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Last nights bluestate was alot of damn fun. We had a huge turnout, much more than usual. And since "Tuesday is the new Thursday", I drank alot more than usual (mostly because of this guy). Thanks to everyone that came out, especially Randi, who brought her whole effing posse, and the kids from Pygmalion In A Blanket. I met them over the weekend and they represented again last night. Not only are they good bloggers people, but they give you links like Cats in Sinks.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I took tomorrow and Friday off, so content will be light until next Tuesday. Actually content will be pretty light today, because I got like three hours of sleep last night. And I drank alot. Have I mentioned that?
I will pass my setlists from last night off as content today. Behold:
9:30 - 10:00
Liz Phair, "6'1""
The Cloud Room, "Waterfall"
Travis, "U-16 Girls"
Stars, "Elevator Love Letter"
Oasis, "Up In The Sky" (acoustic)
Mansun, "Wide Open Space"
Elf Power, "Simon (the girl with the candy bar head)"
Pulp, "Monday Morning"
Superdrag, "Destination Ursa Major"
Editors, "Blood"
10:30 - 11:00
Idlewild, "The Nothing I Know"
The Futureheads, "First Day"
Guided By Voices, "Game of Pricks"
The Beatles, "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window"
Shudder To Think, "Red House"
The Housemartins, "Bow Down"
Ted Leo + Rx, "Parallel or Together?"
The Bees, "Chicken Payback"
Madder Rose, "Drop A Bomb"
Archers of Loaf, "Might"
Soundtrack of Our Lives, "Sister Surround"
Kings of Leon, "Long Night, So Long"
11:30 - 12:00
The Music, "The People"
...Trail of Dead, "The Rest Will Follow"
Queens of the Stone Age, "Do It Again"
Elbow, "Forget Myself"
Echo & the Bunnymen, "Read It In Books" (Peel Session)
Catherine Wheel, "Show Me Mary"
Pixies, "Bird Dream Of the Olympus Mons"
Mylo, "Sunworshipper"
12:30 - Close
Goldie Lookin' Chain, "Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do"
Cut Copy, "Twilight"
Public Image Limited, "Rise"
Stereolab, "Monotroller Scalatron"
The Raveonettes, "You Say You Lie"
Morrissey, "Sunny"
Feist, "One Evening"
Mylo, "In My Arms"
Pulp, "Common People"
Lali Puna, "B-Movie"
Spoon, "Two Sides of Monsieur Valentin"
Echo & the Bunnymen, "Ocean Rain" (Peel Session)
Steve Winwood, "Valerie"
The Spinanes, "Reach v. Speed"
Fleetwood Mac, "Rhiannon"
Natalya played some great stuff last night (check out the full set list here) and also has her own recap and pics. My pics will be up tonight.
Also, be warned! Our next gig is Saturday, Sept 10th at the Black Cat. That = throw down! You knows it.
PS - The US Open started. Andy Roddick lost.
PPS - If you're in DC on Sept. 15th, you're coming to this.
Bluestate tonight. 9PM.
So true. Appropriately, Clap You Hands Say Blogger Buzz has announced a DC date.
Dammit people. I don't read Entertainment Weekly. I rely on you for this. So when there is a major article about The La's (!!!!!!), you need to effing tell me. Remember when I called them the best band of my generation?
New versions of Safari are available for Mac users via the software update panel.
Buzz says the iTunes phone will debut next week.
Frank Chromewaves is funny.
Let's be friends. [via Gl*mrocker]
The Cult of the GM. Good stuff. [via Grambo]
Shocker! Marky Doodles is now a Yankee.
Last night I watched a preview DVD for the next set of releases from Palm Pictures Directors Label series of DVD's. The next set will feature DVD's on Anton Corbijn, Stephane Sednaui, Jonathan Glazer and Mark Romanek. All four will be released on Sept. 13th and they look to be amazing. I was so enthralled with the preview DVD that I didn't even get pissed off when Bono used the word milieu in one of his interviews. I'm drooling on the Corbijn release, so much Bunnymen and Depeche Mode buzz. The other releases aren't anything to get mad at either. As I was clicking around the website, I realized how quite a few of the videos these four guys have made played large parts in helping form my musical tastes way back in the day (you know, when MTV played videos). I remember coming home trashed one night in college and seeing Sednaui's video for Bjork's "Big Time Sensuality" at like 4 in the morning. I didn't even know who Bjork was at the time but I went and bought the CD the next day and became a fan. The work Glazer did with Radiohead remains some of the best work I've ever seen, and who doesn't love Romanek's video for "Hurt"? In short, this is good stuff. You can preorder the boxset over at Amazon for a mere $56.
Oh yeah, have I mentioned that Bluestate is tonight?
Things are getting really hectic here in leafblower-land. A few announcements:
1) Bluestate will be returning to the Black Cat on Saturday Sept, 10th. We're working on a special surprise for everyone (and maybe a guest DJ), so stay tuned for news on this as it develops. But don't forget about our gig at Saint Ex next Tuesday in the meantime.
2) I am very happy to announce that I have been asked to sit in as a panelist during the Future Music Policy Summit next month at GWU. To say I'm excited about this opportunity would be an understatement. I'll be part of the How To Podcast and Music Blog panel with the honorable Mike Holden of arlingtonmusicscene.com and none other than my main homey Coolfer. Expect him to toe the corporate line and for me to berate him constantly for it. Hehehehe. Should be fun! :) Now if only I had a laptop so I could live blog the whole thing. *sigh*
My September is shaping up to be seriously busy.
Sept. 09th: Nats v. Braves @ the Bobby
Sept. 10th: Bluestate @ Black Cat
Sept. 11th: Idlewild @ Black Cat
Sept. 12-13: FMC Policy Summit
Sept. 14th: Brett Easton Ellis @ Olsson's Books
Sept. 15th: TBA (but be sure to save the date. For serious)
Sept. 17th: Eric Bachmann (aka Crooked Fingers) @ Black Cat
Sept. 24th: Operation Ceasefire
Sept. 28th: Mark Gardener @ 930
Sept: 28th: Lemonheads @ Black Cat
Sept. 29th: O-motherfucking-Asis @ Merriweather
And this doesn't include the design class I'm taking right now (twice a week) or my upcoming copyediting class, which starts mid-September. I think Across The Narrows is definitely out of the question now.
Unless someone wants to give me free tickets.
Google is starting an IM service, compatible with gmail. I downloaded it and it works! I finally have IM at work. Hooray! Add me to your buddy list. Go here for more info and to download software. Google world domination in 5...4...3...
Hahahahahahahaha. What a load of horse shit. Napster's President thinks Steve Jobs has lured consumers "into a hardware trap" because songs from the iTunes Music Store can only be played on an iPod and the iPod doesn't play songs bought from other online stores. He goes on to rhapsodize, "The dream is that Napster would work on any PC, any player in any territory and work seamlessly." Meanwhile back on planet earth many people are pointing out that:
1) Making people pay a monthly fee for the rest of their life isn't a trap?
2) Napster does not work on Macs. Or Linux boxes. Or many Windows boxes. It only works with Windows XP/2000. I t also only works with IE (not Firefox or any other browser).
3) Many other MP3 players have similar DRM to Apple's iPod, only they are on the Microsoft/WMA side. But I guess this is OK.
Try again douchebag. Funny how all these companies bashing Apple don't have Mac versions of their software. On a related note, I signed up for eMusic last week. It's OK, not great. I'll have a semi-review once I get my thoughts together.
The BBC talks to Martin Carr of the Boo Radleys about Brit Pop. Hear me now, believe me when you buy the record, don't sleep on their final record Kingsize. It's tiggs.
Noel lays down the band's plans for the next album. The short version: "Everyone liked this record, so I'm just going to work on the songs that didn't make this record (Stop The Clocks, anyone?) for the next one and leave all the new songwriting to my brother, Gem and Andy. I'm lazy. We'll take our time on the next record, no rush. I'm lazy. No Greatest Hits until we break up. I'm lazy. Another B-sides compilation with all of our substandard songs from the last few records is on the way. I'm lazy. PS - I'm rich bitch!" In other news, I can't wait to see them next month!
The new Strokes album will be out early next year, and the first single may or may not be entitled "Juicebox". I am VERY interested to hear them mixed by Andy Wallace (one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet) and can already hear the hipster backlash starting now.
Pitchfork hearts the Super Furries and Love Kraft. Yes, I'm completely biased, but this is one of the best things I've ever read on the site. This dude knows his stuff.
Some other photos I found on Flickr that I liked:
- I always like pics of the DC subway Metro system.
- This one is a great shot of DC at night.
This would have beena great idea. Five years ago.
1115.org on the current administration's views on energy policy.
Joaquin Phoenix says, "Listen dude, I...am...an...actor." I finally watched The Village last Saturday and it was just about the worst movie I've ever seen. Related: I hate Coldplay more than ever now. I will not stand for this shite!
Dave Grohl covers Oasis. Side note: That Elbow cover is so effing best. I have it at home. Maybe I'll remember to post it here tomorrow.
Paul Weller touring the US? But no DC date. Wait, the NYC date is on a Saturday. Hmmmmmmmmmmm...
John Peel Day in the UK. Best. Idea. Ever.
Slate on the pleasures of Lunar Park. Related: an old Slate discussion about Glamorama.
DC bands/musicians: Did you know you can attend the Future of Music Policy Summit next month at GWU for free? I wrote a post about it on Dcist today.
Monday, monday, monday. Spent the weekend going to another going away dinner (hehehehehehe), finishing unpacking, hanging stuff on my walls, and finally getting the turntables hooked up. The next podcast is in the incubation stage.
The Super Furry press machine is heating up. Guto tells icWales, "I think we always consider our next album to be a masterpiece," and that the name of the album, Love Kraft, comes from a sex shop of the same name that's located near their home studio in Cardiff.
The Super Furries drink Pepsi, but wouldn't say no to Red Stripe if they came a callin'.
The Guardian UK calls the Furries "grandiose pop engineers", "Welsh-language obfuscators", "paranoid polemicists" and "...men in blue bear suits playing techno." And that's just in the first paragraph. They go on to call Love Kraft "a modern-day psychedelic soul record."
Gruff tells The Independent Online about the alien abduction themed song "Psyclone!"; "The ultimate moral of the song is that when you are crossing the road, you should look right and left, but you should also look up, because you never know what's going to hit you. It's kind of an update on the Green Cross Code for the new millennium."
Did the GLC and SFA team up at the V Festival this weekend? I cant seem to find out. If you know, get at me.
The Chief talks to Billboard UK. Liam still hates Pete Doherty, but The Streets heart Oasis (and Kaiser Chiefs). Noel says Liam will go solo before he does; "He's got more songs, and he's a lot more driven in that department, because although he's 30-odd, he's only just started writing songs, so he's kind of where I was when I was 21."
Depeche Mode is not worth getting arrested over. Obvs.
Radiohead (all of them) have a blog. I think this wins for the most linked story of the day.
I have no idea what this is all about, but it's effing awesome.
Toine's creaky knees cost him two years of guarenteed money, while the C's sign Will Bynum and close in on locking up Dan Dickau. If we sign Double D, then we'll have 18 players under contract (for a 15 man roster) and 5 point guards on the team. Are these two signings the prefix to a deal coming down the pike? Will that deal include Paul Pierce or Mark Blount and Marcus Banks? But if we do sign Dan, that means more of Heather Dickau at all the C's games, and that's not a bad thing.
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