Yo Los Angelenos, Hollywood Bowl Tickets Go on Sale Tomorrow at 10AM

You can get in on some pretty awesome concerts for really cheap (a dollar and seventy-five cents!?) if you are quick enough on the draw.  Philip Glass, here I come.

Here is the bowl's calendar.  The National plays with Neko Case on September 11th; Hall and Oates for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of July; and Rodrigo and Gabriela play the 12th and 13th of August.  Those will cost you more but they will be a lot of fun.  Everything on the Summer and Fall schedule for the bowl goes on sale tomorrow at 10AM PDT so if you want to get in on the cheap seats or the best seats you will need to make your plans quickly.  Most of the shows (all but the lease events) are BYOEverything, and they make great picnic dates/parties; take the subway and walk.

Best of luck.  I hope to see you there.  Maybe we can dance-battle in the aisle.

Edit: Presale password is 90YEARS (thanks, Kesha), but it looks like most of the $1.75 if not all are already gone.  They might release more of those tomorrow morning.

March 2011 Playlist -- Metaphors, Son

Ryan Adams - "Damn Sam"
  "Damn, Sam. I love a woman that rains"

The Magnetic Fields - "The Book of Love"
  "The Book of Love is long and boring / no one can lift the damn thing"

The Mountain Goats - "International Small Arms Traffic"
  "Our love is like the boarder between Greece and Albania"

Okkervil River - "A Stone"
  "You love the hallowest tone / you love a stone"

Andrew Bird - "Sovay"
  "And then a word washed to shore"

The Castanets - "You are the blood"
  "You are the blood flowing through my fingers"

Thee More Shallows - "House Breaks"
  "If You stay awake in this dream, in this dream you're going to die"

Anathallo - "John J. Audubon"
  "Our stories all just sink below the mess of wake the millions of paddled palms our cupped hands make."

Cloud Cult - "Everybody Here Is a Cloud"
  "Everybody Here Is a Cloud / Everybody here will evaporate"

Bon Iver - "Flume"
  "Only love is all maroon / gluey feathers on a flume / Sky is womb"

The National - "Anyone's Ghost"
  "Walk through the Manhattan valleys of the dead / Didn't want to be your ghost"

My Favorite Albums of 2010

10. A tie between Vampire Weekend's "Contra" and Gorillaz's "Plastic Beach"





9. Delorean - Subiza

"Real Love" is one of my favorite songs of 2010.




8. Caribou - Swim

The best track on the album is free on the Merge Records 2010 Digital Sampler.



7. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago

Free mp3 of The Golden Archipelago track "Castaways" from Matador.  It is a beautiful song. Give this one a listen.

December 2010 Playlist--Don't Lose The Chill

Here are some *chill* songs I've been sober-living to this month.

1. Glasser - "Home"
2. The National - "Bloodbuzz Ohio" [Mp3 via Pitchfork]
3. CEO - "Come With Me"
4. Crystal Castles -"Not In Love ft. Robert Smith"
5. The Russian Futurists - "Let's Get Ready to Crumble"
6. Fleet Foxes - "Mykonos"
7. Wild Nothing - "China Town"
8. Twin Shadow - "Castles in the Snow" [Mp3 via Pitchfork]
9. Passion Pit - "The Reeling"
10. Neon Indian - "Terminally Chill"
11. Washed Out - "Feel it All Around" [Mp3 via Pitchfork]
12. Gorillaz - "On Melancholy Hill"

Amazon decides $2 is a magic number; I agree. We become friends.

[OH SO SAD--ALREADY DEAD]
Amazon is really impressing me with its holiday specials.  I hope these sales are really successful and continue for a long time because $2 for a digital album is a hell of a price point.

Here are some of the $2 dollar goodies that are still available:
Arcade Fire's The Suburbs!  My favorite album of the year from my favorite band of the 2ks.











Mavis Staples You Are Not Alone. 8.0 on Metacritic.











The National's High Violet. 8.4 on Metacritic.

Sarah Bareilles' Kaleidoscope Heart. She seems to enjoy it.











LCD Soundsystem's This Is Happening.  8.4 on Metacritic.  Short samples on Amazon won't do this justice--find them on YouTube.

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.