an amazing song played in a UK bookshoppe…that’s bookstore with two p’s and an e…
“white blank page”
mumford & sons
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the vendetta red reunion show (a concert report)
so my calendar refused to cooperate and I missed out on the “one-night-only” vendetta red reunion show at seattle’s ‘el corazon‘ this weekend.
fortunately for me, i live in the future and youtube is replete with shaky-cam-style-video-coverage. as promised, the band played ‘sisters of the red death‘ in it’s entirety followed by an hour-long encore of favorites.
the seattle PI had an article regarding all the controversy surrounding the reunion show—specifically the absence of founding VR member Erik Chapman.
when asked about the lineup for the reunion show lead singer/frontman zach davidson said:
“The thing with Vendetta Red — it was, kinda like whoever I could get to play with me at the time,” he says. “Throughout the years, some people stuck around for longer than others, and I did it until it stopped being fun. And all I know is that it’s fun right now.”
notably for those of us from bakersfield, ca the absence of VR drummer, joseph childres. a quick google search reveals that we’ve lost joseph to christianity and the xtian music scene…fingers crossed we get him back soon.
here are a few highlight clips from saturday’s show from some rad dude who lives in georgia and made the flight to seattle for the show…you’re a better man than me, brother.
opera music played as the band made their way to the stage and played track one: ‘vendetta red cried rape on their date with destiny’
‘a joyless euphoria’
classic VR from 2002 with the ‘original’ bandmates playing “seconds away” into their mainstream hit “shatterday”
Vendetta Red Reunion Show
so this saturday, Vendetta Red will be re-uniting for a one-night reunion show at ‘el corazon’ in seattle.
the show will be the first in 5 years for the band who will be playing ‘sisters of the red death‘ in its entirety.
if you’ve stumbled upon this post and you’re in the seattle area, consider yourself doubly-blessed and do not miss this show.
those of us land-locked in southern california will be anxiously awaiting your handheld-youtube-video-coverage of the show…
your camera like a bible
“…and on the way home you held your camera like a bible;
Just wishing so bad that it held some kind of truth
And I stood nervous next to you in the dark room;
You dropped the paper in the water…and it all begins to bloom.”
–”Old Soul Song” Bright Eyes
this is music
mumford & sons – little lion man
folk revisited.
antony and the johnsons
digging on this cover of “here comes the sun” by antony & the johnsons.
Antony Hegarty’s voice is simultaneously cool & haunting without feeling forced or contrived. i’ve had this tune stuck in my head for days.
hope you dug it too.
you meant it
the genius of michael stipe is especially appreciated when he participates in music outside of what has been crafted as his own. tonight’s example is his collaboration with dashboard confessional on their emo/hipster tune “hands down”. (tune and video available here)
once you’ve heard the stipe-infused-duet, the original track finds itself screaming demands for stipe’s baritone influence.
enjoy “hands down” by dashboard confessional featuring michael stipe (track available on iTunes):
all of this being said, no one can question Chris Carrabba’s ability, inspiration or command. compare, contrast and enjoy:
p&l
the fifth beatle (watch your back ringo)
stumbling around youtube will consume your life if you’re not careful…tonight i’m letting it.
here’s a great video featuring Billy Preston aka The Fifth Beatle (may he rest in peace) sitting in on the studio recording of “get back“.
billy preston sat in and contributed keyboard tracks for the White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be; he was one of george harrison’s best friends and contributed so much of what we love about these records. if none of this beatles talk rings a bell, billy wrote/composed “you are so beautiful (to me)” which joe cocker made famous.
billy preston IS “the 5th beatle” and frankly, Ringo needs to watch his back b/c 4th place is up for grabs.
p.s. god-damn-fucking-yoko
swimming past the breakers
so today was crazy stressful.
everyone on campus was pissed to have to be back to work after the holidays; i tried my best to swim out past the breakers.
tonight i’m relaxing and downloading hundreds of photos from my vacation and of course interacting with you, my little snowflakes.
tonight’s soundtrack is dj minty fresh beat’s jaydiohead mashup of Radiohead & Jay-Z. if you’ve been around 1LS since the early days, then you’ll remember how much i loved “the grey album”.
you can download the whole deal right about here.
you’re going to dig this track:
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speaking the truth (over and over again)
so the new ryan adams album is out next week, but you can check out “cardinology” for free over here on iLike.
personally, i’m digging on “crossed out name” but your mileage my vary. here’s classic ryan adams courtesy of youtube. i think this is my favorite ryanadam’s performance and keeps me squeaking on my harmonica in attempts to duplicate his sound. so far, my harmonica skills are slightly better than FAIL but not quite up to being just “suck”.
in unrelated news, today i helped teach a 4hour lab to first-year med students. the topic was blood histology and it was exhausting. to compound the monotony of teaching blood histo was the fact that the class was divided into 2 sections which meant teaching it once and then repeating it 120mins later. this effect was also compounded by the fact that the class was broken up into 12 small groups per lab period.
by the end of the day, i felt like i had repeated myself 1000x and caught a glimpse of what it must be like to give a political stump speech and hit the same talking point ad nauseam. I guess the only difference was that everything I said was true…everytime I said it.
new conor oberst music
this track is called “danny calahan” and is off the forthcoming self-titled album by conor oberst.
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good groovy stuff.
ya gotta spend some time with me
damn the video for deathcab‘s single “i will possess your heart” is awesome. let’s see…hot hipster chick walking around in slow motion CHECK…band playing in the freezing cold with wet instruments CHECK…3 minute long bass-line intro CHECK.
i liked it so much i bought the full-on-high-quality-version from iTunes for $2 and that rarely happens.
more from claremont
so here are some photos that the pretty girl and i took at the aforementioned claremont music festival. keep in mind that these were taken with a humble canon powershot point and shoot camera. my dSLR was being put to better use at the time of the festival…more on that later.
we staked out sweet spots on the lawn a mere 100feet or so from the stage. behind us were these four lesbian chicks of varying levels of attractiveness. what they may have lacked in hottness, they made up for in their lack of inhibition. the pretty girl said that she was officially keeping track of how many times she caught me stealing glances of the four-way-all-girl makeout session going on behind us. when i asked her for my total at the end of the evening, she said she quit counting in an effort to save me the embarrassment.
lesbians FTW.
so after graciously standing in line for coffee, the pretty girl decided to bring us back this treat. unfortunately after knowing each other for nearly a decade, she forgot that peanuts represent an anaphylactic shock type experience for me. she made it up to me by immediately running back to the ever-increasing line and returning with peanut-free ice cream.
good times.
ben harper :: live in claremont
so on saturday the pretty girl and i went to the claremont folk music festival in claremont, ca. as you may recall, brandon and i went last year and watched ben harper drop new music from the then unreleased “lifeline” album.
this year’s event was much more low-key and community oriented. the entire festival was held at sycamore elementary school (ben’s grade school alma mater). as the local artisans were packing up their tents and goods we claimed our place on the grade-school lawn with our trusty red & blue plaid blanket.
from about 100feet away we watched jackson browne, followed by ben harper and then taj mahal each rock incredible sets. benharper’s website has all the details, but here is the setlist which included a brand-new track (spanish red wine) for the new studio album.
1. Pleasure And Pain
2. Morning Yearning
3. I Shall Not Walk Alone
4. Black Rain
5. Gather ‘Round The Stone
6. There Will Be A Light
7. Suzie Blue
8. Spanish Red Wine
9. Tomorrow Is A Long Time
ben brought out different local musicians to accompany him throughout the set and even had his mom sing with him on “spanish red wine” and the dylan cover “tomorrow is a long time”
(all awesome looking photos were taken from benharper.net)
i heard you let somebody get their fingers into you
ya know how you know if you’re cool or not? just ask yourself if you like panic at the disco. if you answer in the affirmative, then you’re gold.
also, if you use internet explorer it doesnt matter if you like panic b/c anything rad that i try to post on my blog seems to break IE. so apparently the coolness test consists of 2 things…
so lately, i’ve become addicted to micro-blogging the events of my life on twitter. i’ve realized that in doing so, i’ve literally constructed an outline for numerous daily blog posts. this is good news for you.
tomorrow stonebraker is flying into SoCal and i’m going to pick him up b/c that’s what good friends fucking do. he’s going to be busy with all of his top-secret-business so we might only have time for 1-15 drinks on friday afternoon. i told him that the best way to conduct his top-secret-business is to be drooling-drunk.
i’ve been listening to “pretty.odd.” on a non-stop basis and i even learned the chords to “we’re so starving” so that i could entertain buster with my guitar/vocal stylings. the louder i sing and the more i make the song about him the more he goes crazy. i’m not quite sure if he LOVES it or if it’s the equivalent to puppy water-boarding.
so today i was reading some random blog whose name escapes me and they mentioned “muskrat love” by captain & tenille. consequently, i’ve had that fuck song stuck in my head all day. also, when i was in 4th grade i had a huge crush on a girl named tenille but she was in love with the cool kid from school whose dad was a big shot doctor. last i heard that kid was all strung out on meth. so in addition to having a shitty song in my head, i’ve been feeling bad about turning out “better” than the cool kid in 4th grade.
the red album
if you too are a white, somewhat nerdy kid who grew up in the 90s, then you’re probably a weezer fan.
this week, the band announced all the deets of their new album that’s due out on 6/24. while the last two weezer albums have left a lot to be desired, i’m really jazzed and cautiously optimistic about “the red album“.
you can listen to the first single ‘pork and beans‘ here…it’s a catchy, crunchy, tune cut from the tried-and-true weezer pattern.
the track i’m really looking forward to hearing on the new album is “pig” which has made the rounds as an acoustic demo for the past year or so. take a listen and enjoy \m/
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Nine in the Afternoon
i hope you didnt miss Panic! at the Disco on SNL last weekend but if you did that really blows and i hope this track will make you feel better.
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“Nine In the Afternoon” by Panic! at the Disco
head. note. hand.
easily the best of the 2008 april fool’s day pranks was ben gibbard and his new band “just jazzin“.
best line: “head. note. hand…OUT”
i will possess your heart
today my gift to you is new DCfC. this is “i will possess your heart” in all of it’s full-length-jam-glory.
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stonebraker hates “show off” holidays
so i was going to get in the St. Patrick’s Day spirit by playing some Irish folk-songs…but iTunes only has JustinTimberlake and teeny-bopper tunes to offer. somehow, my music library doesnt include any dropkick murphy’s OR flogging molly. this blows.
i do, however, have 3 search results for “danny boy”…one’s an instrumental version by clapton, one’s by johnny cash (not as cool as it sounds) and some track by rufus wainwright. again, this blows.
i had this conversation w/ stonebraker earlier today:
onelonelysuccess: are u wearing green?
stonebraker: no, I’m a brit
onelonelysuccess: oh…ok
stonebraker: I decided today that I don’t give a fuck about St. Patricks day
onelonelysuccess: really? but it’s a drinking holiday! if you like to drink then it’s your holiday too
stonebraker: yeah I know but I can drink everyday
onelonelysuccess: yeah but EVERYONE is drinking TODAY and that makes it special
stonebraker:I guess I’m a SPD scrooge
onelonelysuccess: yeah this reminds me of you on vday
onelonelysuccess: and halloween
onelonelysuccess: and new years
onelonelysuccess: and cinco de mayo
onelonelysuccess: and fourth of july
onelonelysuccess: so what holidays DO you like?
stonebraker: christmas
onelonelysuccess: yeah, baby jesus rawks
stonebraker: I don’t like show off holidays
stonebraker: like halloween
onelonelysuccess: that’s b/c you’re off-putting
stonebraker: people are all “but we can get together are party”
stonebraker: if you need a reason to party your life sucks IMO
onelonelysuccess: damn
onelonelysuccess: then my life sucks
ten minutes later, stonebraker was headed to the irish pub to celebrate…or so he says.