Sonic Concerts Announcement: Bloc Party

Sept 14 & 15. Info and tickets: http://www.sonicconcerts.com/

And tonight... The Sadies!
Watch this video of them backing GORD DOWNIE, singing one of my very favourite Iggy & The Stooges songs. This is almost too much goodness. Be prepared... (just pretend the sound was better).

So You Think You Can Do This?

I have a guilty Reality TV pleasure (ok, quite a few - but this one's my favourite) in "So You Think You Can Dance". Although it's still in the kind-of-boring audition stage, THIS was on last night and I can't stop watching it. I honestly have trouble doing a full sit up, and I can't (and never could) bend over and touch my toes. I never ever felt bad about that until now. Check this guy out:

"So Wonderfully Wonderfully Wonderfully Wonderfully Pretty..."

THE LOVECATS

I Just Saw Leonard Cohen

(photo from Halifax Herald)

Leonard Cohen. May 12. Rebecca Cohn Auditorium. Halifax, NS. 8-11pm.

Brilliant and beautiful, last night's show was all that I was hoping it would be and more. Spectacular band, lighting, sound, voice, crowd... I've loved Len for years, but now I just might be obsessed. Maybe obsessed isn't the right word. But...either way, whatever I am, that show was UNbelievable. One of the top 3 best concerts I've ever seen. And I've danced on stage with Pearl Jam, watched Radiohead in a soft seat theatre on their last tour, saw the legendary BB King, the White Stripes in a small pool hall with about 60 other people, Wilco on the Waterfront, Do Make Say Think outside in a field at sunset, and my first big show was Bob Dylan in the 1990s.

Set List:
1. Dance Me to the End of Love

2. The Future

3. There Ain't No Cure for Love

4. Bird on the Wire

5. Everybody Knows

6. In My Secret Life

7. Who By Fire

8. Anthem (Ring the Bells)

INTERMISSION

9. Tower of Song

10. Suzanne

11. Gypsy Wife

12. Boogie Street

13. Hallelujah

14. Democracy

15. I'm Your Man

16. Take This Waltz

ENCORE

17. Heart With No Companion

18. So Long Marianne

19. First We Take Manhattan

ENCORE 2

20. Closing Time

ENCORE 3

21. I Tried to Leave You

ObliVideo

Wintersleep - Oblivion (By Darren Pasemko)

Little Radio

Although I sometimes forget about it, I recently rediscovered littleradio.com. For someone who is as terrible at finding new bands these days as I am... it's a great way to discover new things. It's the best streaming 'radio' station online. A sample playlist is below.

Annuals - Around Your Neck / Hayden - Worthy of Your Esteem / Sonic Youth - Do You Believe In Rapture? / Red House Painters Grace Cathedral Park / The Cave Singers - Seeds Of Night / Muse - Citizen Erased / Radiohead - Reckoner /The Hives - Puppet On A String / Holy Fuck -The Pulse / White Stripes - Jolene / Preston School Of Industry - Get Your Crayons Out! / The Detroit Cobras - On A Monday / Pavement - Soul Food /Carbon/silicon - Tell It Like It Is / Gruff Rhys - Beacon In The Darkness / Dinosaur Jr - Back To Your Heart / Grizzly Bear - Knife (coverd By Css) / Califone - 3legged Animals / Andrew Bird - Dark Matter / Neko Case - Blacklisted / The Little Ones - Lovers Who Uncover / The Pink Snowflakes - Our Electric Hair /Yo La Tengo - The Room Got Heavy / Afghan Whigs - Turn On The Water / Pink Mountaintops -Cold Criminals /Band Of Horses - Lamb Of The Lam (in The City) / The Von Bondies - Save My Life / Camera Obscura - Let's Go Bowling / Grizzly Bear - Deep Blue Sea (daniel Rossen Home Recording) / Animal Collective - Cuckoo Cuckoo / The Flaming Lips Free Radicals [the Bird And The Bee Mix]

Annnnnnnnnnnd in other news... new Beginners album on its way!