The Locust ARE playing Neumo’s tomorrow night, on APRIL FOOLS DAY. The show is totally still on, nobody has cancelled. This post was a joke. The “press release” contained the words “April” and “foolish” in consecutive sentences. The post contained three links to different sites associated with the show that wouldn’t corroborate the band having broken up. I thought it would be funny. And since less people read the blogs on weekends, I thought I’d post it on Friday.

I’ve always thought the Locust were kind of playful pranksters themselves, and that’s part of what made them such an appealing band. They make serious, sometimes sadistic noise, but it’s not without a certain dark sense of humor. And Justin Pearson is one of the funniest frontmen I’ve ever seen live, especially when cutting down his hecklers. The show is on, you should go. If you’ve never seen the Locust before, you’re in for an assault to the senses, and if you haven’t seen them for a couple years, you might be interested in how they’ve evolved from a grind band into a kind of aggro Wendy Carlos electronics ensemble.