Oh, say, what day is it -- ? That's right, it's Tuesday. I haven't done this for months and months, but -- it's time once again for Tunes for Tuesday!

See, at the Fremont Fair, Torrey and Arthur and I were walking by the stage where We Wrote the Book on Connectors were playing, and we ended up turning right around, coming back, and staying ( Read more... )

This has been a mostly horrible day, so I wanted to take a minute to bring you a little bit of awesome. This has really been making the rounds online lately, and the first night I heard it got more votes for 107.7 The End's top-ten list than the other nine songs combined (not bad for a couple of unsigned guys on the Internet), so my apologies if ( Read more... )

Tokyo Police Club - Nature of the Experiment
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
Ladytron - Destroy Everything
Goldfrapp - Ooh la la
Scissor Sisters - Don't Feel Like Dancing
Say Hi To Your Mom - Let's Talk About Spaceships
Air - Cherry Blossom Girl
Introduce - Wicked Boy
Billy Corgan - A100
Party Ben - Hung Up On Soul
Van She - Kelly
David Byrne - My Fair Lady
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Wednesday night, at ursako's instigation, windbourne and I joined her at the Crocodile for their annual Cure cover night. As you may know, The Cure are pretty much my favorite band of all time, so I was thoroughly enjoying myself.
Then Jodie Watts took the stage. After a number or two, the lead singer looked out into the crowd and said:
"You know, we've got a ( Read more... )

Nineteen years ago: Vancouver, BC, was celebrating its centennial with a world's fair, Expo '86. I was there. So was she. We were from the same hometown, but we were still worlds away from each other, years away from meeting. But there are traces of our paths crossing, physical evidence; we each have a photograph of ourselves, unmet, but ( Read more... )

I've been starting to wonder if I would have been better off if I'd never started buying music.

Music wasn't really that important to me when I was little. My fellow students in elementary school were stunned that I didn't have a favorite radio station. I did listen to KJR, some, and I enjoyed music, sure ( Read more... )

2004 was a wonderful year for pop music -- the first year I can remember in a long while when I actually enjoyed most of what I heard on the radio. I also saw more bands in concert this year than I did in, like, any other year ever, seems like. All kinds of good stuff out there ( Read more... )

Just got back from The End's Deck the Hall Ball. Pretty damn entertaining. At this point, there are several events I really should go back and write about, but for once I think I'll go ahead and get this down while it's still fresh in my head.
Due to horrendous traffic, terrible rain, some poor last-minute ( Read more... )

Seems like windbourne and I are going to a lot of concerts lately. Okay, sure, we're getting "An Evening With The Cure" instead of the scheduled Curiosa festival, but we were mainly going for the sake of seeing The Cure anyway, and we had managed to score cheap tickets, too, so we're perfectly content. And besides, we're going to EndFestanyway, so we' ( Read more... )

I'm a few weeks late posting this, but:
If you haven't been listening to The End lately, you should give them another try.
I still remember how much I enjoyed The End back when they first started. They were full of life and fun. I still have a T-shirt, from back in those days, bearing their original logo. It's nearly worn out.
Somewhere along the ( Read more... )