The Black Keys, Girl is on My Mind, Live at the Fillmore in Detroit from Keith Wikle on Vimeo Let this video stand as tribute to drunk college girls everywhere. And let this quote stand for all time, “21 year old girls should be allowed to drink, they should also be allowed to attend rock …
Tag Archive: Live Music
Oct
28
How the sausages are made-The Edge shows us his guitars
The Edge Shows us his guitars Bono once said that watching U2 make music was like watching the sausages being made, you would be happier not knowing what went into it. Of course, those of us who are compulsive U2 fans want to see the chicken bones and the baby toenails that go into the …
Oct
24
My Brightest Diamond to Play Ladies Literary Club Nov 5th
My Brightest Diamond to Play Ladies Literary Club If this rooftop video doesn’t sell you, I don’t know what will. Ypsilanti native Shara Worden and her string quartet will rock the beautifully renovated Ladies Lit Club in downtown Grand Rapids Michigan on Nov 5th.
Oct
10
Fleet Foxes-Live at the Ladies Literary Club 10-09-2008
Fleet Foxes Live at the Ladies Literary Club Laura and I visited the Ladies Literary club of Calvin College to see what Pitchfork has called the baroque folk rock band Fleet Foxes. The five piece played a succinct but moving one hour set in downtown Grand Rapids Michigan. The venue is a beautiful Victorian building …
Oct
06
Sigur Ros Live Detroit Sep23rd
Sigur Ros Live at the Detroit Fillmore Theatre I’ve been fortunate to see Sigur Ros live three times now. Each time was a little different. This go round, Sigur Ros performed as a four piece, which they have not done the other two times I saw them. Amina their string quartet companions and collaborators stayed …
Oct
01
Broken Social Scene from Juan’s Basement
Broken Social Scene Jams Churches under the Stairs Brian Eno in the Lanois film, Here is What is, talked about where music came from. He said that most people assume that great music, or art comes out of thin air when as Bono always puts it, when God walks through the room. Eno said most …
Jun
09
Live Shows, The New Pornographers, Okkervil River, The National
We’ve been fortunate to have a series of good live shows come through the Detroit area in the suburb of Pontiac over the last few months. My parents still live in Clarkston, so we manage to coordinate a visit and seeing a show in the same weekend. I’d been waiting to take both kids to …
Feb
13
Vampire Weekend Ann Arbor
The snow hit Kalamazoo wet and heavy yesterday. Just as Laura and I were planning to leave for Ann Arbor to see Vampire Weekend. I got stuck twice in a snow bank. As I was digging myself out of a snowbank for the second time at 10 to seven I realized we weren’t going to …
Jan
14
New Tyler Ramsey Album: A Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea out Now
“Tyler Ramsey”:http://tylerramsey.com opened for Band of Horses when Laura and I saw them in Pontiac this year. He is also one of the guitarists for the Band of Horses. His solo album is out now and available online from “newburycomics.com”:http://www.newburycomics.com/rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=103&upc=103-1021770N Twelve tracks featuring Tyler’s song writing except for one cover of Jackson Browne’s These Days. …
Nov
12
You want music to save your life part two-Band of Horses Live Nov 10 2007
I was reading an interview on “Pitchfork”:http://pitchforkmedia.com (sorry Alex I can’t help myself, some folks read People Magazine, I read Pitchfork)- where in an interview with “PJ Harvey”:http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/46455-interview-pj-harvey the interviewer said that music didn’t mean as much to him now as it did when he was 17. I actually paused on that one. I felt …
