Silversun Pickups, one of our favorite L.A. bands, is a couple of days into a two-month tour with Snow Patrol. But before the tour bus pulled them out of Burbank, they recorded a weeks' worth of performances for Last Call with Carson Daly that are playing out all this week.
For those of us with grown-up jobs, that's a late night haul, but the good folks at Dangerbird Records anticipated your pain and hooked us up with the video, so you can get your shuteye and catch the band during daylight hours.
Here's the swanky flyer making the rounds with this week's playlist. Click to embiggen.
Each night's performance will be available, along with some backstage silliness from the band, at http://roughmix.livedaily.com/silversunpickups, and while you're there, you can enter to win a "Carnavas"-style custom Epiphone guitar signed by the band.
But wait, there's more. The band also did a short set for our own cameras recently, and we'll be trotting out that footage any day now. And of course, we'll brag about it here when it happens.
It's always a pleasant surprise to swing into a record store and find something new that you never even knew existed. That was the case yesterday, when I found Josh Ritter'sLive at the Record Exchange EP at Stinkweeds.
I've been pretty wrapped up with all things Ritter since I finally wisened up and became attached to Animal Years. This EP, as its name might suggest, is a live recording from the Record Exchange in Boise, Idaho. (On a side note, I've been to Boise; very cool city.)
The EP has six tracks, including the previously unreleased Bandits and a John Prine cover of Daddy's Little Pumpkin. According to Pitchfork, the EP is available only from Ritter on tour or select independent music stores. Um, yeah, or Amazon. Of course, the Record Exchange has it, too.
Ritter also is making available to stream "backstage recordings" he's performing with support acts from his current tour.
First, the bad news: Apparently, the Richard Buckner show with Six Parts Seven has been canceled. Too bad because I was really looking forward to seeing Buckner perform with a full band.
I had no idea that Saturday's Final Fantasy show at the Tranzac, the second of two fundraising shows for the venue, was a matinee when I bought the ticket. But it was, and an all-ages one at that, which is why it was that I found myself in a gaggle of overexcited underagers on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Different? Yes.
Sub Pop officially has made an mp3 available from Low's upcoming new album Drums and Guns, which I wrote about last month and included a (short-lived) song. Anyway, it always looks so much cooler as a premiere on Pitchfork.
Mark Linkous and Sparklehorse have been near the top of my ever-shrinking list of current acts who I'd never seen live and could realistically expect to for a while, but for the longest while - namely the five years following 2001's It's A Wonderful Life - it seemed for a long while that the odds of there being new material let alone a tour to promote were getting more and more distant. But lo and behold, Fall 2006 brought us the long-awaited Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain and Winter 2007 the North American tour to support so to say that my anticipation was high for Friday night's show at the Mod Club would be something of an understatement.
