MJ+Cardiac Arrest

RIP Michael Jackson.
A legend, great innovator and entertainer.
Although he spiraled downward later in life, he and his music will never be forgotten.

Last Night: PHOENIX !!

PHOENIX AT TERMINAL 5 IN MIDTOWN.
BEST. SHOW. EVER?

(CLICK TO ENLARGE! Pictures with a point+shoot. Venue is a jerk about SLRs.
High ISO. Very grainy. Limited settings on a small camera. Sucked. These would've been rad.)

Phoenix has it together. They are truly an amazing band..
Especially because they KILLED their set last night.

Going to keep this personal & short:

• We were up against the front barrier. Four feet from the stage.
• Opening act Amazing Baby was ironically terrible.
• During the Phoenix set Thomas Mars (lead vocals) jumped into the crowd to dance with us
  
• He invited everyone on the stage but the security guys wouldn't let us go ("THE STAGE IS YOUR'S! THE STAGE IS YOUR'S! COME ON! LET THEM UP!")
• I caught a drumstick! I was with 3 friends, we're doing a 'sisterhood of the traveling drumstick.'
  
• My friend and I touched Thomas when he came in front of us in the press pit to get into the crowd (haha..everyone was going nuts)
• During Love Like a Sunset Pt. 1 instrumental Thomas laid down leaning on a monitor like a pillow. Pictures below:

My love for this band has tripled. Easily the best show I've ever been to.
They played Letterman last night+were four feet in front of me a few hours ago.
Surreal.

Very much looking forward to the next one..see them play if you can!!

Blog Club

Toronto's Tokyo Police Club are recording a follow up to their first LP Elephant Shell in Hoboken (no jokin'). Pretty exciting!

They've got a new blog + update it quite a bit.
http://lookuptobicycle.wordpress.com

backstreet's back (alright...)

I found a dust covered Backstreet Boys CD earlier!
Today was a good day.

It was Black & Blue from 2000, their 'edgy' release.

The other albums are on tapes, hopefully those will turn up soon.
I used to read the Harry Potter books while listening to them ..."Quit Playing Games with My Heart" brings back fond memories of three-headed dogs.

& I'm pretty sure that's why I didn't understand the HP plot at all.

p.s. indielines.blogspot.com

Across the Pond

Everyone should watch this film;
it translated beautifully from stage to screen.

Plenty of subtle British humor, fun UK colloquialisms and blazers.
What's not to like?

A Virgin Megastory

I went to the Virgin Megastore on 14th Street yesterday. It's closing on Sunday.
There were a lot of gross bargain-hunters. (welcome to New York...)

Paid $13.01 for FOUR cds.
(Mt. St Hellen's Vietnam Band, Razorlight, White Lies + The Present)

Now, for Virgin Megamoments:

A look back at the memorable times had in the Virgin Megastore.

2 / 5th of The Strokes inches away.
& Now it's all gone.

Albert Hammond Jr.

Fab from Little Joy

RIP VM! It was fun while it lasted.
Even though you went out in a kinda depressing way.

AnCoVid

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set em wild, set em wild

Everyone should get the new-ish Akron/Family release Set Em Wild, Set Em Free. It's a beautiful experimental indie-rock album. Very interesting music, there's a wide range of style on this record that just..works. And it has the best cover art ever. (Dunno, I'm not a nationalist or anything but there's something inherently appealing about it)

MERCH TABLE

This is a Flight of the Conchords shirt.
FOTC is a hilarious show.
So I want this. A lot.
That is all.

NPSH

Did anyone see V-For-Vendetta?

It was realist-scary.
Real scary.

Remember the time Natalie Portman shaved her head in that same movie?
Remember how it kinda started a cult around her baldness?

Band names were apparently no exception.

Pictured above, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head,
(aka NPSH) an electro-pop/rock outfit from Seattle.

They sound like Hail Social & The Virgins, with a little bit of Lonely Island-esque joking lyrics mixed into some of the tracks. They're on a big big big mostly 18/21+ summer tour right now. If you can stand the hipsters, check them out!

NPSH MYSPACE