CourtneyP

More music posts, heh.

Tonight is the Belle and Sebastian/New Pornographers show, looking forward to it, although I hear that the Concourse is kinda meh (acoustically flawed, poor visibility) for live shows, and eep, it’s sold out! I guess we’ll see how it goes, but with two great artists like them, and being in attendance with a few friends, it should be fun.

Friday is the Arab Strap/His Name is Alive show @Cafe du Nord, which is one of my favorite small venues (well, besides the times that it gets overcrowded cos it really *is* tiny, but maybe that’s why I like it, because of its intimacy).

Next week is Noise Pop… too many good bands to catch, not enough time! I’m hoping to catch glimpses of Every Move a Picture, Scissors For Lefty, Her Space Holiday, Citizens Here & Abroad, Thursday, Minus the Bear, The New Amsterdams, Jason Collett and of course, more… but, gah, there are conflicts!

Yay, scenesters.

Man, I think I’m gonna know how Buzz and Willo felt at the end of SXSWm if I really do go to all these shows in the next week or two!

Bonus content, whee! These are my current favorite music podcasts:

• KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic
• NPR’s All Songs Considered
• Zoe’s Radio Show

Some good streams/online radio:

• somaFM‘s Indie Pop Rocks
• BAGeL Radio
• and of course, last.fm streams of my friends …currently Ryan and Robert (these links are last.fm streams)

I know, I’ve had music on my mind a lot lately, and I’ve been obsessing. I’m incredibly jealous of those at SXSW music this week, more so than SXSWi (don’t get me wrong, it looked like a blast, though!). I guess I’m living vicariously through Buzz’s photos of the event.

I recently went on a record store run with Ryan and had a lot of fun going through the racks with someone that lives in very similar musical worlds as I. We were able to make suggestions to each other and truthfully say that we would think the other would enjoy such and such an artist/album.

Last weekend, Robert and I traded a bunch of music files in the same spirit (puttin’ PodWorks to good use, hee). I’m in music heaven right now, to say the least.

So I thought I’d share some of my current musical obsessions… some are old, some are new, but these are the bands I’ve had in regular rotation as of late (I guess this is prolly also reflected in my last.fm profile for the most part, but hey, it’s worth posting):

• Pinback – @Bimbo’s soon, yay!
• American Analog Set
• Air Miami
• Sigur Rós
• His Name is Alive – @Cafe du Nord next week!
• The Arcade Fire

Mostly the type of stuff that I’ve already expressed that I’ve had an affinity for before, more of the mellow stuff that I like to play during work or late at night when at home. Some of Arcade Fire’s and Air Miami’s stuff is a bit outside of that mold, but I never said I was that consistent, did I?

Okay, back to working and my tunes.

Uhm, I think my brain just imploded.

Simply looking at the lineup for the upcoming Sasquatch Festival in Washington State made it happen.

This is what Coachella should’ve been. This line up is so far amazing…

Nine Inch Nails, Special Guest (to be announced), HIM, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Wolfmother, BEN HARPER & The Innocent Criminals, The Flaming Lips, The Shins, The Tragically Hip, Neko Case, Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Gomez, Rogue Wave, Sam Roberts, Constantines, Architecture In Helsinki, Bedouin Soundclash, Matt Costa, The Brunettes, Tim Seely, Korby Lenker, Common Market, Beck, Death Cab For Cutie, Queens of the Stone Age, Matisyahu, The Decemberists, Nada Surf, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Blue Scholars, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Arctic Monkeys, We Are Scientists, Chad Vangaalen, The Heavenly States, Rocky Votolato, Laura Veirs, Mercir, The Village Green, more artists to be announced…

So. There.