Band of Horses secret show.

The Vera Project was talking about a secret show with a secret headliner this Saturday and they said "if you like indie rock you should go" or something like that. I guess you could say I like "Indie Rock" so I was intrigued. But last Thursday they announced it was Band of Horses. BoH are notorious for their boring live shows but I thought at a really cool and small intimate space like the Vera it might be really cool, which it was.
Tyler Ramsey opened with a really nice set of folksy/rootsy acoustic songs. His fingers are long! Like, really long.
He also played with them, and it turned out it was his first show with them. Honestly I couldn't even really hear what he was doing, he just added extra guitar strumming.
But it was way better than I expected. I've never heard the Vera get sound like that, it sounded almost exactly like the cd.
I tried taking some videos but the sound ain't so hot. Not even good enough for youtube.
But I took some pictures.



I should start taking a real camera to shows instead of digital. I need a flash and a dark room though...
Here's the setlist:
Is There a Ghost
Great Salt Lake
Weed Party
Islands on the Coast
Monsters
First Song
Our Swords
(Some cover song I don't know)
Marry Song
Part One
Lamb on the Lam (In the City)
The Funeral
Ode to LRC
Wicked Gil
No One’s Gonna Love You
Unknown Song (Pretty sure it was a cover)

MP3's from the new CD:
Marry Song
Islands on the Coast
Ode to LRC

PWRFL Power

Last night I was at the Vera Project with some friends seeing Mt. Eerie, the Moools, Oregon Donor and PWRFL Power. Oregon Donor were average, Moools were awesome and Mt. Eerie was enchanting and all that, but I'm blogging about local talent PWRFL Power today.
I saw him at the Capitol Hill Block Party, and you can look at that post for some videos I took from that show, but since then I was so hyped on him I bought his CD and I've been listening to it a lot lately. He put on a great 6 song show last night with his brand new electric guitar which gave him a
really cool sound, I think I may have liked it better. His complicated finger picking patterns sounded strangely fit with the subtle distortion. Sometimes his childish vocals sunk a little low in the mix and you couldn't hear his wonderfully simple lyrics, but besides that it was flawless (oh, it was a litle out of tune at times).



and some MP3's I really recomend
It's Okay
Let Me Teach You How to Hold Chopsticks
Let's Play Drums

www.myspace.com/pwrflpower



And someone asked for this Death Cab track. It's an REM cover
Driver 8
I think it's OK. Nothing special, but worth the listen. It's from some radio session, I forget.

Rainbows

I'm sure this will be in every single blog you read, or already is...
But Radiohead's new album is called Rainbows.
This is the tracklist:
15 STEP
BODYSNATCHERS
NUDE
WEIRD FISHES/ARPEGGI
ALL I NEED
FAUST ARP
RECKONER
HOUSE OF CARDS
JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE
VIDEOTAPE

And...
It comes out in 10 days!

but it's wierd....
check it out for yourself
www.radiohead.com

But to get psyched here are the tracks Thom performed solo on a piano for that in the basement thing that will be on the new album.

Videotape
Down is the New Up



But man.... I am so excited.

Did you know Death Cab are recording?

Cause they are. Back in the studio and all...
Some guy named Tom said I should post about it cause it's newsworthy. And two people also asked for a zip file of that mix I made, which is understandable if you don't want to right click and save each and every song, so here:
22 songs
Again, I recomend you burn it to a CD and listen to it as a whole, that's how I intended it.

And a DCFC b-side:
Rocking Chair
It's a Band cover.

And I recently got turned down by HypeMachine. Lame. I think it's cause I use hotlinkfiles.com and that's not compatible. Whatever...

Do you know how awesome this song is?

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man

Seriously. Everytime it ends I hear my brain scream "Fuck Yeah!"
I'm normally not into solo's but goddamn! Every single instrument solos at the same time pretty much and it doesn't sound pretentious or annoying.
Plus the album cover is really awesome.
Buy the record

Super Mix

So my friend asked me to make her a mix, and I happily agreed because I love making mixes, expecially when they're for people. I think I may have made one of my best mixes yet. It flows so smoothly from front to back. I was so psyched about it I thought I'd make a post. Every song!!! That means you should download them all and burn a CD of it and play it front to back, cause it sounds great like that. I promise.

1. Microphones - Headless Horseman (Buy The Glow Pt. II)
2. Dntel - The Distance (Buy Dumb Luck)
3. Feist - 1 2 3 4 (Van She Technology Remix)
4. Grizzly Bear - Alligator (Choir Version with Beirut and Dirty Projectors)
5. Islands - Where There's a Will There's a Whalebone (Buy Return to the Sea)
6. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (Buy None Shall Pass)
7. Dizzee Rascal - Pussy 'ole (Buy Math and English)
8. Natalie Portmans Shaved Head - Sophisticated Side Ponytail (Demo)
9. Yacht - See a Penny (Pick it Up) (Architecture in Helsinki Remix)
10. Walter Meego - Through a Keyhole
11. Cocorosie - Rainbowarriors (Buy The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn)
12. Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning (Buy Velvet Underground & Nico)
13. Sparklehorse - Box of Stars (Part One) (Buy Goodmorning Spider)
14. Stars - Window Bird (Buy In Our Bedroom After the War)
15. Tarkio - Weight of the World (Buy Omnibus)
16. Kind of Like Spitting - Scene (Buy One Hundered Dollar Room)
17. Pedro the Lion - Slow and Steady Wins the Race (Buy Winners Never Quit)
18. Wolf Parade - I'll Believe in Anything (Buy Apologies to the Queen Mary)
19. Xiu Xiu - Clowne Towne (Buy Fabulous Muscles)
20. Devendra Banhart - This is the Way (Buy Rejoicing in Hands)
21. American Analog Set - Choir Vandals (Buy Know By Heart)
22. Antony and the Johnsons - Bird Gehrl (Buy I Am Bird Now)

Blam! That's a lot of music.

I'm starting driver's ed.

uuuuuuugh. It's kind of like having another class. Atleast I'm getting it done and not waiting until I'm almost done with highschool (like my brother).



Cloud Cult - Car Crash (Buy Advice From the Happy Hippopotomous)
Blood Brothers - Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck (Buy Crimes)
Xiu Xiu - Fast Car (Tracy Chapman Cover) (Buy A Promise)
Radiohead - Killer Cars (Acoustic)
Violent Femmes - Gimme the Car (Buy Violent Femmes)
M83 - Car Chase Terror (Buy Before the Dawn Heals Us)
Ben Gibbard - Two Cars (Acoustic Performance)
Mogwai - Travel is Dangerous (Buy Mr. Beast)


man this list could go on and on....