I’m jealous of how much Peter Bjorn and John love their jobs. The Swedish band recently embarked on a short, 13 date US ‘Birthday Tour’ to celebrate their 10 year anniversary of making contagious, sophisticated indie-poprok goodness. Even though things got off to a slow start Saturday night at the tour’s final stop @ Club [...]

Vampire Weekend’s self titled debut marked the first time in recent memory that my Album of the Year was decided in January. After nearly two years of missing the band in NY (even having to give away a ticket to go to a company Christmas party), I managed my way to Long Beach last night [...]

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“I don’t know how to talk about music,” admitted lead singer Victoria Legrande halfway through Beach House’s set at The Hollywood Palladium last night. Even though her between song stage banter could have been slightly more articulated (it was still pretty amusing), Legrande instead spoke to the audience through her band’s ever-alluring, [...]

Thom Yorke decided to welcome me to the West Coast by announcing completely unexpected solo shows in Los Angeles within a month of my move. After an easy fight with Ticketmaster (one that paled in comparison to the Echoplex Ticketweb meltdown), I managed a couple of “paperless” tickets that actually aren’t paperless and don’t get [...]

I had a lot of what I thought were false expectations for my first show in LA. I imagined some Hollywood celeb, let’s say the dude from The Notebook, floating around in the crowd in a leather jacket and seeming to know almost everyone, occasionally taking a break from nodding along to the music to [...]

It’s Britney, Bitch?
As a swarm of adoring fans slowly filled Madison Square Garden last night for Britney Spears’ final New York Circus show, I found myself getting intensely excited for what has been getting hailed as Britney’s big “come back.” As someone who ranks the local stop of the Oops…I Did it Again Tour as [...]

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As Saturday night’s Buraka Som Sistema show progressed into a crowd-surfing, stage diving, water gun shooting dance party, a 20 year old hipster in a white t-shirt yells to his friend, “this is no fucking Modest Mouse show. Fuck Death Cab For Cutie.” The comparisons were faulty, but the general message of [...]

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At a sold out show at Roseland Ballroom on a cold, windy, rainy night in New York City, about 3500 people stuck their middle fingers up in the air and sung “Fuck You” as loud as they could in Lily Allen’s direction. No one was thinking about their wet socks or the [...]

My Madonnaroks.
Last night, I went to Roseland Ballroom to see this pop singer named Madonna.
I’d like to lie about how I got into this show, but I’m about to reveal what a nut-case I really am. My Pop really does Rok. Getting in to this show was a chore, as me and a friend arrived [...]

Gnarls Barkley never did get to play their sold out show at Highline Ballroom last night, because Santogold melted the venue with her fucking hotness.
I’m kidding.
As amazing as Santogold Santigold was for her near 40 minute set, Gnarls was even better. Cee-lo, that sexy soul-singing monster, sexually harassed the microphone for much of the night. [...]