Live Show: Silversun Pickups (11/17/2007)

Sunday night I caught the first half of the 99x Mistle Toe Jam and it was pretty cool. I learned a few things from the night:

1. I really hate having to drive Outside The Perimeter for a concert.
2. The traffic situation at The Gwinnett Center Arena is horribly ridiculous.
3. I've decided that some of The Shins stuff is amazing, and a bunch of it is way too boring to me.
4. Paste magazine, which I usually enjoy, has the worst top album list of 2007 I've seen so far.
5. The Silversun Pickups are as great live as I had hoped they would be.
6. Silversun Pickups have been touring for 2 years straight and this was their last show of that tour. Hopefully they are going to go make another great album. So, here's a show from last month to jam:

Silversun Pickups - 2007-11-17, Paris, France; Nouveau Casino

Silversun Pickups
2007-11-17
Le Nouveau Casino
Paris, France

Source: Sony ECM-719 > Sony Hi-MD RH10 (PCM mode) > USB / Sonic Stage > WAV > Adobe Audition 2.0 (normalization and track splitting) > shntool (fix SBE) > FLAC
Location: 4 meters in front of stage
Taper: XWayne

01. Intro
02. Melatonin
03. Well Thought Out Twinkles
04. Dream at Tempo 119
05. Rusted Wheel
06. Waste It On
07. Little Lover's So Polite
08. Future Foe Scenarios
09. Kissing Families
10. Three Seed
11. Lazy Eye
12. Common Reactor
13. Encore Break
14. ...All the Go Inbetweens
15. Comeback Kid
16. Creation Lake
17.

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Best 2006 Albums Of 2007

Before I inundate you with all of my best of 2007 stuff, I want to do a little addendum to my 2006 top 50 Albums list. Over the course of this year I discovered some albums that came out last year but wasn't aware of because I wasn't blogging and researching obsessively then. These albums here should all have deserved to be on my top 50 list because they are all amazing. Despite being released in '06, though, these albums will always make me think of this year because of all the great times I had with them as the soundtrack. Pick up these essentials:

Beach House : Beach House



Final Fantasy : He Poos Clouds



Midlake : The Trials Of Van Occupanther



Portugal The Man : Waiter: "You Vultures!"



Silversun Pickups : Carnavas



Snowden : Anti-Anti



Untied States : Retail Detail

Mistle Toe Jam 2007

This is gonna be a pretty awesome show:



They've just announced set times:

5pm doors
Silversun Pickups 5:30-6:15pm
The Shins 6:40-7:25pm
Silverchair 7:45pm-8:45pm
Modest Mouse 9:15-10:30pm

For more info, check here.

Some jams:

Silversun Pickups : Carnavas : Melatonin


The Shins : Wincing The Night Away : Sleeping Lessons


Modest Mouse : This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About : Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset


Silverchair:

Videos Of The Day: Lollapalooza 2007

I opted for Pitchfork Fest instead of Lollapalooza this summer for my now atleast yearly fest trip to Chicago, but Lolla was really awesome last year when I went and here's a little video in case you didn't get a taste either this year:

Pearl Jam:



Interpol:



Regina Spektor:



Beatle Bob introducing Yo La Tengo:



Peter Bjorn And John with chick from Silversun Pickups and dude from Apostle Of Hustle:

What The Hell Am I Listening To?!?

Theme for today is bands I should have known about last year:

Silversun Pickups



Brian from Slow Motion Crash suggested this band to me at an ISP show earlier this year and I'm really glad he did, because I've been listening to it constantly. It is pretty much straight-up rock with a hint of dissidence weaved throughout. Carnavas is the name of this Los Angeles, California four-piece's first full length and I highly recommend checking it out. Give these tracks a listen:

• Well Thought Out Twinkies
• Melatonin

Sliversun Pickups' Myspace

Buy Carnavas here


Portugal. The Man



I just recently discovered this Alaskan band and I feel like they could emerge as truly great. They released an EP earlier this year called It's Complicated Being A Wizard and that's what turned me on to them. In addition to being a great piece of music utilizing drum machines in a rock format, it's also a concept album where the first 23-minute track is then revisited broken down into several different tracks named after types of magic. After getting heavy into that EP, I discovered their album from last year Waiter: "You Vultures!", and its really good too. There's certainly parallels you can draw to the vocals of The Mars Volta, but they incorporate many different influences and create a distinct sound of their own. They are currently working on a new album due out this year and I am excited. Give them a listen:

From Waiter: "You Vultures!":

• Elephants
• Horse Warming Party

From It's Complicated Being a Wizard:

• Ruby Magic
• Amber Magic
  

Portugal. The Man's Myspace page

Buy Waiter: "You Vultures!" here

Buy It's Complicated Being A Wizard here