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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Rock band — please listen

If I had only one request for a new song in Rock Band:

Please please, make my dream come true

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Lotus - will I see them?

Today is an uncertain day. My favorite band is in town, and no one wants to see them except me. Lotus, the most thrilling music I can now. I’ll write more about them later. Now is the time to convince people.

Lotus - Shimmer and out

A LOT of their stuff is on www.archive.org. Check them out.

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Weird fishes are a success

Now that the success of the latest album from Radiohead, In Rainbows, has finally been revealed. Time is now for me to share some of this album.

“Weird fishes / Arpeggi” - my favorite - another f$&#ked up song like only the greatest band of the world could do it. Great lyrics, a shivering crescendo followed with a dark radioheady end. Bee - you - tee - full.

Noted also, “House of cards”, project of music video without any camera of lights. It all has been done through geeky process and by the community. What’s great about that song? Well, many things, but just to say one thing, the first 2 (or 4) verses.

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Disparus

Parmis les 2 groupes les plus importants à mon coeur, voilà que 2 personnes nous ont quittées.
La permière est LeRoi Moore, saxophoniste et fondateur du groupe Dave Matthews Band. Dave Matthews est un chanteur, lyricist et compositeur les plus accomplis et s’accompagne des musiciens les plus talentueux.

Crush, my personal favorite, version live de très bonne qualité:

La deuxième personne a été fondatrice du groupe le plus innovateur qu’on ait connu (mais bref, encore une fois ce n’est que mon avis), Pink Floyd. Richard Wright s’est éteint ce lundi 15 septembre 2008. Il a fait parti de Pink Floyd dès leurs débuts et a été, selon les autres membres du groupe, l’un des plus influent avec Syd Barett. Pink Floyd est probablement le groupe que j’ai le plus écouté dans ma vie (merci paps pour la culture musicale :).

Je reviens encore une fois a mon favori, “Wish you were here” évidemment. Pour la petite histoire, cette chanson fait partie de celles qui ont écrite pour célébrer Syd Barett, alors dans un hôpital psychiatrique. Elle fait partie tu top 500 “Greatest songs of all time” par le Rolling Stone magazine :

Enfin, bref voilà, si ce blog doit parler de moi et des choses que j’aime, en voilà deux. Et puis, ni une ni deux, ça me permettra de passer un petit message.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Free live of Radiohead on BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/musicevents/radiohead/

Thanks to Al Gore’s current news .

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Vampire Weekends are the new trend

I’ve seen quite a buzz lately about this new band called Vampire Weekend. They seem to be everywhere on the web (especially on the blogosphere), I’ve heard their song in a commercial, they also performed SNL and the Dave Letterman show.

So I told myself, “hey why not check them out whenever they’re in SF?” — So, Ticketmaster me voilà, oh great they have 2 dates in a month at the Independent. and CRAP! they’re sold out! what?

For those who don’t know, the Independent is a relatively small venue, playing a lot of “independent” stuff. This place has always room for some more people, and is rarely full. Ok, that’s too bad, but a good sign. I have to listen to more of their songs. Here’s their current hit called A-Punk and I have to say: it fr$%^&ing rocks !!!

They come from New York and have a pretty strong African influence, along with an obvious Western influence, therefore describing their own genre as “”Upper West Side Soweto”. I hate defining music as genres usually but that one was pretty original.

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

iBand, Rock Band ToGo — Say it ain’t so!

For those who haven’t seen it:

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Umphrey’s McGee — Tonight at Fillmore

Yay! I’m going to see Umphrey’s tonight at the Fillmore in SF — yay! They’re a Jam rock band with endless guitar solos and improvisations of all sorts. They freakin’ rock!

I’ll write more about them later, but here is a video of them, just to try to convince some more people to go (yes, you boris, marc, cyril, justine, farid, …)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

The Polyphonic Spree — Rock Symphonic band from another time.

For my first post about music (because I’m sure many more will follow), I have to talk about this band I just discovered thanks to a US TV show. I might be a late bloomer on them but hey, it’s never too late :).

They’re called The Polyphonic Spree, a self-described “choral symphonic band” from Dallas, Texas. They might look like a cult at first sight — but no, they’re just the creation of the (beautiful) crazy mind of Tim DeLaughter, ex-member of the Tripping Daisy. This band is heavily influenced by the experimental rock bands of the 70s, sunny and overwhelmingly happy. They now count about 23 musicians and singers, depending on everybody’s schedule. and those white robes were just introduced to have an consistent image across the musicians, obviously influenced by a theme of happiness and purity. Their costumes rapidly changed to a black tunique.

Here’s the song that made me discover them — they still wear those white robes every time they play this song, probably because it is the one most representative of their spirit.

Polyphonic Spree - Light And Day

Why would I like such a crazy poppy music? First of, because the music is actually not that simple, and very rich. And also because it is crazy — and I love crazy. Plus, they look so happy when they play it