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.

Black Keys Orpheum Theater

The Black Keys played Orpheum Theater... A major breakthrough from Boston's Avalon where I had seen them put on a great show two times in a row. The show opened with the Buffalo Killers (an interesting band with some great lead vocals), friends of the keys, and throughout the concert Dan Aurbach played the Buffalo Killer front man Andrew Gabbard's guitar. The seats were filled with true fans. The band played a wide variety of songs ranging from the Big Come Up to the newly released album Attack and Release (produced by danger mouse). Only dissapointment was we didn't get to hear all the banjos and other exciting stuff on the album (although he did play organ for a bit). The encore went on for 3 songs. Everyone went home happy, yet I still think that now that they are gaining popularity I'm going to miss seeing a rock/blues band like them play in a cool smaller club like avalon.

RADIOHEADandNINEINCHNAILS

Okay, this might be a little to much too handle but in case your not into it already, Radiohead copied Nine Inch Nails. Well, actually, Nine Inch Nails copied Radiohead.... First, Radiohed developed the "pay what you wish" system for In Rainbows (I payed four pounds), which inspired NIN to give their instrumental album "Ghosts I-V" out for free (great album with some nice relaxing stuff). Now, just a short while after Radioheads fame in the press went down, Radiohead copied NIN by creating a remix widget (a sick-nastiful little treat first developed by NIN) where fans can buy parts of songs and make their own remixs of them on garageband or face-book. To be very presice though, Radiohead are only allowing fans to download and remix one song (Nude) while NIN gave out bits and pieces of many songs which were taken away, screwed with, and put back onto the website for people to enjoy. Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead should preform together. Not only do they inspire things in eachother but they seriously would sound good on the same stage.

Pseudo Bassist Has a Sick Blog

The bassist in my band Pseudo has a sick blog called "House of Rock". It's not just about rock but it's pretty neat. Click right here for the link. Clayton (the drummer) also has a blog but I'm not entirely sure if he still updates it. I just wanted to post about Liam's blog (Liam you owe me).

There Will Be Blood/Jonny Greenwood/Popcorn Superhet Reciever

It is now commonly known that Jonny G. of Radiohead went classical (well, he was classically trained) but did you know he also made the whole soundtrack for the Oscar winning movie "There Will Be Blood"? The soundtrack is on iTunes (don't go to Limewire your robbing your favorite artists) and I am still trying to find "Popcorn Superhet Reciever" on CD. That's his own classical piece that he composed. There was a great, very descriptive article about him in New Yorker mag. a while ago by Alex Ross. Look it up. Also, check out the Radiohead website or "Dead Air Space" . It's really weird if you go to the Scrapbook page.

No Age in Spin Mag.

Hi. I subscribe to Spin magazine and in the R.E.M issue this month they had put a No Age song in the top 20 something list. I wrote about No Age in an earlier post. Their album "Weirdo Rippers" is out. By the way, R.E.M did an amazing job with "Accelerate". Usually when a band comes back and makes new stuff after four years they tend to make a slower album. This was not true for Rapid Eye Movement.The title is quite fitting. Other albums out are the new Raconteurs and the new Black Keys. The Raconteurs one is good but the lyrics are LAME with a capital L! The melodies are sweet but the lyrics are just Jack White having a fun boy time without Meg. Far less sophistacated than "Broken boy soldiers". Then there's "Attack and Release (Keys)" with it's cool sort of sci-fi thing going on. It was recorded with Danger Mouse (as opposed to in a tire factory) who does Gnarls Barkley!

American Idol

Sometimes when I see the American Idol shows I wonder why some of them are on the lame competition. A few of them are really good singers, and they're indie and stylish. They honestly could just go and start a band and find gigs at clubs and instantly become famous but they choose to become immediate sellouts. I just wanted to say that because it was annoying me.