Transformer Lootbag "Crowning the Ant King" (12.0 MB) from Transformer Lootbag High Noon Saloon Madison, WI December 31, 2007

I'd sort of forgotten how noisy Transformer Lootbag were until they got to this song. They're pretty noisy, as it turns out! It got me wondering what the Madison scene might've been like around the beginning of the decade, though -- with these guys, System and Station, Hum Machine, old Rainer Maria, among others, I suspect it was generally more ramshackle and forehead-poking than it is now. This is pure speculation, of course, as I guess there could've been a wave of folk acts controlling the city right up until I moved here, but I doubt it.