35 posts tagged “music”
Taking a vacation day + round trip flight to LA + two tickets for the MUCC show at House of Blues = TOTALLY WORTH IT.
Bonus: I think they got some new fans out of my friends!
I got a hair cut.
And maybe a color too.
My eyebrows look hella black now. I'm still in debate over if this is okay or a "Oh no she di'n't!" move.
I saw Stevie Wonder in concert last night, managed to sit something like 8 rows from the front and it was AMAZING. I love you, Stevie! I can officially die musically happy now that I've seen you live.
For the summer. (Oh, who am I kidding? I'll have another, concurrent one, next month.)
I can't concentrate at work right now because I'm listening to the new Girl Talk album and I want to get out of my chair and just dance and holy crap I really didn't want to like this but I can't help it and it just really shows how much cheesy mainstream Hip Hop I know.
Go go go cop it. He's pulling a Radiohead and allowing you to name your price.
N.E.R.D. featuring Santogold and Julian Casablancas (The Strokes) - My Drive Thru
Miyavi's pretty damn entertaining! He completely took me by surprise. I want to take his tap dancer (yes, he had a tap dancer on stage) home in my pocket.
Perhaps I'll write "The long of it." re: the show tomorrow.
Jigga!
Tonight's Jay-Z/Mary J. Blige show was, in short, OFF THE HOOK. And this is coming from neither a hardcore fan of Jay-Z nor Mary. Jay-Z could've easily gone on to perform another hour and Mary sang with so much more emotion than what you get out of her recorded works.
It was also a very Barack-ing night. Spotted a few Barack t-shirt clad folks in the audience and there was even a guy standing with the regular bootlegged concert t-shirt sellers in the parking lot selling, you guessed it, bootlegged Barack shirts (I wonder if the guy was going to give any of the profits to the campaign... probably not). At one point during the show, with a large picture of George Bush projected behind him, Jay-Z started calling out, "Are you ready for change? Are you ready for change, Yay Area??" The picture switched to one of Barack and the crowd went up in an uproar with Jay saying, "This tour isn't sponsored by Barack Obama but it's supported by a free man who's ready for change." The crowd went nuts.
Excellent show... HOVA!
I try to make it a point to not be that guy at concerts. You know, the guy (or girl) that shows up at shows that only knows the one radio hit of the headliner, looks bored during 95% of the show until that one song comes on and they go ape shit? Yeah, that guy.
To prevent that at this Sunday's Jay-Z/Mary J. Blige show I'm going to listen to nothing but Jay-Z non-stop till showtime. With Mary I go way back, she's been singing about the oppression of my heartbroken soul since I was a teenager. But I have a surface appreciation of Jay-Z, so it's time for me to do my homework. Hova!
After a particularly shitty week, I was greeted with this news while meandering through my daily blog roll:
New Album. April 29. The Roots.
AND... Black Thought RIPS it in their first track. RIPS. IT.
