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[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.

[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...

[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)

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[sean]

Are Titus Andronicus a metal band with a deformed woman as the vocalist?

Because that would be so good.

[benji]

And a 1 handed guitarist.

[sean]

And after each set they all eat each other!

Okay I'm done.

[Ballard]

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

Explain?

[TheFuriousWombat]

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.

Yeah, living in New Jersey (i.e. close to New York and Philly) actually does have some perks. I'm actually going to see Yndi Halda and Caspian and a couple other bands do a show at Piano's in New York in the end of August. Should be awesome!!

[Shadows Collide]

Opeth coming up in September, then Patti Smith, New Pornographers and a few others.

[bongaroo]

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

Explain?

Well Kayne was at Bonnaroo.  I was working the info tent and had a radio so I was listening in on the backstage production channel.  They moved his show from one of the tents to the main stage so he would have room to have his whole setup; they made this decision pretty early in the day so no big deal.  He wanted his show to be late so that his whole "glow in the dark" theme would look cool.  His whole setup was ready to go before 2 am.  He didn't get up on stage until close to 4 in the morning!  The sun was coming up before he was even an hour into his set.  I left after a short while.  It was horrible.

Really he was just being a jerk and wanted to be the only one on any of the stages.  Phil and Friends were suppoused to be on until about 4 but they were hurried to finish so the production crew could get Kayne to start on the other stage.  His big whiney blog post sealed the deal for me.  He's just a big ego that won't be getting any of my money.  I had a few albums but I've already given them away and don't plan on ever getting another.

The Talib Kweli show on the other hand was dank, and so was M.I.A.


As far as Sigur Ros goes it's tough for me to say.  I hadn't heard much so I went in with an open mind.  I did enjoy some of the show, a small march around the stage with tuba's and brass had me laughing but overall I couldn't get excited.  The singing after 5 or 6 songs really just began to sound all the same.  Give them a try I'd say but I'm not going to recommend it that much.

That what you were looking for?

[suitupletsgo]

that's if he meant it or not, which coming from a complete doucheclown like him, he probably didn't.

[Chesire Cat]

Radiohead tonight!

Hoping for some old classics

[benji]

I went to see What Made Milwaukee Famous last night. It was refreshing to see some guys who were just playing good rock music and having some fun on stage.

[Scarychips]

Radiohead tonight!

Hoping for some old classics

Yes! Incredibly excited! and I love Grizzly Bear too! Woohoo!

[bongaroo]

you do realize he felt terrible about the bonnaroo show and he apologized profusely right

Here's his blog post.  Seriously, he is a Grade A D-Bag.  He types like a 13 year old thats upset that he lost in a video game or something.

I am  sick of negative  people who just sit around trying 2 plot my downfall... Why????  I understand if people don't like me because I like me or if people think tight clothes look gay or people say I run my mouth to much,  But this Bonnaroo thing is the worst insult I've ever had in my life. This is the most offended I've ever been... this is the maddest I ever will be.  I'm typing so fucking hard I might break my fucking Mac book Air!!!!!!!!   Call me any name you want.... arrogant, conceited, narcissistic, racist, metro, fag whatever you can think of....  BUT NEVER SAY I DIDN'T GIVE MY ALL!   NEVER SAY I DIDN'T GIVE MY ALL!  THIS SHOWS NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY  TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING THERE WILL BE PEOPLE THERE TO LIE ABOUT YOU AND BRING YOU DOWN!  LIKE WAYNE SAYS PLEASE DON'T SHOOT ME DOWN CAUSE I'M FLYING!  I'M FUCKING HURT BY THIS ONE. ALL I CARE ABOUT ARE THE FANS.  JUST SAY THIS OUT LOUD IN  A ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE, "KANYE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT GIVING A GOOD PERFORMANCE."  CAN ANYONE HONESTLY SAY THAT ?????????      HAS ANYONE EVEN TAKEN THE TIME TO AT LEAST  DO THE MATH???  BONNAROO SHOULD HAVE RELEASED A STATEMENT IN MY DEFENSE BUT SINCE THEY HAVEN'T LET'S BREAK DOWN THE WALLS ON THIS TRUMAN SHOW AND LET YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY OCCURRED!!!   FOR OVER A MONTH WE WENT BACK AND FORTH ON WETHER OR NOT WE COULD EVEN FIT MY STAGE AT THE FESTIVAL. ONE DAY THEY WOULD SAY YES... WE'D SEND THEM OUR SPECS THEN THEY THEY'D SAY OK... THEN THEY WOULD SEND SPECS BACK THAT DIDN'T FIT THE STAGE. WE WERE OBVIOUSLY DEALING WITH FUCKING IDIOTS WHO DIDN'T REALLY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO REALLY PUT ON THIS SHOW PROPERLY.  THEY TRIED 2 GIVE ME A TIME SLOT WERE IT WAS STILL LIGHT OUTSIDE ... I HAVE A FUCKING LIGHT SHOW DUMB ASS, IT'S NOT CALLED GLOW IN THE DARK FOR NO REASON SQUID BRAINS!  MY PEOPLE WORKED OUT A COMPROMISED STAGE PLOT AND A 3AM TIME SLOT AND I AGREED.   FAST FOWARD TO THE DAY OF THE SHOW. MY PRODUCTION MANAGER TRIED TO LOAD IN FOR 24 HOURS BEFORE I WENT ON STAGE BUT THE FESTIVAL WOULDN'T ALLOW US TO DO ANYTHING UNTILL PEARL JAM LEFT THE STAGE. PEARL JAM ENDED ONE HOUR 
LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  AT THAT POINT WE'RE RACING AGAINST THE SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT 4:20AM DON COMES BACK 2 THE BUS AND TELLS ME, " IT  WOULD TAKE 45 MORE MINUTES TO PUT ALL YOUR PYRO IN!"  I SAY I HAVE TO GET OUT THERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE . I HIT THE STAGE AND PEOPLE HAD BEEN THROWING SHIT ON THE STAGE AND HAD ACTUALLY HIT THE JANE SCREEN WITH, I GUESS BOTTLES OR SOMETHING AND HAD BROKEN MY FUCKING SCREEN.  REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE A SHORTY AND WATER WOULD HIT THE TV??????  WHEN I GOT 2 "THROUGH THE WIRE" I STEPPED ON  THE FRONT PART OF MY STAGE AND THERE WAS SO MUCH LIQUID ON THE STAGE  I COULDN'T MOVE WITHOUT SLIPPING. I HAD TO ADJUST MY WHOLE PERFORMANCE STYLE BECAUSE OF IT.  A FEW MORE SONGS IN AND THE SONG WAS ON IT'S WAY UP.. I  CUT A FEW SONGS FROM THE SET BECAUSE  I  WANTED PEOPLE 2 EXPERIENCE STRONGER WHILE THERE WAS STILL SOME DARKNESS TO PERFORM IT IN.  I'VE STRUGGLED WITH STRONGER FROM IT'S   CONCEPTION. REMEMBER LAST SUMMER WHEN I CANCELED SOME TV APPEARANCES.  IT WAS BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO PERFORM STRONGER IN THE DAYTIME.  ANYONE WHO CAME TO THE GLOW TOUR CAN UNDERSTAND WHY I WANTED PEOPLE TO SEE IT PROPERLY. IT BROKE MY HEART THAT I COULDN'T GIVE THESE FANS STRONGER IN IT'S GREATEST FORM... BY THE TIME I GOT TO STRONGER IT WAS DAYTIME AND IT BROKE MY HEART.  I'M SORRY TO EVERYONE THAT I DIDN'T HAVE THE ABILITY 2 GIVE THE PERFORMANCE I WANTED TO. I'M SORRY...  SOMETIMES I GO 2, 3 DAYS W/O SLEEP WORKING ON MY PERFORMANCE... I HAVE TO ICE MY KNEES AFTER EVERY SHOW AND THEY HURT WHEN I WALK THROUGH THE AIRPORT... HAVING AN EXPENSIVE STAGE CUTS MY PAYDAY IN HALF... CALL ME WHAT YOU WANT BUT NEVER SAY I DIDN'T GIVE MY ALL!!!

[benji]

You know, while I'm sure all the pyrotechnics and the light show is cool, if your music isn't good enough to stand on its own without that, then you really aren't that much of a musician. If full load-in wasn't going to be possible, a real showman would have found a way to keep the necessary pieces and set up in a shorter time frame. If you're as good at your job as Kanye West seems to believe that he is, you'll make up for it as best you can and the audience will forgive you. What they won't forgive is a late performance that turns out to be too short followed by a lame excuse about how it's not your fault. The show must go on.

[TheFuriousWombat]

In November I'm going to see Stars of the Lid and Hammock, two of the best ambient musical groups out there, play a show together at a very cool little venue in New York. SofL almost never play live shows so needless to say I'm incredibly excited.
I'm also very excited to see Library Tapes and Deaf Center in the same venue in late September. I'll be getting my ambient fix for sure.

[Steel_Town_Erick]

I'm going to see Nightwish, Gogol Bordello and Opeth in New Orleans in the upcoming monhts.

Yes, each band is a different show.

Nightwish is just because I had a friend ask me to join her.  But the Bordello and Opeth?  Hell yes.

I'm also seeing MSI at a couple of a shows with a friend.  This is mainly for the roadtrip and time spent with some amigos, but I got to say, Jimmy's banter makes the show lively.

Nobody too underground, like the Test Tube Queers, but I'm sure the people I work with will give me funny looks when I mention the band names.

[Kai]

8/20/08 - Wichita Kansas - John Wiese <3 <3 <3 - Venue: TBA

so basically it is going to be in someone's basement.

[Jughead5267]

Going to see Wilco at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, DE on Sunday night.
Pretty intimate (relatively speaking) venue, about 1200 peeps, only about an hour away from my house.

Really looking forward to it, anybody have past experience with Wilco live shows?