NEON BIBLE

The Arcade Fire is slowly but surely finding it's way into my beloved top 10 fave bands. I'm not even sure what my top 10 is, but they're making it up there. I didn't realize how great their album was until I went away to college and someone sneakilly put it on and made me swoon. And THEN. THEN, ladies and gentlemen, they release a new single in quite possibly one of the coolest ways ever. In order to hear the song titled "Intervention", you have to call 1-866-NEON-BIBLE x7777. How rad is that? Apparently the name comes from a book of the same name, of which I have not read and therefore can not tell you anything about it. Says Gorilla vs. Bear:

The message was sent (sort of) through a cryptic spam-looking email from a dude named F. Murray Conscription. Here's a snippet:

Subject : is it ne0n Bi*ble? She likes it

You and her both are looking for NE0N BIB*LE; Revolutionary safe new Program really works. Count on Time to work it out. *wink* *wink*

1-866-NEON-BIBLE ext. 7777

Um. COOL! And yeah, I listened to the song, and yeah, I totally dig. There's a lot of love eminating from my anticipation (for upcoming album) filled heart. Of course, bloggers are out there to ruin the fun for you and rip the song and let you download it online, but I'm just not gonna tell you where to find it because the whole phone thing is just way too cool. Gah. neon bible. hah! I want a tee-shirt already.

PS: Upcoming shows

Saturday 7pm
"Pajama Party" (wear pajamas or pay $2)
Maria w/ Catwalk, Northern Two, My Little Red Toe @ The Fountain 760 Borrego Way, Oxnard

Sunday 2pm
Deepakalypse w/ Lilywater @ Grady's Record Refuge in Ventura

Big big boy band crush!

Remember a while back when I wrote about the Kooks and basically said that it's not worth getting their album, but that they're really fucking cute? Well, since then, I've developed a huge school girl crush on this British boy band. "How?", you might ask. Well, if you guessed that I'v listened to their record a few more times, I would say you're a dumb ass. If you, on the other hand, guessed YouTube, I'd say you're a genius. Or else you own a computer, in which case YouTube is like the answer to everything. Anyways, It turns out that bands with hotties in it can make it if their music is mediocre. It's a balance thing. If you're ugly, you're music better be really fucking good. So I began watching their videos on YouTube. And the lead singer is, like, really fucking sexy. I really like his accent and his wonky teeth and his big lips and his perfectly curled couf. And their music is totally catchy. I'd just about sell my eggs to go to one of their concerts and get sweaty and dancy while watching that hottie pretend to be a rock 'n roll god. So here's the vids, sent to you with love from me. But don't listen to "She Moves in Her Own Way" too many times because I'm kind of really in love with that song. I have to use all the power in my body just to press the >> button (that means next track, btw). It causes me a great deal of pain to turn away from it, but I really don't want to get a toothache from all that sweetness.

Oh, turns out they have like 3,000 videos. Here's 4 of the best, I guess.

"She Moves in Her Own Way"


"Naive"


"Sofa Song"


"Eddie's Gun"

More weirdness, more goodness.

I download a lot a lot of music that ends up unlistened to, sadly sitting in my iPod and waiting for the day that I will actually put my pod on shuffle and stumble upon it's warmth. Thank God I fell upon White Flight while on shuffle mode one day. The music is mostly cool blues rock n roll with an electronic pop edge. The drumming is in my fave BSS-ish style and the guy's voice is quivery weird and crazy. There's something about a smooth southern sound with crazy mixed in that drives me wild. "Solarsphere" has a lot of the blues and rock n roll that I was talking about (and is my fave track and the one that I stumbled upon), "Now" is a little more poppy with the BSS drumming and a fun loop, and "Obsidian" is soulful smooth but still a little crazy tough. Um, please listen?

Now
Solarsphere
Obsidian

I don't know if you actually want to know what the guy looks like, but here's a video for "Now". I find his grungy skinny craziness to add to the music a little bit.

Ima Robot + The Sounds @ The Fillmore = awesome!

Sunday night I saw The Sounds and Ima Robot play at the Fillmore, with Tommie Sunshine DJing. The Fillmore is an awesome venue and the bands were both incredibly awesome.

Ima Robot, despite being the opening act, were the best band of the night. They were sexy, crazy, danceable (yet clever) madness. The lead singer is out of his mind which makes for a really awesome performance. Watching him is like continually watching someone lose it while holding it all together. He oft. sounds like David Bowie, which is pretty fucking cool.



The Sounds put on an amazing performance, complete with outfit changes, music fucking, stage diving, cigarete flicking, lighter-waving, and synth pad pounding. That last part was one of the best things. The two hottest guys from the band go to the center of the stage and each one begins pounding their own synth pad. It sounded awesome and looked awesome and really pounded energy into the crowd. Maja (the lead singer, pronounced "Mya", thanks to my superior googling skills), was simply incredible. She's extremely sexy and gritty, with platinum blonde hair that is partially shaved on the side that totally expresses her hardcore sexywoman whos tougher-than-your-boyfriend-ness. I simply love her and, if reincarnation is possible, I would like to be reincarnated as her.


(See those 2 guys shes holding in this picture? She treated them like that at the concert, too. I wouldn't be surprised if they actually are her personal sex slaves)

Final Analysis: So after the show I finally went home and listened to these bands' CDs. The Sounds, I'm dissappointed to say, are at least 15x better live. Whoever produced their record didn't really bring the noise and grit into the album that the band has live. Ima Robot, on the other hand, are awesome both live and recorded. Different experiences of course, but (almost) equally as great (because live music has so much energy, and because you dont get to get AS sweaty when you're just dancing in your room by yourself). They're my new obsession, my new dance partner, my new boyfriend.

TRACKS:

Ima Robot - Song #1
Ima Robot - Dirty Life
Ima Robot - A is for Action
Ima Robot - Black Jettas

The Sounds - Song With A Mission
The Sounds - Queen of Apology

This just in..

Of Montreal at The Attic on January 31st. yayyy!