Live Shows: Grub Lord, Hell Beach, Tysk Tysk Task, and 2000s, The Press Room, Portsmouth, NH
Sometimes it's nice to see a show that's not in the Boston area. I tend to see shows at the same clubs regularly, and make pretty much the exact same drive once or twice a week. Portsmouth is one of my favorite towns to go to for shows, since it's just nice to walk around. When I saw that Tysk Tysk Task and Hell Beach were playing together at the new and improved Press Room, I knew I had to make the trek up to the seacoast. Plus, I had been meaning to check out Grub Lord for a while, so that was just a bonus. Opening the show was the virtually un-Googleable 2000s. Hailing from South Berwick, ME, they brought a group of diehard fans who were energetic and pumped for the show. I'm going to guarantee that every write up about them is going to include a line that they sound more like the 90's than the 2000's, which is accurate. They had a sound like if Nirvana had decided to go with a more mainstream sound after the success of Nevermind. It was a solid set that was ...