For The Record-06. September. 2025

Some thoughts on the best laid plans, city parks, and power pop.

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My original plan was to see Educational Davis play this past Friday. They were on a bill with Quad Cities' Running Man, and I'd been looking forward to it. I also got a new (to me) car, so the odds were good I'd make it there and back. Life got in the way, as it often does, and I couldn't make it to the show. My loss. I'm sure both bands ripped.

I had also planned to ride my bike to see The Flavor That Kills on Saturday (Educational Davis and friend of the newsletter Eric Hartz are members), but due to a series of life decisions, I get up for work at 2:30 a.m., and that meant even with a quasi-matinee show, it was too late for me.

(Dramatic sigh)

However(!) I did get to see Heavy Looks Saturday afternoon at a legit matinee. This was my 2nd time seeing them. This first was when they opened for New Pornographers last summer. That show was great, but seeing them up close and in full effect this time around was something else. The show was at a neighborhood festival, and was in one of those parks that spend the other 362 days a year being really unassuming. This one happens to be the city's oldest, and was originally planned as a cemetery.

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