I saw Live play during the DC101 Chili Cook-off last weekend and I could not believe what has happened to them. I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I rocked out to "I Alone" back when I was in college. In the 90's. But times have certainly changed. They were the biggest cheeseballs I have ever seen. It was jaw-droppingly bad. Ed was the worst offender. What's with the Vin Diesel look?

More photos after the jump.

I tell anyone that will listen (which usually means The Future Mrs. Leaf and Mr. Pink) that Ra Ra Riot's WOXY lounge Act is probably going to be one of my top 10 "CD's" of the year. I cannot stop listening to it. It's incredible. Seriously. It does such a better job of capturing the freewheeling energy of their live show than their E.P. does. I caught RRR opening for The Cribs and they blew me away. But now, thanks to WOXY and Vimeo, you can see the video of the band performing at the WOXY studios.

woxy.com presents Ra Ra Riot from Soft City Lights on Vimeo.

I cannot tell you how pissed I am that their tour with The Little Ones only came as close to D.C. as Baltimore. I would have gone if it wasn't on a week night. I can only hope they'll be back soon.

Log on to WOXY to get the audio and head over to Soft City Lights for some iPod video action.

After you load the home page, click refresh a few times to see the leafblower's newest feature - a rotating header image!

Sweet.

Or alternately, hear what you missed.

Radiohead Live at Nissan Pavilion - MP3's of the entire show.

A taste:
[mp3] Radiohead | All I Need (live at Nissan Pavilion)

I had a pretty good day yesterday.

First the Pitchfork thing, and then late yesterday afternoon I got a call from the Washington Post asking me if they could use some of my Radiohead shots to run with J. Freedom DuLac's review of the show.

I said yes.

Obvs.

I had to rush home from work and get them edited and handed in, but it all worked out. I got quite a rush this morning buying a copy of the paper and seeing my photos in there. Front page of the Style section! Pretty exciting. Special thanks to the fine folks at PrefixMag.com for letting me send the Post some photos even though I was on assignment for them. I'm looking forward to shooting even more stuff for Prefix in the very near future.

So, enough of my babbling.

Check out my full set of Radiohead & Liars photos on Prefixmag.com.

Check out my two Radiohead photos on Washingtonpost.com.

Screenshots from the web edition after the jump.