
Young the Giant: Island/My Body (Live)
Drawn in by the infectious radio hit “My Body,” we decided to give Young the Giant a go, lining up at Chelsea’s with Baton Rouge’s hipster community late this past month. We were surprised by the band’s knowledgeable instrumentation, the clever use of vocal trickery, and the “haunting falsetto” of the singer, Sameer Gadhia (more...)

The Monday Set: Twin Shadow – New Orleans – 4/7/2011
Twin Shadow opened up for fellow Brooklyners Pains of Being Pure at Heart on their current national tour. I have to admit I didn’t know much about these guys, and what there is online tends to emphasize the role of singer-guitarist George Lewis, Jr. But the crowd was totally into them and were dancing up a storm (more...)

Killing Joke: Love Like Blood, Ghosts of Ladbroke Grove, Change (Live)
Normally, I hate when an old school band plays a show and subjects us to every track on their new (usually not so good) album. Strangely enough, the opposite was the case with this Killing Joke show. In 2010, Killing Joke released their first album by the original line-up since 1982′s Revelations (more...)

The Monday Set: Raphael Saadiq – Los Angeles – 3/23/11
I heard about a special Raphael Saadiq “American Express Card Holders Only” BS show that was going on at the Grammy Museum the day tickets were going on sale. Trying my luck, I busted out my corporate card (the only AmEx I have) and prayed to the Ticketmaster gods I would be one of the chose ones. As luck, and a $19 service fee would have it, I got through (More...)

OMD: History of Modern-Part 1, Talking Lound and Clear (Live)
OMD, the UK based new-wave pioneers and all around synth pop greats, debuted their first release way back in 1978 on Manchester’s renowned Factory Records. Their new album, The History of Modern – a slab of amped-up blood-rushing synth washes – is so good that it makes their storied back catalog obsolete (More...)

Kitten: Chinatown (Live)
Kitten is currently opening for Young the Giant's national tour. This track, from their Sunday School EP, was recorded at Chelsea's in Baton Rouge last Wednesday. I don't know terribly much about them, except they're from Los Angeles (More...)

Robyn: Be Mine, Indestructible, Konichiwa Bitches (Live)
Up until quite recently, I vaguely remembered Robyn from hearing her song "Show Me Love" some time ago and passing it off as another forgettable song by one of the many interchangeable female pop stars that have dominated the pop culture landscape since the dawn of the music video (More...)

The Monday Set: Air Miami – San Francisco – 10/11/94
Here's one of the better live Air Miami recordings I've come across. It was recorded in San Francisco during the '94 Teen Beat Circus tour which also featured a special one-off performance by Cath Carroll (More...)

The Stone Roses: Here It Comes (Live Video)
First off I have to get this out of the way. I cannot believe this was recorded nearly 30 years ago. Though their debut album which rocketed them into fame didn't come out for another 4 years after this was recorded, the track sounds really polished and close to it's final form (More...)

The Monday Set: Acid House Kings – New York City – 7/8/06
Acid House Kings released a new single earlier this month and have a brand spanking new LP set to drop later this month. One of TSOI's writers (Avalanche) caught them on their last US tour nearly 5 years ago. Here's a recording of one of their two NYC dates back in 2006 (More...)
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