Last night My Bloody Valentine played the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas. For those familiar with MBV, you were there, you know what happened, and you’ve might have seen it before, even though it’s been years. For those of you who aren’t, you’ve heard the name, you’ve probably heard a few songs pop on your Modest Mouse channel on Pandora, and you know they were the first “shoegazer” band, and you respect them for what they have been able to do for their genre of indie music. I fit in the second category.

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Last week at the Arctic Monkeys’ first show in over a year, the group debuted four new songs (”Dangerous Animals”, “Pretty Visitors”, “Go-Kart” and “Crying Lightning”) from their highly anticipated Josh Homme-produced third album to a packed New Zealand crowd. As a bonus, the A-Monks topped off their set with an encore cover of Nick Cave’s “Red Right Hand.”

MP3s:
Arctic Monkeys - “Crying Lightning” (Live @ Wellington Town Hall 1.13.09)
Arctic Monkeys - “Go-Kart” (Live @ Wellington Town Hall 1.13.09)
Arctic Monkeys - “Pretty Visitors” (Live @ Wellington Town Hall 1.13.09)
Arctic Monkeys - “Dangerous Animals” (Live @ Wellington Town Hall 1.13.09)
Arctic Monkeys - “Red Right Hand” (Live @ Wellington Town Hall 1.13.09)

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Arctic Monkeys Live @ Wellington Town Hall 1.13.09

As further evidence that Wayne Coyne does not sleep ever, The Flaming Lips will curate a day of the 2009 All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, which will be held Sept. 11-13 at Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello, N.Y. They will perform and select around 15 artists to play on their special day, alongside other confirmed performers like Panda Bear, Atlas Sound, Animal Collective, David Cross, and Dirty Three. Sounds fun, no?

MP3:
The Flaming Lips - “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)”

Britt Daniel played a solo show last Friday in Portland where he was joined onstage by Sleater-Kinney’s Janet Weiss. Those lucky enough to attend, were treated to a trio of new Spoon songs. Amongst the new material was the excellent new track “Who Backs Your Money?” - never before has questioning fiscal comfort sounded so good! Check out the full run-down of the show at The Sly Oyster!

(Thanks to James for the heads up!)

MP3:
Britt Daniel (w/Janet Weiss) - “Who Backs Your Money?”

About 8 songs into the set, Robert Been said “We’ve been doing the loud thing for about 2 years now, so we wanted to do something different. And we also just wanted to fuck around.” This was some of the most moving fucking around I’ve heard in a while. I haven’t seen Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in a long time. In fact it’s been since Nick Jago had to take off for “personal reasons.” But the notion of seeing the boys on the stripped down stage at Club Dada in Deep Ellum (Dallas) was more than enough to get me out there. The show was incredible alive.

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