My Bloody Valentine Live

"Inside a volcano of sound..."

I just read this great piece by Nick Southall on his experience seeing My Bloody Valentine live for the first time. You should go check it out, and you should follow @sickmouthy on Twitter.

"Not everyone was wearing earplugs. Who knows how those who didn’t managed to get home afterwards; their senses and orientation must have been mashed."

As we listened to mbv on the drive home from New York last night, I asked CoolMom, "Do you think this borders on 'not music?'"

"Yeah, maybe," she said.

I love it.

This is my promise: I will go to wherever it is in the U.S. that My Bloody Valentine decide to play this year. I will bring earplugs.

My Bloody Valentine Released mbv Last Night

And Broke the Internet

They broke the Internet for those My Bloody Valentine fans who flocked to the newly-launched www.mybloodyvalentine.org upon the announcement of the album's release, that is.  For everyone else,  -- like the many millions of fans who go to, say, Taylor Swift's official website every day of the year -- the Internet worked just fine.

I wrote some initial thoughts on this for Speak Into My Good Eye this morning, and I've been listening to the album on and off all day long.  My quick review:  if you are a My Bloody Valentine fan like me, you'll probably love the record.

It isn't going to be the historic and influential (for a certain segment of the population, anyway) album that Loveless was; but this is 2013, after all.  On mbv, though, Kevin Shields and company show that, even after twenty-plus years filled with countless bands influenced by Loveless, My Bloody Valentine themselves still have some interesting places to take their sound.

You can stream mbv via the band's official Youtube channel, and decide for yourself if February 3rd, 2013 should be dubbed "My Super Bloody Valentine Bowl Sunday."  Enjoy the album.  And the game.