Please take a moment to Rock the F out to - Arcade Fire's The Suburbs

I have been a fan of Arcade Fire since their debut album Funeral was released in 2005 and fell even more in love with them when Neon Bible was released in 2007 & I always have the most raucous and cathartic experiences at their concerts. Last month they started their international tour at Madison Square Garden in support of their 3rd full length album The Suburbs, which is yet another masterpiece. I've included my favorite tracks below, but I can not emphasize the enough the importance of having this album (and their entire catalog) in your collection. The Suburbs is poignant, stirring and conjures memories of youth without ever being maudlin and still being modern, so do please enjoy.


The Suburbs (Unstaged) Live at MSG


Ready To Start (Unstaged) Live at MSG


Modern Man


Rococo (Unstaged) Live at MSG


Month of May


Suburban War


We Used To Wait (Unstaged) Live at MSG



Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) Live at MSG

Cold War Kids...

Last night at The Heineken Inspire event at The Moore Building.
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Art Basel is upon us....

Are you ready for THE biggest art event in North America? I think the more succinct question is: Are you ready for the parties? There's soo much amazing art to see this week and a lot of events to attend on the Beach and the mainland, that I ended up staying in Saturday night to prepare myself for the marathon ahead, instead of going to The Borscht Film Festival opening. I'll do my best to post during the week, but Basel is bananas and the craziest time of year so who knows what's going to happen. In the meantime here are a few events happening around town, that could be worthwhile.

Wednesday, December 2nd
This is the night when multiple vernissages (French for "preview" or "private opening") will be happening all over town, so take your pick since there will be plenty of glamour.
Indie Goddess Miss Ebony Bones (pictured above) will be the free show on The Beach to kickoff Basel. In the past Peaches and Iggy Pop have entertained the masses, I hope Miss Bones picks up a legion of fans and doesn't just weird people out with her awesomeness.
Over at The Gansevoort, the fabulous King Britt will be performing for FREE over three nights in the lobby.


Also starting on Wednesday through Saturday the amazing O.H.W.O.W Gallery will be sponsoring a bar in honor of the famous Max Fish bar in New York's 20th Anniversary, at the locale that used to be PS 14 (28 NE 14th Street) featuring performances from a bunch of bands from Animals of the Arctic to the Jacuzzi Boys to Gang Gang Dance, check out the full lineup here.

Oh ye & some guy named Dr. Dre will be at The Shore Club.


Thursday, December 3rd
Local clothing line Last Rights throws a party at The Moore Building...

& indie rockers OK Go plays for the 2nd night in a row at Design Miami at 6:30

Friday, December 4th
Hip-hop badass Kid Sister plays a FREE show at The Delano, sponsored by SVEDKA. RSVP here.

G. LOVE plays the Electric Pickle...no word if there will be any Special Sauce, but I'll make sure to bring my own ketchup packets if I show.

Saturday, December 5th
Chairlift DJs at the Electric Pickle at the POPLIFE party while The Golden Filter headlines.


Sunday, December 6th
Getting some rest people! But if you still want to party, G.Love is playing the closing night party of the Miami Independent Thinkers Fair at the Mitrani Warehouse located at 222 NW 27th St.

Welcome Back Boys!

On Saturday, November 21, band extraordinaire, Awesome New Republic will be playing an end of tour show in North Miami at Studio 1415. And to top if off Panic Bomber will be performing as well, and after his ridiculously fantastic performance last Saturday, this should be a hoedown.

THE Baddest Betty in the game...

All I can is WOW!!! Talk about showmanship and intensity....Oh and I totally want to live in her outfit.

Beyoncé - New Music - More Music Videos

Hear ye hear ye!

ANR plays tonight for a good cause, it's a free event but all donations will be going to be art supplies for inner city kids since the budgets were completely slashed. They'll be playing form 8-10 with "The State Of." & then the party continues/charity event officially starts at The Vagabond where Junc Ops will dazzle us with their brilliance, along with the likes of Afrobeta and other great local acts.

Phoenix Live on Letterman

Here's Phoenix performing 1901 on The Late Show with David Letterman last week.

Phoenix - 1901 live from wearephoenix on Vimeo.

please take a moment to Chill the F out to...John Mayer

Live From Abbey Road is a great program on The Sundance Channel that features live performances and interviews of artists from a great many genres. While the rest of the videos are from when he launched his last album, the enduring beautiful and serene, "Continuum" in New York in the Fall of '06.

Belief

[by the by there's a whole lot of yapping before this fantastic song]

Gravity
"...is one of the most important songs I've ever written. It's an experiment for me in not explaining everything in the song..."

Slow Dancing in a Burning Room

[this song is soooooooooooo beautiful, but the best part is when he sings some of the lyrics from Thom Yorke's "Eraser" at the 4:26 mark!]

I Don't Trust Myself with Loving You

[story of my life part 1]

Waiting on The World To Change

My Stupid Mouth

[story of my life part 2]

No Such Thing

Bigger Than My Body

Vultures

[he get's all chatty in The Abbey Road performance of this song, but this version performed by The John Mayer Trio is where it's at]

Jack White & Loretta Lynn need to make more music together

Rock God and constant collaborator, Jack White produced and played on Loretta's 2004 album "Van Lear Rose," which won a whole bunch of Grammy's, critical acclaim & was Loretta's most successful crossover album. I highly recommend it if you like Jack White, but if you're mildly familiar with Loretta or just know her as a "coal miner's daughter" buy this album immediately and immerse yourself in the glory of southern rock and roll.

"Portland, Oregon" on Letterman


"Family Tree" on the Today Show



Some kid practicing the drums to my favorite song on the album "Have Mercy" from VLR


Fist City (1967)


Coal Miner's Daughter

yo to the yo

Happy Thursday people, and what better way to wind down the week then to share another awesome party opportunity with you fine people. Miami's own Panic Bomber will be playing The Vagabond on Friday, May 15th with the one, the only Van*Gloria. It should be a delightful night of amazing music so check it out if you have the chance.

When worlds collide: Liev Schreiber and Franz Ferdinand

Last night the undeniably talented Liev Schreiber and the fantastically delightful Franz Ferdinand were on The Late Show with David Letterman. Check out the clips below, but I doubt anyone on the planet was as excited about this pairing as I was.

Liev's interview


Franz Ferdinand's No You Girls

Adele to kick off new run of 'MTV Unplugged' | Music news, reviews, albums, concerts, and downloads | The Music Mix | EW.com

Adele to kick off new run of 'MTV Unplugged' Music news, reviews, albums, concerts, and downloads The Music Mix EW.com if you didn't listen to me back in October when I suggested you listen to Adele, you totally should now!

yo to the yo

After touring the East coast for the past couple weeks, Awesome New Republic will be playing at The Vagabond Friday night and you should absolutely check it out.

This put THE biggest smile on my face!

There are a few things greater/more random than a bunch of black kids singing Coldplay, but their songwriting prowess is pretty undeniable and controversial. Though this video of a bunch of kids at PS22 singing Viva la Vida is pretty fantastic.

What does this say about me?

So someone I'm "friends with on Facebook" [meaning I wouldn't be able to spot them if they were standing in front of me or pretending to be a monkey on my back,] posted this video and I got excited because I thought it was Jay-Z and The Roots doing a cover of Renegeade by Styx, but clearly it is not.

So I figured I'd post THE REAL version of Renegade for my pleasure and amusement, while you just scratched your heads or rocked out. Enjoy!

A night to remember...

So I ended up going to see Joaquin Phoenix rap at LIV at Fontainebleau with my old friend, (& quite possibly one of the coolest kids I know) Case Watson. Mr. Watson & I hadn't seen each other in about a decade & somehow decided that the potential spectacle of seein an Academy Award nominated actor, delve into a music career was a monumental enough occassion to finally meet up, and it was absolutely fantastic.

You've probably heard or read by now that Joaquin got into an altercation during the show, but I have to say "the fight" was the highlight of this so-called show he put on. Up and coming Atlanta DJ Klever started spining some sick beats around midnight, and when Joaquin showed up around 1:30 am, he sat at his VIP table for a few minutes while people crowded around and tried to take pictures of him, like he was an endangered animal at the zoo. He finally took the stage around 2 am, "performed" one muffled and barely audicle song awkwardly, exchanged some choice words with a heckler from the audience, then jumped off the stage to pound the guy. The whole situation was over and done with in a few minutes, though most of the footage only covers the tussel. I was there and at the time it looked real enough, to be believable only in that moment since the guy was shit-talking Joaquin the moment he got on stage, but in my opinion, this whole thing has be to be a farce because it's one of the greatest acts I've ever seen in my life. Once security escorted Joaquin and the heckler out, one of the many people on stage, grabbed the mic and asked the audience to "makde some noize for my Mothafucka Joaquin," which basically meant the show was over, because immediately after DJ Craze, hit the decks and got the already riled up audience firing fake guns to M.I.A's Paper Planes. Both DJ's were really great and kept the crowd going all night, since they were the one's doing all the work.

If Joaquin is for real more power to him, but Casey Affleck (who also happens to be his brother-in-law) has been accompanying him & documenting his escapades which makes me suspicious of Joaquin's endeavor, but I'm obviously still being supportive of his art/work. Anyhoozie here are my blurry pics from the "show. "

local promoter extraordinaire, Sam Baum poses for photos as Joaquin

people poppin bottles

the stage where Klever and Craze killed it

The man in black Mr. Johnny...I mean Joaquin Phoenix

the new dyson hand dryers...i just think they're really cool & do the best job ever!

1 of the many lobbies at the hotel that just looks like a club and isn't. I took this pic on my way out because on my way in I thought that this was where I was supposed to be.

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Cuz every girl's crazy bout a sharp dressed man

Maybe it's my love of Ralph Lauren, that fact that I went through puberty in a place that required boys to wear blazers to class, my desire to switch your neck ties to Purple Label, Adrian Veidt's dope jackets in "Watchmen,"or respect for a man who's not afraid of color, but ZZ Top was right "every girl's crazy bout a sharp dressed man"

& here's the song because you know you were thinking about it

Oh my wow part 2

I've posted in the past about my fascination/perplexion [<--I don't know if that's a word but it is now] over Joaquin Phoenix's decision to retire from acting and pursue a career in music. Well now I'll be able to witness this trainwreck/method acting in person, since he'll be performing live at LIV at The Fontainebleau. I'm going to try my hardest to make see this debacle, but think it may just break my heart to do so.

"Cause I feel low..."

TV on the Radio Rock the Colbert Report

TV on the Radio were on the Colbert Report last night there was a hilarously fantastic chat with Dave, Kyp and Tunde that I've posted below, but you'll have to check out the whole ep on the site. By the by they played "Dancing Choose" again.
& I love that Colbert referred to Robert Plant as a plate of Fettuccini Carbonara and Coldplay's as "[They gave rock album of the year to] the cashier's at Long John Silver," based on their costumes.

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