I don’t know if our FTP could handle all eighteen minutes of Arlo Guthrie’s vaguely-Thanksgiving classic “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” so in honour of the occasion I give you something a little more depressing: “Styrofoam Plates” by Death Cab for Cutie!
Have some Hand Bird!
Next time I do a Death Cab post, I’ll try not to be such a downer about it.

 Death Cab for Cutie - Styrofoam Plates: Play in Popup | Download

And now that I’ve gotten enough of the Dresden Dolls website for a few day, I’m going to tell you about the Say Hi concert I went to on Tuesday. Ned is a big fan of Say Hi, from back when they were Say Hi To Your Mom (that means he’s better than you). I’d never hear them before and expected another quirky pop band worshiping at the altar of Weezer. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing at all, but there are a lot of bands like that, and I already like a few of them, I just can’t sit down and decide Okay, Ultimate Fakebook is catchier than Motion City Soundtrack, but MCS has better lyrics, I’ll keep them. Ozma’s early stuff is excellent, but I can’t get into their new stuff, I’ll trade ‘em for Hot Hot Heat . But it’s a show at Kilby, and I’m not one to say no to that. I did have a good time, but I couldn’t really hear the vocals for Say Hi, and a lot of their charm relies on the lyrics and I missed out on that. They did a number of cool things, though, including Eric playing “Yeah, I’m in Love with an Android” by himself, about third song in because somebody wanted to hear it and had to leave. The also did away with the silly rock tradition of leaving the stage before coming back to play two more songs. As a reward for their honesty, we gave ‘em a “One more song!” chant anyway, while there were standing right there. And if you were curious, we asked Eric before the show why he changed it from Say Hi to Your Mom to simply Say Hi. “Because I got lazy.”
I do recommend giving Say Hi a listen. They have a good number of songs about vampires.

A quick mention of the opening acts:
The A-Sides, from Philadelphia, play pretty good shoegaze. The real benefit of seeing these guys is their drummer. He plays with a very personal style and a very fervent passion.

What really stood out about The Velvet Teen, from Santa Rosa, Cali, was the basswork. Being a three piece, the guitar is mostly atmospheric, though louder than one would associate with that word. The bass plays most of the least and has a sound similar to Muse (fuzzy and dominant). Their drummer throws down mad thunder, too, but differently from the A-Sides.

Say Hi // MySpace // Buy CD

 Say Hi (To Your Mom) - These Fangs: Play in Popup | Download (657)

I recently got an email about the Langerado Music Festival. Do I need to say how excited I am about this?

If you read our recent post, you’d have discovered that LovetheMusic is based out of Tampa (and SLC, but thats Damon), and this Langerado festival is like, hours away. Not plane rides and hotels away, just a couple of hours in the car. And because its only hours away, that means me, the special boyfriend, and more of my friends can come this time. It will be awesome. There will be camping in Florida in March, when it hasn’t quite become balls hot yet. And I’ll get to see more of the Sunshine state, and this is in an area I’ve never been to before.

Nothing but positive vibes and goodness here.

 L I N E - U P

Beastie Boys • R.E.M. • Phil Lesh & Friends • 311 • Matisyahu • Thievery Corporation • The Roots • Gov’t Mule • Ani DiFranco • Ben Folds • G. Love & Special Sauce • Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood • Built to Spill • The National • Les Claypool • Umphrey’s McGee • The Disco Biscuits • Mickey Hart Band • of Montreal • Robert Randolph & the Family Band • The Wailers • funky Meters • Citizen Cope • Antibalas • !!! • Dark Star Orchestra • Ozomatli • Sam Bush • Minus the Bear • Ghostland Observatory • Arrested Development • Blind Melon • Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars • The New Deal • Benevento Russo Duo • Perpetual Groove • Railroad Earth • Martin Sexton • The Avett Brothers • Grace Potter and the Nocturnals • The Walkmen • Dr. Dog • Indigenous • State Radio • Vampire Weekend • The Bad Plus • The Felice Brothers • Pelican • Yard Dogs Road Show • Brett Dennen • Earl Greyhound • The New Mastersounds • Dan Deacon • Josh Ritter • Pete Francis • Ryan Shaw • Blitzen Trapper • matt pond PA • The Dynamites feat. Charles Walker • Bassnectar • Balkan Beat Box • The Lee Boys • Shout Out Louds • Golem • The Wood Brothers • Busdriver • RAQ • Will Hoge • Spam Allstars • Phix • American Babies • The Heavy Pets • Backyard Tire Fire • The Postmarks • Steel Train • Hoots and Hellmouth • Jonah Smith • Pnuma Trio • Awesome New Republic • That 1 Guy • Trevor Hall • American Bang • School of Rock All-Stars •

Do you see the Beastie Boys? Thievery Corporation? Ben Folds? G. Love? Ani Difranco? Roots? Yay!! And Les Claypool. I’ve heard so much about this guy, this will be a real treat.

T I C K E T S
• A limited number of tickets will be priced at $169.50
• When these sell out a limited amount will be priced at $184.50
• When this allotment sells out, tickets will be priced at $199.50

• Ticket price includes access to all four days of the Langerado Music Festival and on-site camping for the duration of the event.

• All regular (non VIP) tickets are General Admission.
• Price does not include service, facility and shipping charges.
• Guard your tickets carefully - Just like cash! There will be NO REISSUES for lost or stolen tickets!

More updates will come as Langerado draws near. I hope you guys are willing to check it ou, looks like a crazy Bonnaroo in South Florida. We’ll see!

 Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation [2:18m]: Play in Popup | Download

I fully intended to tell you all about the Say Hi (to your mom) show I went to last night at Kilby, but I got distracted by the Dresden Dolls website.  Seriously, it’s the website that I wish all my favourite bands had.  Most official sites are tragically neglected, and the ones that do get a lot of attention mostly get that attention from a “Fifth Beatle,” like Weezer’s Karl Koch.  I love Karl as much as the next Weezer fan, but it’s just not the same.  If you’re able to deal with purple text on a black background, then you’re in for a lot of Amanda-written content ( biography, responses to countless emails), a great collection of photographs,  lots of actual music (I especially appreciate the “You can tape if you share” attitude towards bootlegs).  There’s a noticeable effort to keep things from being hard-to-find, and a genuine appreciation for the fans.  There’s also a selection of hate mail that’s available, some of which Amanda has responded to, which is entertaining but also reminds me why I don’t participate in message boards anymore.
So, now you know what I was doing instead of reviewing last night’s show or working.  But I’m still thinking of you, gentle reader.

 Linda Ronstadt- Winter Light [3:17m]: Play in Popup | Download

While I was over at Culture Bully earlier, I noticed that his links list was organized by region, city, and state. I looked down to Florida to see if we were there (we’re not), and then it occurred to me to look under SLC, Utah, which is where Damon is based out of. Not there either. Not that that particularly matters, but I realized that our readers probably don’t know that we’re based out of Tampa, and Salt Lake City.

Well, we are. There you go.  I’m in Tampa for a few reasons, the most basic one being school. I go to University, yup. I think Damon is in SLC because he sort of ended up there, like an old Walmart bag. He’s a ramblin’ man of Utah, been going all over, sleeping on various couches in between going to shows and interning as a kind of shop dick at X96 in SLC. Fortunately for him, he’s done with his schooling. I still have a year. Well, realistically, a year and a half and I’ll have a B.A. that isn’t worth a shit in 2009.

Anyways, this is a good post to talk about a blog I found in CB’s list called Thanks Captain Obvious, or for short, Captain Obvious. It caught my attention because its based out of Pensacola, and I used to live in the next town over from the city, and I went to school there, too. Little weird. Also weird is that the music featured over there has a healthy mix of what we feature here, and these awesome Obvious Tapes posts, which have like 10 badass mp3s per post. What more could you want?

(Picture is from the Pensacola Bridge, or 3-mile bridge. Or whatever)

Random MP3eesie:

And yes, I spelled Burtney like that on purpose. I’m mad wicked.

 Nickel Creek - Toxic (Burtney Spears cover): Play in Popup | Download