Posted: April 21st, 2007 | Author: danieljosef | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off
CSS – OFF THE HOOK
CSS play Lee’s Palace on June 4, 2007 with Datarock. Tickets are on sale now at Rotate This and Ticketmaster.
Posted: April 19th, 2007 | Author: danieljosef | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off
YEAH I KNOW!! – Andy
This is the greatest entertainment news story EVER!! Matt Lucas and David Williams have inked a deal with HBO to bring my favourite British comedy Little Britain to America! Oh joy!!! Now we’ll get more episodes featuring my favourite characters: Ann, Vicky Pollard and Lou and Andy!!
Read more about it here.
Posted: April 18th, 2007 | Author: danieljosef | Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
JUST STUFF
Lots of stuff to note:
- Patrick Wolf is slated to open for Amy Winehouse at the Mod Club on May 12 and 13. I’m praying that a Toronto promoter tries to fan dangle a solo headlining show out of Patrick.
Ps. If ANYONE has a line on a couple tickets for either Winehouse gig, I would FOREVER be indebted to you and could potentially trade my first born for the tix. Need to see Winehouse and Wolf together. I may also be willing to look at some sort of trade for AF tickets. Please Please Please let me get what I want….this time.
- Tokyo Police Club will be on Letterman tomorrow night. Way to go boys! Check your local listings for airing times. Check out their new video for Cheer It On below. The guys are also playing an Edge 102 Next Big Thing show at the Drake on April 22, 2007. You can only get tickets through the Edge, so head over there to enter.
- My favourite indie songstress Feist was profiled in my favourite magazine The New Yorker (in the current issue). The article is pretty amazing, author Sasha Frere-Jones does a great job dissecting her sound (and I think he was sitting behind me at the show back in March). Not to mention she looks radiant in the picture that accompanies the piece. Feist plays Massey Hall on May 25th and 26th, Great Lake Swimmers support (tickets here).
- Voxtrot’s show at Sneaky Dee’s is on sale now through Rotate, Soundscapes and Ticketweb. Get them now, it’s gonna be a sell out and a sweaty mess of a show.
- Brooklyn Vegan has an amazing article with Bjork. Check it here. She talks about Antony. I heart Antony.
- Some shows:
05/01/2007 – Stars Of Track and Field – Berkeley Church (more to come on this in a couple days)
05/23/2007 – The Faint – Opera House – Tickets on-sale now
06/04/2007 – The Clientele w Beach House – El Mocombo – tickets on sale now
07/08/2007 – Shout Out Out Out as part of Harbourfront’s Beats and Breaks festival
07/12/2007 – Cat Power – Phoenix Concert Theatre
That’s it for now. Oh except, I’m finally getting the redesign that blacking out the friction deserves. I’ll eventually be moving off blogger onto my own site! Yeah!
Posted: April 15th, 2007 | Author: danieljosef | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off
Klaxons – Golden Skans
Posted: April 15th, 2007 | Author: danieljosef | Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
April 13, 2007
Soundlab
Buffalo, NY
Buffalo can be a pretty shady place at night, especially the downtown core, where Soundlab is situated. The first thing we noticed while being dropped off my our hotel’s shuttle bus (our glorified private driver for the entire night, we were driven to the liquor store, grocery store and a sub par Greek restaurant before being dropped off at the bar for the show) was that the streets of downtown Buffalo are absolutely deserted. Not a soul was seen walking around, and it was pretty eerie, like something out of 28 Days Later.
Soundlab is a great small venue, very long and narrow. We arrived at 11pm, and had just missed Ninja High School, who we all wanted to see. Next up was a pretty terrible Dj…his name escapes me right now, but it was bad. Beefalo people seemed into though. Greg Gillis aka Girl Talk started his set at about ten to midnight and from the get go, he had the entire crowd eating out of his hands. People tend to slag off his sets, he doesn’t Dj…no turntables, no mixer…just a couple laptops and a mouse, but I challenge anyone to keep the energy and excitement up for almost two hours like he did Friday night. His mash ups were incredible, the transitions flawless, and the crowd went nuts the entire time. People were out to have a good time, the bar’s drinks were disgustingly cheap ($3 Red Stripes!) which made for a pretty hammered crowd. Simply amazing.
UPDATE>>>Here is a short 45 second video clip I took from Friday’s show.
Posted: April 6th, 2007 | Author: danieljosef | Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
BJORK – WE ARE THE EARTH INTRUDERS
So I got my first cease and desist notice from Blogger today in regards to this post. I find it ironic that there was supposedly a “complaint” by Bjork’s manager (see comments below) concerning the You Tube link that I posted to a video taken of her new album cover with her new single “Earth Intruders” playing in the background. I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH POSTING THE VIDEO ON YOU TUBE, NOR DO I KNOW WHO DID. Why go after a lonely blogger when instead they could have gone directly to the source of the problem, the You Tube video and the You Tube user that posted the video…makes no sense to me.
Regardless, the video was removed by You Tube sometime today, and I have removed the embedded link. But really, realistically, what is the threat here? It’s a really shitty quality video, with crappy sound! Is someone really going to make an MP3 out of it and distribute it, I don’t think so (and to boot, the song is widely available ALL over the Internet, from crappy 128kps to FLAC lossless!). If anything, the video is brilliant marketing for Earth Intruders (I actually originally thought it was an official leak by her label), it lets people sample the tune before downloading it from iTunes (why would someone want to pay for a song they haven’t heard, it’s not like Bjork gets radio-play in North America, by no fault of her own, but the corporate big wigs that have absolutely no taste).
So there’s my rant. I wonder if Bjork even knows that her “people” are harassing fans about this. I wonder if she even cares that people have heard the track in this manner. She seems to be the type of person that values art over commerce, and I really can’t see her caring that people are watching a video to hear her new song. It’s just plain silly.
-Daniel Josef.
Posted: April 1st, 2007 | Author: danieljosef | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments Off
TONIGHT MAKE ME UNSTOPPABLE
Bloc Party w Sebastian Grainger/Albert Hammond Jr.
March 25, 2007
(not so)Kool Haus
This show marks the third time I’ve seen Bloc Party, but first for A Weekend In The City, which has turned out to be my favourite album by these kids, as much as I love Silent Alarm, I find AWITC much more cohesive and mature than its predessor. Arrived at the venue at 9pm, midway through Sebastian’s (aka the other half of DFA1979) set. It was…noisy. But good. I need to hear more of his solo stuff before I can form an opinion. Albert Hammond Jr.’s (aka the big-haired Stroke) set was surprisingly good, the tunes were poppy, summery and fun. His voice does come off a bit Julian-esque, but I really enjoyed his set. That being said, I wouldn’t pay to see him headline a show.
BP went on at 10:50pm, late for a Sunday night show, but no one in attendance seemed to care. The room went bonkers from the opening note, as said before, Kele is probably my favourite frontman, he’s incredibly captivating and charming. And the rythmn section is pretty rad too. Only complaint is that the mix was a little muddy for the first half of their set, it was really bass heavy, but it may have something to do with where I was standing the the cavernous venue. A plea to promoters in the city, stop using this venue for rock shows, it sounds like utter shit, and security are a bunch of twats. Setlist was a perfect blend of new and old, although Blue Light was sadly missed from the set. Oh, and Mr. Kevin Drew (aka who I have seen at the last 400 shows I’ve been to) came out during So Here We Are and sang back up. It was great.
Set List:
Song For Clay
Positive Tension
Hunting For Witches
Waiting For The 7:18
Banquet
Sunday
This Modern Love
Little Thoughts
The Prayer
Uniform
So Here We Are
Like Eating Glass
Encore:
I Still Remember
SRXT
She’s Hearing Voices
Helicopter
Overall, a good show, not as good as the Opera House gig a couple years back OR their set on the island last year, but still good.
Check out explosive laughter’s Flikr photo set from the show here.
Read Chart Magazine’s review here.
Read Janice’s review here.
Mike at fortherecords has a bunch of video links to their performances at MTV in Toronto here.
Read Now’s review here.