GET DOWN ON IT

Helllloooo. ok so I promise I wil get back to regular posting soon but in the meantime, if you find yourself free on Tuesday night...or if you have plans you can back out of without losing your job /spouse, you should come down to Bowery Ballroom to see CHIEF supporting the Futureheads (!). This is a show I am very sad to be missing and if you are in the NYC area shame on you if you dont seize this opportunity for a night of mind blowing music.

WE PUT THE SASS IN SASQUATCH DAY 1

OK so I know its been like over a week since Sasquatch and probably no one is interested anymore, but I don't care. Here is a log of the adventures of Samantha and Caitlin, festival going virgins:



FRIDAY: Even though the festival had not yet officially begun, the partay definitely had. There were campers everywhere from all over the world (OK only really the US and Canada) who were really to kick of the weekend in...well style wouldn't really be the right word. Let's say enthusiasm. Caitlin and I dove right into the festivities and before we knew it, we were in VIP camping drinking Grey Goose out of some Canadian boy's trunk and...well I'll leave it there, but suffice it to say the night ended with me losing my bra and my phone. not fun. but fun.

SATURDAY


We kicked off the day with the FLEET FOXES, who were awesome. The way FF's songs sound is completely opposite to what you would expect because they are SO young. The songs sound like they came through a whisper in the trees of some ancient forest. "Oliver James" and "White Winter Hymnal" are definitely my favorites. (Photo credit: Brooklyn Vegan)


Then we made our way down to the pit so Caitlin could see her future husband aka the ever a-fucking-dorable Zach Condon of BEIRUT. I had seen them once before at NYU but this was a way different experience. I really just can't believe that all of these epic ballads come from this skinny 20 something american from New Mexico. The music just suited the beautiful, slightly overcast afternoon beautifully. And we noticed that Zach has french horn tattoos on both of his inner wrists. Hot. (Photo Credit: Caitlin Tormey)

After Beirut, we went back up to our little spot on the hill and snoozed through Ozamatli (sorry diana) and were planning to sleep through the National as well, when WHO should show up but none other than RAINN WILSON, aka Dwight K Schrute. OK, so he was there promoting his new movie, The Rocker, but he was SO funny. Me and Caitlin definitely both have an ugly crush on him. Anyways he told us that the National was too arty and depressed to play stuck somewhere in Canada because their bus broke down. So Fleet Foxes played again instead! Horay!

After Fleet Foxes part 2 we made our way down again to the pit to catch the end of the New Pornographers and get a good spot for MIA. But being the dumb inexperienced shits that we are, we didn't realize that we needed to stand really close to the metal gate to get into the inner pit area. So we were stuck where we were against the metal partition thing. Oh Well. I hadn't really heard too much of the New Pornographers stuff, but they were really awesome. And then they did a cover of ELO's "Don't Bring Me Down" which is one of my favorite old songs. I used to sing along to it all the time on the radio when I was five.




ANYWAYS. then MIA came on, and the place went....well, less wild than I would have expected. I don't know. I think maybe this wasn't exactly MIA's target market. Their were some technical problems too, and the performance just didn't seem to run very smoothly. Especially when she was like "Hey sound guy? We need to pretend this is Glastonbury 1993 and we are all on E and this is a rave!!!". I think about 25 people got the reference. But she sounded great when the sound was working. AND she was wearing a t-shirt with a giant picture of Ian Curtis with his name and birth/death day on the back. Which kind of gives her a million points in my book. And she invited people to come up on stage and dance with her. So I don't know. Maybe it evened out.

Sadly, as MIA was playing, I realized I was ill-equipped for the inclement weather ahead:




So after we trudged back up to our hill, we decided to smoke some smoke-ables. Where I proceeded to get high out of my mind. I do not like this feeling. I am upset it made me too incoherent to see Johnny Marr on the big screen thingy. It seriously felt like Modest Mouse played for 3 days. I was so confused. But everyone else seemed happy. So thats good. Then REM got up...and it started to rain. And all we had was one little blanket between four of us. I was not a happy camper. It could have been Michael Moore singing down there instead of Michael Stipe and I wouldn't have noticed. All I wanted to do was get back into my nice warm and dry sleeping bag and fall asleep. Luckily it started raining hard enough that everyone else wanted to leave too. And I did make it back. And I dove into my sleeping back and fell asleep in about three seconds

NO YOU DIDNT, AND NO YOU DONT

OK. I love Liam Fray. I really do. But, seriously could he be ANY more of a Libertines worshipper/rip off-er? I mean we all know that his songs are just one after another glorified Don't Look Back Into the Suns. And now NME reports that the B-side to the Courteeners new single "No You Didn't and No You Don't" is going to be a cover of "Dream a LIttle Dream of Me". Which was a huge number in the Libertines live show in their early days and a crowd favorite at their reunion in 2007.

I mean we all know that Lam and a secret Pete and Carl shrine that he prays to every night, but I didn't think he would make it so obvious to the rest of the world. And by rest of the world, I mean Libertines fans.

Check out the REAL (feat. Carl on vocals) deal doing an awesome cover at their reunion show complete with tap dancing!

AAAND WE'RE BACK ON DRUGS

God love the boy, but if he is going to go back to his crack-tastic ways, why oh WHY does he have to share his benders with the world. I mean I find them mildly fascinating. but thats only because I'm obsessed. Seriously. It really is funny that the two most fucked up people in London finally find each other. It seems they are just friends, especially because Amy uses a mouse to beg Blake not to divorce her, but seeing that Pete will probably have sex with just about anyone, I can't see it staying platonic for long.

"he looks like Johnny Borrell just come out of the bath" EPIC LULZ

I like redbullll I like adderalllll

HEY

whilst sarah is studying communism in Cuba, I've taken over the Redbull and Adderall section of the Almack's Dance Hall blog for the rest of this week. Here is today's entry and be sure to check in every day for your daily dose o' stimulants.




more song chart memes

If you missed American Idol last night, you missed (and this is putting it mildly) one hell of a performance from former Idol contestant Fantasia Barrino. Too bad hers is the most exciting performance of the season thus far. Gawker has the vid.

Conor Oberst is realeasing a solo album, out on August 4th. I'm glad he's branching out, it'll be interesting to see how he fares now that he's escaped from under the shadow of....all those other influential people in Bright Eyes.

Oh la la. Looks like Lily Allen has been doing some all over tanning work in the south of France. And I mean all over.

So...a "fat girl" finally wins America's Next Top Model. Only Dlisted doesn't think the fight was quite fair. Rumor has it that winner Whitney didn't start out as the curvaceous babe she purports herself to be.

The latest installment of the addictive 3 1/3 Series that features in depth analysis of seminal albums in mini-book form is out with their latest installment (#56), Black Sabbath's Master of Reality. Author John Darnielle will be doing a reading at Housingworks Used Book Cafe on Saturday at 7pm. Get out your devil horns.

We all remember the times we laid on the floor of our bedrooms and stare at album covers all day long, but did you ever wonder what was going on outside the frame? Well, this guy did and came up with some pretty hilarious ideas.

Hot Chip are going on tour....again! I would say that I'm getting tired of them...but their just too damn catchy. They are coming to NYC in October to Terminal 5 (best venue ever!....NOT). You can get more info on Spin.com

(BOYS) DON'T CRY

This is hi-ho-larious.

I showed this to my mom and she was like i dont get it. and I was like, "you know...friday im in love? THE CURE?!?" and my mom was like...."who is the cure?". Please kill me. Im living in a bubble of musical ignorance.

I'm going to play my first indoor soccer game tonight. shoot me. in the face.

I'M NOT LYING TO YOU

If you are lucky enough to still (unlike me) me in the city this Wednesday, you better be getting yo ass down to Mercury Lounge to see Chief . They are gonna be big. Trust me on this one. Their songs are just totally perfect and timeless and amazing. Very polished for a band that hasn't even gotten signed yet. Go. see them. you will thank me later.