Best live act you've seen this year?

The Instant Composers Pool Orchestra at the Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor, MI. They only played one hour-long set, but what a set!

Mr. Quintron rocked at the Bulb Records 10th Anniversary party at the Magic Stick, too.

biting tongues (reunion show at the ica on thur, supporting crispy ambulance)!!

i may put a mini-review up on nyplm later

futureheads
junior senior
hidden cameras

No Neck Blues Band at 291 Gallery, Hackney Road. When they piled the drums on top of the PA i thought it was going to fall on my head and kill me. And I met a really nice girl. Oh and the music was heart fuckingly awesome.

what can i expect at a junior senior show? i'm seeing them tonight...

nick, the carlsonics news is very good. aside from the first song, the record is great. one track ("ice people") sounds like a marquee moon outtake!

N*E*R*D at the Astoria on Valentine's Day was not only the best thing this year, was one of the most exciting and passionate gigs I've ever been to. The mood pre-gig was some serious idol-worship I'm thinking Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake type stuff. Every single person just going absolutely fucking mental - obviously all this made more intense because it was only their second ever gig over here, and the only one this year. Just pure non-stop energy, love, strangers hugging each other and grinning like loons, every person singing every word, dancing and moshing all over the place, Pharrell had us all singing anti-war songs (remember this was the night before the huge anti-war march), threw roses to the girls at the front, I felt like we were in a better world for a while there. Ahhh....