the Love Language played an amazing set tonight.

Lonnie Walker were a fantastic pairing as an opener; I could easily see them doing a similar residency on a slightly smaller scale and it be equally as entertaining.

Every time I see those guys they get better and better, and the same goes for The Love Language. It's a great time for Triangle music and all signs point toward it continuing.

tomorrow night I have to fulfill an obligation to go see The Twilight Singers in Chapel Hill. I'm not really looking forward to it, but whatever.

5/7/2011 2:56:21 AM

and tomorrow LW get to open for third eye blind

EVERYBODY WINS

5/7/2011 4:09:36 AM

DOO DOO DOO
DOO DOO DOO DOOOOO

5/7/2011 9:10:15 AM

this is going to happen whenever anyone calls this morning asking if we have third eye blind tix:

PERSON STUCK IN THE 90s: "Hey, do you guys have tickets to Third Eye Blind at Lincoln tonight?"
ME: "Yes we do, yes we doo-dooooo" (to the melody of "semi-charmed life")

can't wait to swag the fuck out to "semi-charmed life" and other killer hits like "jumper," "deep inside of you," and "bonfire"

[Edited on May 7, 2011 at 10:21 AM. Reason : doo doo doo]

5/7/2011 10:17:06 AM

don't forget about "narcolepsy"

that shit was my jam

5/7/2011 10:22:44 AM

Sinister Mustache & Far and Away (A couple of the guys from CONFESSOR) are playing at divebar tonight

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

5/7/2011 9:19:15 PM

Stu wore my glasses for the Velvet Underground show, does that make me cool?

Saw Tame Impala and Yuck last night. It was a blast. I read a comment regarding tempo changes a few posts up, and for fuck's sake, that's negative nancy crud. And this is coming from ME.

1. You can't honestly expect a band to play a 1.5 hour set at the tempo of that album without their drummer being John Maher or the like. Not a punk band...

2. I could care less about how old the band is...the fuck?

3. Weren't sloppy at all. Can't imagine anybody's complaint of a psychedelic garage-rock band that relies heavily on effects pedals being sloppy. Just doesn't compute.

Anyway; good time. I still can't hear out of my left ear.

[Edited on May 8, 2011 at 12:13 AM. Reason : l]

5/8/2011 12:03:56 AM

Quote :

"Stu wore my glasses for the Velvet Underground show, does that make me cool?"

Yes, mostly because the argument after his procurement of them was how long it would take for him to break/lose them.

5/8/2011 4:56:59 AM

That dude from Lonnie Walker (is he Lonnie? I have no idea) looks like the weird kid from Road Trip with curly hair.

5/8/2011 4:50:48 PM

they look almost nothing alike

5/8/2011 6:12:56 PM

i can sort of see it

regardless, there is no one named lonnie walker

5/8/2011 6:42:08 PM

^^you're nuts

^word, I didn't care enough to look it up.

5/8/2011 8:23:47 PM

and



I see no resemblance at all

[Edited on May 8, 2011 at 9:34 PM. Reason : non-bearded picture]

5/8/2011 9:31:59 PM

WRONG KID

she talkin about this dude

5/8/2011 9:42:45 PM

ah ha

the curly hair comment threw me off

still a bit of a stretch though

5/8/2011 10:02:12 PM

bon iver: friday, july 29, raleigh downtown amphitheater

with the rosebuds

can't find a link yet for when tix go on sale

5/9/2011 12:01:05 PM

Yes, I meant that he looked like the weird kid, with curlier hair.

I realized afterward that my post was confusing.

5/9/2011 4:21:01 PM

DJ Qualls y'all

that guy actually comes to Raleigh all the time. his parents live here or something.

5/9/2011 5:02:16 PM

^^^ Tickets go on sale Friday, May 13 at 10 a.m.

http://music.mync.com/2011/05/bon-iver-announces-us-tour-coming-to-raleigh-amphitheater/

5/9/2011 6:00:55 PM

I have 2 tickets I'll be willing to give away to see Phosphorescent tonight at Kings for the first caller; as in, the first person to mail me on here.

I expect nothing for them, but would love to have karma spread my way at a later date for the person that takes them...

5/9/2011 7:32:17 PM

think im glad i didnt go if i cant even give the tickets away...

alt country is pretty boring, in fact...

5/10/2011 12:12:08 AM

Anyone seen Bon Iver live before? Worth paying the higher (than most shows I go to) ticket price?

5/10/2011 7:52:42 AM

i was at that phosphorescent show and it was the best show i've been to thus far at kings

i normally agree that alt-country as a genre is, generally speaking, somewhat boring (especially live), because a lot of times the songs are so airtight that they don't give room for any new ideas and, as a result, are boring. however, i definitely think that phosphorescent is about ten notches above most of his contemporaries. his music and lyrics always seemed very spiritual to me, and that definitely came through live.

crowd was decent at best and about 1/4 of the people left by the time it was done, but everyone who stayed seemed astonished by just how tight (yet free) they were as a band. they really struck a perfect balance between quiet songs and loud songs, perfect harmonies, some fantastic melodies, and some Parsons-esque west-coast country-rock jams. i was definitely blown away and, while i was already a HUGE phosphorescent fan, became an even bigger one last night.

5/10/2011 12:54:58 PM

dammit now i feel worse for bailing on a phosphorescent show i had tickets for last friday night

5/10/2011 1:57:17 PM

and to clarify, by "spiritual," i mean like hippies around a campfire singing kumbaya spiritual, not jesus-y spiritual

5/10/2011 2:28:16 PM

I knew it was a bad idea to buy tickets for a Monday show anyway, after such roadtrips this weekend... Just pissed that nobody got to use the tickets. I guess Kings doesn't really care...

5/10/2011 3:50:11 PM

can't believe i just paid that much, but bon iver tickets purchased

5/12/2011 10:37:16 AM

^yep, same here...at least i got good seats

5/12/2011 11:04:26 AM

i thought they went on sale tomorrow?

[Edited on May 12, 2011 at 6:48 PM. Reason : nevermind. found pre-sale.]

5/12/2011 6:45:14 PM

can anyone pm me the presale code for bon iver?

5/12/2011 9:30:01 PM

Arcade Fire w/ the Bowerbirds in Charlottesville -- tix on sale in 5 min.

i think i'm skipping the Bon Iver/Rosebuds --- Bon Iver is alright, but damn... that's too much cash.

5/13/2011 9:56:07 AM

^i struggled with it, but ended up betting the house on both band's new records being great and getting seats through the pre-sale last night.

5/13/2011 6:28:51 PM

I was having a conversation with someone the other day about how people will bitch and moan about a show being a certain price but not even give a second thought to dropping $30-40 bucks on drinks at a bar or on (insert drug of choice here).

(btw, I'm in this same boat and haven't bought tickets for this show because of the price. just funny how we prioritize things)

[Edited on May 13, 2011 at 7:35 PM. Reason : ]

5/13/2011 7:34:29 PM

^ I agree... and fuck, I've spent more money on lesser shows, but I already have a lot invested in tickets this summer, and I was only lukewarm on Bon Iver's last record.

Not to mention The Rosebuds play around quite a bit and I've seen them so many times.

5/13/2011 9:22:08 PM

I am going to the Saxophoneahaw River show that the Love Language is doing (could care less about Old Ceremony, honestly), and I'm gonna try to camp out and it's going to be radical.

5/13/2011 9:24:25 PM

I saw Lost in the Trees with The Toddlers at Cat's Cradle on Friday Night.

Lost in the Trees is a favorite band of mine--second time seeing them, and I only want to see more shows.

5/15/2011 4:37:39 AM

^^yea, the haw river ballroom looks awesome. strongly considering picking up tix to that.

[Edited on May 15, 2011 at 2:26 PM. Reason : .]

5/15/2011 2:26:14 PM

Just got back from a trip to Atlanta. Saw The Flaming Lips doing The Soft Bulletin on Thursday and saw Mogwai last night.

Both shows were just phenomenal. I'll be honest, when "Race For The Prize" kicked in, I was almost in tears. That's one of my favorite albums of all time, and the Lips' show is just overwhelmingly celebratory. Really can't wait to experience all of it again at our home in September. I will admit that the show/crowd mellowed out as they reach the last quarter of the album, but then when they come out for a four-song encore of non-SB songs, the crowd got right back into it. And The Tabernacle is just a beautiful venue. They of course closed it out with "Do You Realize?," which was also amazing. I'd say the way it started and the way it ended were the high points.

And Mogwai knocked my socks off. I didn't have very high expectations for that show (I just wanted to stay another night in Atlanta while I was there, really); I thought it would probably be cool but too loud, but the sound was actually perfect at Center Stage. They are a very, very powerful live band. All in all, an unbelievable two nights of music. Glad to be back in Raleigh, though.

5/21/2011 2:39:24 PM

I saw the flaming lips tonight and they were amazinggg

Cee Lo decided to just not show up until he felt like it and only sang for like 15 minutes...

5/22/2011 1:33:23 AM

^ was that at the Hangout Festival? some friends of mine from Wilmington called me from there last night.

hell of a road trip for that particular festival. pretty good line up, but i was all

5/22/2011 7:27:04 AM

5/22/2011 11:26:39 AM

^oh damn. whatever brains full-length or another 7"? that poster is awesomely psychedelic.

5/22/2011 12:08:43 PM

17-track lp on sorry state records with 16 page booklet and downloads of the lp and the first four 7"s.

first two songs will be on the lp: http://whateverbrains.tumblr.com/

5/22/2011 12:20:27 PM

I have an extra ticket to the Okkervil River/Titus Andronicus/Future Islands show on June 1 at the Cradle if anyone is interested.

5/22/2011 9:23:42 PM

^THAT SHOW WILL BE AMAZING, I bought my tickets the day they went on sale.

I'm seeing the beach boys in a few weeks, taking my dad for Father's day

5/22/2011 10:44:45 PM

yeah, i'm still going, looking forward to it

the ticket was somebody else's

5/22/2011 11:01:17 PM

Yeah it was at the hangout fest. The lead singer had a camera on his mic so that was a little triply. But they did an amazing job

Girl Talk was insane today, and I am so tired now. They had him in the Boom Boom Room so there was a crazy soundsystem where you could hear the bass from across the beach. Fun times

[Edited on May 23, 2011 at 12:14 AM. Reason : ps, our road trip is only 4 hours long so a little less serious than Wilmington to Gulf Shores]

5/23/2011 12:09:57 AM

i'll probably have an extra for FI/TA/OR as well, but i gotta know you good

i like that "withnail" jam, rich. reminds me of man or astroman.

5/23/2011 12:34:42 AM

Bon Iver (with Phil Cook) on Fallon tonight

5/23/2011 12:22:38 PM

^ no shit??

attaboy, Phil. One of the nicest guys around.

5/23/2011 7:15:34 PM