The Future is Uranium

aka, "In This Post Kyle Writes Badly About Music"

No real bar updates here...we might actually be done for March already. This past weekend I was sick sick sick and Rick was checking out the Windy City Rollers. Hence, no bar hopping.

What we did do, though, is head over to The Vic (technically a liquor serving location, very close to our residence) on Wednesday night to check out both Matt & Kim and Cut Copy. Also on the live music front this past week...I was at the Handsome Furs show @ The Empty Bottle on the Sunday around St Pats. So lets hear it for live music, w00t.

I've added back the iLike playlist over here (hopefully it doesn't crash servers again) --> Nevermind, it still doesn't work. If you want to hear the songs I wrote about go here and listen to them all: http://iLike.com/p/aCwO
Selected Songs:

Matt and Kim -- 5k
This young twenty-something duo of bfgf Matt and Kim are possibly the most maniacally happy people you've ever seen playing music together. Matt on the keys and vocals, Kim grinning like a lunatic and pounding out the beats. It's impossible to watch them without smiling. This track is about track, so of course i'm going to like it.

Cut Copy -- Hearts on Fire
The only thing holding this band back from superstardom is stage presence. The music is top notch dancepunkelectro80sthrowbacknewwave, the crowd loves it, and the band...well the band almost seemed like they were just going through the motions for much of the show. Sounds great though.

Handsome Furs -- Radio Kaliningrad
Dan Boeckner, member of Wolf Parade, also runs this smaller side project with his recent wife Alexei. I've seen them live 3 times now, and I don't think I've ever seen a band react as endearingly and positively to the crowd as they do. Alexei dances around with one leg in the air while hitting minimal keys and messing with knobs on the drum machine. Dan tears apart his guitar and repeats lines over and over, lines that in other hands wouldn't seem to carry the same gravitas as when he signs them. The song ends, the band literally seems geniunely flattered when the crowd erupts, and these two goofy kids on stage just grin at each other. Deal with the noise intro on this song and listen to the rest of it.

Surf City -- Headin' Inside
This is very very new. Be one of the cool kids on your block and adapt early.

Neko Case -- This Tornado Loves You
As if her voice weren't already a force of nature, in this song Neko puts herself in the position of a tornado madly in love with a person. Destruction follows, you know what they say about a woman tornado scorned.