Best live act you've seen this year?

Gonzales, twice, both times in Sydney. Fucking fantastic show.

But then, i'm seeing Broadcast tonight in London and the new material rocks hard on record, so who knows?

and in conclusion, Ninetynine.

Rovo, Jaki Leibezeit & Burnt Friedman, Seiichi Yamamoto (new band), Asa Chang, DJ EY3 @ BOAfest.

Ian Johnson writes:
Hair Police looked like a rock and roll band and sounded like Merzbow;

they must have improved significantly in the last year and a half.

1. The Black Madonnas at the Dirty Water Club: Ouch.
2. Instant Flight at the Tulse Hill Tavern: Czech classic psychedelic rock never sounded so good.
3. Lamb at Brixton Academy: I actually love this band.

Iggy and the Stooges at Coachella. with Mike Watt replacing Dave Alexander-they played every song on Funhouse ! rock action

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....