I got a chance to see this group at Yoshi’s in Oakland a couple nights ago. A friend of mine currently getting his doctorate in math at stanford (fun!) is a big fan and has seen them like six times. He actually went back the night after we went for their third and final performance. They reminded me of Matt Chamberlain’s band Critters Buggin who I saw at Stubbs in Austin with Joey Parish a few years back. Both groups are driven by awesome drummers and capture the audience from begining to end with their intensity and musical wit. I highly recommend both groups as must see performances.
Beep…
I found this on burnkit’s blog. Pretty much sums it up for me…
“Video game music has been around for, well, almost as long as there have been video games. Those square waves have been permanently etched into our brains as a result of countless sessions of pixel blasting and button mashing. If you told me when i was a kid, that in the future iâ??d be listening to video game music on my car stereo, iâ??d say you were nuts. Video game music at that time, like the graphics, was thought of as imperfect facsimiles of what music was supposed to sound like. Just as you were supposed to imagine that the little green pixel moving around on the screen was you, a noble knight battling the forces of evil, so too were you supposed to imagine that the series of squeaks and buzzes emanating from your PCâ??s tiny piezo speaker were an orchestra of finely-crafted wooden wind instruments providing your noble knighthood with an acompanyment of victorious fanfare.
But something happened when some of us video-game damaged children grew up. We felt nostalgic for those old square waves.”
Some of my favorites…
Here is a very scaled down look at my music collection. I’m actually using 23 out of the available 60 gigs on my ipod without video. So as i said, this is a very miniscule favorites list.
.fugazi .repeater
.alanis morissette .so-called chaos
.the postal service .give up
.dinosaur jr .green mind
.bjork .vespertine
.switchfoot .the beautiful letdown
.reeve hunter
.damien rice .o
.jimmy eat world .clarity
.dj hurricane .the hurra
.justin timberlake .justified
.aaron sprinkle .moontraveler
.death cab for cutie .the photo album
.foo fighters .one by one
.athlete .vehicles & animals
.minor threat .complete discography
.the roots .phrenology
.sinead oâ??connor .gospel oak
.n.e.r.d .in search of…(version 2)
.chili peppers .stadium arcadium
.the killers .hot fuss
.snow patrol .eyes open