THIS WEEK’S CONCERT ROUND-UP
This week we pounded some pavement and squeezed in a shocking three shows. Quite an achievement for those of us who live in a cave and rarely peek outside.
On Tuesday we had a double-header, we caught Kinetic and The Morning After @ Rothko and then scooted over to Pianos to catch Joseph Arthur.
Kinetic were ‘aight. There was one song toward the end of their set that was really cool–it got all dance-y and awesome (think The Killers), but then the went and slowed down and did weird distortion crap. It was like, “what the hell? Why did you go and ruin a totally awesome song?” We don’t get it.
The Morning After were fun in that “our friend Jason is in the band it’s so hilarious to see him do see him play in a band” thing. Isn’t it totally funny to see people you know pseudo-normally playing instruments? Don’t you get really nervous about that kind of stuff? Because we do.
Like the whole time your friend is up on stage you’re like, “oh man, remember that time when *such and such* barfed all over me when they were drunk? I can’t believe that assh*le is up on stage!” Sometimes it helps to heckle your friends during the show, lest they try to actually concentrate on the task at hand. Stuff like, “play a Strokes cover!” is pretty standard for us during our friends’ shows. It’s like, how can you take your joker buddies seriously when they’re playing music? Or like “working” at their “real” job? You know what we mean?
Like people you grew up with? Like the idea of them having “real” jobs with business cards and bosses and work email addresses? It’s freakin’ hysterical. Like who do these people think they are? You knew them when they were eating paste out of the tube! How could anyone look at them with a straight face?
Weren’t we talking about something? Oh yeah, “music”. So our friend Jason is in The Morning After, so we can’t even pretend to have an unbiased opinion of his band and/or music. But you know what’s funny about Jason when he plays? He sways back and forth–almost violently–and whips his head back and forth so that his dark brown hair sways to and fro. He looks like a shoegazing Beatle when he plays guitar. We totally giggled.
The Morning After totally remind me of The Stooges meets The Rolling Stones meets…something else we can’t put our fingers on. Maybe the Talking Heads? And we’re totally saying that because Hal, the lead singer, was wearing a black with red lettering Talking Heads sleeveless shirt during the show.
Oh and on Hal, he totally looks/acts like a hybrid between Mick Jagger and Iggy Pop onstage. He’s all skinny and spindally (is that a word?) and moves around with the fluidity of a serpentine creature, yet he’s also hyperactively jumping around as he contorts every which way.
Our favorite song was “Debutants” because it’s about pretty model-y people…and those people are hot like our dear Miss Paris Hilton.
The Joseph Arthur show was cool too…but we tired right now. More on that show and The Zutons/The Thrills show at Irving Plaza last night…er…later.
UNRELATED LINKS: Gwynie looks great at TRL and Tit-arific at GMA and really rich; Nicole Richie to launch fashion label called “That’s Hot by Nicole”. Loves it!; Billy “Love ‘em, Knock ‘em Up, and Leave ‘em” Crudup shows his stupid mug with a manish-looking Claire Danes; Poor Ashley has a bad case of bug-eye; Donald Trump and girlfriend have a contest to see who can make the best squinty-eyed stone-cold face; BTW–We love how Hilary Duff’s new song “Fly” sounds like it’s a freakin’ Incubus song or something like that.
