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posted by catherine / July 16, 2004 /
well, i just decided right now that today would be music friday. it's not like i have ever before had a music friday. maybe it should become a regular thing.
a couple of photos of ted leo playing in a storm in nyc. just keep clicking forward. i have i mentioned that i am a little obsessed with ted leo? i suggest everybody come out to his show at the black cat thursday, july 22, 8:30pm. only 10 bucks! oh. here are some more photos from when ted played hamilton college last year. for charles! did i mention i love ted leo?
yay for hot bands that sound like interpol/radiohead and dress better than i could ever hope to! last night, after this three-hour writing class i'm taking that i'm not really sure is worth it, i met up with tommy and his sister beth at the iota in arlington. beth is friends with a guy in this band called the fatales, who were opening for the album leaf, so we thought we'd check it out. and the fatales were suprisingly good. i dropped $7 on their ep, "pretty in pixels." a brief review of the ep is here. pictures of a recent fort reno performance are here. they're talented and all, but it certainly doesn't hurt that their lead singer is a hottie.
i really liked the album leaf, too - or what i heard of them, anyways, before i dragged tommy home because i was exhausted. it was really atmospheric - all instrumental. good make out music, methinks. tommy noted that it would probably be on a hip car commercial before not too long.
are you a PROPER radiohead fan? take the all-revealing test and find out. my favorite question: "have you ever said you liked radiohead just to get laid?" i'm thinking that is not necessarily a criteria to get someone into bed, but what do i know. i scored a perfectly normal "healthily obsessed."
elliott smith's final album to be released in october. it's entitled "from a basement on the hill." some say best dead person album since "sketches for my sweetheart the drunk." in other news, i have started to fear for the rest of my musical idols and their imminent untimely deaths. smith and buckley were two of the first musicians (besides radiohead) that i loved with a fiery teenage passion. thom yorke, stuart murdoch and jarvis cocker best be careful.
carl notes that there are about 32 billion albums coming out in the next six months that we should all be excited about. i swear, i am so happy with music these days. i was not happy with music up until about a year ago. music sucked. i cried a lot. bands i loved were putting out shit albums and linkin park wannabes had taken over the radio. now i turn on 99.1 and hear modest mouse or franz ferdinand. i walk into corporate whore tower records or borders and am confronted with front-store racks of cds i thought no one liked except me. and while jimmy buffet's cleverly titled "license to chill" is currently the #1 seller on amazon, wilco is #5. hurrah. it's a revolution.
there's a cd cellar in clarendon! who knew? apparently lucky magazine is cooler than i, because they knew. beth alerted us to the fact that it had opened amongst the swaths of yuppiedom about two months ago. the cd cellar in falls church has long been a favorite record store of mine in the area, even though i haven't been there in months. i mean, it's no plan 9, but in the d.c. area, you take what you can get.
skinnier ipods headed this way in august. but they're banned in the UK military for being a security threat! how weird.
moveon.org and mcsweeney's are putting out a benefit cd, called "future soundtrack of america," that looks pretty good.
that is all. i am tired out from scouring the internet to bring you lame music items that no one really cares about and/or already knows. but that was music friday! hurrah!
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A few things:
- I, too, am healthily obsessed, according to the quiz (72%).
- Future Soundtrack for America is the pet project of one of the guys from They Might Be Giants! That's right! Eat it!
- The Album Leaf CD is good. But I'm starting to think they're more likely to have their music used in a commercial for a telecom company than a car ad -- although the car ad remains a definite possibility.
(In the future, this is what all music reviews will be like.)
OK, who wants to tell me if I should bother with the new Wilco and Polyphonic Spree CD's?
no idea on wilco, but I'll probably post something on the po;lyphonic spree CD in a little bit
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