So heads up on this relatively new act from Washington D.C. This lovely lady goes by many names but currently is playing under the moniker Lightfoot. She is performing live at DC’s Rock n’ Roll Hotel this Friday at 8PM. Enjoy!
PS: Check back tomorrow for my interview with Jessica (Lightfoot). Hopefully I can get all the juicy details about her songs of heartbreak.
So the new Spoon album has been out now for about two weeks, and I have yet to listen to it. Shame on me for being both a dedicated Spoon fan for nearly a decade now, and an avid member of the indie music community for not being all over this when it came out. But I have come to my senses and have just purchased the album (you can do so as well on the band’s merch site). I did some YouTube searching to see what live footage has been thrown up so far, and I came across this excellent live recording of “The Mystery Zone” from their performance on Santa Monica, California’s KCRW. The performance aired on January 20th as a part of the station’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” show program. You can watch the entire performance on the station’s website.
A while back we did a post on The Seedy Seeds‘ “The Feeders.” Here’s an excellent live video of them performing “On The Subject Of Our Past Selves,” at The Green Building in Louisville, KY. They are the first of many bands to perform on the “Green Building Sessions.”
Here’s up & coming Elephantom, a young & talented band from Boston performing “I Am Your Head,” at theZullo Galleryin Medfield, Massachusetts. They’ve got a new CD out titled Swim. Toward The Sun., which can be downloaded for free here.
Spoon announced “Written In Reverse” as the first single off their upcoming LP, Transference, set to release January 19th. So far only live versions of the song have been scattered across the web (I found this one on Stereogum, who found it on you aint no picasso, who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night). The mix is a little rough on this live version, but you can look forward to the official digital release of this song on December 1st.
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This past Tuesday I got the chance to see Imogen Heap’s sold out show at The Granada Theater, one of Dallas’s most beloved venues. The show was fantastic. She mainly stuck to songs off her latest album Ellipse, released less than two months ago. She also did an excellent and very unique version of the fan favorite, “Hide And Seek” (Speak For Yourself), during encore. Imogen had the entire audience participating, having us sing “ahhhh” in a harmonized drone throughout the first verse of the song as she sang a’capella. She was backed by a terrific drummer who’s name I didn’t catch, Ryan Breen (aka Back Ted N-Ted) on guitar, and Tim Exile on synth, who were also her two openers for the night. Above is a video of “Canvas” captured that night by Sylwester Zabielski. The group was accompanied during this song by cellist Buffi Jacobs of The Polyphonic Spree. Tim Exile’s set consisted of complex beat boxed loops done through his modified joystick synthesizer. Ryan Breen started off the show, using a loop pedal throughout his one-man set to form the rhythm sections of his songs as he sang his heart out and spastically danced in place. We all loved him. Here’s my favorite song from his setlist, “999 Buttons.”
Photos courtesy of The Granada Theater.
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A while back we did a post on the upcoming Mercury Program album Chez Viking, supposedly set to release later this year. All we know so far is the track listing, but rather than boring you with that, here’s a fantastic performance of “Egypt” off their 2002 release A Data Learn The Language.
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