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big digits in video vision
Thanks to Onward Charles (who all you Boston music fans should be visiting) for alerting us to Big Digits’ ‘World is Yourz’ music video. Can’t get enough Big Digits.
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R. Kelly’s modern masterpiece has all new chapters which you can watch here. Thank you R. Kelly and thank you IFC.com.
And for all of you in Austin, or Boston new chapters means new hope for new and updated Trapped in the Closet Sing-A-Long goodness brought to us by the good folks at the Alamo Draft House. So keep your eyes peeled when passing the Coolidge Theater because if you’ve never been to the R. Kelly Sing-A-Long you’re missing (and I’m not exaggerating) the most fun movie experience of your life.
In Will Oldham is popping up everywhere news…
Will Oldham seems to be in all sorts of hip hop videos these days. First he was featured in Kanye’s ’Can’t Tell Me Nothing‘ and now he’s made an appearance as a detective in Ch. 15 of ‘Trapped.’
- aaron
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some shows and such
Some shows to look out for.
8/8 - You Can Be a Wesley @ Hennessey’s [note the date change]
8/11 - Cold War Kids @ Agganis Arena
8/11 - The Novel Ideas @ the Paradise
8/11 - Junior Senior @ the Middle East downstairs
8/12 - Tokyo Police Club w/ Ra Ra Riot @ the Middlest downstairs
8/13 - Au Revoir Simone @ T.T. The Bears
- aaron
Oh. And the Mountain Goats are playing downstairs at the Middle East September 30th.
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Matt & Kim @ the middle east
For all yall who know the Brooklyn duo Matt and Kim, on LA DJ/Promoter Frankie Chan’s label iheartcomix!, they are playing Thursday nite @ the middle east in cambridge – heard their shows are a good time so ch, check it out… For those who are unfamiliar, check out the tracks and videos below:
Original “Yeah Yeah”
Mp3’s can be downloaded at the Matt & Kim website or at their MySpace.
~ “Yeah Yeah“
~ “Silver Tiles“
This Flosstradamus remix of “Yeah Yeah” might be my favorite though, it’s kind of like a sesame street dance party or something, yeah… Get the mp3 here.
Enjoy!
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Digits, Deacon, and Okkervil
Thursday Andrew and I went to see Big Digits and Dan Deacon upstairs at the Middle East. Andrew will hopefully post his own account of the evening a little later.
Mr. Butch died last week. If you’re from or live in Boston you’ve seen Mr. Butch. He was an icon. Big Digits dedicated their set to Mr. Butch and it was the best set I’ve ever seen them perform. Unfortunately the credit for the top notch set rests largely in the addition of DJ (or WiiJ) Marky Moon. No longer did they have to fiddle around with iTunes between songs, and no longer did they rely solely on their fun, but sparse video game inspired beats. Marky Moon was constantly sampling a variety of songs that complimented Big Digits’ tracks quite nicely.
Moon’s remixes created a much fuller sound for all of Digit’s songs and whether it was Mr. Butch’s death, Moon’s additions, or the enthusiastic crowd Big Digits was on the top of their game. Mac and TD seemed to be able to sense how much more effective their songs had become and went ballistic on stage.
Best Big Digits show I’ve ever seen. Hands down.
Thursday was the first time I had seen Dan Deacon perform. As I’ve said before I’m terrible at fitting artists into categories, but if I were to describe Deacon’s music to someone I might say, “electronic music that may be impossible to dance gracefully to.” His songs are an epileptic mix of Dan’s distorted voice and electronic beats that cause your legs to twitch and your firsts to fire into the air.
He sets up his equipment (an ipod shuffle) on the floor and allows his guests (us) to stand all around him on the stage and floor. A strobing glow-in-the-dark is the beacon that allows you to know where Dan actually is.
Overall, the show was fantastic and news that Dan would be back in September with Girl Talk made me giddy. [Note: I can't find any information that confirms that they'll be back like Dan said, but I'll cross my fingers.]
I saw Okkervil River in Concord, New Hampshire on Saturday. Okkervil has a tight live show and the venue I saw them at had very good acoustics so the mandolin stung the air, and Will Sheff’s voice flooded the theater. The whole atmosphere of the show was a bit weird (it was a charity event put on by a player from the Spurs – I hate the Spurs), but that sounded good and I am excited to see them in Boston in September.
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shows…(soon)
Justice LP is officially out in the States. Go get it (legally).
Also, there some new stuff from Interpol, Smashing Pumpkins, and Menudo. I don’t
know if the Justice album will be able to survive the frenzy created by Menudo.
I’ll update the shows for the week tomorrow.
- aaron
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more cowbell?
In the latest ’kind of music news,’ Cambridge’s own Harmonix announced eight tracks for its upcoming release: ‘Rock Band.’ Included in the eight announced tracks is Blue Oyster Cult’s ‘Dont Fear the Reaper.’ Clearly, we’re diametrically oppossed to the decision to include the track.
Check out the rest of the tracks and some new screens over at ShackNews.
- Aaron can’t wait to play Rock Band.
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shows for the week
After a long hiatus our weekly shows for the week post is back. Here they are; dig them.
7/7 - Murphy’s Law @ the Baseball Tavern
7/9 - Fujiya & Miyagi @ the Middle East downstairs
7/12 - Dan Deacon and Big Digits @ the Middle East upstairs
Also, congratulations to You Can Be a Wesley (who we featured in a past post) who won Emergenza Battle of the Bands last Friday at Avalon. I don’t know exactly what winning entails, but I’m sure it’s better than losing.
And! although it is only early July, September is shaping up to be a monster month for shows. Animal Collective, Peter, Bjorn & John, Do Make Say Think, Okkervil River, and the show I’m most excited about (by far) The Selmanaires and Black Lips. I can’t wait.
[Editor's Note: the Dan Deacon/Big Digits show is not technically this week but I'm pretty pumped for it...so, oh well.]
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Songbird
