The Slip

I'm kind of late posting this, but oh well. Nine Inch Nails have lived up to expectations (or mine at least) by releasing another brilliant... and free, album, The Slip. It's good to hear Trent's voice again (jk, I loved Ghosts). So, to continue on the Radiohead vs. NIN post, apparently in an article (in some newspaper) Reznor claimed he would never do exactly the same as RH because he "didn't wan't people telling him how much he was worth". I can see where he's coming from but just because someone chooses to pay a buck for your music, doesn't mean they aren't into you. They could just be cheap (ha ha). I get the impression that most Radiohead and NIN fans tend to be pretty loyal to their favorite artist. Thank you very much *bows*.

Black Cab Sessions

I got these videos (the website link), the Black Cab Sessions, by e-mail. Check 'em out. An idea conceived by Hidden Fruit production and filmed by Just So Films, A cab rides around London picking up great bands everytime (is it off the street? MMJ, Spoon, yeah, right). Everything from Spoon, and My Morning Jacket, to the New Pornographers, and Martha Wainright. You can click here for the site. In the meantime, here's Spoon playing "I Summon You"

RE: American Idol

Remember that earlier post about how I thought some American Idolers were cooler and better than they seemed? I take it back. THEY'RE ALL LOSERS!

Radiohead @ Comcast Center

Radiohead put on the most amazing concert I'd ever seen at the Comcast (Tweeter) Center on the 13th in Mansfield, MA, with an opening by the band "Grizzly Bear". Radiohead is on their "green tour (no big hot stage lights, merch made of recycled bottles)" and the light show, with long fluorescent colored rods hanging from the ceiling, was beautiful, yet interestingly simple. The thing was, Radiohead didn't need flashing lights to make them sound/look cool. They went on and on starting with the "Reckoner" and going through the concert with an amazing array songs, some of them extended and changed, like an acoustic "Faust Arp". In the encore, Thom Yorke played piano for a song (cymbal rush) from his solo album, The Eraser. The concert ended on "Idioteque". Highly satisfying. And the best part you ask (not really)? Johnny Greenwood wore a big, bold NO AGE shirt. Their new album, Nouns, by the way is spectacular and much more evolved from Weirdo Rippers.