Misc. Music Archives

Over at their MySpace page.

They are touring the US later this summer.

After turning in one of my favorite performances of 2007, the likely lads of Pela are back in D.C. tonight at the Rock n Roll Hotel. Color me excited. The band had to cancel their tour in March because lead singer Bill McCarthy cut his hand real good in Chicago. I spoke to guitarist Nate Martinez about the incident, their new band member and some other stuff on behalf of DCist. Go here to read it.

The band also released a new song through KEXP.

Dylan is only # 2.

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.

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)