If anyone has insomnia and needs an excuse to get out of the house I’m going to Sunset Rubdown tonight at The Troubadour.
Tickets are still available:
http://www.troubadour.com/eventdetail.php?id=1368
"I still confide in you almost everyday."
Built to Spill like a fine wine has continued to get better over time. Their live performances are generally a great blend of old and new but I am personally excited to get a taste of the new album. Many of you speak very highly of this new album, but I will wait until Thursday…. As an aside, at the last show I started to question whether or not Dug is the best guitar player in the band (and I think he is one of the best of our generation). Homeslice here took me to the fourth dimension.
Capped at 2 tickets per buyer. $25 a piece. More information here: The Echoplex. Come one. Come all.
“And what hits the spot…yeah….like Gatorade”
Halloween 2009 promises to at least be wierd if not scary with DP bringin’ it home in LA. They have evolved so much from their humble beginning as a primarily solo act consisting of Dave on a 4-track. 2009′s Bitte Orca is probably their greatest work to date in a traditional sense of the word, but personally I miss the intimacy of Glad Fact and The Getty Address. I guess I can manage the transformation of the band into a multi-piece when I am staring at Angel signing Two Doves…..
Tickets went fast but Ebee and I in a mad dash to buy as many as possible got 8. Everyone please thank Jenny Shirbroun at Epson America for allowing me to use her credit card to purchase more than the 2 ticket max 
Tickets are sold out now but other information here: DP Halloween.
Tickets are $15 each
The video below was shot by Capt. AKAK and George Pants:
Dirty Dancing was first mentioned by the trip’s catalyst, Yang Wang. While spending time with him in the JFK baggage claim he had mentioned that Kutsher’s was where the movie was shot. I think my Mom and two sisters watched Dirty Dancing several hundred times, actually wearing out the VHS tape we’d used to record it off cable, but for some reason I could remember no details of the plot except for the fact that Patrick Swayze was in it. Actually, I think I remember more from the MAD Magazine spoof on it, Dorky Dancing, than I do any part of the movie – I had a bad MAD Magazine habit and spent most of my allowance on it. In the 3rd grade I copied a poem from one issue and turned it in as my own work. The teacher, Mrs. Young, was incredulous but could prove nothing.
Google Images at work
Without having anything to compare it to in the daylight Kutsher’s appears to be the exact place where they shot the film: there’s the pond, large dining rooms, the hotel, cabins, pathways, lawns and it’s all surrounded by woods. Several people in the town of Monticello told us that the movie wasn’t actually shot at Kutsher’s but at another, similar, nearby resort. Why all this discussion of a pop-culture relic? Ever since we had disembarked from the plane Carl Jung’s notion of synchronicity had been enveloping us in long chains of cause and effect. The rest of the weekend and subsequent road trip around New England would eventually look like a Mandelbrot Set after punching all the data into one of Capt. AKAK’s spreadsheets while being bored on the flight home to Long Beach. Dirty Dancing was just the beginning.
Real rockstars make babies cry
“Polvo began as a basic Sonic Youth/Dinosaur Jr. indie rock follower band, quickly progressed into a challenging bright young weird guitar combo, then settled into a comfortable role as creative poptone strummers, more concerned with recording memorable music Beatles style than with continuing to introduce listeners to the many delightful noises made possible by modern electric musical equipment.” [Mike Reviews]
Personally, I only know three things about Polvo:
1. They are like Tortoise (math rock, post rock, ambient).
2. I spoke with a very musically minded person about a month ago and he stated they were the greatest band of all time.
3. They have a totally sweet song on a soundtrack composed by John McEntire.
I kept the purchasing light for this show due to lack of knowledge but it is Saturday night and we do have a new member joining us so more peepz should come out…..
Event Information from Spaceland. $15 a ticket. Dinner at the Thai restaurant next door before the show.
I just got the new Hush Arbors Cd in the mail today after getting back from lunch. Please join me in the discovery of his new cd with a video from their blog.
From JFK we drove North in a rain which had begun as we’d loaded our bags into the back of the rental car. At this point we had become crazed from lack of sleep and were having extreme difficulty in utilizing the parts of our brains that help you find places. The fact that the roads in the New England states make no sense to people raised on freeways, the grid system and adequate signage didn’t help either. Eventually, with the help of a purchased map, Internet directions, directions from 2 different smart phones and eventually a gas station attendant we made it to Monticello, New York, where our hotel was.
For the last two years All Tomorrow’s Parties has been held in the hotel and on the grounds of Kutsher’s, a once-famous resort from the “Borscht Belt” era which reached its peak during the mid-1960′s when Jewish families would come and spend summers at the various loosely connected resorts that the Catskills region was famous for. Nowadays it’s a downtrodden, practically abandoned relic echoing what was once an upscale-now-kitsch past. Attendees at All Tomorrow’s Parties had the option of staying in one of the old resort’s rooms, but they were expensive – although the performers stayed for free – or you could try to find a cheaper room in nearby Monticello.
A place to Bury Strangers needs to be experienced by everyone at least once in their life. Their self-titled album is good but does absolutely no justice to their intensity as an extremely dark, noise band live. If you need further understanding, please read my past review here or just watch the video above.
In a venue the size of the Echo please remember to bring ear plugs if you care to keep your hearing. Personally, I will be attempting to go deaf but I understand that is not everyone else’s intentions. Additionally, Darker my Love will be opening for them which also promises to be a great performance. I got 6 tickets at $15 a piece.
Have you ever wandered what it would be like to watch pure love and light on stage while enjoying some of your favorite tunes? Well YLT live is just your chance to experience such an event.
About 10% of my 500 album cd collection is from Yo La Tengo….yes they have that many records. Last time TSS ventured out to see YLT was during their “Free wheelin” tour which consisted of them taking requests directly from the audience and answering any questions your heart might desire. I believe OceanRain got the answer to his question of “where were you when you first heard yourselves on the radio”. It was a beautiful night.
This concert promises to be more powerful than that night as this one will not be unplugged and feature many of their new tracks from Popular Songs. I got 8 tickets at $25 a piece.
