Music music music
So I missed the Ladytron show at the Variety Playhouse last week. Too much higher‐priority stuff going on. A coworker made it to the show and said it was excellent, though he unfortunately missed the opener.
I’m really looking forward to the upcoming Raconteurs show (with The Kills opening! Yay!), and I might even make it to Stereolab and The Black Angels. I haven’t heard the latter, but I’ve heard a good word or two about them through the grapevine , and I like their opener, The Warlocks (well, OK, I’ve only heard their Phoenix Album, but I like it).
In studio releases, I’ve been getting a ton of playtime out of the Raconteurs’ new Consolers of the Lonely, which is leaps and bounds ahead of their sorta‐pretty‐good first offering, Broken Boy Soldiers. The earlier album was a little lackluster and didn’t do justice to their really amazing live performance last year. It’s that live performance that led me to grab their new album, and it’s those two combined that has me just plain bouncing to see the upcoming show.
Speaking of that show, I’ve been getting a good bit of play out of openers The Kills’ new album, Midnight Boom, too. They’ve got more of the sampling that I didn’t particularly like in No Wow (but inexplicably love in Portishead), but it’s got enough punch to really draw me in where their sophomore release just didn’t. The one big thing holding me back from loving Midnight Boom is that the lyrics really get a little cracked out sometimes. I mean, really, Alphabet Pony? Seriously? Anyway, good album nonetheless.
Other albums getting a lot of love from me lately include Scout Niblett’s new This Fool Can Die Now (I luff my Scout Niblett) and Liars’ not‐quite‐so‐new Drum’s Not Dead. No, scratch that. Anything Liars that I can get my hands on, I’m obsessing over. And my Scout. Yum.
In not‐really‐related news I’ve been digging into more borderline‐shoegaze lately, adding some Lush and Swervedriver (to whom Wikipedia refuse the name “shoegaze”) to my good ol’ Slowdive (who surely aren’t shoegaze if you ask wise Wikipedia) and not‐so‐ol’ Secret Machines (who are at best borderline shoegaze whomever you ask).
And more, I’m sure. But now it’s time to get back to work. Whee!
(LJ Spellchecker Genius of the Day: Wikipedia -> Skipped)
I’m really looking forward to the upcoming Raconteurs show (with The Kills opening! Yay!), and I might even make it to Stereolab and The Black Angels. I haven’t heard the latter, but I’ve heard a good word or two about them through the grapevine , and I like their opener, The Warlocks (well, OK, I’ve only heard their Phoenix Album, but I like it).
In studio releases, I’ve been getting a ton of playtime out of the Raconteurs’ new Consolers of the Lonely, which is leaps and bounds ahead of their sorta‐pretty‐good first offering, Broken Boy Soldiers. The earlier album was a little lackluster and didn’t do justice to their really amazing live performance last year. It’s that live performance that led me to grab their new album, and it’s those two combined that has me just plain bouncing to see the upcoming show.
Speaking of that show, I’ve been getting a good bit of play out of openers The Kills’ new album, Midnight Boom, too. They’ve got more of the sampling that I didn’t particularly like in No Wow (but inexplicably love in Portishead), but it’s got enough punch to really draw me in where their sophomore release just didn’t. The one big thing holding me back from loving Midnight Boom is that the lyrics really get a little cracked out sometimes. I mean, really, Alphabet Pony? Seriously? Anyway, good album nonetheless.
Other albums getting a lot of love from me lately include Scout Niblett’s new This Fool Can Die Now (I luff my Scout Niblett) and Liars’ not‐quite‐so‐new Drum’s Not Dead. No, scratch that. Anything Liars that I can get my hands on, I’m obsessing over. And my Scout. Yum.
In not‐really‐related news I’ve been digging into more borderline‐shoegaze lately, adding some Lush and Swervedriver (to whom Wikipedia refuse the name “shoegaze”) to my good ol’ Slowdive (who surely aren’t shoegaze if you ask wise Wikipedia) and not‐so‐ol’ Secret Machines (who are at best borderline shoegaze whomever you ask).
And more, I’m sure. But now it’s time to get back to work. Whee!
(LJ Spellchecker Genius of the Day: Wikipedia -> Skipped)