Death Cab For Cutie are giving Sacramento another chance. Nearly a year after the band's headlining show at UC Davis (Remember, the one with the narcoleptic audience), Mr. Gibbard & Co. will be at downtown's Memorial Auditorium. This is a show you don't want to miss, especially because the opening band, Cold War Kids, are real barn-burners themselves.
Be there, Monday, April 27th. Tickets go on sale Saturday, January 31st.
Now, who's going?
You Are What You Share
I know there's more than a few of you out there who'll appreciate this video on shared information, open collaboration and the new shape of community in our world today. Make the jump to catch the video below.
Pavement Reunion?
So there's a rumor out there on the ole internets that Airbag Radio's absolute second or third favorite band, Pavement, may be getting back together for a little reunion tour in the near future. This would be so fucking awesome! Next to Rage Against The Machine, this is the number one reunion that I would want to witness. And I was lucky enough to see Rage reunite at Coachella 2007. Will I be as lucky this year? C'mon Pavement... I've got my fingers crossed. Here's to Coachella 2009!
Public Service Announcement
Tired of sorting through all that shit in your mailbox? You know, those pages and pages of ads offering to save you a whopping 35 cents the next time the next time you take your goldfish to get groomed. Well do yourself and your mother (Earth, that is) a favor and click here to unsubscribe from the PennySaver. It might not take care of all of your junkmail but it's a start. You'll be glad you did.
Fake Plastic Song
There's a new old project in the works called 7 Worlds Collide featuring an all-star list of musicians, including Ed and Phil from Radiohead and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy. Check the vid below to catch Jeff Tweedy laying down the vocals for a cover of Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees."
Philosophical question of the day: Is this still a cover song if 40% of Radiohead (e.g. Ed & Phil) is featured in the performance as well? Or is it Radiohead featuring Jeff Tweedy? If not, then how many members of a band does it take to pass as the original? In Radiohead's case I'll go out on a limb and say that if any one of the members is not present, it just quite isn't the same. There's something unique about those five guys playing instruments together that doesn't happen with just any group of people.
Hittin' The Studio
Airbag faves The Raveonettes are hitting the studio this year. Some of you may know them from their contribution to our Turn It Up! compilation, "Aly, Walk With Me." Look for a new album in September. And if you haven't already done so, get an earful of their last full length, Lust Lust Lust, one of our faves from '08. (PS We promise some future postings on the year that was.)
Coolest Kids On Earth!
Check the vid below...
For the record that's Pavement "Stereo" and that my friends is why these are the coolest kids ever and I can only hope that my kids will have one tenth the coolness of these indie rock hipsters.
Rave On This Christmas
After the last post, we thought that we should spread some holiday cheer, so from Airbag Radio to you, here is a free download of "Come On Santa" by the one and only, The Raveonettes! Enjoy! And if you like what you here there is whole EP of Christmas joy from The Raveonettes available to you on iTunes.
Grammys For Sale
So the Grammy award nominations are out and blah-dee-blah-da-blah, they are total shit again, as they are every year. Why am I the least bit surprised by this? I don't know, I guess it's because it's been 365 days since the last time such an underwhelming list of non-artists was announced.
Good news, Radiohead did get a couple of nods, including one for album of the year. Bad news, Grammy awards are voted on by folks at record labels, and Radiohead isn't on a label. So, I am sure that In Rainbows will be losing out to Coldplay's Viva La Vida, the official "Mom On Her Way To Starbucks Cruising In The Range Rover" album of the year.
Also as equally mind-numbing as the nominations is the number of categories. 110. Multiply that by 5 nominations per category and that's 550 nominations. Now, there may be 550 artists worth nomination out there, but only about 6 of them made the list. The rest of the selections look like they could be a free compilation album that you'd get with your copy of Us Weekly.
Now as much as I am ranting right now, I will probably tune in to watch the Grammys as I do every year and thank God for the fact that He saved me from listening to this horrendous music and pray that He will bestow the same grace upon the rest of America.
By the way, if it seems like I am overreacting, consider this: The Jonas Brothers are nominated for Best New Artist. Need I say more?
Good news, Radiohead did get a couple of nods, including one for album of the year. Bad news, Grammy awards are voted on by folks at record labels, and Radiohead isn't on a label. So, I am sure that In Rainbows will be losing out to Coldplay's Viva La Vida, the official "Mom On Her Way To Starbucks Cruising In The Range Rover" album of the year.
Also as equally mind-numbing as the nominations is the number of categories. 110. Multiply that by 5 nominations per category and that's 550 nominations. Now, there may be 550 artists worth nomination out there, but only about 6 of them made the list. The rest of the selections look like they could be a free compilation album that you'd get with your copy of Us Weekly.
Now as much as I am ranting right now, I will probably tune in to watch the Grammys as I do every year and thank God for the fact that He saved me from listening to this horrendous music and pray that He will bestow the same grace upon the rest of America.
By the way, if it seems like I am overreacting, consider this: The Jonas Brothers are nominated for Best New Artist. Need I say more?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
