Photos: Atlas Sound & Broadcast @ The Rhythm Room 11/5/09

Well last nights show was kinda weird. Apparently some people arrived late and that set off a chain of events that I can only describe as.... boring. I arrived late myself with the expectation that everything would start late as per the usual at The Rhythm Room the last few shows, but it was WAY latter than normal. But once they opened the doors around nine it wasn't so bad because I am a people person so chilln' on the patio and talking with friends is sometimes even better than watching the bands. Not so much this night, not that the conversations were not good because they were but all three bands made our wait well worth it.

The Selmanaires were the opening band as well as Bradford Cox's backing band, and even though some people didn't care for them so much I was pleasantly surprised and they got even better after Mr. Cox took the stage. Despite the entertaining albeit distracting "heckling incident" Atlas Sound put on one of the best shows of the year. I know I say that a lot but what can I do when each is better than the last?

I am not sure if Broadcast have always played last on this tour or if the whole "being late and having a shit ton of stuff" to set up made it necessary, but after the projector started rolling Broadcast put on quite the show. I am not going to say it was excellent because it wasn't, but it was really good. I am not super familiar with their albums so I was kind of going into it with no expectations or "any idea how the songs sound on the album" and according to some were not nearly as good, but since I didn't have the burden of prior knowledge I was able to appreciate what was going on right then in front of me and it was pretty rad.

Check out a few more pics after the break and a bunch more on our Flickr page HERE.

Video: Grizzly Bear - "Ready, Able"

Grizzly Bear's music videos are always a little unsettling. It's cool though; I'll take unsettling over boring any day of the week. Here is the video for "Ready, Able" off of Veckatimest. The video was directed by Allison Schulnik.

Shawn Says:
Ready, Able was my favorite track off Veckatimes I think...shit they are all awesome but yea, Ready, Able is my fav...I think ;-) But this video is rad as hell! with all the melting stuff and water and stuff melting into water. I wonder how many candles were harmed in the making of this film that Grizzly Bear provided the music for?

Download A Free Pixies EP

The Pixies are giving away a free downloadable EP to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of the album Doolittle and their upcoming tour. The tracks were recorded from their October 16th performance in Paris. Did I mention it was free?

Video: Black Lips "Drugs" on Carson Daly

I had NOOOO idea that Carson Daly still had a show. I am assuming it's still on after the show that is after the Tonight Show? If I am ever up that late I am definitely doing something infinitely more important than watching Carson Daly, stuff like dressing up my Build a Bear's or "smashing all the feeling out of my legs with a wooden mallet"... You know, things that are more exciting than Carson Daly. And it appears to me that this video was shot at some sort of concert venue rather than a TV studio right? So WTF is even going on here? Good ass song though right?

Bradford Cox Destroys A Heckler At The End Of Altas Sound Show in Phoenix

Was that title long enough for you? I busted out my flip camera to record the last song of Atlas Sounds set since it was going to be acoustic and not distort the tiny little mic. And as it turns out it was perfect timing! Right as I turned it on some drunk (or just retarded) asshole heckler yelled at Bradford "Eat a fucking burger" in a lame ass attempt to make fun of his "skinnyness". Well Mr. Cox takes umbrage and calls the fuckwad up on stage. Watch the video to see what happens next. He does go on to play a really great acoustic version of "Logos", the title track of his new album but stops that short because the mood had really just been kinda spoiled by then.

I will have pictures up later on today.

Photos: Crystal Antlers & Black Carl @ Yucca (The Vice Party Yo)

If I was the type of person that had regrets in life and I DIDN'T go to this show last night I would be kicking myself in my own self's ass right now. The free drinks were great, Black Carl is only getting better every time I see them and The Crystal Antlers made me 10% more deaf than I was before despite wearing earplugs. I am not a huge "DJ" guy but even Pickster One and Tricky T were making me bob my head a little between sets.

As fate will have it the "official photographer" of the event wasn't able to make it so Steve Chilton aka Psycho Steve, the bro that put this whole thing together with Vice and Hornitos, asked me to fill in and take more than just my usual band shots. So I ventured out into the parking lot n' such and did my own rendition of a lastnightsparty type thing, Tempe style, you can check those pictures out HERE. There are several more pictures after the break but you can check out large groups of pictures of both Black Carl and Crystal Antlers by clicking on their names...just back a few words in this very sentence.

The Official Shotgun Rules

I used to have this friend, Justin, who use to call "shotgun for life" whenever we would go anywhere.  Goddamn that shit was annoying.  The majority of our lunch time conversations would be debates over the validity of calling for shotgun for life.  Any decent, normal American knows that you absolutely can not call shotgun for life.  Well, if you're one of those assholes who call shotgun for life or some other type of shotgun related shenanigans then you definitely need to check out this website.

http://www.shotgunrules.com/

As far as we here at the 'Stache are concerned these rules are to be followed at all times and failure to do so will result in death.  Or at least us being pissed at you for a little while.