okay, so i wanted to post all this jazz on new year's day or some frame of time near there, but alas, here it is January 20th and my lazy ass has finally found some time to sit down and do this. just like last year, i'll put my top 10 albums up with a couple of the tracks that i think best show what the album's about and why it's great and you can ( Read more... )

every once in awhile a band captures your imagination, they make you realize that life is worth living because at any given moment you might hear a new song that touches your soul in the same way that that certain Beatles song did when you were 10 and you realized that music could be more than something that plays in the background of your life, it ( Read more... )

so i've been going to the Bridge School Benefit every year since 1999 and out of those 14 shows i've only missed one (day one of 2000) and i can honestly say this was the weakest lineup i've ever seen, and it's not even one of those "in comparison" things, it just really was a weak lineup. anyways, here's my thoughts on it:

DAY ONEthe first day ( Read more... )

so tonight i went and saw Weezer and Foo Fighters at the Oakland Arena and i have to say that Weezer came off looking like a stale, washed up band and that Foo Fighters came off looking like a band still at the top of their (live) game.

WEEZERafter a terribly mediocre set by Hot Hot Heat (i'm not a fan, what can i say?) Weezer took the stage to ( Read more... )

"I told you i'd come back". 8 songs into Roky Erickson's first full show in 20+ years Roky spoke that line during "Creature With The Atom Brain" and you couldn't help but feel a whole new meaning for that line when he said it, he was back and with a fucking vengeance. the show started with local political hopeful Kinky Friedman coming out and ( Read more... )

so after Built To Spill's set me and Dana moved our way up to front row off to the left in preperation for Death Cab For Cutie, i was looking forward to seeing them seeing as how i've only seen Ben Gibbard solo and so this would be my intro to the full band live. the band came out and Chris sat down at the keyboards so i knew it would be a mellow ( Read more... )

so, as soon as Spoon ended i hightailed it back to the Cingular stage for John Prine, this would be my first time seeing John live since i passed up an opportunity a year ago in order to catch Steve Earle instead. so as i approached the stage i could hear John and his band (which consisted of a guy playing standup bass and an electric guitarist) ( Read more... )

so after watching a bit of Mates Of State and all of Nic Armstrong & the Thieves sets it was time to head over to the AMD stage so i could witness Spoon for the first time. Spoon is a band that i have gotten into very recently and was very excited to finally see them live. at 5:30 the band took the stage and Britt shouldered his guitar and started ( Read more... )

okay, so i have a bit of time right now and so i'll try to write reviews ( Read more... )

so last night i was watching that ReAct Now concert on VH-1 because i had heard Neil Young would be on it, so after suffering through quite a few people who sucked and a few that were good Neil came on and much to my surprise he started up a new song, right from the first line i knew it must be "This Old Guitar" from his upcoming album Prairie Wing ( Read more... )