I Turn My Camera On
It's not out till May 10, 2005, but A&B Sound is selling it right now. I asked a sales guy and he said "the box it came in didn't say 'do not sell till...' so grab it and run". Comes with a bonus disk too!
Also:
I Turn My Camera On MP3
Stream Gimme Fiction
Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine comic
slap you on the face and enjoy the show
taken with my cameraphone
Weezer's first show in over 2 years was last night at the Commodore Ballroom. They played about 5 new songs and the rest of the set was mostly from the first 2 albums. Lots of Pinkerton, no Maladroit. You could tell which ones were the new ones because those were the songs EVERYONE wasn't singing along or swaying their arms to. An hour into it I realized how many great songs they have and that they wouldn't be playing all of them. They didn't play El Scorcho, Across the Sea, nor my favourite Weezer song: Keep Fishin', but really, no one's favourite Weezer song is Keep Fishin'. They played practically everything else though. Really fun show.
P.S. Maggie where are you now? I was thinking about you.
Last time I saw The Killers was April 2004 when the opened for stellastarr*. At the time they were the talk of the blogs since newyorkdoll.org had posted 4 of their songs.
It was a couple months before their album was released and the place was maybe half full. And they were kinda half boring. The songs I liked and knew were good, the rest were kinda eh. I figured it was because they were an opening act on a Sunday night show to a half audience.
Cut to a year later, they're playing 2 sold out shows at the Vogue, and the place is packed with screaming teenage girls. And me.
Yeah, so after decrying all-ages shows a few days ago, I went to an all ages show. But it was on a Friday night and the openers were Tegan & Sara and I was on the guestlist. There are exemptions for every rule.
Tegan & Sara were magnificent as always, sticking to songs from the new album and the hits from the last one. The audience was genuinely appreciative which was nice. It's a slick pairing since Killers give T&S access to their pop crowd and the twins give them indie cred, even though both are on major labels.
Killers put on a solid show as well. They've become much tighter as a band since last time I saw them. I still only like about half of that Hot Fuss album, and all those songs sounded good live. They even played 2 new songs, one of which was "Coming Out" which incidentally is the first Killers song I ever heard, but didn't make the cut on the album. It's always a good sign when a band plays new songs since it shows they're working hard and not just sitting back (I'm looking at you Damien Rice!). I'm not the kind of person who spends more time hating music than enjoying it, or the kind of insecure person who hates a band once they get really big. The songs I liked then, I still like. So it's nice to see the success The Killers have had with the album and this sold-out tour.
After the show I went backstage for a bit. I saw The Killers drummer and the singer walking around, but I didn't talk or blogfuck them. There was also an after-show party at a nightclub that I didn't go to either. I'm so cool.
A new Turbonegro mp3 from their forthcoming Party Animals long player has been posted at purevolume cheerfully entitled All My Friends Are Dead. This song makes me smile. I'm a sucker for fun death punk.
Bassist Happy Tom says of the new album:
"It's like the best bits of The Rolling Stones mixed with the best bits of Black Flag, but composed by Shostakovich, Stalin's in-house composer"
You know, that old chestnut.
I've been listening to lots of music from Norway lately. Norway is the new Sweden! More on that later.
This is what you want; this is what you get instead.
Sometimes I'll really be into a band and hope they'd come play a show soon, but don't. And when they do, the timing has passed and I'm not so eager to go see them live any more. What can I say? I'm 18-34, fickle and urban. But I've also seen so many shows that I won't even go to a weekday or Sunday show unless I really like the band. And don't even mention all-ages shows unless Lagwagon is headlining.
So I won't go out on a Tuesday night for just any band, but I will for Phoenix since I've been listening to Alphabetical almost on daily basis for the last year or so. And I'm glad I did since it was easily one of the best shows I've ever seen.
What made it so good? Everything. The vocals, the lyrics, the tight rythm section, the crisp drums, my fancy new earplugs, the enthusiastic crowd, how genuinely appreciative they were of the crowd, the fact it was their first time in Vancouver, how much better the live version of Too Young sounds, the singer's pronunciation of the word "says", the extended 7 min version of their best song "If I Ever Feel Better" with added "Owner of a Lonely Heart" riff near the end, the 2nd acoustic version of Everything is Everything during the encore, how great the 2 new songs they played were, everything.
There's only a few more dates on this tour before they go back into the studio, go see them. Or pick up their new new live cd recorded during their European tour last year.
Overheard on Saturday, possibly the whitest thing I've heard in a long time:
"No I can't tomorrow, I'm going to a Masters party."
The marketing for Oral-B Brush Ups is interesting because it's quite obvious who they are marketing these brushes to: whores.
Did you just blow that guy in the alley? Don't have time to brush? Of course not, you're a whore! Would you like to scrub that taste out of your mouth? Of course you would! You're not Melanie Griffith. Use Brush Ups, because whores don't have time to brush.
While shopping for a greeting card yesterday I noticed that Hallmark doesn't make a "Sorry to Hear About That Your Pope is Dead" sympathy card. Cause if they did, I would have picked up a few for the catholics I know.
