Last weekend at Glastonbury, Lily Allen was joined by lead singer Terry Hall and guitarist Lynval Golding for a rendition of the group’s classic “Gangsters.” This was the first time the two have share the stage in almost twenty-two years (!!!) so check out the link and dance around your room/office building like a madman. Look closely and you can even spot Billy Bragg hopping around the side of the stage.
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It’s hard for me to be totally objective when reviewing Wilco because they’re probably my favorite band around. I always herald Wilco as one of the few bands that sounds better live than on their albums, which is a big feat considering their albums are great. I’ve heard various people call their latest album, Sky Blue Sky(Nonesuch), boring, but I disagree. These naysayers have to experience the material off of it live because it was rollicking good time.
The crowd around me seemed into the show, singing along and dancing. Great energy. I’m glad I was on the floor and not in mezzanine because I was dancing like a fool (thus, the lack of pictures). Wilco was tight, utilizing dramatic pauses, guitar solos and walls of sound to draw the audience in. I love all the guys of Wilco, but let me just say, Nels Cline is a guitar god who plays his guitar like it’s a part of him. Whether it was a hyper number like “I’m a Wheel” or a somber sing-a-long like “Via Chicago,” they were on point.
Glasgow’s The Twilight Sad are embarking on a mini U.S. tour this summer after recently doing a full tour supporting Aerogramme. The last date of their tour is at Siren Festival in New York where they’ll play alongside The New York Dolls, M.I.A., and Matt & Kim, to name a few. The Twilight Sad’s debut album, Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters(FatCat), released last April, was an exercise in atmospheric orchestration similar to that of Sigur Rós that’s worth checking out for yourself.
07/13/2007 - Terrace - Madison, WI
07/14/2007 - Union Park - Chicago, IL (Pitchfork Music Festival)
07/17/2007 - Sonar - Baltimore, MD
07/18/2007 - Great Scott - Allston, MA
07/19/2007 - Johnny Brenda’s - Philadelphia, PA
07/20/2007 - The Oasis - New London, CT
07/21/2007 - Coney Island - New York, NY (Siren Festival)The Twilight Sad Myspace
I’m not one to really be impressed by band merch but Cloak/Dagger’s tshirts are what first caught my attention. At MD/DC/VA shows I would always see at least two people wearing a tshirt emblazoned with the Cloak/Dagger logo but in an array of colors: yellow, orange, pink, red, etc. I finally got the nerve to ask someone what the band was like and he told me a mix between Black Flag and Hot Snakes. I figured that I’d check them out myself.
Last October at The Fest V in Gainsville, FL I finally got to see them play and I understood why they might have an affinity with color. Like a kid walking around in a bright yellow shirt in a sea of black and white, Cloak/Dagger is an anomaly. Their garage rock n roll tinged songs are aggressive yet rhythmic enough to actually dance to which sets them apart within a genre where music is almost always too fast or too angry to shake your hips too. I stayed around to pick up their CD after their set but they didn’t have one out. The only music that was available to buy was a 7″ and that was about a year old.
Earlier this month the D.C. Council tabled a bill originally proposed by council member Jim Graham in February that would have placed restrictions on all age shows within the district.
If the bill was accepted it would have prohibited people under 18 from entering clubs that serve alcohol after 11 p.m. on weekdays and midnight on weekends except in July and August when the underage curfew is midnight every day.
Dcist.com has done a really good job of covering the ordeal. Check out their post on the tabling of the bill and click the links in the article to learn more.
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