Yea they are, and Daney Carey rocks.

I saw the Arcade Fire last month and they were amazing live.

Nine Inch Nails are also amazing live. Their set are always good with amazing visuals.

tera melos and heavy heavy low low both put on amazing shows.



the only catch with tera melos is that they have to have a lot of space to move around for it to be really really good.

i cant wait.

i got lucky though because tickets now are like 400+ dollars now. i got four for like 200 somethin.

Radiohead
Muse
Damien Rice
DJ Champion
Tom Vek

30 Seconds To Mars
U2
Gwar

My Chemical Romance is actually one of the good live bands for me....

Bump.

I was watching a RHCP doc (*insert cringe here*) and was wondering: who are the truly great live acts of today? You know, the ones like 1980s RHCP that grabbed hold of an audience and shook the ever living shit out of them?

rhcp were utter clown shoes when i saw them, i hated every minute of it. not really sure who'd be classed in general as an amazing live band these days, but over the past few years i'd say my favourite few live acts have been..

pixies
dinosaur jr.
mogwai
pavement
beck
nine inch nails
teenage fanclub
brand new
the specials
nick cave and the bad seeds
arcade fire
muse (not a fan of their music, but their live shows are utterly fantastic)
animal collective (as above)
modest mouse
the strokes
lady gaga
hole
prince
fucked up
interpol
radiohead
bruce springsteen
yeah yeah yeahs
alexisonfire
blur
death cab for cutie
bon iver
the new pornographers
belle and sebastian
the vaselines
kanye west
deftones
glassjaw
built to spill
the flaming lips
silversun pickups
dirty projectors
stevie wonder
orbital
the national
wooden shjips
placebo

probably a couple of others, but these are the ones which stand out to me the most. i remember how i felt after each and every one, feeling buzzed from a gig is the best thing ever. i'll probably come back and update this list next week after i've seen sonic youth, got a feeling they're going to impress me beyond expectations.

I totally get you, man. The couple shows I've been too I have thoroughly enjoyed, great performances with a good amount of energy. But I'm talking absolutely insane live. Like, I love Pixies, Dinosaur Jr., Modest Mouse, and The Strokes, but they simply aren't what I'm talking about. I mean the band that is a legend almost entirely because of the show they put on. I don't know how else to express it other than old RHCP clips: