May 29, 2008 at 1:13 am · Filed under Music, Photos
So I am always a sucker for a good rock band AND good rock bands with girls that rock out!! I have heard nothing but great things about the Von Bondies live shows, so I had to jump on the chance to see them live. After an awful first opening band, some old guys doing lots of leg kicks, and the Die! Die! Die! played, the Von Bondies took the stage and started to rip it up. Everything I heard from friends or online was totally spot on, the Von Bondies put on a great live show. They played some of my favorites including No Regrets, C’mon C’mon, Not That Social with members of Die! Die! Die!, and Fever. Jason really blew me away with his range, and Christy can really shred, she was so cute dancing around with her SG. It was a great show, and if you get the chance to check out the Von Bondies live go for it. Check out photos from the show. I might even make the trip up to Vancouver to see them at Richards on Richards on Saturday.
May 29, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Music, Photos
Die! Die! Die! is a punk noise band from New Zealand. They opened for The Von Bondies at the High Dive and put on a pretty fun show. Lots of running into the crowd which was cool. Check out the pics.
April 5, 2008 at 8:52 pm · Filed under General, Photos
So with the upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 I thought I’d look into the plugins I was using and see if there was anything better. And what do you know someone made a Picasa XML Gallery plugin that uses Lightbox2. It is great.
October 10, 2007 at 12:43 am · Filed under Music, Photos
So I got to see Metric tonight for the second time, and it was a great show. Emily was really playful with the crowd and the band was really tight. Emily was sporting a Jimi Hendrix t-shirt for the locals in Seattle. It was great to see them up close and personal this time as the last time I saw them I was fairly far back, but this time I was smack up front. I snapped a fair amount of photos from this show, but I have come to the conclusion that I need a new digital camera that does low light levels fairly well if not excellent. I didn’t remove any photos, so there are a fair amount of blurry shots as well as some black ones. But I hope you like the photos.
October 10, 2007 at 12:37 am · Filed under Music, Photos
So I went and checked out Metric tonight (more on that later), but this Canadian band Crystal Castles penned for them and was pretty cool to see live. Crystal Castle has two members, Ethan Fawn and Alice, as well as a touring drummer. Their sound can only be described as 8-bit riot dance, or if you took various sounds from classic Nintendo Entertainment System games, and threw them up with a Casio keyboard. It doesn’t sound very pleasant but it is pretty awesome once you hear it. Alice was dancing all around the stage while Ethan was stuck behind his various array of keyboards and synths. They have a full length album coming out in February 2008, but here is a sample of their work. Listen to more on their MySpace page.
November 29, 2006 at 3:01 pm · Filed under Music, Photos
What a day. I will write more later, but I thought I’d get photos up. Hymns played a great show opening for The Lemonheads and VietNam. Here are some photos. Click the headline to see all the photos.
November 29, 2006 at 2:56 pm · Filed under Music, Photos
So the other opening band for the Lemonheads was VietNam, who before last night I have never heard of and wasn’t sure how they would sound, but their set was a very pleasant surprise. Somewhat folky rock with a slice of the 70’s in there for some flavor. Along with the sound was some great voice work that you really wouldn’t expect from the singers in the band. Very surprising. I snapped a couple shots, so take a peak. Sadly VietNam does not currently have an album out, so they had only t-shirts to sell. So in the meantime check their myspace to hear a couple of their songs from their album coming out in January.
November 29, 2006 at 2:44 pm · Filed under Music, Photos
So last night The Lemonheads played the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle. The Lemonheads played a really good show and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, accept for this guy and his girl but I’ll talk about that in another post, and Evan Dando closed his normal set with some acoustic songs, took a short break and returned to the stage with the entire band and was ready to start playing another song and then just lifted his guitar and walked off stage. No one could really figure out what set Evan off, and the crowd started to get pretty pissed. After a couple minutes of boos and some foul language aimed at Evan the house lights turned on and security started asking people to clear out. It was pretty funny to witness. But I did snap some photos, take a peak.
November 6, 2006 at 1:34 am · Filed under Music, Photos
I got to check out Band or Horses over the weekend at The Showbox. It was a wonderful show. I was really impressed how much better their show has gotten since I saw them at the Block Party during the summer. They played all the great songs from the album and played a couple covers as well. I almost wanted to go back again tonight and see them again, but wasn’t feeling that well. In a sad note I took my camera, but the memory card was not in it, so I was limited to the internal memory which allowed me to take six photos on economy quality. So the photos might not nearly be as nice as previous ones and they are pretty limited. Hopefully next time they come to town I remember the memory card.
October 17, 2006 at 1:07 am · Filed under Music, Photos
So Mew was the reason I went to the show, but I thought I would check out some of Kasabian. They weren’t that bad. They were your typical rock band. The lead singer had this Mick Jagger meets Liam Gallagher thing going. Perhaps it was the whole British thing. But the band was loud, people were into it, but people slowly started to leave. Their songs started to sound all the same after a while, at least to me. I had to go outside and take a break after 40 minutes or so. But while I was in there, I took a lot of pictures. Especially after people started to leave I could get really close to the stage. So check out the photos. Enjoy.
October 17, 2006 at 12:59 am · Filed under Music, Photos
I was really excited to see Mew tonight at Neumo’s, and they really didn’t disappoint other then not playing long enough. They had a great stage show with a white tarp behind them for a huge projector which was synced to the music in various spots, like during the chorus of various songs. I wasn’t sure that Mew sound would translate well live, but they really did make it work. The lead singer really can control his voice, which was cool to see live. One sad thing was majority of my photos turned out pretty blurry, which really sucks. I more full stage shots then I normally do, because the light from the projector was messing with my camera. My friend Niles cousin Adam came along and wanted a picture with the lead singer, so that is the last shot.
I am really excited because Mew said they would be back in February probably doing a headline tour. I’d say 20% of the people who went to the show went to see Mew and couldn’t careless about Kasabian.
October 17, 2006 at 12:52 am · Filed under Music, Photos
So I was a little slow on these photos, but here are some photos of Ben Kweller when he came to Western Washington University. It was a great show and great seeing the band again. So here are the photos.
