Tue 21 Oct – Broken Social Scene, Land of Talk

wow. as a last minute thing to decide to go to, this was an intense, intense experience. they played close to 3.5 hours, from 1015 to like 130 in the morning. i dont know i can say besides it was an experience more than a show. there were some really really bad parts and some really great parts too. bad first: as much as i love you forgot it in people's instrumentals, i think opening the show with a drawn out late 90s/shampoo suicide one-two was a painful 15 minute…

wow. as a last minute thing to decide to go to, this was an intense, intense experience. they played close to 3.5 hours, from 1015 to like 130 in the morning. i dont know i can say besides it was an experience more than a show. there were some really really bad parts and some really great parts too. bad first: as much as i love you forgot it in people's instrumentals, i think opening the show with a drawn out late 90s/shampoo suicide one-two was a painful 15 minute slow burn. though maybe that was the point. anyway kc…

Sun 28 Sep – The Dodos, Au, Wye Oak

great! same as always from the dodos, it sucks that meric long is sick, apparently something is wrong with his throat (he said mononucleosis) and also hinted that this might be "the first and last day" of the tour because of his throat, and they didnt play a while as a result. it added this really tense element to the show though. my only complaint and a really bizarre moment, when they were about to play ashley the xylophonist started playing the casio thing, but it was too loud, and he…

this was a pretty good show. ive been listening to bowerbirds a lot, i think their album is really great and theyre talented. the singer looked like a regular guy and couldnt have been older than 25, and his partner accordian lady was good and even sang a lead part on one of their new songs, this awesome duet thing. cant wait for their next album the crowd was extremely receptive for an opening band. live they were really solid, they sounded identical to the record. they harmonize really really well.

bon iver was also a really great perfomance. i…

awesome awesome show. id been looking forward to seeing wolf parade for more than 2 years, they tour so rarely. but tonight was great. terminal 5 was terrible as always (especially for wintersleep, i felt bad for them the sound was so terrible. they were okay, singer looks and sounds exactly like travis morrison to me. weird) but it didnt really detract from wolf parade being so good. they played all of kissing the beehive and like half of apologies (sadly no modern world, same ghost every night, or dinner bells, but oh well). spencer krug got really nervous before…

i was pretty excited for this show as the last time i saw bright eyes was so pretty sweet. town hall is a pretty awesome place, although the seats made it more of a concert than an involving show. however, it was still pretty damn cool. (excuse my dude adjectives)

i got there about 820, missing most of oakley hall, which i became pretty pissed off at. we came in at almost their second to last song, and watching that many people on stage with that much energy(plus the "is that conor?" mystique. which it was) was so great, even…