I think that, in a past life, I was somehow involved in the music industry. Music is a huge passion of mine! Concerts, albums, recommended by friends, found by accident, it doesn't matter - let me at it.
The Naked and Famous - Punching in a Dream - this is a song off of TNAF's album Passive Me, Aggressive You... and as someone who has some weird ass dreams, I enjoy this song.
Graffiti6 - Stare Into the Sun - Not reflective of my current situation ;-) but I saw this band open for Augustana and thought they sounded pretty good live!
Needtobreathe - Keep Your Eyes Open - Definitely an uplifting song if you're having a tough day!
The Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly - from the band's website, about the song: "With its chiming pedal steel chorus breaks and seemingly nonsensical lyrics, the song entered into the realms of novelty hit. It's a happy little ditty about strange people and their individual idiosyncrasies, with pretty melodies laced throughout and punctuated by trademark moments of crunching but still harmonious noise."
Heartless Bastards - Parted Ways - Gonna be honest here, I didn't realize that the lead voice I was hearing was a woman's voice until I watched any live performance videos... whoopsies. Either way, I love this song.
Augustana and Graffiti6 performed at The Paradise Rock Club last night (January 31, 2012). I was in desperate need of hearing good live music, and boy oh boy, did they deliver.
Graffiti6 opened the show, and my friend Randi and I caught their last few songs. They sounded really fantastic live. That's always the big question for me (and I'm sure most concert-goers): "I like this band, but will they sound as good as they do on the album?" I definitely want to check out more of their music.
Graffiti6
Augustana certainly seemed happy to be back in Boston. Of course, they performed their well-known and much-loved song "Boston", and nearly everyone in the room whipped out their smartphones to record the song. Some of my favorites were "Sweet and Low" and "Shot in the Dark".
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The rest of their tour brings them to such places as Philly, D.C., Atlanta and then back this way to Mohegan Sun Casino.
I have to share the video for "Steal Your Heart", mostly because it's a great song, also because it sort of reminds me of something The Killers (at least I think it's The Killers who it's sounding reminiscent of) would do, and partly because, um, the guys aren't hard to look at. #justsayin.
