It's certainly not because of their annoying penchant for making a dozen lists a week ranging from "Greatest Space Flick" to "Greatest Flick Featuring an Overweight Marlon Brando" (if they can't figure out how to create salient content when Lost is of the air, making a list is the next best thing). The reason works in conjunction with why TV Guide ( Read more... )

I've been trying to see Sigur Ros for the past five years! Every time I find they're coming to town, the tix are already sold out, or I can't get out of something! BAH! One day, before I die, I will see these guys live. But for now, I'll settle with AT&T Blue Room's webcast. Bah.

I remember the first time I heard these folks was on a old Riffage. ( Read more... )

I'm getting a jump on this, but I can't wait until their set! I have a feeling they're going to be playing a lot of song from Spirit If... and their upcoming Brendan Canning album, but I'm really really hoping for a lot of song from their self-titled, specifically "7/4 (Shoreline)," "Windsurfering Nation," "Ibi Dreams of Pavement," "Super Connected ( Read more... )

Of all the new albums this year (and there are many), his is one of the ones I'm looking forward to the most. He had a really exciting set, and at one point was a little sad (he retired "Bitches Ain't Shit"). I'm a little disappointed in his keyboard for some issue it had which prevented him from trying to play the infamous "brown note," robbing ( Read more... )

Cat Power Edit (now its own post):

Chan Marshall has such presence on stage, even when she's obviously burning up and glazed with sweat under hot stage lights. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was nervous that she would faint from heat exhaustion, especially when I noticed that it didn't look like she was hydrating much on stage. Thankfully she ( Read more... )

As my iPod restoration project continues, I'm only going to cover Cat Power and Ben Folds, but may possibly chime in for Iron & Wine and Gogol Bordello, depending on how weary I am trying to recover all the files from my iPod.

I don't think I'll make a bunch of individual threads again, rather I'll just throw everything into this one and edit. I ( Read more... )

Yes! I'm just going to kick into it tonight. The only group I'll be doing tonight will be The Swell Season, who is up as I type.

Saturday will bring Iron & Wine, Gogol Bordello (Again!!! I Can't get enough of their energy), CAT POWER and BEN FOLDS!

Sunday, it's BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, SIGUR ROS, Death Cab and Rogue Wave!

So, without further ado... Glen ( Read more... )

I've listened to the new Coldplay song, "Violet Hill" (available as a free download this week only on Coldplay's website... a move that actually had the website crash at one point because the demand was so high) and I can honestly say it's one of the best songs I've heard from this group! I know this isn't fully representative of the whole Viva la ( Read more... )

Stars (!!!), Lupe Fiasco, The Black Keys and others have been added to Outside Lands! So... Star & Broken Social scene on the same day!  That means a double shot of Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan! Now, if only they added Metric, Do Make Say Think and Feist to the lineup...

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I had another pretty bizarre dream, but really not too abstract, ( Read more... )

Metric! Second song in and her Pro-One synth is already malfunctioning! The curse! They sound great anyway!

These camera folk are seriously either retarded or dropped out of their media production major because it was too hard! I'll credit them this -- they get a great shot for half a second, then they decide to pan over somewhere else. They also ( Read more... )