I'm absolutely smitten with The Tallest Man on Earth. He played with Red Cortez and The War on Drugs (just finishing up a tour with The Hold Steady). They all played at Schubas this past Sunday. We missed Red Cortez unfortunately, but The War on Drugs were great! Apparently Craig Finn bumbled up the lead singers guitar a bit before a solo show. Oops.
Anyhow, on to TTMOE! He was cute, he was charming, he made eye contact with me (okay, and everyone else), he wore lovely boots, and spiky hair. He performed fun chicken scratching feet dances and couldn't seem to decide where to sit or stand, restless in the best possible way. A good entertainer.
New songs: The Wild Hunt, and another I don't know the title of, but quite possibly called something like The King of Spain. I can't wait to hear a recorded versions. Below is a video of The Wild Hunt, take listen for yourself!
Kristian Matsson, as he is so dandily Swedishly named, also did a cover of These Days. It was wonderful. He forgot a few lyrics and the audience helped him out; it was glory. Another video of this below!
By the way, read this blog post on a previous show of his in Minneapolis, mostly to view the FANTASTIC photos. Dear lord they are beautiful. I can only dream. :)
I had fun. Blind Pilot played with Deanna Devore & Death Ships at Schubas this past Friday. They were all lovely lovely. James caught 'em, unconscious girl grinned.
Soil and six feet under Killed just like we were Before you knew you'd know me And you know me
Blooming up from the ground 3 Rounds and a sound Like whispering you know me And you know me
So this Charles Spearin guy's pretty cool. Do Make Say Think, KC Accidental, Broken Social Scene, Valley of the Giants--he's worked as part or with all of them. And now he's got this neat album called The Happiness Project that combines oral interviews with music. It's really beautiful and the whole album is worth a listen. Think Nico Muhly, think The Books. So just take a listen to this tidbit.
"Elevator Strudel," but it's actually the door of a bathroom stall in the Flamingo Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas
I'm damn excited for Blind Pilot this Friday and Tallest Man on Earth this Sunday at Schubas. Here aren't either of those, but here are some songs that are dandilicous.
Oh! You're viewing from Norris, good idea. :D Sometimes I log out of my Last.FM account to view subscribers profiles so they don't know I did. I'm so sneaky. That's got to be weird when you tell people what happened, the texts, etc. Insecurities. But why look in the first place? I'm just stalking the stalker and it's amusing.
