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Two years after Deadwing, Porcupine Tree are back with a new studio album. Last year saw the release of a live DVD, Arriving Somewhere But Not Here… which featured a concert filmed in Chicago. A great DVD for any Porcupine Tree fan! On the tour to support the DVD, PT started playing some new songs that they were working on. Fans returned from these concerts saying good things about the new material, in particular a monster twenty-minute track. The new album, Fear of a Blank Planet is out now, and this is my review! FoaBP is quite different from previous PT albums although somewhat similar to In Absentia and Deadwing. There's a definite

Part I Waking up early Wednesday morning to get on a university bus to go to JFK International Airport to catch a flight to San Francisco, CA was not very fun.  American Airlines is pathetic.  No food on a near six-hour trip and a rough landing is what we got.  Add to that a small headache and an hour-long bus ride to get to a pick-up spot to get to the hotel.  But, but, but!  The hotel was lovely.  The room was a super-expensive $199 a night affair but hell, I wasn't paying for it.  Had a tablet for the headache and off we went to the ferry terminal to get to San Fran! It was a pretty ride even though it was freakin' cold with the wind.  W

I should've posted this earlier, but better late than never I guess.  Oh, and I plan to copy+paste more entries from my blog here. It's been 5 months. I missed the ones earlier because the website crashed. This was the last one for the US for this year. This was one hell of a way to spend saturday night. I got myself a mammoth poster too. My ears are still not back to normal - they cannot tolerate this much good stuff this loud.