This is the last of our photo posts from Coachella 2008, with these pics from Death Cab for Cutie. I’ve seen DCFC several times now (twice at Coachella!), and I’ve got pit tickets to see them in L.A. at the Nokia Theatre next month, which will be the largest venue that I’ve seen them [...]
05.16finally friday
If you haven’t already, read the interview of Mark Kozelek by Ben Gibbard, incredible songwriter to incredible songwriter over at The AV Club.
Watch this great video for “After Hours” by We Are Scientists:
The Yellow Stereo reviews a mesmerizing DeVotchKa show and has a concert to win free stuff from South.
Thanks Captain Obvious reviews the new [...]
Grounds for Divorce
Drummer Richard Jupp and bassist Pete Turner
Violinists
The fog obscures some of the frenetic energy that the band brings to their live show, but it could not mask the fact that Elbow, especially Guy Garvey, performed one of the best concerts I have ever seen. Garvey asked the audience [...]
Bournemouth foursome Air Traffic opened for Elbow’s show at the Avalon last Friday, May 9. Their Keane-like sound fit well with Elbow, and the band gave an energetic and glitch-free show. Lead singer Chris Wall switches between keyboards and guitar.
We were not familiar with their songs, but I’m sure that their much-promoted single “Charlotte,” [...]
We have a large number (for us) of concerts coming up (see the sidebar), and we’re already behind on posting about the ones we’ve seen, so I’m going to attempt a little catching-up today.
One of the really nice acts we saw recently was Laura Gibson, who opened for Colin Meloy at the Henry [...]
Although Kraftwerk was not really on my “must-see” list for Coachella, I am thrilled that we did see them. I am a devotee of Depeche Mode and to see such an influential group perform live was truly amazing. The combination of the repetitive music and fascinating video and light show was a sight [...]
05.09finally friday
(photo)B(oot)log shares some live Stars from April and shares our hatred of inconsiderate view-blockers at shows.
Wild Sweet Orange continues to enthrall and amaze me. If you haven’t checked them out yet, follow the link to their myspace for songs on their current tour schedule. We’ll catch them at the Troubadour in June. [...]
We called this “the Riven house”Another fun thing about music festivals is seeing a band you don’t know much about. At this year’s Coachella, we took the opportunity to check out Seattle band Minus the Bear. We both knew of this band but hadn’t quite gotten into their music. Since we didn’t [...]
The basket sculpture at night
For us, the whole point and the peak experience of Coachella 2008’s Saturday line-up was the performance of the Brit trip-hop trio Portishead, who are coming off a hiatus of several years for both live performances and new recorded material. Their third album, Third which was officially released mere days [...]
05.02finally friday
Over the next few days on Speed of Dark, you’ll find more of Alt-gramma’s amazing photos from Coachella 2008 and reviews of bands we saw there.
Radiohead released the moving anti-human trafficking video for “All I Need” on YouTube. You can watch it here and see MTV Exit for more information.
I’m totally jealous [...]