Justin Bieber. jj. Michael Jackson. Katerpillar 8. Punkgaze. Fabolous. Omarion. Flying Lotus. Amy Winehouse. Positive Amputation 12. Shred and Trascend 13. Jay-Z. Kings of Leon. In an interview with Pitchfork , guitarist Randy Randall explained that the album is “kind of a sound-collage element that’s rooted in the songwriting process for some of the tracks, and some of them are sort of straight-up songs with textures and flurries of sampled sounds. Snoop Dogg. B.o. Lupe Fiasco. While speculation is just that, the album’s song titles yield a glimpse into what can be expected: “Life Prowler,” “Fever Dreaming,” “Skinned,” “Valley Hump Crash,” “Shred and Transcend” and “Glitter.” Presumably, the latter does not concern the failed 2001 Mariah Carey vehicle about a young girl with a huge voice chasing her dreams in the big city. Ludacris. Eminem. Usher. Wait What. Young Dro. Drake. Glitter 3. Rihanna. Monica. Deltron 3030. Wale.
It doesn’t sound like a lo-fi pop record. Kate Nash. Plies. Interpol. Band of Horses. Gucci Mane. And, of course, the ever lovable shitgaze! — Everything in Between 1. The album features 13 tracks. Beck. Judging from the name of their forthcoming full-length, “Everything in Between,” Dean Spunt and Randall will continue to defy expectations, pulling from an array of influences, shifting tempos and dabbling with collage sampling. Led Zeppelin. Game. Curren$y. 2 Pistols. R. Cat Power. Young Buck. Notorious BIG. LCD Soundsystem. Life Prowler 2. Young Money. Juelz Santana. It’s not a whole lot different than from what we have done in the past; there’s no big departures. Common Heat 6. Skinned 7.
Two years ago, L.A. duo No Age released their official debut, Nouns (’cause, remember, Weirdo Rippers was a singles collection). Tiesto. Prince. The band will continue on without him, but they’ve changed their name, quite understandably, to simply You Say Party. (No exclamation mark, even.) Also, keyboardist Krista Loewen has left the band. T.I. Jonna Lee. She & Him. Tech N9ne. Dr. Dre. Three 6 Mafia. Jay Electronica. Justice. It’s not a whole lot different than from what we have done in the past; there’s no big departures. Common Heat 6. Skinned 7.
Two years ago, L.A. duo No Age released their official debut, Nouns (’cause, remember, Weirdo Rippers was a singles collection). Tiesto. Prince. The band will continue on without him, but they’ve changed their name, quite understandably, to simply You Say Party. (No exclamation mark, even.) Also, keyboardist Krista Loewen has left the band. T.I. Jonna Lee. She & Him. Tech N9ne. Dr. Dre. Three 6 Mafia. Jay Electronica. Justice. It’s not a whole lot different than from what we have done in the past; there’s no big departures. Common Heat 6. Skinned 7. Two years ago, L.A. duo No Age released their official debut, Nouns (’cause, remember, Weirdo Rippers was a singles collection). Tiesto. Prince. The band will continue on without him, but they’ve changed their name, quite understandably, to simply You Say Party. (No exclamation mark, even.) Also, keyboardist Krista Loewen has left the band. T.I. Jonna Lee. She & Him. Tech N9ne.
Dr. Dre. Three 6 Mafia. Jay Electronica. Justice. It’s not a whole lot different than from what we have done in the past; there’s no big departures. Common Heat 6. Skinned 7. Two years ago, L.A. duo No Age released their official debut, Nouns (’cause, remember, Weirdo Rippers was a singles collection). Tiesto. Prince.
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Rock Band Music Store to Get Debut Miley Cyrus TrackPack
The Rock Band 2 soundtrack features over 100 songs with over 80 songs on disc plus an additional 20 bonus tracks which will be made available for free download this fall. This builds upon the unparalleled depth and diversity of Rock Band’s original set list and its ever-expanding library of downloadable tracks. Comprised entirely of master recordings from some of rock’s most prolific and untouchable artists, including AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses, Bob Dylan, Metallica, Pearl Jam and more, Rock Band 2 will deliver the most impressive and largest music catalogue of any music-based videogame ever.
Rock Band DLC additions for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii
American singer, songwriter and actress Miley Cyrus has been a tour de force in the pop world over the past five years. She has won five Kids’ Choice Awards, a MTV Movie Awards, a People’s Choice Award and a whopping nine Teen Choice Awards. Her first two albums, Meet Miley Cyrus and Breakout, both debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, her EP The Time of Our Lives debuted at No. 2, and she has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide.
“I’m excited fans will be able to download and play five of my songs in Rock Band,” said Miley Cyrus. “I love that people can rock out with me and play my new song ‘Can’t Be Tamed’ on the same day my album comes out!”
Next week’s downloadable content selection will feature five of Miley’s fan favorites, including “Can’t Be Tamed” from her new album of the same name, “7 Things” and “Fly On the Wall” from 2008’s Breakout, as well as “See You Again” and “Start All Over” from her 2007 debut, Meet Miley Cyrus.
Available on Xbox 360®, Wii and PS3 (June 22):
- “7 Things” +
- “Can’t Be Tamed”
- “Fly On the Wall” +
- “See You Again” +
- “Start All Over” +
(All tracks are original master recordings)
(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation 3 system June 23)
These tracks will be available as individual tracks on Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. Songs marked with “+” will also be available in the family-friendly LEGO® Rock Band Music Store.
Price:
- $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track
- $2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per track
** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **
Rock Band 2 On-Disc Track List:
- AC/DC “Let There Be Rock” 1970s
- AFI “Girl’s Gone Grey” 2000s
- Alanis Morissette “You Oughta Know” 1990s
- Alice in Chains “Man in the Box” 1990s
- Allman Brothers “Ramblin’ Man” 1970s
- Avenged Sevenfold “Almost Easy” 2000s
- Bad Company “Shooting Star” 1970s
- Beastie Boys “So Whatcha Want” 1990s
- Beck “E-Pro” 2000s
- Bikini Kill “Rebel Girl” 1990s
- Billy Idol “White Wedding Pt. I” 1980s
- Blondie “One Way or Another” 1970s
- Bob Dylan “Tangled Up in Blue” 1970s
- Bon Jovi “Livin’ on a Prayer” 1980s
- Cheap Trick “Hello There” 1970s
- Devo “Uncontrollable Urge” 1980s
- Dinosaur Jr. “Feel the Pain” 1990s
- Disturbed “Down with the Sickness” 2000s
- Dream Theater “Panic Attack” 2000s
- Duran Duran “Hungry Like the Wolf” 1980s
- Elvis Costello “Pump It Up” 1970s
- Fleetwood Mac “Go Your Own Way” 1970s
- Foo Fighters “Everlong” 1990s
- Guns N’ Roses “Shackler’s Revenge” 2000s
- Interpol “PDA” 2000s
- Jane’s Addiction “Mountain Song” 1980s
- Jethro Tull “Aqualung” 1970s
- Jimmy Eat World “The Middle” 2000s
- Joan Jett “Bad Reputation” 1980s
- Journey “Anyway You Want It” 1970s
- Judas Priest “Painkiller” 1990s
- Kansas “Carry On Wayward Son” 1970s
- L7 “Pretend We’re Dead” 1990s
- Lacuna Coil “Our Truth” 2000s
- Linkin Park “One Step Closer” 2000s
- Lit “My Own Worst Enemy” 1990s
- Lush “De-Luxe” 1990s
- Mastodon “Colony of Birchmen” 2000s
- Megadeth “Peace Sells” 1980s
- Metallica “Battery” 1980s
- Mighty Mighty Bosstones “Where’d You Go” 1990s
- Modest Mouse “Float On” 2000s
- Motorhead “Ace of Spades” 1980s
- Nirvana “Drain You” 1990s
- Norman Greenbaum “Spirit in the Sky” 1960s
- Panic at the Disco “Nine in the Afternoon” 2000s
- Paramore “That’s What You Get” 2000s
- Pearl Jam “Alive” 1990s
- Presidents of the USA “Lump” 1990s
- Rage Against the Machine “Testify” 1990s
- Ratt “Round & Round” 1980s
- Red Hot Chili Peppers “Give it Away” 1990s
- Rise Against “Give it All” 2000s
- Rush “The Trees” 1970s
- Silversun Pickups “Lazy Eye” 2000s
- Smashing Pumpkins “Today” 1990s
- Social Distortion “I Was Wrong” 1990s
- Sonic Youth “Teenage Riot” 1980s
- Soundgarden “Spoonman” 1990s
- Squeeze “Cool for Cats” 1970s
- Steely Dan “Bodhitsattva” 1970s
- Steve Miller Band “Rock’n Me” 1970s
- Survivor “Eye of the Tiger” 1980s
- System of a Down “Chop Suey” 2000s
- Talking Heads “Psycho Killer” 1970s
- Tenacious D “Master Exploder” 2000s
- Testament “Souls of Black” 1990s
- The Donnas “New Kid in School” 2000s
- The Go-Go’s “We Got the Beat” 1980s
- The Grateful Dead “Alabama Getaway” 1980s
- The Guess Who “American Woman” 1970s
- The Muffs “Kids in America” 1990s
- The Offspring “Come Out & Play (Keep ‘em Separated)” 1990s
- The Replacements “Alex Chilton” 1980s
- The Who “Pinball Wizard” 1960s
Bonus Material
- Abnormality “Visions” 2000s
- Anarchy Club “Get Clean” 2000s
- Bang Camaro “Night Lies” 2000s
- Breaking Wheel “Shoulder to the Plow” 2000s
- The Libyans “Neighborhood” 2000s
- The Main Drag “A Jagged Gorgeous Winter” 2000s
- Speck “Conventional Lover” 2000s
- The Sterns “Supreme Girl” 2000s
- That Handsome Devil “Rob the Prez-O-Dent” 2000s
** The Rock Band 2 on-disc track list is comprised entirely of master recordings.
Rock Band 2 raises the bar in music gaming innovation with new features to rock the world:
- Local and global online modes to connect the entire Rock Band community
- World Tour mode, now online, simplifies the best of gameplay from the original Rock Band by fusing Solo Tour and Band World Tour modes and cranks it up a notch with an all new collection of opportunity gigs, challenges, cities, venues and hirable staff
- Tour Challenges that offer rockers a chance to play through mini-campaigns focused on the best songs by instrument, decade, genre, artist, album and more
- Battle of the Bands mode challenges players to go head to head against other bands in constantly refreshed contests* created by Harmonix (*internet connection required)
- Quickplay makes it easier than ever to get in and jam without hassle while allowing for new prefab characters or customized characters that can play on any instrument plus lets you make your own set lists and organize your song lists in a variety of categories (genre, era, etc.)
- Customizable Set Lists keep the music rolling and your band rocking in Quickplay mode
- Drum Trainer mode gives players the fundamentals of different beats and fills, translating gameplay into real drumming skills
- Character Creator completes your look with all new choices in clothing, accessories, tattoos, hairstyles, instruments and more to keep your unique rock avatar playing the full rock part
- Backwards compatibility with all Rock Band downloadable music content released to date
- Disc Export Feature gives owners of the original Rock Band the ability to export most of the Rock Band disc tracks and upgrade them into Rock Band 2 gameplay-the first time ever in videogame history!
From the solid officially licensed Rock Band 2 instruments to the expanded third party options, Rock Band 2 introduces new and improved choices that promise to deliver unsurpassed realism. In addition, Harmonix and MTV Games have become the first companies to officially support third party instruments and accessories in a music videogame.
Achieve ultimate stardom with the upgraded functionality and smooth new look of the official Rock Band 2 instruments.
- Fender Stratocaster Controller takes on a new authentic look plus adds a reinforced strum bar, quieter buttons, wireless functionality and a built in calibration tool that automatically sets your AV setup to an ideal setting for maximum rock.
- Drum set goes wireless while also featuring quieter, velocity sensitive drum pads and a metal reinforced pedal.
- Microphone showcases authentic styling and weight.
Kick up the intensity with officially licensed third-party instruments from Mad Catz:
- Fender Telecaster Controller features soft buttons with lower action to help you shred faster than ever.
- Fender Bass Controller, the first bass guitar controller ever, takes the shape of the Fender P-Bass with extended length, tuning pegs and a split strum bar to replicate finger-bass style picking.
- Full-sized Squire Stratocaster Guitar Controller multiplies the authentic guitar experience by featuring a controller built into an actual Squire Stratocaster body.
- Cymbal Expansion Pack is a straightforward but amazing upgrade to the Rock Band 2 drum set featuring add-on cymbals.
Take Rock Band 2 instrument authenticity to a whole new level with a high-end peripheral from ION:
- ION Drum Rocker, a real electronic drum kit that functions as a game controller, brings the Rock Band fantasy to life featuring a simple substitution that takes the drum kit from a controller to a real instrument.
Rock Band 2 is currently available on Xbox 360, PS3, PS2 and Wii.
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Dave Matthews Band’s Epic Jams Wrap Bonnaroo 2010
Two songs into their sprawling, two-and-a-half-hour set on the final night of Bonnaroo, Dave Matthews Band played “You Might Die Trying” and Matthews leaned into the microphone and sang what could be Bonnaroo’s motto: “If you give, you begin to live.” Sunday marked Matthews’ third appearance at the fest that’s grown up much like the singer himself. But Matthews was ready to return to his roots, stretching nearly every track into an epic jam, the songs’ structures abandoned in favor of endless boogie.
The ferocious — and, regrettably, topical — “Don’t Drink the Water” opened a set that found Matthews tending toward his darker material. “Seven,” which Matthews introduced as “a dance song that’s hard to dance to,” twitched and kicked, and “Lying in the Hands of God” culminated in a long, snakelike alto sax solo. “Time Bomb” built to a stormy conclusion as Matthews shrieked “Hammer in the final nail/I want to believe in Jesus” and the band stormed forward behind him.
Much of the set felt like a showcase for longtime Matthews sideman Tim Reynolds. He threaded long, searing solos through the end of “Tripping Billies” and “I Can’t Stop.” The show concluded with a pair of covers: a solo reading by Matthews of Neil Young’s “Needle and the Damage Done,” and a full band run through “All Along the Watchtower” that opened as an eerie plaint and slowly built to a roiling, vitriolic jam.
Matthews’ set came at the end of a day that seemed designed to showcase Bonnaroo’s eclecticism. Earlier in the evening, world-beating country group the Zac Brown Band turned escapism into group singalongs, returning repeatedly in their songs to images of vacation — they’re a band that owes as much to Jimmy Buffet as Willie Nelson. Like Matthews, Brown favors musicianship. “It’s Not OK” crested with a long, ambling guitar solo and their cover of “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” was lit up with fleet-fingered playing by the group’s violin player, Jimmy DiMartini.
The band is a bit of a curiosity: they hail from Atlanta, but most of their songs seemed set either in the Caribbean or South of the Border. “Toes” found Brown bragging, “All the muchachas will call me Big Poppa/when I throw some pesos their way” and “Who Knows” featured steel drum and a light reggae lilt. But the set’s strongest moment came not during one of their own songs, but a cover of the Band’s “The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down,” sung in an aching tenor by guitarist Clay Cook. The group wisely held back on instrumental flourishes, focusing instead on nailing the song’s gorgeous harmonies.
Brown and his band are in the midst of assembling a new record, and the set was sprinkled liberally with recent compositions. The strongest was a moody ballad that opened with Brown lamenting the stack of bills and housework waiting for him before concluding, “Let the world go on without me/’Cause I’m in no hurry today.”
If Brown tends toward grand sentiments, Phoenix play it small and idiosyncratic. Aside from a few reliable bodymovers, like “Lisztomania” and “1901,” the latter of which was received with rapturous applause, most of their songs are tiny and whisker-thin. Their early evening set was an exercise in restraint, their songs dotted with tiny apostrophes of guitar and big blocks of synth. “Girlfriend” was more space than song, a series of clean lines that were focused and controlled. “Love Like a Sunset” was eerie and expansive, gliding along slowly like a cool evening breeze, not too pronounced, not too forceful. “Countdown” was carried along by gently ascending guitars, a small plane disappearing into the evening sky. (Watch our interview with Phoenix below.)
There was nothing subtle about the searing mid-afternoon set from Florida’s Against Me! The group, which now features former Hold Steady member Franz Nicolay on keyboards, was astonishing in their brute force and raw power. They rocketed out of the gate with the blistering “High Pressure Low,” Tom Gabel chewing through the verses with fierce determination. On record, Gabel’s tendency toward didacticism can feel heavy, but it’s astonishing the way those same lyrics — like “With the instant availability of information/and content so easily obtainable/is the culture now a product that’s disposable?” — sound fantastic shouted by a large, sweaty group. Nicolay’s presence is an asset: his organ lines fill out what little white space there is in the songs, and his harmonies sharpen the choruses’ attack. “Rapid Decompression” operated at warp speed, snarling and spiteful and “White People for Peace” dive-bombed precariously, over and over, clocking in at twice its normal speed.
Against Me! are also a band that’s learning to embrace contradiction. One of the set’s best songs was the roaring “I Was a Teenage Anarchist,” in which Gabel repudiates his past dogma (he introduced it by saying, “This is a song about thinking for yourself”). The afternoon’s second best song? The barnstorming, set-closing “Baby I’m an Anarchist,” which found Gabel singing, “Baby, I’m an anarchist/You’re a spineless liberal” as the band hard-charged behind him. By the time it ended, he had sweat through his black T-Shirt, his hair a sopping, sticky mess, the band spent from 45 minutes of bug-eyed, relentless attack. It felt like they were auditioning for the role of Best Live Band in America, and handily nailing the part.
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Bonnaroo: The Dave Matthews Band and Some Final Thoughts
The Dave Matthews Band wound up Bonnaroo for the jam-band faithful, still head-bobbing and flinging glowsticks after four days.
I miss the old Dave Matthews Band. That was the eccentric five-piece lineup of acoustic guitar (Mr. Matthews), violin (Boyd Tinsley), electric bass (Stefan Lessard), drums (Carter Beauford) and saxophone (LeRoi Moore, who died in 2008). With only one chordal instrument, the guitar, that lineup forced itself to come up with inventive ways to do what most rock bands take for granted. And it did, devising nimble, pointillistic arrangements that could lean toward country or acoustic funk, Celtic music or jazz. Mr. Matthews’ songwriting — visions of trouble, battles with inner demons and openly amorous vows of love, full of zigzagging tunes and meter shifts — was inseparable from the sound of the band.
Even before Mr. Moore’s death, the band was adding keyboards and backup singers to its onstage lineup. Now, the touring group includes a saxophone (Jeff Coffin), trumpet (Rashawn Ross) and electric guitar (Tim Reynolds, who also has a long-running duo with Mr. Matthews). Two more horn players joined them for some songs at Bonnaroo, to make the sound “a little bit fatter,” Mr. Matthews said. “I hope you don’t mind.”
Actually, I do mind — not the horn players, who did their jobs pretty well, but the fattening. With this lineup, there are standard ways to arrange songs: using lead and rhythm guitar, bass and drums, with a horn section or violin for soul or country flavor. And with those possibilities, clichés arrive: the bass vamp under the wailing lead guitar, the boom-chunk beat with the power chord. The band doesn’t always evade them.
Mr. Reynolds often dominates the music, taking solo spots that might have gone to violin or saxophone and filling them with blues-rock clichés, bending or trilling every note. After hearing other guitarists at Bonnaroo, like Jeff Beck, or Dean Fertita of the Dead Weather (he’s also in Queens of the Stone Age), or the sidemen in various country bands, Mr. Reynolds sounded like a student player, fast but still learning the finesse of phrasing.
More instruments mean more possibilities, a springboard for Mr. Matthews’s extraordinary voice. Sometimes the fatter band did mesh. The funk of “Shake Me Like a Monkey” was angular and aggressive, and the prog-rock-hoedown-whatever of “Tripping Billies” let Mr. Matthews moan and howl. And it wasn’t a matter of how many instruments were being played; when Danny Barnes on banjo joined the band for three songs, somehow the arrangements made room to let his quicksilver picking gleam through the counterpoint. But to hear the brisk, transparent syncopation of an older song like “Two Step” give way to the wah-wah and whammy-bar abuse of an electric guitar solo was a letdown. One thing the Dave Matthews Band doesn’t need is the finger exercises known as shredding.
For the festival’s finale, the band played Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” with the horns quoting “Stairway to Heaven” and golden fireworks blooming overhead. It’s the three-chord apocalypse for all occasions, except perhaps this one: Pearl Jam used the same song for its last Bonnaroo encore in 2008.
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Those plastic drums currently taking up real estate in your apartment could get some company soon. This holiday season, Harmonix and MTV Games will release the third installment in their Rock Band game series. This one, like previous entries, will include guitar, bass, vocals, and drums, but it’ll also feature keyboards and three-part harmonies, all for up to seven players simultaneously. There’s also the new Rock Band Pro Mode, which more accurately simulates what it’s like to actually play real instruments. Pretty soon, you’ll need an actual garage just to fit your video-game band.
The new Rock Band will feature 83 songs and access to a library of over 2,000 songs by the time the game launches, with new music regularly added. The new game’s tracklist includes classic-rock perennials like Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, and Night Ranger (“Sister Christian”, fuck yeah!) as well as more contemporary selections like Phoenix’s “Lasso”, the Cure’s “Just Like Heaven”, the White Stripes’ “The Hardest Button to Button”, Rilo Kiley’s “Portions for Foxes”, Metric’s “Combat Baby”, and Ida Maria’s “Oh My God”.
To see all the announced songs from the tracklist, check out the game’s website. USA Today has posted a video that includes people from Harmonix showing what the new game can do; click below to watch it.
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It’s common practice for big bands to preview new material in surprise, intimate-venue shows. For Arcade Fire, “intimate” means a regal theatre with a capacity of 1,200. However, Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall– the site of two Arcade Fire concerts this weekend, announced just 48 hours prior– holds a significant place in Arcade Fire lore. It was here that the Montreal art-pop ensemble sold out three consecutive nights in April 2005 during the victory lap of the Funeral tour, effectively confirming their graduation from small clubs to concert halls. So it’s an environment in which the band felt more than comfortable to unveil material from their upcoming third album, The Suburbs, before their first non-Quebecois audience of 2010.
There’s always been an implicit conceptual bent to the Arcade Fire’s albums, from the death/rebirth motif of Funeral to the state-of-the-union addresses of Neon Bible. Early promotional materials for The Suburbs have prefaced its title with the loaded phrase “Arcade Fire Presents,” suggesting a more pronounced thematic framework. However, the Danforth Music Hall stage bore no signs of a Greendale-style production; rather, the new album’s essence was more easily discerned by the eight-piece band’s choice of attire, which traded in the buttoned-up bible-student look of old for more casual denims and plaids (the sole flashes of glam provided by Win Butler’s Leo DiCaprio-gone-Chelsea-Girl haircut and Régine Chassange black-leather gloves). Which is to say The Suburbs tracks previewed last night downplayed the band’s choral grandeur, instead showcasing the band at their most punk-rock aggressive and their most serenely bucolic.
Certainly, the band have never sounded more fearsome than on the opening one-two of “Ready to Start”– which saw Chassange doubling up with Jeremy Gara on drums– and hard-charging locomotive rocker “Month of May”, which came off like a cynical antidote to the rousing promise of Funeral‘s “Wake Up,” as Butler sang dismissively about how “the kids are still standing with their arms folded tight” while crossing his own arms.
But the subsequent appearance of Funeral‘s orchestro-disco salvo “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” established the show’s rhythm of alternating pairs of new songs with batches of familiar favorites, and also nicely set up The Suburbs‘ more stately material, in which the album’s main themes — namely, social and geographic disconnect — were more pronounced. The title track elicited enthusiastic applause on account of its jaunty “Oh Yoko!”-style piano rolls, playful falsetto chorus and the ascending violin lines of Sarah Neufeld and Marika Anthony Shaw that squealed like singing saws. “Suburban War”, however, was less engaging; as if seemingly aware of its own languid folk-rock pace, the song overcompensates with a melodramatic, tribal-pounded coda that feels like it was grafted on from a different song.
Ultimately, this concert was as much about what the Arcade Fire did play (seven new songs and a great deal of Funeral) as what they didn‘t– i.e., most of Neon Bible (represented on this night only by singles “Intervention” and “Keep the Car Running”; “No Cars Go” was also played, but that song dates back to their 2003 EP).
As more of The Suburbs was revealed, it became clear that the new tracks aren‘t ideal complements to the apocalyptic rumble of “Black Mirror”, the scathing satire of “Antichrist Television Blues”, or the tortured despair of “My Body Is a Cage”. Rather, the clap-along groove of “Modern Man”, the gently swelling “Rococo” (featuring a lovely chorus of angelic harmonies supplied by the ladies), and the nervy, piano-powered “We Used to Wait” were marked by their patience, restraint and suavity. Like their Merge labelmates Spoon, the Arcade Fire have tapped into a mode of songcraft that possesses a certain classic-rock-radio familiarity but is marked by a very modern sense of unease.
However, even as their songwriting grows more existential, the Arcade Fire can always turn on the spectacle at the drop of a megaphone. And much like they did at this same venue five years ago, the band reached their ecstatic peak at that precise moment where the cacophonous conclusion of “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)” dissolved into the bouncy bass build-up of “Rebellion (Lies),” during which Win Butler descended into the crowd while brother Will, after losing his drumstick, used his strap-on floor tom as a punching bag. Given how far the Arcade Fire’s sound has drifted away from Funeral‘s calamitous anthems, it’s heartening to know the band still feed off of the potentially dangerous onstage theatrics that defined their early years.
It’s doubtful the band will ever get sick of performing encore finale “Wake Up”, since they don’t really have to sing it anymore, instead deferring to the audience to belt out that bracing wordless chorus. Over the years, “Wake Up” has lent itself to many functional uses, from U2′s stadium intro theme to sports-telecast bumper music. Last night, it served a different purpose: to summon the return of big-tent indie rock’s ringleaders. Look out all you chillwavers– as Butler sings on “Intervention”, the kings are taking back their throne.
Setlist:
01 Ready to Start
02 Month of May
03 Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
04 The Suburbs
05 Suburban War
06 No Cars Go
07 Haiti
08 Intervention
09 Modern Man
10 Rococo
11 We Used to Wait
12 Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
13 Rebellion (Lies)
Encore:
14 Keep the Car Running
15 Wake Up
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Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkListWhile looking for anything sweet to blog today I found this image: Armando / Son Dulce.
I must share more live concert photos like this.
Nicole Hensley describes it best:www.myspace.com/sondulce
Click for the Nicole Hensley’s website and some of their other live concert pictures only since everyone is always wondering.
Was this picture of live concert was worth looking at?
Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkListToday I was seeking yahoo for mosh pit photos and I happened to see this incredible picture: Slayer – London.
I am going to blog more mosh pit photos like this one.
Slayer – London can be summed up by these words:
Slayer
HMV Forum, London
June 2, 2010
Here’s the Tanya Nagar’s page and some of their other mosh pit images since people ask me for it.
I can’t wait to hear your opinions regarding this photograph, or any other aspects of mosh pit.
Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkListI was hunting for mosh pit photos: I discovered this awesome photo: Slayer – London.
Slayer – London can be summed up by these words:Slayer
HMV Forum, London
June 2, 2010
Click to visit the location of the original mosh pit picture because mosh pit photos aren’t the fastest to find.
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