Annapocalypse

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Eleven years ago, I was a junior in high school in New York.  At The Drive-In’s Relationship of Command had just come out the year before, in September 2000, and I pretty much lived for them.  I had a collage of pictures on one wall of my bedroom, I made my own fan site dedicated to them, and I vowed to one day own all their out-of-print 7“‘s (which I now almost do).  In the spring of 2001, I would rush to the library at school during my free period and check At The Drive-In’s website.  They were slowly posting tour dates that spring, working their way from the west coast to the east coast.  Each day, I would check their site, hoping to see a New York date appear among the other tour dates listed.  One day, I visited their site and saw something else instead: a letter announcing their “indefinite hiatus.”  All tour dates were canceled.  There was no New York date.  I was crushed.

Fast forward eleven years to this announcement from today.  Anyone that knows me really well knows that the two bands I have spent the last decade or so dying to see live are Fugazi and At The Drive-In.  They are both my two favorite bands of all time and oddly enough, they both went on a hiatus within a year or so of each other.  I knew one of them would reunite eventually and my mind is exploding since that day just randomly happened to be today.  I know At The Drive-In’s tour schedule hasn’t been announced yet—save for the two Coachella dates—but I can’t explain how amazing it is going to feel to see actual tour dates that will not disappear from their website or be canceled and to know that I will get to experience seeing them live for the first time ever at some point in 2012. 

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