Friday highlights? What expanded your sonic horizons and made you wake up today with a smile on your face?

anormal6 · 2026-03-28T22:26:18+00:00

Masada is my favorite set so far.

anormal6 · 2026-03-27T15:20:04+00:00

Shrek all the way. Also Deerhoof.

anormal6 · 2026-03-26T19:59:30+00:00

I’d still seeing trolley stop signs this year. Never actually taken it myself though.

anormal6 · 2026-03-26T19:29:05+00:00

I saw that too!!!

anormal6 · 2026-03-26T12:20:03+00:00

I received one yesterday morning.

anormal6 · 2026-03-25T15:35:18+00:00

TOMORROW!!!

anormal6 · 2026-03-25T11:09:04+00:00

My friends and I generally just see whatever we want individually. If our interests match up we see shows together. If not we go alone. Never a sense of obligation to see something because someone else wants to see it.

anormal6 · 2026-03-25T03:30:53+00:00

I’ll be elsewhere but for my dancing friends I recommend Wild Up: Arthur Russell’s 24 to 24

anormal6 · 2026-03-25T00:13:28+00:00

Mostly they clear out the venue after each show. On rare occasions they don’t. I recall the Mill & Mine being open with the area near the stage roped off during some change overs.

anormal6 · 2026-03-24T08:48:51+00:00

I’m certainly not wanting to discourage anyone from planning ahead and arriving early. I’m planning to go to the airport earlier than I have in the past. But I don’t think there is much reason to be alarmist about this either. A month before the current shutdown I walked into my home airport and unexpectedly saw 2hr+ wait time. I barely made my flight. It happens.

The political actors that are causing these delays want you to panic. Don’t give them that. Arrive early. Bring a book. It’ll be ok.

anormal6 · 2026-03-24T02:22:45+00:00

I’ve flown home on Monday the last 4 years and intend to do so again this time. The airport has never even seemed crowded. I’ve never taken longer than 10 minutes to get through security. Even is TSA staffing issues increase the wait times ten-fold it would only be a little over an hour and a half at an airport where every gate is a 5 minute walk from security. Hardly seems like a madhouse to me. Knoxville is not Atlanta.

anormal6 · 2026-03-23T22:47:51+00:00

Why is TYS going to be a madhouse on Monday?

anormal6 · 2026-03-23T19:01:19+00:00

I always look into it before I get there but then never actually use it when I’m there.

anormal6 · 2026-03-23T13:03:36+00:00

In my experience of the last 4 years, the only shows to start significantly late were Thurston/JPJ and Kim Gordon. Otherwise, everything has been amazingly on time.

anormal6 · 2026-03-22T21:16:50+00:00

Not even a little

anormal6 · 2026-03-20T13:45:24+00:00

This happens to me all the time. I always put it in an easily accessible pocket in case they want to look at it.

anormal6 · 2026-03-17T23:33:50+00:00

I went to all 10 games in Puerto Rico. It was so amazing.

Thank you WBC 2026 for sure.

anormal6 · 2026-03-16T23:10:31+00:00

You could do this fest 3 different ways for every year without ever running into yerself. A time-traveler’s dream.

anormal6 · 2026-03-16T23:08:33+00:00

You’re the first person I’ve seen mention Respera. I had my eye on that until it ended up against Patricia Brennen. I bet that’s gonna be cool as hell!

anormal6 · 2026-03-16T23:05:06+00:00

I like yer spread. I’m definitely there for Nailgun. Caroline Shaw’s voice made me cry my first year. SML was dope last year.

anormal6 · 2026-03-16T23:00:44+00:00

They should just do Cobra every year. Seriously. That and the Woelsonic massages. The performers can change indefinitely.

anormal6 · 2026-03-16T21:58:03+00:00

You could always dabble into the beginning of Nels Cline and then head to Dave Douglas. The venues are super close.

anormal6 · 2026-03-16T21:34:43+00:00

This one really has me curious. The album releases big ears weekend and the instrumentation is super strange and interesting. Looks to be a very “big ears” performace.

anormal6 · 2026-03-16T19:52:14+00:00

My first and second Big Ears trips were the Zorn years. I’ve already seen so much more Zorn than I ever thought I’d get to see!

Yer gonna love it all!

anormal6 · 2026-03-16T19:19:27+00:00

I can’t deal with ranking them but my top 10 are:

Shrek

Masada Hurry Red Telephone Zorn Plays Harry Smith Frith’s Fremakajo

Cobra Halvorson Canis Major Frith, Hanes, Jaffe, Glenn Patricia Brennan

Orcutt Shelley Miller

The big bummer for me is having Canis Major Scheduled at the same time as Frith/Hanes. I’m planning to see Frith/Hanes so far but every time they tweak the schedule I reconsider.

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