Vivian Girls/Real Estate at UConn & Some CMJ

I have a couple of pictures from Vivian Girls/Real Estate show that was held at UConn and hosted by WHUS on October 30th. WHUS is the greatest... and both bands were amazing. Can't say much about the other two bands that were playing because they were super loud. I just wasn't into it.
Unfortunately, all my pictures looked the same (click to see larger).

I love the Vivian Girls. This was the second time I've seen them live-- first time was over a year ago. They opened for Sonic Youth in August of 2008 [so did Times New Viking!] & I had no idea who they were, but I fell in love (that may be weird to write...) They are awesome and everyone should listen to them. Megs and I brought a couple of friends to the show who had never heard them and both of them really enjoyed the show, which was great! Hmm what else. I bought a t-shirt from Kickball Katy!

Real Estate was very very good as well. Gahhh. Hope everyone who went enjoyed themselves. It was lots o' fun.

I also went to CMJ about a month ago now, damn. There's lots to write about that, but I really don't feel like it. Here's a picture of the hottie from Turbo Fruits (who put on a really fun show!) at Union Pool in NYC.

This photo does him no justice. He's really nice, too. Tiff (WHUS DJ, on Sundays at 10PM) and I talked to him and I bought Echo Kid on vinyl. Sigh. More pictures of CMJ shows later, since all I did was see bands play all night and every night. OH we saw Metric last week so pictures/video (maybe?!) to come!!

Playlist for October 15th 2009

When You're Not There - The Black Hollies - Softly Towards the Light
69 Faces of Love - King Khan & The Shrines - What Is?!
Nothing to Hide - Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
Switched On - Islands - Vapours
Heartbeat - Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves
The Pedlar - Polvo - In Prism
Out On A Limb - The Faunts - Feel.Love.Thinking.Of
Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order - Brotherhood
Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds - Breakfast Club OST
1901 - Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

The Reeling - Passion Pit - Manners
Just Me - Music Go Music - Expressions
Maria - Blondie - No Exit
Dew In the Grass - Sea Wolfe - White Water, White Bloom
It's Been So Long - AM - Future Sons & Daughters
I'm Looking Through You - The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Venice Beach - Desolation Wilderness - New Universe
Beach Comber - Real Estate - Underwater People's Comp
Two Dancers - Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
It's Always Like This - Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues but I...
Sorry For Laughing - Josef K - Endless Soul
Yours for the Taking - The Disciplines - Smoking Kills
January Twenty-Something - Why? - Eskimo Snow

ps.

Come celebrate the beginning of Halloween by hanging out at WHUS’ annual fall show and rocking out to some sweet bands! Featuring performances by:

Vivian Girls
Real Estate
Math the Band
My Heart to Joy

October 30th, Student Union Room 304. Doors: 8:00pm, Show: 8:30pm

This event is free for UConn students. Non-UConn Students: $5 with costume, $10 without costume.

Why? Au in Concert

I saw Au and Why? in concert last night at Daniel St. in Milford. Dark Dark Dark was also playing with them...but somehow I missed that. Anyway! Au was intersting, they were more of an experimental indie band but the drummer was incredible. There were a few really nice songs in the set but honestly it was hard to tell when one song ended and the other started. But if experimental folky indie is your thing, I would suggest checking them out. I didn't get many good pictures of them although I tried since the drummer was super cute.

Why? made me happy in so many ways. First off, their set included my top favorites being "Vowels pt 2", "January twenty something" and "This blackest purse". From what I hear their newest album "Eskimo Snow" has the least amount of hip-hop influence than any of their albums. To make up for this they played a song called "21st Century Pop Song" from Hymie's Basement, Yoni's hip-hop indie side project. You can find a YouTube clip of it below since I thought it was amazing. It was a great show although I'm bummed I missed Dark Dark Dark. Anyway pictures and clips can be found below!

Au
(Luke Wyland: vocals, keyboard; Dana Valatka; Drums)

Why?
(Yoni Wolf: vocals; Josiah Wolf: drums; Doug Mcdiarmid: keyboard)


Fast forward to 2:30

End of summer.

Two WHUS DJs and [some] of their summer adventures:

Seeing Ghostface Killah, Redman & Method Man (pictured)



Montréal

June 18th 2009: Square Pegs

AHH WE NEED A SHOW NAME.

Anyway this show was filled with silly banter and many technical difficulties. Meg and I were with our good friends Claudy (DJ Shorty) and Dana. Here is what we PLAYED for YOU:

oklahoma - bishop allen - grrr...
girlfriend - phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
heart problems - ted leo & the pharmacists - shake the sheets
refuse angels - crocodiles - summer of hate
my time outside the womb - titus andronicus - the airing of grievances

modern times - the black keys - magic potion
antenna - sonic youth - the eternal
percussion gun - white rabbits - it's frightening
she's got the touch - jeff who? - jeff who?
coffee & tv - blur - best of blur
the ritz - office - a night at the ritz

heartbreaker - mstrkrft - fist of god
virus - vinter in hollywood - outbreak
she moves she - four tet - rounds
twin of myself - black moth super rainbow - eating us
welcome to jamrock - damian marley - welcome to jamrock
evil - interpol - antics
cold cold - stephanie's id - grus americanus

front row - metric - fantasies
help i'm alive - metric - fantasies
dear mama - 2pac - legend of hip hop
over the colour you like - problemaddicts - dark side of oz
wildcat - ratatat - classics
kiss - prince - purple rain
royksopp - alphamale - The understanding

also been seeing a bunch of shows this summer, thought I'd share some pictures:

From top to bottom: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Titus Andronicus, Mika Miko, The Coathangers, & David Byrne!!!

Yeahhh boyyy

Human Rights Festival April 18 2009, UConn, Dow Field. Dead Prez is headlining! FREE! COME! & visit the WHUS table!

Playlist for April 10 Show:

Paddling Ghost - Dan Deacon - Bromst
Hot Caught - Eagle & Talon - Thracian
Help I'm Alive - Metric - Fantasies
Sweet Potato - Imperial Teen - The Hair The TV The Baby and the Band
Ghosts (Remix) - Ladytron - Ghosts
Explode - Uh Huh Her - Common Reaction
Wu-Tang (Battery pt. 2) - Boys Noize - Oi Oi Oi
Competition - Spank Rock - Yo Yo Yo
The M.G.M. - Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever (<3)
Take Over - Zion-I - The Take Over
Sing! Captain - Handsome Furs - Plague Park
One, Two... One - Say Hi - Oohs & Aahs
Dead Memory Man Houses - Still Flyin' - Never Gonna Touch the Ground
Bruises - Chairlift - Does You Inspire You
Paris Is Burning - Ladyhawke - S/T
You Are My Sun - Vitalic - OK Cowboy
Twoface - Harrison Schaaf - EP
White Lies - My Dear Disco - Dancethink LP
What's Your Name Again - Fancy - ED Rec Vol 2
Take A Ride - Keelay & Zaire - Ridin High
Do it Easy - Junk Science - Grandad's Nerve Tonic
Krazy ft. Lil Jon - Pitbull - Rebelution
Hot: Sizzling, Scorching, Torching, Blazing - Large Pro - Main Source
Hurting (Ft. Masta Ace) - Problemaddicts - The First Step
Electric Relaxation - A Tribe Called Quest - Anthology
Gold Guns Girls - Metric - Fantasies
Heads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

Next show will be April 24 at 3 AM - 5 AM. It will be Spring Weekend (our favorite event). We will probably be playing awesomely bad music & having too much fun.

LISTEN!