‘music’ Archive
This entry was posted June 10th, 2008 and has 2 comments.
Last night was the Death Cab for Cutie show at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Despite the 100+ heat index, a few thousand people came out to enjoy the stylings of one of America’s biggest rock bands.
The show was opened by Rogue Wave, who I was looking forward to seeing. Though they only played for 30 minutes, Rogue Wave was tight and sounded great. The crowd applauded after each song, but it was obvious that the majority did not know Rogue Wave’s songs. The people were there for Death Cab.
Any time you see a band who is touring to promote a new album, you wonder if they are going to stick to their new songs, with maybe a smattering of previous hits thrown in. As you can see from the setlist below, Death Cab did an amazing job of working in songs from their entire catalogue. While not everyone knew some of the older songs, those who did were excited to hear them. Even though the set spanned the last decade, it flowed perfectly from song to song.
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This entry was posted June 9th, 2008 and has no nomments.
This is just a quick post to link to some of the amazing new stuff that is out as of today.
New iPhone announced at WWDC. It will be available July 11 and starts at just $199. I think I’m going to have to cancel my TMobile contract early.
New Sigur Ros album leaked today. This is one of the greatest bands in the world. Their new album is beautiful, as always.
Tonight is the Death Cab for Cutie show at Merriweather. Hopefully I’ll have some photos to post tomorrow and will not get heat stroke.
The annual Maiste crab feast/cookout/karaoke party was this past weekend. As always, it was so much fun. Thanks Mike for hosting another great party.
I’ve also recently downloaded some other really good music that is worth listening to: Bowerbirds, Wye Oak (from Baltimore), and the new Lil’ Wayne. Check them out and let me know what you think.
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This entry was posted April 17th, 2008 and has 1 comment.
Last week I sat down with Baltimore hip-hop band Soul Cannon to discuss their new album, give us some insights into who they are, and try yet again to explain their sound. We talked for over an hour, but I managed to edit it down to a more approachable 9+ minutes. Make sure you watch the entire video. There are some real gems hidden in there.
Soul Cannon’s new album, aptly titled “Kaboom”, is out on April 22nd. You will be able to find the CD in various stores, but be sure to get your copy at the CD release show, which is being held on Friday, April 25 at The Ottobar.
I cannot stress enough how much you need to be at this show. This is your opportunity to not only see an excellent band, but to also have a great time. So check out the video, listen to the new songs on their MySpace page, come out to see them on the 25th at The Ottobar, and buy the new record, Kaboom!
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This entry was posted April 1st, 2008 and has no nomments.
Yesterday I purchased tickets for my first show of the upcoming summer: Death Cab for Cutie at Merriweather. Even though it’s more than two months away, June 9 to be exact, I’m pretty excited for this show.
I first saw Death Cab a couple years ago at DAR Constitution Hall in DC. The show was good, but we were so far away that it was pretty hard to see. I also saw Ben Gibbard on a solo tour he did last spring with David Bazan at the 930 Club. That show was really excellent and a lot more fun.
I’m expecting the Merriweather show to be equally as good. I was at Merriweather last summer to see the Decemberists with the BSO. I had great seats for that one and had a really great time. My seats for Death Cab should be even better. They’re also playing with Rogue Wave, who I’ve been getting more into recently and am also looking forward to seeing.
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This entry was posted March 7th, 2008 and has no nomments.
Anyone who visited YouTube today may have been a bit confused and asked themselves who or what is Sigur Ros? Today, Heima, the 97-minute documentary from the brilliant Icelandic band Sigur Ros, became the first feature-length music DVD to be available on YouTube. Sigur Ros also took over all of the Featured Videos space on the homepage as seen in the screen shot below.
My first reaction to this news is to be a bit shocked. Sigur Ros, while a beautiful band and one of my favorites, does not seem like the logical choice for something like this. That’s why this is so awesome. All Sigur Ros songs are sung in Icelandic and their music is a bit more ethereal than most popular bands. I guess I would expect a huge company like YouTube/Google to choose a more well-known or accessible band like Radiohead or Coldplay. Or, maybe I was expecting something lame like Fall Out Boy or Good Charlotte.
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This entry was posted January 12th, 2008 and has 5 comments.
If you were at Soul Cannon’s show last night at The Ottobar, it is very hard to argue that statement.
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Posted in Baltimore, Chris Walbert, music
This entry was posted December 27th, 2007 and has 1 comment.
There are days every once in a while when I hear a song and, for whatever reason, that song just fits my day perfectly. I was listening to the new Nada Surf album “Lucky” this morning on my way down to DC, when I was struck by the first track, See These Bones. After listening to the entire album, which is pretty good, I played See These Bones again and ended up listening to it on repeat for the rest of the day.
It’s hard to articulate exactly why this happens or even why I like this song so much. Maybe it’s the guest vocals from Ben Gibbard, or the way the song starts off with kind of a heavy feeling then begins to sound more hopeful and joyous as it builds, before reaching it’s climax with layered vocals singing,
“Do you remember when the light was low?
Do you remember it fell?
Do you remember when we went through her house?
Remember ringing the bell?”
and
“Look alive
See these bones
What you are now
We were once
Just like we are
You will be dust
Just like we are
Permanent”
I really don’t know what it is about this song or why I listened to it so much today, but each time it was finished, I wanted to hear it again.
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This entry was posted December 13th, 2007 and has 6 comments.
I know every music site or blog out there is putting out their top 50 or 100 albums of 2007 now, so I had to get in on the action. Instead of rating or ranking the albums based on which are the best, I’m just going to share the albums I’ve been listening to most this year.
If there’s something on the list that you haven’t heard, go out and get it. If there’s an album you love that I don’t have, please share it with me. I’m always looking for new music.
So, without further adieu, here are the albums from 2007 that I’ve enjoyed listening to the most.
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This entry was posted October 10th, 2007 and has 4 comments.
As pretty much everyone knows by now, Radiohead released their new album, In Rainbows, today. The album isn’t available in stores or on iTunes, only directly from Radiohead. The band basically shocked the music industry when they announced on October 1st that they would be releasing this album themselves, without the backing of a label. A much bigger deal was the fact that there would be no set price for this album. Instead, Radiohead believed that people, when given the choice, would pay a fair price for the album.
This is genius, and actually works, for so many reasons. First, they didn’t release any promotional copies to radio stations, stream new songs on MySpace (they don’t even have an official page), or allow the album to leak in any way. They merely announced 9 days ago that they had a new album coming out and told you where you could get it.
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This entry was posted October 9th, 2007 and has 1 comment.
Last night, I ran my fastest 3-mile run to date. My overall pace was 7:57 per mile, finally breaking that 8-minute mile time. Yesterday was a beautiful, hot, humid October day. After a somewhat trying day at work the run was exactly what I needed.
I decided to run to the song Let Down by Radiohead on repeat. It’s a beautiful song, but not something you’d think of as a running song. For whatever reason, I just wanted the repetition of that song over and over. And each time the song restarted, it was just as good as the first time.
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