Back in March I contemplated going to Japan for a music festival ( see post here).  Some said I should go others said no way.  Good news!  I am going to (basically) the same thing in Korea!

It's called the Valley Rock Festival and many of the same acts that were at the Fuji fest will come here too including:

• Belle and Sebastian
• Corinne Bailey Rae
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Is it worth $420 to go to the 3-day Fuji Rock Festival in Japan?

it's just sooo much money..  but it sounds soooo good.  (see link here)

Bands playing include: 

• Air
• Belle & Sebastian 
• Broken Social Scene
• !!!
• Corrine Bailey Ray

 I really wish I could see Rogue Wave in concert.  (They are touring right now, 4/09 in Portland & 4/13 in Boulder.  They are playing a "secret" show for SXSW in Austin too)   They are truly one of my all-time favorite bands.  Tickets are only $14 which is really cheap, all things considered ( Read more... )

Currently listening to:

1. Local Natives
because I have a strange/awesome love of indie pop rock ...
http://www.myspace.com/localnatives

2. Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
because she seems really cool and has a neat sultry voice...
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1.  Pheonix (the album Wolfgang Amadeus Pheonix came out earlier this year)
If at first you don't like them, try try again.  The band, which hails from France, is heavily addictive.  And fun fact: one of the band members is married to Sofia Coppola.  I religiously listen to the songs "Lisztomania" and "1901" in the morning and am sure to walk into ( Read more... )

 I always pick a quote from a song and post it as my gmail chat status message.  In some way I feel like it is an accurate depiction of my life at moment.  I can listen to the song a million times before and then one day I hear it again and it just speaks to me in a way I had not heard before.

So I thought maybe I should document these lyrics and ( Read more... )

 I spent my entire day working on uploading & burning cd's for my brother.  I started about 12:30 and now that it is 5pm, I am ready to stop for the day.  I'm not sure if I have mentioned this, but somehow I lost ALL of my cd's.  Really and truly all of them.  It's an incredible bummer.  So I have also been illegally downloading music from Limewire ( Read more... )

 It's concert season.

Here are shows I REALLY want to see:

• Ratatat $20 @ Crystal Ballroom
• STS9 $22.50 @ The Roseland 3/6 ... 
• Animal Collective, $20 @ The Roseland 
• Thievery Corporation $32 @ The Roseland  4/20

Here are show I wouldn't mind seeing (preferably if someone paid for me):

• M. Ward $20 @ Aladdin Theater

 I just found out that the song "Heartbeats" was not originally done by Jose Gonzales, but rather The Kinfe, a Swedish band.  I'm heartbroken, but not really.  Both versions are amazing so I don't care. 

Music of the moment:

Pacific!

and

Ra Ra Riot