You people go to shows, right? What future shows are you excited about?

[dalconnsuch]

the dandy warhols in two days, quite excited

[muffy]

I should be seeing Cottonmouth tomorrow (awesome local band), the Mae Shi in August, but, rather more excitingly, I got an e-mail telling me that I have won tickets to see Death Cab For Cutie on Monday. I never win anything.
This will hopefully make up for the rather odd Jaguar Love gig last week, and will pretty much make my year...although I'm slightly gutted that the intended support band (I Was A Cub Scout) split up a couple of weeks ago. Even if I did witness their incredibly uncomfortable disintegration on stage before it happened.
Still.
Death Cab.
Free.

I am pretty happy right now.

[Liz]

I bought a ticket to see Jonny Lang yesterday. I don't care what anyone says, I have loved his music for the longest time and I am finally going to see him live. It is going to be great.

[katiejoy]

I am most excited about:

bon iver w/ the bowerbirds - july 23d
miracle fortress w/ think about life - july 25th
sappyfest (sackville, nb) http://www.sappyrecords.com/sappyfest_08/lineup_08.htm - aug 1st-3d
silver jews - sept 3d
sandro perri - sept 17th
black mountain - sept 28th

[Sam]

maps+atlases were amazing, some band named gasoline heart opened (their singer looked like johnnyc but bald+ agreat moustache) and mewithoutYou were much better than i expected they would be live.

mewithoutYou brought in hells of corny xtians though

[glyphic]

I missed Maps + Atlases last night, but to make up for it, I'm going to treat my girlfriend to a Say Panther/Berlin Whale show on Thursday at the Bluebird. Yeah!

[A_S00]

Tegan and Sara in October.  Yay!

[Ishotdanieljohnston]

At the end of the month I've got Sigur Ros and Band of Horses. Also I just bought tickets for Patti Smith in October. Super psyched.

[Jimmy the Squid]

I'm going to see Ignite tomorrow night at The Bald Faced Stag. I'm taking the night off of work to do this even though I am desperately poor. Should be a good night.

[petmilk]

Pitchfork this weekend! I think the Bowerbirds are coming too! + Bodies of Water and Blue Scholars in August!

God bless you, Chicago.

[Ballard]

At the end of the month I've got Sigur Ros and Band of Horses. Also I just bought tickets for Patti Smith in October. Super psyched.

I love Patti Smith but the immediate response will always be "Damn, she's still alive?" in my head.

dalconnsuch, how were the Dandy Warhols? I'm looking forward to seeing them in September.

[MobyDickhole]

I caught Download Fest last weekend for $21 including hidden fees at the Gibson Amphitheater (thanks to $10 fan appreciation tickets from livenation)
Meaning I saw The Jesus and Mary Chain, Gang of Four, MuteMath, RJD2, Caribou, Mates of State, Kaki King, Yeasayer, M83, Tapes 'N Tapes, Datarock, and others in a 9 hour time span for the price of a normal show. I might add that I was in the pit. Great day.

And I decided to put a more fleshed out version of my list up... I tried to keep it to one show a day and one night per artist*
If you live in the Southern California Area, listen up:

August
3- Boris at the Echoplex
5- Conor Oberst at the Troubadour
14- Octopus Project at the Knitting Factory, or Xiu Xiu at the Echo
23- Sunset Junction Street Festival- BSS, Castledoor, Cold War Kids, Menomena
24- Sondre Lerche at the Troubadour
25- Second night of Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl
26 -Bon Iver at the Troubadour
27- Radiohead in Chula Vista

September
2- The Wombats at the Echoplex
4- Why? at the Echoplex
9- Mogwai wit h Fuck Buttons at the Wiltern
12- Mirah & Spectratone International at the Troubadour
13- Aesop Rock at the Troubadour
17- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at the Hollywood Bowll
18- Vampire Weekend at the Wiltern
19- (through the 20)- Street Scene Fest 08': with... Beck/ The Black Crows/ The National/ Spoon /Justice/ TV on The Radio/ Atmosphere/ Cat Power/ Tegan and Sara/ Hot Chip/ The New Pornographers/ Vampire Weekend/ Man Man/ Tokyo Police Club/ Foals/ MGMT/ Does It Offend You, Yeah?/ others...
20- Beck and Spoon and MGMT at the Hollywood Bowl
21- My Morning Jacket at the Greek
22- The Raconteurs at the Greek
23- Okkervil River at the Fonda, Raconteurs at the Greek
26- Silver Jews at the Echoplex

October
1- Stars at the Avalon
2- Sigur Ros at the Greek Theatre
24- Girl Talk at the Fonda


*Radiohead is a special case.

[Sam]

HEALTH tonight. 18+!

will i get in? let's find out

[Ballard]

Brian Jonestown Massacre tonight.

ohmygodohmygodohmygod

[imagist42]

HEALTH tonight. 18+!

will i get in? let's find out

You're opting for HEALTH over Wolf Parade w/ Wintersleep? That's where I'll be tonight...

[Jeans]

I am seeing Tortoise 14th of August and The Wombats in October. Also, possibly Xiu Xiu, Bon Iver and Calexico. This year is a good year!

[Scarychips]

6 of August : Radiohead

[squawk]

Also in LA: Deerhoof, October 3rd, Avalon.

[MobyDickhole]

thanks for the heads up.

[TheFuriousWombat]

Tonight: Tilly and the Wall in Philadelphia
Aug 1: Wolf Parade w/ Wintersleep (!) IN New York
Sept. 19: Stars in Philadelphia

Maybe other things in between?

[alli]

i´ll be going to the nightmare befor christmas festival in december
confirmed line-up so far:

KILL ME TOMORROW, MASTODON, MELVINS, ISIS, NEIL HAMBURGER, DäLEK
BIG BUSINESS, THE DIRTBOMBS, THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION, TORCHE
J.G. THIRLWELL'S MANOREXIA, FARMERS MARKET, BOHREN UND DER CLUB OF GORE
FANTôMAS PERFORMING THE DIRECTOR'S CUT, THE LOCUST, ZU

[mfpole]

bbbbbbbbbBOREDOMS

8.8.08 Boadrum of course!

Its in NYC and LA this year, and I'm still trying to figure out how that works.
(and it's free)

[Sam]

ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod

[Chesire Cat]

Tapes 'N Tapes,
August
23-Cold War Kids, Menomena
September
18- Vampire Weekend at the Wiltern
19- Hot Chip/Tokyo Police Club

Jealous!

Radiohead Aug 6th

Me too, and catching Osheaga day 2 couple days before.

Sept 17th sees me at Bloc Party

[ThisIsOriginal]

I literally have no concerts coming near me.
haha


and me not being able to drive means I have no way to get to concerts.

plus upstate NY is lame and doesn't have good bands go even near here.

[imagist42]

Now that I know I will be in Austin until November I am somewhat excited about Cut Copy coming on September 29th. I would be all over ACL but the 3-day passes are all gone, and I'm not excited about nearly enough bands to justify paying $80 a day, even for one day. This means I will miss out on Okkervil River yet again, but, well, they're not eighty dollars important to me.

So, yeah, I'm getting excited about Cut Copy.

[Sam]

yeah i am thinking about flipping my 3-day for just one or two day-passes.

[johnny5]

pinback this friday

sweet

[Liz]

ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod

I would see this band.

[BlakeJustBlake]

In a month or so I'm going to go see Mogwai and then a few days later Ratatat.

[Sam]

are you seeing them at stubbs? and is that where ratatat's playing, too? you said yr in denton so i'm assuming you are heading to austin for these shows.

[BlakeJustBlake]

No, they're playing in Dallas at the Granada.

[imagist42]

But Stubbs is where Ratatat's playing, I forgot about that after I took a flyer for it leaving the Wolf Parade show until you mentioned it just now. I guess that could be kinda cool.

[BlakeJustBlake]

Yeah, but I meant it like: No, I'm going to see them in Dallas at the Granada. Came out wrong. When did you see Wolf Parade? I saw them last Thursday when they were in Dallas, amazing show. Did you like Wintersleep?

[Johnny C]

JUDAS PRIEST WERE AWESOME

[Sam]

I'm not sure if i want to see Ratatat. I caught them last April, in 07 and there were so many sweaty shirtless bros with tribal tats grinding on me

like

i don't want to dance with them

[imagist42]

Yeah, but I meant it like: No, I'm going to see them in Dallas at the Granada. Came out wrong. When did you see Wolf Parade? I saw them last Thursday when they were in Dallas, amazing show. Did you like Wintersleep?

Yeah, they played in Austin the next night. I had a good enough time with Wintersleep (they're far less danceable than Wolf Parade, so a lot of the crowd were agitating for their set to end from the beginning) but Wolf Parade definitely made the show.

[BlakeJustBlake]

Yeah, I mean, if I had heard of Wintersleep before I probably would've enjoyed it much more when theyw ere playing, but I downloaded some of their stuff and it's halfway decent. But yes, Wolf Parade provided so much energy and awesome music. Spencer Krug seems so modest and shy though, like every time the crowd went crazy applauding after a song he was just quietly like "Thanks, you guys are nice." But their encore was the best part of the whole show.

[Scarychips]

I'm gonna go see Burt Bacharach, with special guests Final Fantasy and Julie Doiron, October 3rd with my Mom.

[casull]

Shearwater in september, mogwai a week later.

[blankfile]

Mogwai, September 23th, at Montreal's Metropolis. I'm supposed to go, but 3 of the 3 people who were supposed to go with me ended up changing their mind and are not going anymore.

Just because it happens to be on a Tuesday. Oh well still got almost 2 months to find a backup plan.

[BlakeJustBlake]

Go alone, it'll be worth it.

[TheFuriousWombat]

I GOT SIGUR ROS TICKETS!!!
I missed out on all four New York shows when trying to order online but a friend of a friend is willing to sell me a ticket face value for September 18th in New York. Holy shit I'm excited!! I was sure I was going to miss this whole tour and not be able to see them for a few years minimum thanks to their impending hiatus.

[MobyDickhole]

I think I'm seeing Sigur Ros as well.

I say I think because if all goes as planned, I will have press passes, but if all does not go as planned, I will not.
I should say though, that I am going to try REALLY fucking hard to make sure all goes as planned.

I was supposed to see The Arcade Fire/ LCD Soundsystem at the Hollywood Bowl last year. But things didn't go as planned, and i was quite upset.
This upsettness will be like 100x if I can't see Sigur Ros.

And I'm not even going to start talking about how excited I am for Radiohead in Chula Vista.

Other Bands I am really excited to hopefully see (in no particular order):
Okkervil River, Broken Social Scene, Mogwai, Stars, Octopus Project, Aesop Rock, The National, Beck, Menomena, TV on The Radio, The New Pornographers (for a 2nd time), Vampire Weekend, Man Man, Deerhoof, Girl Talk, The Dodos, M83,Presidents of the United States of America, quite a few others

[TheFuriousWombat]

I will hopefully be seeing Man Man and Broken Social Scene as well, both in New York, assuming I have the time and energy to come down from school.

[Ballard]

Kanye West floor seats at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday. All Points West (Radiohead, The New Pornographers, The Go! Team, Mates of State, more) on Friday.

Fuck YES.

[bongaroo]

Kanye was a big disappointment for me this summer.  Sigur Ros too.

Zappa plays Zappa (which I just noticed Jeph went to see) was crazy awesome.  Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival has probably been the best show on tour all summer for me.  I've seen them 3 times and each one has been even better.

This weekend coming up is a small festival in Asheville.  Trinumeral:  Galactic (still my favorite band), EOTO with Michael Kang, the Booty Band, and I'm very excited about Lotus and Particle.  Should be a good weekend.

[ledhendrix]

Belladrum Festival soon. Not to many bands that I want to see but the Cold War Kids should be good, so should Idelwild. Apart from that I'm just gonna wander around and see as many bands as I can.

[BlakeJustBlake]

Dammit you guys that are seeing Sigur Ros and Broken Social Scene, they won't come down here.... The closest place BSS is playing is Missouri, I might just make the pilgrimage.

I'm also mad because Yndi Halda is coming to Denton while I'll be back around Houston, and when they come to Houston it'll be at a 21-up bar.

[20 jazz funk greats]

i should be seeing shellac in september.  that's pretty exciting.