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Radiohead (or my birthday play/wish list)

Radiohead announced additional US tour dates yesterday AND they debuted a new song at last night’s show.  So now I’m beyond excited to get to St. Louis for their show this week with my favorite ho on the stroll.  (But Bee, you say, I don’t care about you!  Well, it looks like they’ll be hitting the Chicagoland area on June 10 to play the god-awful First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre inTinley Park so YOU go enjoy that).  Honestly, if it were up to me to make the set list I’d just go with “play OK Computer and Kid A from start to finish” but that’s not how these things usually work, so here’s a (predictable) list of songs I hope to hear on Friday:

No Surprises (OK Computer)

Quite possibly the most beautiful song in Radiohead’s vast and beautiful catalog.

Karma Police (OK Computer)

Another of my favorites off the masterpiece that is OK Computer.

National Anthem (Kid A)

Aggressive. Banging.  This song is like a kick to the teeth.

Creep (Pablo Honey)

I don’t think any list of Radiohead songs is complete without this one.  Remember that awesome cover Prince performed at Coachella a few years back? Yeah, this was just an excuse to dig that one up.

 Videotape (In Rainbows)

As with everything in my life, I tend to gravitate towards the dramatic and nothing is more dramatic than the deliberate and heavy piano chords paired Thom Yorke’s strained vocals that open this song.

 Lotus Flower (King of Limbs)

Thom Yorke dancing.

That is all.

That is EVERYTHING.

Knives Out (Amensiac)

Just (The Bends)

Can’t get the stink off

He’s been hanging round for days

Comes like a comet

Suckered you but not your friends

One day he’ll get to you

And teach you how to be a holy cow

I MEAN…

There There (Hail to the Thief)
Radiohead’s version of The Wall of Sound.

Optimistic (Kid A)

I obsessed over the toms in this song when I first heard it and spent some quality studio time dicking around with toms trying to replicate the sound.  Nigel Godrich, you are a fucking genius.

Paranoid Android (OK Computer)

Again, I should have just made “Everything off OK Computer” the list and called it a day.

2011 In Review : Photos

Sneaking cameras (plural) into a venue has become sport for me at this point. I don’t get photo passes to the majority of shows I attend, the exception being North Coast Music Festival, which is a lot of fun to shoot. These aren’t necessarily the best photos I’ve ever taken but they’re sure as hell my favorites.

Gogol Bordello @ NCMF - favorite picture of 2011

Oh hey, hi!

Howdy! It has been a long hot second since I’ve updated this page. I’ve been busy working, being a mama, being a wife, visiting my favorite person, reading, commuting, falling asleep at unforgivably early hours but I’m still writing, still going to concerts (when the Ticketmaster sodomy charges aren’t out of control) and I’m still very much keeping up with new music. I’m working on my year end round up because that’s what jerks like me with blogs are supposed to do. In the meantime I leave you with this video taken earlier this year by one of my favorite artists, performing a song off one of my favorite albums at one of my most favorite venues in this city.

Day 19

Day 19: A Song You Like That Has No Lyrics. – Santo & Johnny: Sleepwalk.

The movie La Bamba was in heavy rotation at home when I was a young and impressionable Bee. It’s by no means a “good” movie but its damn entertaining and the soundtrack is boss. The movie ends with this song and to this day I still have to say “RICHEEEEEEEEEE!” as the song fades.

Show Pick: Pinto & The Bean

If you’re making your way to Northcenter’s Ribfest tomorrow stop by the South Stage and check out our friends Pinto & The Bean.  Tapes ‘n Tapes close out the night so yeah…go.  Enjoy.  Eat ribs covered in bbq and stay for some fun music.

The boys released a quirky video for Robot Wars.  Watch below.

Day 2

The 30 day Better Song Challenge Continues.

Day 2 – A Song You Always Look For On Jukeboxes – Dexy’s Midnight Runners: Come On Eileen.

Don’t judge.

Day 1

It’s the first day of June and warm weather has finally arrived.  So in the spirit of doing something fun (with a dash of TMI) and in an effort to get me in the habit of posting everyday, I’m doing The Better 30 Day Song Challenge:

Day 1 – Your Favorite Song: Antonio Carlos Jobim – Girl with the Red Blouse. One of the few songs I have never gotten sick of.  I was turned on to Brazilian bossa by one of the managers at UPS the summer I wasted after high school.  There are some good stories from that era that I’ll save for a bar night.  ANYWAY, Jobim was a genius. Period.  Done.  Next.

Coachella will now take place over 2 weekends

After cock teasing the internet all weekend, Coachella festival organizers announced today that the festival will now take place over two weekends: April 13-15 and April 20-22, 2012 at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, California (where the festival is slated to stay for several more years).  According to the statement issued just minutes ago, organizers will try to schedule the same line up for both weekends.

The expansion to two weekends was in response to the overwhelming demand for tickets – this year the festival sold out in a record 6 days and fans will now be able to buy tickets via the festival’s official website.

Tickets go on sale THIS Friday, June 3rd, 2011, at 10am until the following Friday June 10th, 2011, at 10pm. This advance sale will be the only opportunity to take advantage of the Coachella Payment Plan.   The price of three-day passes remains at $269 plus fees.

I welcome the idea and think if they’re able to recreate the same line up for both weekends then fools like me will definitely be able to secure a ticket.  Downside is that the payment plan option is only being offered with the purchase of real-early bird tickets.  Got lots to think about with this one.  Interested to know what you think – thoughts? Good idea, bad, meh?

Earworm: Diego Garcia – Separate Lives

Diego Garcia has just dropped a serious contender for album of the year, Laura, on Nacional Records and today’s worm is my favorite song off the album at the moment. Not gonna say any more other than LISTEN!

The 354,234,178th Post on Lollapalooza

The Lolla line up is out* and I have mixed feelings about it. See, I’ve seen or plan to see in the coming weeks artists like: Damian “Jr Gong” Marley, Smith Westerns, Best Coast, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Cults, Titus Andronicus, Mayer Hawthorne & the County, Maps & Atlases, Tennis, Ximena Sarinana, Lia Ices, Pretty Lights, Jay Electronica and Daedulus. But I’m excited for Foo Fighters, Eminem, Lykke Li, The Kills, The Mountain Goats, Death From Above 1979, and Julie Easterling. Like I said – mixed response to the lineup.

But I bought my ticket early and look forward to this year’s fest because for me, Lolla is about attending with friends and checking out artists I might not be able to see due to the fest’s ridiculous exclusivity clause, sold out shows or other previously scheduled engagements. So while I might be annoyed that I’ve already seen a good number of artists on the lineup, I’m excited to see those whose shows I’ve missed and hanging out with my besties in what will probably be another insufferably hot August weekend. Once again, I’ll fill my backpack with Imodium, toilet paper, sunscreen, cameras and baby wipes and I’ll see you kids in line for the lobster corndogs at Graham Elliot’s food stand (scratch that – I’ll be FUPA huntin’ with The Naughty Librarian, La Blue Eyes and Wendy from KC. You’ve been put on notice).

*I won’t post the full line up because at this point why bother – it’s EVERYWHERE. Google that bitch if you really want to see all the names.

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