The above photo was from all the way back in 2009, all the way back in the year that the last Thao & The Get Down Stay Down put out an album. The song below is from 2013 and the new album that is coming out on Feb 5th. So many things have changed since 2009. If someone wouldn't mind listing them all in the comments I would appreciate it.
AwwwMaaaannnn, was it ever a good show at The Rhythm Room on Tuesday! Everybody did a great job and I couldn't be more proud of all parties involved, they sound was great, everything started on time and my shoes were very comfortable as well. If you went to Mesa to check out the Swell Season you probably had a good time and I am not going to say anything bad about you but I feel like you really missed out on something special. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down rocked out to levels I could only dream about, the Portland Cello Project were amazing and David Schultz was on point to the max! (this line was just an excuse to link to all the bands, as you can see it was some very trite/mundane/banal minutiae and I am sorry.)
After the break I have copy/pasted several pieces of HTML code that enable pictures and videos that are hosted on totally different websites (our Youtube & Flickr pages in fact) to appear on THIS website!!! Check them out please.
In my previous post about how awesome Daytrotter is, I forgot to mention that I would LOVE to do that sort of thing. Have bands come to me locations and record stuff, it would be even better if they came to my living room and got drunk while I also got drunk and someone talented with a video camera taped the whole thing and some other person who is also talented but with editing put it all together and made a bad ass video. If all those things were to happen then it would be very very similar to "In my living room" from yourstru.ly. But...the more I think about it the more I don't think this will ever be a reality for me. Firstly I live REALLY far from anything cool like venues or hotels that bands stay in when in Phx, secondly I don't know any people with the skill sets required to do such things and I am super lazy, thirdly and most importantly I am really shy and keep jars of my own pee and toenails all over my living room.
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down are coming to The Rhythm Room in one short week 11/17. You can get tickets HERE maybe if Thao is reading this right now she will email me by clicking HERE and want to shoot a far worse looking video in my garage or something before the show.
Shawn, my partner in crime here at the 'Stache, is probably going to be super pissed that I'm posting this video instead of him. You know, since he's the only one allowed to like Thao Nguyen. But I don't care. He's being a jerk today anyways. But enough about us. Here is the video for "When We Swam" from Thao and The Get Down Stay Down from the bands latest album Know Better Learn Faster, which is out now on Kill Rock Stars.
Obviously the big huge release this week is Embryonic via The Flaming Lips, and it deserves to be because it is fucking awesome and great...but there are also some other really good albums coming out today. And it is kinda nice that there isn't a shit ton as many coming out this week as there has been for the last month or so... so why don't you just go ahead and buy them all then? Don't be a loser, your hard drive can take it.
One of my favorites, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down have a new album coming out Oct 13th (spooky) called Know Better Learn Faster and we have the track listing (below) but sadly no artwork yet. So to make up for it you can watch the awesome video for "Bag of Hammers".
