LET'S SEXY FIGHTING

Hey guys, in honor of the Hot Chip show tonight at Mezzanine SF, here's a couple rarities. It's sold out, but I bet you can get in with some persistence. The cover of Sexual Healing is expectedly cold, but smooth, and Diplo's remix is a hell of a lot of fun. Maybe even more energetic than the original. Hope you have a tolerance for rapping though. Cause if you don't, then me and yous gonna have words, see?

Hot Chip - Sexual Healing
Hot Chip - Over And Over (Shake It Over And Over Diplo Remix)

Hot Chip official site
Hot Chip on MySpace

Labels: ELECTRONIC, HOT CHIP, INDIE ROCK, SHOW

Hit the Bonnie "Prince" Billy at Great American Music Hall on Halloween. Didn't have a ticket at first, but was able to scalp one outside quite easily.

The show was tight - BPB rocked the stage with style. Will Oldham's voice sounded good as ever, and the strength of the compositions and dynamics really shone for me, especially. Can't really see it from this photo, but they were in the Halloween spirit.

Bonnie Prince Billy has a huge back catalog...there were a lot of songs I didn't recognize!

Ran into Dr. Tobias Funke at the show...

Bonnie Prince Billy, Great American Music Hall - this is a great almost acappella encore song...

Labels: BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, REVIEW, SHOW

"The Crane Wife 3"

Just a quick thanks to predatory wasp here for covering both nights (10/17 & 10/18) of The Decemberists at Crystal Ballroom!


"The Gymnast, High Above the Ground"

"The Engine Driver"

"O, Valencia!"

"Culling Of The Fold"

"We Both Go Down Together"

"Sixteen Military Wives"

"The Legionnaire's Lament"

Labels: CRYSTAL BALLROOM, INDIE POP, INDIE ROCK, REVIEW, SHOW, THE DECEMBERISTS, VIDEO

Went to the Joggers/Oxford Collapse show on saturday at Hotel Utah. Intimate venue, a great (and surprising) place to see bands of this caliber. Yeah yeah, I didn't go to Bridge School, but I hate going to Shoreline.

Memoir started off things with a solo acoustic set. Thought it sounded somewhere between the decemberists and REM.

Boy In The Bubble was up next pushing their brand of glam rock.

Oxford Collapse got on stage the rocked the place out.

They were all over (and off) the stage. Didn't play "Proofreading" but they did play "Please Visit Your National Parks"...videos below.

The Joggers pretty much went crazy too. Started off the set with "Wicked Light Sleeper".

I like this photo, looks like he's taking off...

One more shot of screaming!

Oxford Collapse @ Hotel Utah 1

Oxford Collapse @ Hotel Utah 2

Oxford Collapse @ Hotel Utah 3 - "Please Visit Your National Parks"

The Joggers @ Hotel Utah

Labels: BOY IN THE BUBBLE, INDIE ROCK, MEMOIR, OXFORD COLLAPSE, REVIEW, SHOW, THE JOGGERS, VIDEO

The Dresden Dolls were accompanied by two live dancing dolls
throughout the show. Highly entertaining.

The Red Paintings followed by Jason Webley opened the night. Webley got the entire crowd energized with his accordian and caustic voice. According to him, the quickest way to get fucked up is to point your finger in the air, stare at it, and spin around 12 times.

Trash McSweeney of The Red Paintings accompanied The Dresden Dolls on stage for their rendition of "Mad World" during the encore. Earlier in the set they brought back Jason Webley to sing some Bon Jovi and break down the song analytically after each verse.

Amanda and Brian were tight as usual, and their sound filled Crystal Ballroom nicely.

Setlist:
Sex Changes
Gravity
Missed Me
Modern Moonlight
Coin-Operated Boy
The Jeep Song
Mein Herr
Livin' On A Prayer
Mandy Goes To Med School
Backstabber
Delilah
Mrs. O
Bad Habit
Sing

Encore:
Astronaut (New Song)
Mad World
Half Jack
Girl Anachronism


"Sex Changes"

"Mad World"

"Girl Anachronism"

Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism
Dresden Dolls - Half Jack

Dresden Dolls official site
Dresden Dolls on MySpace

On a side note, I'd like to welcome new Let's Sexy Fighting team member predatory wasp! He will be covering events in the Portland area and is the man behind this post.

Labels: CABARET, CRYSTAL BALLROOM, INDIE POP, REVIEW, SHOW, THE DRESDEN DOLLS, VIDEO

Caught What Made Milwaukee Famous on Saturday at Cafe Du Nord in SF...they were opening for the Long Winters.

WMMF put on a tight show and had a polished sound.

Good turnout, and the audience seemed pretty into it.

It was Michael's birthday...the Long Winters decided to keep buying him shots of Jagermeister!

A clip of "Idecide"

A clip of "Sweet Lady"

Labels: INDIE ROCK, REVIEW, SHOW, THE LONG WINTERS, VIDEO, WHAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS

Well, as you can see, I did make it to the show last night. Check out further down the page for more photos and a short video!

The Let's Sexy Fighting team got to Popscene early last night, around 7pm. Probably within the first 30 people in line. It ended up wrapping around the corner by 8pm...Popscene is a small space, and it reached capacity quickly after the door were opened. Ended up having a few drinks and sitting through the opening DJs until the main event.

Lily and the band came on a little after 10:30. The place was full of enthusiastic fans, to which she chirped, "Looks like a lot of you have been downloading the cd!"

She was spot on, she sounded great and so did the brass. Unfortunately, she had a sore throat and was forced to cut the set short. I know her sets this tour have been about 40 min (simply cause she only has one cd) but we all wanted more!

We tried to track her down for a photo after the show, but didn't play the waiting game long enough. All in all, excellent concert, lots of energy, but unfortuantely short set. Hopefully (or hopefully not) we can see her in a small venue like this again. Enjoy the video clip...Lily, come back!

UPDATE: Added a video of Lily's performance of LDN.

Labels: DUB, INDIE POP, LILY ALLEN, REGGAE, REVIEW, SHOW, SKA, VIDEO