Folk Festival 50 performers, The Low Anthem, drop an album today called "Oh My God, Charlie Darwin"... which I always want to write as "Oh-my-GAWD, Charlie Darwin!!" for no apparent reason. Maybe because I spent too much time in the South.
The Phoenix up here in New England likes it.
So does Paste magazine down in Atlanta.
By the way, have you contributed to Save Paste yet? You get over 150 mp3s with your donation, no matter the amount. Plus, you help my friends keep their jobs and then the Paste kids can go to camp. Everybody wins.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Friday, June 05, 2009
Caren Explains Summer Concert Season
(from Tiesto concert at Ultra Music Fest this past spring)
Summer-summer-sumMERtimmmmeeee! Which, of course, means that good bands are making their way across America in search of new fans. Here are the best shows coming to Boston in the near future:
June 10: Jenny Lewis w/Deer Tick at House of Blues
June 17: Phoenix at Paradise Rock Club
(MY MOST ANTICIPATED CONCERT OF THE LAST FIVE YEARS)
June 18: Passion Pit, w/Harlem Shakes, Cale Parks at Paradise Rock Club
June 25: Camera Obscura at Somerville Theatre
July 11: Wilco w/Connor Oberst at LeLacheur Park
July 26: Pete Yorn at House of Blues
August 1-2: Folk Festival 50 in Newport, RI, with Gillian Welch, Iron & Wine, The Decemberists, Josh Ritter, Langhorne Slim, Fleet Foxes, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, etc, etc, etc... excellent.
Boston Summer Concerts
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Caren Explains Phoenix (the Band)
Three Cool Things about Phoenix:
1) The band is from France but sings in English (thanks, Phoenix!)
2) Lead singer Thomas Mars has a daughter with one of my favorite directors, Sophia Coppola
3) Guitarist Laurent Brancowitz used to be in a band with the duo now known as Daft Punk
Since 2006 It's Never Been Like That has had a permanent home in the third slot of my six-disc CD player. Three singles off that album -- "Consolation Prizes," "Rally" and "Lost and Found" -- are found on my iPod's Most Played Songs playlist.
You can imagine the agony I've gone through while patiently waiting for a new Phoenix album. My suffering ends on May 25th, when Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix will hit shelves (though some tracks have already leaked to the web).
Today the band announced one East Coast gig -- June 19th at Terminal 5 in NYC -- but no US tour. I've never seen them live, and will find a way to be in NYC for that show. I must.
Here are the band's SNL performances from last weekend. As Stereogum pointed out, Coldplay, U2, Paul McCartney and Phoenix are the few artists that have been asked to play three songs on SNL.
"Liztomania" from upcoming album
"1901" from upcoming album
"Too Young" from Lost in Translation soundtrack
1) The band is from France but sings in English (thanks, Phoenix!)
2) Lead singer Thomas Mars has a daughter with one of my favorite directors, Sophia Coppola
3) Guitarist Laurent Brancowitz used to be in a band with the duo now known as Daft Punk
Since 2006 It's Never Been Like That has had a permanent home in the third slot of my six-disc CD player. Three singles off that album -- "Consolation Prizes," "Rally" and "Lost and Found" -- are found on my iPod's Most Played Songs playlist.
You can imagine the agony I've gone through while patiently waiting for a new Phoenix album. My suffering ends on May 25th, when Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix will hit shelves (though some tracks have already leaked to the web).
Today the band announced one East Coast gig -- June 19th at Terminal 5 in NYC -- but no US tour. I've never seen them live, and will find a way to be in NYC for that show. I must.
Here are the band's SNL performances from last weekend. As Stereogum pointed out, Coldplay, U2, Paul McCartney and Phoenix are the few artists that have been asked to play three songs on SNL.
"Liztomania" from upcoming album
"1901" from upcoming album
"Too Young" from Lost in Translation soundtrack
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Caren Explains the Hampster Dance
Today I had a catchy little tune pop into my head, one I hadn't heard in years. It was accompanied by visions of dancing -- dancing that goes like this...
What other websites from the Web's earlier days will we later remember with nostalgia?
What other websites from the Web's earlier days will we later remember with nostalgia?
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Tech Crunch Explains Apple iPhone 3.0
Apple Opens Up More Ways To Get Paid On The iPhone, Adds Key New Features. Apps Hit 800 Million Downloads.
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800 million!? Amazing. I am most fascinated by the new market the Application store has created for entrepreneurship. Take my friend, Brian Gorby, for example.
I wish I'd been the first person to think up a Rock-Paper-Scissors iPhone application... I'd be rolling in it... speaking of which, I was disturbed to recently learn that some people call it "Paper-Rock-Scissors"... why? It doesn't flow off the tongue nearly as well as R-P-S... oh well, to each their own...
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800 million!? Amazing. I am most fascinated by the new market the Application store has created for entrepreneurship. Take my friend, Brian Gorby, for example.
I wish I'd been the first person to think up a Rock-Paper-Scissors iPhone application... I'd be rolling in it... speaking of which, I was disturbed to recently learn that some people call it "Paper-Rock-Scissors"... why? It doesn't flow off the tongue nearly as well as R-P-S... oh well, to each their own...
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