Horrorshow

Full Set at imeem

Having seen The Horrors play before, I knew it would be short. I think last night clocked in under 25 minutes...but a good show at that. Bowery Ballroom is definitely the perfect venue for these guys. Faris has stage diving skills that could only be accomplished by a person so waifish. At one point, he dragged himself and the mic chord all the way to the back, climbed on the bar, nicked a bottle of booze, stomped back to the stage, and flung the bottle 30 feet in the air. I hope no one got hurt cause it was pretty ace. While watching The Horrors perform, one can't help but think that they're the shit. Unfortunately, as soon as the set ends, one can't help but think "WTF?! That was so short!" At least I ended up taking some my favorite pictures ever. The whole set is here.

After the horrorshow, I went to Studio B to see Simian Mobile Disco. I didn't bring my camera, but Rafael lent me his so I could play "survival of the hippest" with all of the scenesters. Upon leaving, I was horrified to look at my watch and see that it was 5am. Then I remembered it was daylight savings and felt slightly better.

Why mess with perfection?

The new video for Gravity's Rainbow:


And the beyond perfect original:


The new one is pretty ace...much like every Klaxons video...but the original is probably my favorite music video of all time. Oh, and sorry for not warning you about the Burberry suits. I had a few weeks warning before I actually saw them. Now, where did I leave my rubik's cube...

Remember my first post?

Remember now?

Shmupdate

My imeem is finally functioning for me so I uploaded pictures. Click the caption to see each full set.


The Armory Show


The Thermals


Grizzly Bear (and Beach House)

Go look and enjoy! Glad that's fixed. imeem is taking me to SXSW next week so I can post pictures of however many bands I get around to seeing. Thousands...millions...or a bunch. I'll post links and a few photos here as well. I'm going to try and stay on top of all this while in Austin and use my sober moments wisely. Expect great things.

Grizzzzzly Bear

Last night I finally got to see Grizzly Bear play at Bowery Ballroom and it was worth the wait. I can't even...there are no words...I'll think of some. After the show, Sarah and I saw Michael Tapper sitting alone at the bar in a daze. He told us that he was trying to process what he just saw and that we could quote him when he said, "Grizzly Bear is the best band in the world". He didn't think I'd actually quote him, but here I am doing it. Thanks Tapper! Anyways, since last night, I've felt that same kind of contemplating-the-genius-that-is-Grizzly-Bear feeling. This sounds a bit obvious...but those guys are real musicians. I mean they actually think about the sounds they are making in the most subtle ways. They play around with different instruments and volume levels for their emotional effect instead of looking for a hook. The highlight of the show had to be when they covered "He Hit Me" by The Crystals (so called that one ). Colorado was amazing as well. The whole set...gah! So wonderfully beautifully incandiferously transcendental. I need to go grab a thesaurus as to better describe Grizzly Bear's show. For now, know that it is one show I will be remembering for a while. Expect pictures whenever imeem decides to start working again.

A Boy Like Me

Is it possible to love Patrick Wolf anymore that I already do?

Brain Fart

Sorry for the lack of posting. Life is hard y'all! I've been trying to upload pictures to show off but imeem is not working. Grrr. Someday, expect pictures from last week's Armory show as well as ones I took of The Thermals who rocked the socks off of Bowery Ballroom last night. Tomorrow I'm finally going to see Beach House and Grizzly Bear. Finally! The Horrors are playing on Friday but me thinks that show is going to hella lame. We shall see. My time is seriously non existent as I am trying to do five billion things before SXSW. Did I mention I'm leaving for Austin a week from tomorrow? Yeah. Figuring out day shows alone is giving me a brain tumor, I'm sure of it. All of that, plus I'm not really in a public sharing mood at this time. Trust me, there's a lot of good stuff going on...but you won't hear about it here. What can I share? There are some great leaks floating about that I may have picked up this morning. The Arcade Fire are currently trying to make up for being total hype whores...we'll see if I forgive them.

UPDATE: I just got my paws on The Horrors new album, Strange House, and I would like to eat my words. Friday's show will not be lame. I'm jazzed now.