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.





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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