Spoon Does "Black Like Me" Take Away Show

Nothing better than a Take Away Show is there? Unless you count things like curing AID's or Cancer. But aside from things like that there probably isn't anything better than a Take Away Show.

Ariel Pink Coming To Tucson... Twice! No Phx WTF?

Apparently the boycott of Arizona doesn't include Tucson, or Flagstaff for that matter.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti are going on a pretty huge tour that takes them all over the U.S. from July up through Oct. They are even going to come to our dirty racist state... twice! Just both times will be in Tucson, Aug 5th at Plush and again on Sept 12 at Club Congress. WTF Ariel Pink?

Dr. Dog also just announced another tour, and the closest they are coming to Phoenix is Flagstaff. In November no less! Who the hell want's to go to Flagstaff in November over Phoenix?

So either Phoenix has become the sole embodiment of SB1070 and our smaller cities get a pass for being "progressive college towns" or something else more (or even less) sinister is going on.

If only someone that had any idea of what is going on would leave a comment letting us know.

Here is a list of other bands only playing in Tucson... I left some others OFF the list because they just played here in the last few month IE Tallest Man on Earth & David Bazan:

Tokyo Police Club
The Walkmen they were playing here the whole time, my bad.
Spoon
School of Seven Bells
Matt Costa
Of Montreal

While some people might tend to be be more optimistic and say "Sure THOSE bands aren't coming but there are a whole bunch of other ones that ARE!", to those people I say "We are the 4th or 5th biggest city in the country, if a band can play in Flagstaff or Tucson they can make there way here too. Nobody would play Bakersfield and not play L.A. right?"

I also understand that there are sometimes venue scheduling conflicts and it might not have anything to do with the bands not wanting to play here. But that doesn't piss me off any less :-(

Best of 2010... So Far

Not that lists are anything new, and mid year reviews are no exception. But once again we have been meaning to put together a list for few weeks now but we were beaten to it thus forcing our hand to actually make one. So here is MY list of MY favorite albums of the year so far. Check back tomorrow for Mike's. It will have a couple cross overs but maybe not. Especially not Sleigh Bells I can assure you of that.

Top 10 of 2010... So Far... after the break...

Video: Spoon "Written In Reverse"

Here is the video for one of the best songs from one of the best albums to come out this year. Well it isn't exactly from Transference because I think it's more of a live "in studio" performance with crazy mirrors and fancy stuff like that. I think I am going to go to lunch now. Pizza Friday anybody?

via P4K

January's 5 Best Albums

This is a new thing I think I am going to do every month, my top 5 albums or so. But only from the month that we are in at any given time. Since this is January I guess this is a "best of the year" list as well. But that is just stupid and you are better than that. I have to admit I have not had a whole lot of time to listen to a whole lot of stuff. But the one album I seam to gravitate towards whenever I have a chance to listen is Astro Coast I can't seam to stop listening. It's just that freaking good. When I can pry myself away I either listen to Teen Dream or Transference. It's pretty amazing that we are just wrapping up January and there is already this much great stuff. I have high hopes for 2k10. See list after break...

New Music Tuesday: Spoon, Surfer Blood, RJD2, Tape Deck Mt.

Today is the first day of the rest of your lives, it's ALSO the day that a bunch of new stuff comes out so... win win right? You got your Spoon, your RJD2, your EELS but whats my favorite is Surfer Blood's Astro Coast. But all that other stuff is pretty good too so buy all that shit ok?

Surfer Blood: Astro Coast
Spoon: Transference $3.99
Dinowalrus: %
Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments For A Sensual Evening $3.99
Editors: In this Light and On This Evening
Eels: End Times
The Hot Rats: Turn Ons
Tape Deck Mountain: Ghost
Josephine Foster: Graphic as a Star
Barton Carroll: Together You & I
Lindstrøm & Christabelle: Real Life Is No Cool
Major Stars: Return to Form
Red Krayola with Art & Language: Five American Portraits
RJD2: The Colossus
Scout Niblett: The Calcination of Scout Niblett
Susu: R and R and R
Wetdog: Frauhaus!
The Coal Porters: Durango
Richard Skelton: Landings
Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection (71-disc box set)
Cold War Kids: Behave Yourself EP
Fang Island: Daisy

Stream Spoon's "Transference" In Full

Can't wait until January 19th to hear the latest album from Spoon?  Then I have good news for you.  You hear Spoon's latest album Transference in full over at NPR.  You're welcome.

Listen:  Spoon - Transference

Download Four Free Spoon MP3s

In honor of of the deluxe digital releases of classic Spoon albums Telephono/Soft Effects, A Series of Sneaks, Girls Can Tell, and Kill The Moonlight you can head on over to Spoon's website and download four free mp3s from these albums.