo but a couple, accessible and intimate, underscoring their message to cooperate and be politically engaged. Is it true that we are without an evenly exchangeable "soci... MORE