A Very Kerri Christmas 6 - 2010

I liked last year's cover better, but what can ya do.  I'm running out of ideas ;)

1. I Wish It Was Christmas Today - Julian Casablancas.  A great take on an SNL classic.
2. Tiny Tree Christmas - Guster.  Target put out a free Christmas CD to download from their website of all the Christmas songs from their commercials.  This was my favorite before I even knew it was Guster.  I love that a bunch of Jewish guys make some awesome Christmas music.
3. Shake Up Christmas - Train.  I heard this song in a radio commercial and loved it - it's a nice, upbeat Christmas song.
4. Boots - The Killers.   Another winner for their fifth annual Christmas single.  I put this one somewhere below Don't Shoot Me Santa and somewhere above Joseph, Better You Than Me.
5. Electronic Santa - Blazer Force
6. Christmas Was Better In The 80s - The Futureheads.  Lot of truth to that.
7. Wish List - Neon Trees.  Leaving aside my classic repeat final track, this is my favorite Christmas track from 2010 - an iTunes freebie "Christmas single of the week" gold mine!
8. Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree - The Magnetic Fields
9. It's Christmas - Coconut Records
10. Mistletoe - Jukebox the Ghost
11. Last Christmas - Florence + the Machine
12. Little Drummer Boy - The Dandy Warhols
13. Got Something For You - Best Coast, Wavves
14. 10,000 Watts - Crystal Antlers
15. Christmas Isn't Christmas - The Boy Least Likely To
16. Snow Is Falling - Darker My Love
17. Fairytale of New York - Dustin Kensrue.  The original is a classic, and Dustin definitely took some liberties with rewriting one of the verses to make it more "family friendly", but I just love this man's voice so, so, soooo much. 
18. Splitting up Christmas - Kevin Devine.  No explanation necessary.

A Very Kerri Christmas 5 - 2009

Live - 02.25.97

LIVE - THE BEACON THEATRE

February 25, 1997 - New York, NY

with Luscious Jackson and Fun Loving Criminals

1. Rattlesnake
2. Unsheathed
3. Freaks
4. Turn My Head
5. Shit Towne
6. Heropsychodreamer
7. Iris
8. Ghost (with Jennifer Charles)
9. Century
10. Waitress
11. Love My Way (the Psychedelic Furs cover)
12. Operation Spirit
13. Graze
14. Lakini's Judice
15. Gas Hed Goes West

ENCORE:

1. Lightning Crashes
2. I Alone

Oasis - 09.07.96

OASIS - JONES BEACH AMPHITHEATER

September 7, 1996 - Wantagh, NY

1. The Swamp Song
2. Acquiesce
3. Supersonic
4. Hello
5. Some Might Say
6. Roll With It
7. Slide Away
8. Listen Up
9. Morning Glory
10. Cigarettes & Alochol
11. It's Getting Better (Mann!!)
12. Champagne Supernova
13. Whatever -> Octopus's Garden (Noel Gallagher acoustic)
14. Cast No Shadow (Noel Gallagher acoustic)
15. Wonderwall (Noel Gallagher acoustic)
16. Don't Look Back in Anger
17. Live Forever

ENCORE:

1. I Am The Walrus (The Beatles cover)

Green Day - 11.12.95

GREEN DAY - NASSAU COLISEUM

November 12, 1995 - Uniondale, NY

1. Armatage Shanks
2. Brat
3. Welcome to Paradise
4. Geek Stink Breath
5. Chump
6. Longview
7. Stuck With Me
8. 2000 Light Years Away
9. 86
10. Knowledge
11. Basket Case
12. She
13. F.O.D.
14. Road To Acceptance
15. Paper Lanterns

ENCORE:

1. All By Myself
2. Dominated Love Slave
3. When I Come Around
4. Jaded

Live - 09.08.05

LIVE - JONES BEACH AMPHITHEATER

September 8, 1995 - Wantagh, NY

with Veruca Salt and PJ Harvey

 

1. Selling the Drama
2. Top
3. Pillar of Davidson
4. Pain Lies on the Riverside
5. Cheetah
6. Waitress
7. Dusted (Guided by Voices cover)
8. Beauty of Gray
9. Horse
10. Shit Towne
11. Operation Spirit
12. TBD
13. Iris
14. I Alone
15. All Over You
16. Lightning Crashes
17. White, Discussion

Soul Asylum - 08.30.95

SOUL ASYLUM - JONES BEACH AMPHITHEATER

August 30, 1995 - Wantagh, NY

with Matthew Sweet, Victoria Williams, the Jayhawks

 

 

 

FIRST CONCERT EVER!!!!!

1. Hopes Up
2. Somebody To Shove
3. Shut Down
4. Black Gold
5. Bittersweetheart
6. Eyes of a Child
7. Promises Broken
8. String of Pearls
9. Nothing to Write Home About
10. Misery
11. New World
12. Runaway Train
13. Get On Out
14. 99%
15. Can't Even Tell
16. Crawl
17. Caged Rat
18. Just Like Anyone
19. Summer of Drugs
20. To My Own Devices
21. Rhinestone Cowboy

Ben Folds - 04.12.10

BEN FOLDS - TOWN HALL

April 12, 2010 - New York, NY

with Kate Miller-Heidke

1. Free Coffee
2. Annie Waits
3. The Ascent of Stan
4. Sentimental Guy
5. Middle American Tirade (improvised)
6. Effington
7. Time
8. Landed
9. All U Can Eat
10. Gone
11. Picture Window
12. You Don't Know Me
13. Rock This Bitch in New York City (improvised)
14. Kate
15. Zak and Sara
16. Steven's Last Night in Town
17. Hiro's Song
18. Narcolepsy
19. Army
20. Freebird/Sweet Home Alabama jam (improvsed)
21. Not the Same

Encore:

1. Evaporated
2. One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
3. Hava Navila

Kevin Devine - 10.19.10

KEVIN DEVINE & THE GODDAMN BAND - THE MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG

October 19, 2010 - Brooklyn, NY

1. Trouble
2. You're My Incentive
3. Carnival
4. Another Bag of Bones
5. You'll Only End Up Joining Them
6. The Shift Change Splits the Streets
7. Big Bad Man
8. Fever Moon
9. Murphy's Song
10. Noose Dressed Like A necklace
11. Hand of God
12. Just Stay
13. The Burning City Smoking
14. Yr Husband
15. I Could Be With Anyone
16. Cotton Crush
17. Ballgame
18. She Stayed As Steam

Encore:

1. You Are the Daybreak
2. Brother's Blood

Bad Books - 10.20.10

BAD BOOKS - BOWERY BALLROOM

October 20, 2010 - New York, NY

1. Baby Shoes
2. Holding Down the Laughter
3. How This All Ends
4. You Wouldn't Have To Ask
5. Please Move
6. The Plan (Built to Spill cover)
7. Mesa, AZ
8. I Begged You Everything
9. Texas

Encore

1. Just Stay (Kevin Devine)
2. Now That You're Home (Manchester Orchestra)
3. Cotton Crush (Kevin Devine)
4. You're a Mirror I Cannot Avoid

Muse - 10.23.10

MUSE - NASSAU COLISEUM

October 23, 2010 - Uniondale, NY

with Metric

Metric Setlist

1. Black sheep
2. Satellite
3. Dead Disco
4. Gimme Sympathy
5. Gold Guns Girls
6. Sick Muse
7. Help I'm Alive

 Uprising

 power outage midway through the third song . . . they just picked right up where they left off though

Muse Setlist

1. Uprising
2. Map of the Problematique
3. New Born (power outage midway through)
4. Supermassive Black Hole
5. Resistance
6. Hysteria (Star Spangled Banner + Interlude intro)
7. Guiding Light
8. Nishe
9. United States of Eurasia
10. Feeling Good (Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley cover)
11. Helsinki Jam
12. Undisclosed Desires
13. Time is Running Out (House of the Rising Sun intro)
14. Starlight
15. Plug In Baby

Encore:

1. Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 1
2. Stockholm Syndrome
3. Knights of Cydonia

Taylor Swift - 05.15.10

TAYLOR SWIFT - NASSAU COLISEUM

May 15, 2010 - Uniondale, NY

1. You Belong With Me
2. Our Song
3. Tell Me Why
4. Teardrops On My Guitar
5. Fearless
6. Forever and Always
7. Hey Stephen
8. Fifteen
9. Tim McGraw
10. White Horse
11. Love Story
12. The Way I Loved You
13. You're Not Sorry
14. What Goes Around Comes Around (Justin Timberlake cover)
15. Picture to Burn

Encore:

1. Today Was a Fairytale
2. Should've Said No

New Kids on the Block - 06.19.10

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK - RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL

June 19, 2010 - New York, NY

with special guests the Backstreet Boys

1. Lights, Camera, Action
2. One Song
3. Looking Like Danger
4. My Favorite Girl
5. You Got It (The Right Stuff)
6. Click Click Click
7. Dirty Dancing
8. Tonight
9. I'll Be Loving You (Forever)
10. If You Go Away
11. Coming Home
12. I Want it That Way (with Backstreet Boys)
13. The Shape Of My Heart (performed by the Backstreet Boys)
14. Single
15. Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics Cover)/Twisted
16. Never Let You Go
17. I Got It
18. Full Service
19. Summertime
20. Close to You

Encore:

1. Step by Step
2. Hangin' Tough

Thrice - 06.24.10

THRICE - IRVING PLAZA

June 24, 2010 - New York, NY

with Kevin Devine

Thrice Setlist:

1. All The World is Mad
2. The Weight
3. The Artist in the Ambulance
4. Of Dust and Nations
5. The Earth Will Shake
6. Firebreather
7. The Messenger
8. A Song for Milly Michaelson
9. Circles
10. Doublespeak
11. Hold Fast Hope
12. Silhouette
13. Come All You Weary
14. In Exile
15. Image of the Invisible
16. To Awake and Avenge the Dead

Encore

1. Stand and Feel Your Worth
2. Beggars

Kevin Devine Setlist

1. Brother's Blood
2. Carnival
3. Another Bag of Bones
4. Cotton Crush
5. I Could Be With Anyone
6. Buried By the Buzz
7. Just Stay
8. She Stayed As Steam
9. New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down (LCD Soundsystem cover)

Maroon 5 - 08.11.10

MAROON 5 - JONES BEACH AMPHITHEATER

August 11, 2010 - Wantagh, NY

1. Misery
2. If I Never See Your Face Again
3. Harder To Breathe
4. Give A Little More
5. The Sun
6. Won't Go Home Without You
7. If I Ain't Got You (Alicia Keys cover)
8. Secret/What's Love Got To Do With It (Tina Turner cover)
9. She Will Be Loved
10. Wake Up Call
11. Shiver
12. Stutter
13. This Love

Encore:

1. Makes Me Wonder
2. Sunday Morning

Something Corporate - 08.13.10

SOMETHING CORPORATE - ROSELAND BALLROOM

August 13, 2010 - New York, NY

1. I Woke Up In A Car
2. Space
3. She Paints Me Blue
4. Straw Dog
5. 21 and Invincible
6. Me and the Moon
7. Fall
8. Watch the Sky
9. Globes and Maps
10. Cavanaugh Park
11. I Want To Save You
12. Only Ashes
13. Ruthless
14. Drunk Girl
15. The Astronaut
16. Hurricane
17. If You C Jordan

Encore:

1. Konstantine
2. Forget December
3. Down
4. Punk Rock Princess

The Airborne Toxic Event - 09.11.10

THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT - TOWN HALL

September 11, 2010 - New York, NY

1. Wishing Well
2. This Losing
3. Book of Love (Magnetic Fields cover)
4. A Letter to Georgia
5. Something New
6. (New Song)
7. Missy (included Bruce Springsteen's "I'm on Fire" and Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues")
8. Happiness is Overrated
9. Does This Mean You're Moving On?
10. Gasoline
11. Papillon
12. Sometime Around Midnight
13. (New Song)
14. Innocence

Encore

1. All At Once

The Gaslight Anthem - 09.30.10

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM - RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL

September 30, 2010 - New York, NY

1. High Lonesome
2. Boxer
3. We Came to Dance
4. The Diamond Church Street Choir
5. Old White Lincoln
6. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
7. Old Haunts
8. The '59 Sounds
9. Bring it On
10. Miles Davis and the Cool
11. The Spirit of Jazz
12. I'da Called You Woody, Joe
13. Angry Johnny and the Radio
14. Film Noir
15. Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts
16. Great Expectations
17. We Did It When We Were Young

Encore

1. American Slang
2. The Patient Ferris Wheel
3. Say I Won't (Recognize)
4. The Queen of Lower Chelsea
5. Here's Lookin' At You, Kid
6. She Loves You
7. The Backseat

Song of the Week - 02.08.10 - 02.13.10

Halfway Gone by Lifehouse.  I have loved Lifehouse for nearly ten years (10 years!!!  How is that possible?) now, and one would think that I'd recognize Jason Wade's voice by now.  But I heard this song about ten times playing on the radio in Subway before I finally remembered to look up who sung it . . .this is easily my favorite "album first single" from Lifehouse since "Hanging By A Moment" . . . I love singing along with it.





To buy 'Halfway Gone', click the iTunes link below

Song of the Week - 02.01.10 - 02.07.10

Sometime Around Midnight by The Airborne Toxic Event.  I am cheating by making this song the song of the week for the first week in February - this was the song of the YEAR for 2009.  It does not get better than this song, which seemed to have a new significance this month.

So there's a change in your emotions
All these memories come rushing like feral waves to your  mind
Of the curl of your bodies like two perfect circles entwined
And you feel hopeless and homeless and lost in the haze of the wine . . .  


I don't need to even say anymore.  You can read what else I had to say about this song on my "Best of 2009 CD" post.





To purchase the most amazing song ever, click the iTunes link below:

Will Hoge - 11.17.07

WILL HOGE - WEBSTER HALL

November 17, 2007 - New York, NY

 

* setlist needed *

 

Brand New - 12.01.07

BRAND NEW - HOUSE OF BLUES

December 1, 2007 - Atlantic City, NY

with Thrice and mewithoutyou

Random stupid things I overheard myself say at the Brand New show:


"I bet that Jesse would look around here and say 'You know what I find sexy? The art."


"The best thing about marrying somebody whose last name is Lacey is that I could wear a lacy dress for the wedding. Wait, no, what? The best thing about marrying somebody whose last name is Lacey is that I would be marrying Jesse Lacey."


"I'll give you $100 if you go over to that girl and say, 'Chelsea, oh my God, is that you? Don't you remember me? I used to babysit for you, like 4 years ago! Is this your boyfriend? That's so cute!'"


"I'll give you $100 if you go over to that girl and say, 'You really shouldn't drink that beer, it's not good for the baby.'"


"Add me on Facebook!" . . . "He's actually kind of a cute for like a 20-year-old. If he's 21, it's a win!"

Brand New setlist

1. Welcome to Bangkok
2. Sowing Season
3. Millstone
4. Sic Transit Gloria . . . Glory Fades
5. The Shower Scene
6. Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis
7. Luca
8. Archers
9. Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself (Morrissey Cover)
10. Not The Sun
11. Degausser
12. Jaws Theme Swimming
13. You Won't Know
14. Limousine
15. Jesus Christ

Encore:

1. Untitled 

Thrice setlist:

1.  Stare at the Sun
2. Firebreather
3. Kill Me Quickly
4. Silhouette
5. Digital Sea
6. Burn the Fleet
7. The Artist in the Ambulance
8. Flags of Dawn
9. The Whaler
10. Don't Tell and We Won't Ask
11. The Messenger
12. Deadbolt
13. The Earth Will Shake

Brand New - 12.04.07

BRAND NEW - HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM

December 4, 2007 - New York, NY

with Thrice

 

Unfortunately, I don't have this setlist in order (with the exception of the first and last songs) - great stuff though!

1. Limousine
2. Welcome to Bangkok
3. The No Seatbelt Song
4. The Shower Scene
5. Tatou
6. Sic Transit Gloria . . . Glory Fades
7. Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't
8. Play Crack the Sky
9. Car
10. Sowing Season
11. Millstone
12. Degausser
13. You Won't Know
14. Not The Sun
15. Luca
16. The Archers Bows Have Broken
17. Jesus Christ

Encore:

1. Untitled 

Kevin Devine - 01.27.10

Kevin Devine - Brooklyn Bowl

January 27, 2010 - Brooklyn, NY

with Scott Matthew and Linfinity

This show was awesome on so many levels . . . first, the venue was amazing.  Then Kevin Devine came over and said hello to me while I was eating dinner with my brother.  And then Kevin played this setlist:

1. The Burning City Smoking
2. Yr Husband
3. Go Haunt Someone Else
4. I Could Be With Anyone
5. Carnival
6. Another Bag of Bones
7. Buried by the Buzz
8. Fever Moon
9. Holland 1945
10. You Are the Daybreak (!!!!!)
11. Cotton Crush
12. The Only One
13. Brother's Blood

Kevin seemed genuinely surprised when people clapped for him to come back out . . . he kept saying "we really don't normally do this."  They did a little "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" teaser before concluding with

Encore:

1. Just Stay

Amazing show . . . plus nearly $2500 raised for Yele Haiti / Doctors Without Borders.  Yay Kevin Devine!

Song of the Week - 01.25.10 - 01.31.10

The '59 Sound by The Gaslight Anthem.  I first heard this song last year, and liked it right away, but it didn't go past a couple of casual listens until this week, when I finally bought the CD with the same title.  The CD was a classic from first listen - I loved it immediately.  The lyrics are kind of heartbreaking . . . young boys . . . young girls . . . ain't supposed to die on a Saturday night . . . the song is pretty much amazing.




Click the iTunes link below to download The '59 Sound

Mike Errico - 01.22.10

Mike Errico - Rockwood Music Hall

January 22, 2010 - New York, NY

I couldn't bring myself to tell Mike Errico that I was the "douche girl" . . . maybe next time ;)

1. 1000 Miles
2. Free
3. Ever Since
4. Someday
5. Everybody Knows
6. Johnsburg, Illinois (Tom Waits cover)
7. You Could Be Anywhere
8. Underwater
   

Kevin Devine - 01.21.10

Kevin Devine - The Crazy Donkey

January 21, 2010 - Farmingdale, NY

This was actually probably the most enjoyable show I've ever attended at The Crazy Donkey - the crowd wasn't obnoxious, the venue kept the show moving, and, well, Kevin Devine performed!   So naturally that makes everything better.  My first show of 2010 was a great one.

1. Brother's Blood
2. Noose Dressed Like A Necklace
3. Keep Ringing Your Bell
4. Another Bag of Bones
5. Carnival
6. [New Song]
7. Cotton Crush
8. Ballgame
   
9. Yr Damned Ol Dad
   

Song of the Week - 01.17.10 - 01.24.10

Sleepyhead by Passion Pit.  I was a little late to the party with this one - I've been a fan of The Reeling for a while, but I hadn't heard Sleepyhead until my friend Pat put it on his 2009 Mix.  This song instantly puts me in a good mood.  I don't even know what the hell the singer is singing, but everything about it makes me happy.  Don't believe me?  Listen for yourself!

To download Sleepyhead, click the iTunes link below

Song of the Week - 01.10.10 - 01.16.10

Gateway Drug by The Spill Canvas.  I've grown to believe that The Spill Canvas can do no wrong.  From their lyrics to their album titles ("No Really, I'm Fine" and "Honestly, I'm Doing OK" . . . love it!!) to their live shows, these guys have never disappointed me.  Their latest EP, "Abnormalities", is no exception.  Gateway Drug is one of only three songs on the album, but I've loved it from the minute it was first released on the Spill Canvas's MySpace page a month or so ago.  Can't wait for their next full length.


You are my gateway drug
You pull me down
You mess me up
You are my gateway drug
You give me a taste for the harder stuff
And I don't wanna stop


Click the iTunes link below to download Gateway Drug

Maroon 5 - 02.24.08

Maroon 5 - The Apple Store, SoHo

February 24, 2008 - New York, NY

Mary and I went to a free Maroon 5 show at the Apple Store in SoHo tonight (thanks, Keely) and they played their entire "new" album and we sat in the fourth row (the entire first row was full of a group of eight-ish year-old boys and one little girl, who I hypothesized were all of Adam Levine's illegitimate children - I'm kind of a terrible person) and by the end of the show, Adam Levine's two shirts were soaked with sweat (he did not cave in to the incessant "TAKE OFF YOUR SHIRT!" screams, despite his repeated complaints of how hot it was - he was literally the hottest person in the room, haha) and we were able to see his nipples the whole show and make out what looked like a teddy bear tattoo on his right shoulder. He was really funny and I loved when he would try to explain what the songs were about or when they were written before he sang them. He seemed like a genuinely cool person and not at all like a total ass, like I'd expect him to be. I like when bands seem genuine in their gratefulness for their fans, as opposed to coming across as "we're doing you a favor by letting you listen to our music."

But anyway. The highlight was when I took my eyes off the stage for about 5 seconds in between songs and suddenly I felt something hit me in my lap and fall on the floor at my feet - their guitarist, Jimmy Valentine (the second coolest J. Valentine "musician"), had flicked a pick at me. I've been going to concerts for 12 years and I've never gotten a pick, a drumstick, or even a setlist - it was pretty exciting. It says "Maroon 5" on one side and "Jimmy V." with a heart on the other side - I love it. 

 

The only downside is that now I feel a little guilty for referring to Jimmy V as "The Caveman" since Mary and I saw them at MSG in October.

 

But not too guilty.  Note to Jimmy: get a haircut.

Setlist:

1. If I Never See Your Face Again
2. Makes Me Wonder
3. Little of Your Time
4. Wake Up Call
5. Won't Go Home Without You
6. Nothing Lasts Forever
7. Can't Stop
8. Goodnight Goodnight
9. Not Falling Apart
10. Kiwi
11. Better That We Break
12. Back At Your Door
    

To download songs from this performance, click the iTunes link below:

Song of the Week - 01.03.10 - 01.09.10

Brighter Discontent by The Submarines.  Towards the end of the 4th Season Finale of Nip/Tuck, this song is used in a montage, with each of the main characters lip syncing along in their respective locations . . . it was pretty neat. I downloaded the song that same day and it's been on repeat for most of this week - I absolutely love it.

"Brighter Discontent" on Nip/Tuck . . . the lyrics are on the screen

To buy "Brighter Discontent" for yourself, click the iTunes link