Florence + The Machine - Drumming Song
Great song. Great location. Great costume (though pantsless-hotpants are fine, but lack of any pants whatsoever is just odd-the cape/wings make up for it). Even great colour scheme ( Read more... )

British pop sensation La Roux played the West Coast, complete with an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. They came, they saw, they brought techs, the knocked the roof off. Helping them along the way was rising rock sensation Io Echo. La Roux is still mostly unknown stateside, but that doesn't stop a small venue like the Troubadour from selling out ( Read more... )

First time I'd ever seen a line outside of Spaceland, which was especially shocking as I didn't hear about the show until two nights before. Apparently, I'm simply late to the game. At least I got there in the end. And it wasn't even that late, as the doors didn't open until well after nine. From the few 60s outfits sprinkled throughout the crowd, ( Read more... )

With a post ten start time on a Tuesday night, you're not going to get much of a crowd, especially with a band who does not seem to be known amongst the usual suspects in Silverlake. Oddly, Armada was the only band scheduled for the night, so at least the sound check wasn't be a problem. They start with the core reliable track: Great Spectacular ( Read more... )

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly in the comments.

I skipped instrumentals, of which four popped up. And it's cheating to look at my Last.fm...

1 - I don't look in ( Read more... )

This is how George Bush won two elections and this is the genius of Karl Rove's strategies - he doesn't ever make those people vote for him, he gets us to do it for him.
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Bush's former appointed ambassador to the UN, John Bolton writes about ( the ineffective Bush response to Georgia )

This will most likely be another nonsensical post. SO I read this earlier this morning ( Read more... )

me: that sofa is shite ( Read more... )

So, everyone's seen this by now: http://youtube.com/watch?v=wCF3ywukQYARead more... )