There's not much that will make me miss Mad Men. Going to see Vampire Weekend is one of them.
They're ridiculously good live, so if you're a fan and they're going to be in your town, you should really make the effort to check them out. The sound is great, looser but still faithful to the album vibe; the crowd is really into it; and they played pretty much everything they've ever written. Well worth the $25 (or whatever I paid) to see them.
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It is. Really. 85+ for like 10 days straight. It's raining now, but it's not like it's Antarctica out there.
This says "too hot" (DUH)
I should make this a t-shirt.
And, yo, the Specials, right?
They have a new album out and they were played on Hillbilly at Harvard today, which reminded me of how much I liked their previous record. As they said, they sound like a band that stepped into a time machine in the 1950s and showed up in a recoding studio 60 years later. If you tapped your toes to some of the songs on the Oh Brother Where Art Thous Soundtrack and want to take a dip back into the Bluegrass pool, these guys are the real deal.
Check out their site:
And their albums on Amazon mp3:
And a neat live performance:
This:
Is because of this:
The piece has nothing to do with the song, other than the words, but I'm not picky about where I pull my inspiration (either minor or major.)