If you can’t handle a praise-fest, stop reading right now. TV On the Radio‘s new album, Dear Science, is SO GOOD that it’d be impossible for me to write a balanced review of it. There’s just nothing bad I can say about it. I don’t say this lightly either. There are very few albums by [...]
I thought Baltimore’s music scene was supposed to be so hip, especially compared to DC’s. Why didn’t this show sell out? The Dodos are a damn good band, and they were playing at a very intimate venue for not much money. What else do you want, Baltimore?! The openers for this show were a surprising [...]
Tonight, I watched 3 of my best and oldest friends play “Rock Band” at a party. No one else was in the room. They faced the TV with their plastic “instruments”, and I faced them from the corner of the room. I wish I had a video recording of those couple of minutes they were [...]
Oh, Five Guys Burgers and Fries, how I love thee. The best place for burgers and friesIs the restaurant called Five GuysYour heart will be hoppingAt the sight of the toppingsGive their founders the Nobel Prize I’m a relatively recent convert to the famous DC burger chain. I’d heard some rumblings about it a couple [...]
Ah yes, the long-awaited Sigur Ros review. Even though I’ve been to two shows since this one, this one is still freshest in my mind. It was quite the spectacle. Those Icelanders know how to put on an ambient show… fo sho. First, the setlist, copied from the Sigur Ros message board: *********************** 01 svefn-g-englar02 [...]
