So Jon Auer of The Posies has a new solo album titled “Songs from the Year of Our Demise” out and is going around touring. The album seems to be about lost love and bad breakups and not one of his strongest releases. However the song “Six Feet Under” resonates well with me and one that he actually wrote before the popular HBO series came out. Being 5 years in the making, I’m glad Jon is showing some other sides of his intimate song writing. Although due to a terrible billing at the Mercury Lounge, the second half of the set was drowned out by constant chatter. Jon left the stage 3 times and entered the crowd and asked them to be quiet. He then came back after about 10 minutes (surely after being at the bar to do a tequila shot) to play one more for a total of six songs. Blah.
I blame the crowd on the Whigs who were on next. The crowd reminded me of a bad fraternity party filled with rowdy drunk college students. The boys seemed to just come off their corporate day jobs and the girls all hoochied up. I was amazed to see everyone singing along to their very catchy but quite predictable and uninspiring songs. The music and crowd ruined my night. Double Blah.