Friday, March 30, 2007

Spiderman 3

This may be a reason to buy the soundtrack:

Spider-Man 3 OST tracklisting:

1. Snow Patrol - Signal Fire
2. The Killers - Move Away
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sealings
4. Wolfmother - Pleased to Meet You
5. The Walkmen - Red River
6. Black Mountain - Stay Free
7. The Flaming Lips - Spiderman vs. Muhammad Ali
8. Simon Dawes - Scared of Myself
9. Chubby Checker - The Twist
10. Rogue Wave - Sight Lines
11. Coconut Records - Summer Day
12. Jet - Falling Star
13. Sounds Under Radio - Portrait of a Summer Thief
14. Wasted Youth Orchestra - A Letter to St.Jude
15. The Oohlas - Small Parts

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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Sondre Lerche & The Faces Down/Willy Mason/Thomas Dybdahl

Sondre Lerche & The Faces Down/Willy Mason/Thomas Dybdahl
23 March 2007
The Fillmore
San Francisco, CA

A... M... A... Z... I... N... G... The show started off slow, and a bit late for me, but it was incredible. Thomas Dybdahl was okay, but made me sleepy at times. Perhaps I was just sleepy to begin with. I forgot how Willy Mason's sound was like so he surprised me when he let out his voice. Mason sounds even better with a full-band as the last and only time I've ever seen him before was opening for Bright Eyes. Sondre Lerche was incredible like I expected. He's so energetic and lively. It's hard not to dance to his music as he stated himself that their music is for dancing, but why are most people at the venue so boring? Most people were just standing there stiff. I tried to hold back, but I couldn't. Lerche's set goes down as one of the best sets I've ever seen playing mostly tracks from Phantom Punch, but also playing tracks like "Two Way Monologue".

Willy Mason


Sondre Lerche




Sunday, March 18, 2007

Week of March 18, 2007: Notable Releases This Week

TUESDAY


I'm From Barcelona's Let Me Introduce My Friends


Willy Mason's If The Ocean Gets Rough


LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver


Ted Leo and the Pharmacists' Living With the Living

Low's Drums and Guns


Modest Mouse's We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank


Andrew Bird's Armchair Apocrypha

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Daft Punk Returns

Who isn't excited for this? Daft Punk's first US tour in 9 years!

Daft Punk US Tour Dates (From Filter):

July
21 Los Angeles, CA – L.A. Sports Arena ^
27 Berkeley, CA – Greek Theater *^
29 Seattle, WA – WaMu Center *^
31 Denver, CO – Red Rocks *^

August
5 Toronto, Canada – Arrow Hall *^
7 Montreal, Canada – Bell Center Arena *^
9 Coney Island, NY – Keyspan Park *^

* = w/ The Rapture
^ = w/ Sebastian and Kavinsky

Feist & KoC

I didn't even realize Eirik was on the new album.

"Indie Singer Feist Aims 'Lowbrow' with New Album"

By Jonathan Cohen Tue Mar 6, 9:21 PM ET

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Indie singer/songwriter Leslie Feist spent more than two years on the road promoting her 2004 breakthrough, "Let It Die," but the core of her upcoming set, "The Reminder," was assembled in less than a week's worth of sessions at a rented home outside Paris.

There, Feist hunkered down with her touring band, frequent collaborator Gonzales, Jamie Lidell and Dominic "Mocky" Salole to capture the "lo-fi, lowbrow sound" she had been hearing in her head for months.

"Something that was new for me was trying not to use headphones," she told Billboard.com Tuesday over breakfast in New York. "We tried to do as few overdubs as possible. We'd do what we'd call 'town hall,' which was everybody around one mic singing all at once. I wanted it to sound a bit like a congregation."

"The Reminder" includes two songs ("Intuition" and "Honey Honey") that date back to the "Let It Die" sessions, as well as a Ron Sexsmith co-write ("Brandy Alexander") that took shape in unusual fashion.

Feist recalls, "I said, 'I have these words. What do you think?' He said, 'I think have a melody, but I don't have any way to record it.' About six months later, he came to one of my shows in Los Angeles and he said, 'Remember those lyrics you sent?' He played the melody on a guitar but I had no way to record him either. I just remembered it. Six months or so after that, once I was in the studio, I told Gonzo, I remember the melody but I don't remember what chords he was playing. So we recorded the song and I sent it to Ron to ask him, 'Is this kind of what your melody was?' He was like, 'Ooh, uh, OK!"'

With "The Reminder" ready to be unleashed April 23 internationally via Arts & Crafts and May 1 in the U.S. via Cherrytree/Interscope, Feist has four months of road work in front of her. She begins in Europe in April, moving west to east in Canada in May and then in the opposite direction in the States in June. The artist is also shooting videos for first single "My Moon My Man" and "1 2 3 4" this month with director Patrick Daughters.

But first up is a long-anticipated vacation in Mexico with Kings Of Convenience members Erlend Oye and Eirik Glambek Boe, the latter of whom sings on the new album's final cut, "How My Heart Behaves." "I have this one week off in the next four months," Feist says. "Maybe we'll write a whole album. Because we don't have to, we probably will."

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