I'm not going to lie to you, this post was supposed to be all about the Radiohead show in Toronto Saturday night, but that show didn't happen so that got scotched. My backup plan for Saturday night and today's post was the NXNE Flaming Lips show with Of Montreal and Portugal. The Man, but James Wild beat me to the punch yesterday with his review of that evening's events. Bereft of ideas and pressed for time I have no choice to inflict an Odds and Sods on you. I'll try to make it worth your while...
- Here's that performance of Radiohead's "Knives Out" from The Flaming Lips show Saturday night at NXNE, along with Wayne Coyne's comments on the situation. For my part, I approved and appreciated Wayne's sentiments (and the dude who yells "show some respect @#$%ers!" at the :25 mark), and I thought that the Lips' set was much better than the rote Lips show I saw in Rochester last year. The band was feeling it Saturday night, and their performance wasn't phoned in at all, instead it was demonstrably heartfelt, and it gave songs like "Waiting For A Superman,""What Is The Light?","Is David Bowie Dying" and "Do You Realize?" even deeper resonance. There was indeed a somber element to Saturday's revelries at Yonge and Dundas Streets, but for the insane crowd that assembled (that was packed in from the stage right back to the Eaton Centre's doors), the Lips kind of made it alright.
- Check out this preposterous, wonderful, and NSFW new video clip from Sigur Ros for "Fjogur Piano" off of their excellent current release Valtari. And yes, Shia Leboef is still a jackass.
- I'm really stoked about that Fleetwood Mac tribute album coming out in August featuring Best Coast, Lykke Li, St. Vincent, The New Pornographers, and MGMT based on this preview track featuring the Pornographers tastefully covering "Think About Me" (off of the Mac's underrated 1979 Tusk double album).
- The buffaBLOG Beach Party was great. Big ups to the folks who made it happen.
That's all I got for you folks. Stay cool. No really, it's going to be hot the next few days.
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