Top.50.Songs.of.2011.(Part.2).

Top.50.Songs.of.2011

Part.2

.40.(thru).31.

.40.  "Sad Song"_____The Cars

*****The.Cars ROCK!!! what a COMEBACK!!!*****

.39.  "Crystalline"_____Björk

.38.  "Heavy Metal Lover"_____Lady GaGa

.37.  "Amarillion"_____Datarock

.36.  "Living It Out"_____Planningtorock

.35.  "212"_____AZEALIA BANKS

*****LOOK OUT for her in 2012!!!*****

.34.  "Amanaemonesia"_____Chairlift

.33.  "Hysterical"______Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

*****what a COMEBACK from CYHSY!!!*****

.32.  "Falling"_____Hercules And Love Affair

*****the 90's House sound is BACK!!!*****

.31.  "La musique"_____Yelle

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Clap.Your.Hands.Say.Yeah.(L!VE) @Webster.Hall

Clap.Your.Hands.Say.Yeah.2011
@Webster.Hall.(NYCity)
Wednesday.December.7.2011

Today's show at Webster Hall is SOLD OUT!!!  It's a crazy rainy day today in the city and it feels good.  It's not to hot or cold, just perfect out. 
This time around, I did not check in my coat because it's a mission to get it when a show is over.  You really got to be on your game or people are gonna cut.  Plus, to check in just ONE coat here is $6.00.  That is just bananas.  I rather carry the dam thing. 

The first band went on and they felt like a 90's band with all that feed back.  I don't know who did the better singing, the guy or the girl, but some people did not mind it.  They where bopping to the music and a girl not to far away was singing along to every song (friend?).   

The second band (WATERS from San Francisco) was better.   They too sounded like a band from the 90's. So does that mean that 90's rock sound is coming back?  Since the sound of 90's early House and Techno is making a come back on todays dance music. 
Clap.Your.Hands.Say.Yeah where GREAT.  It helped to have visuals.  If they didn't, they would of not done so well.  When I saw them at Culture.Collide in October, they where just okay.   They just stood there and the crowd did the same.  They didn't play there hit song, "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth" that day, but they did tonight.  That song got everyone shaking and moving, to the point where you can feel the floor move.  It's a little scary if you think of it because it feels like it's going to collapse.  
Clap.Your.Hands.Say.Yeah came out with a FANTASTIC album this year called "Hysterical" (need to get).  That second album (Some Loud Thunder) just came and went.  I thought that was the end of them because I don't think they toured for that album.  So great that they went back to the studio and didn't break up.  If they had, the song "Hysterical"  wouldn't be on my Top.50.Songs.of.2011.

\m/  \m/  \m/  \m/  -  ROCK ON!!!

Digitalism.(L!V3) @Webster.Hall.(NYCity)

Digitalism.2011

@Webster.Hall.(NYCity)

Friday.December.2.2011

This is FCKN Crazy!!!  Top 40 music while we wait for the main floor to open?!  It feels like I am at a gay club (nothing bad).  I find it a bit awkward for a place like this.   I guess it helps to balance the music here and get all types of people to come to "Girls and Boys".  
It's already 12am and the main floor is OPEN!!!  I see so many X's on kids  hands.   They can get someone like me and sneak a drink around a dark corner or go to the bathroom.  The more I look at the crowd, the younger they keep looking.  I have not spotted a single techno color outfit or any kind of glow stuff on these kids.  Its a relief not to see it.  it's VERY gray and black here. 

I walked around.  I started to get annoyed with that Techno Electro sound by Nadastrom.  I need vocals in my music.  Thanks GOD for that Top 40 room, now it makes since.  I went downstairs to see if  they opened the Studio (under the Webster Hall) and they did.  It was turned it into another Top 40 room.  Why!?!?  I thought they might get some local up coming live bands down here because thats what the Studio is known for.  Back upstairs I go to catch Data Romance.

Data Romance was the opening band and they sure cleared the main dance floor after Nadastrom.  At least they helped me get to the front.
It's almost 2am and Digitalism hit the stage and what a FCVKn AWESOME SHOW!!! They added another member (I think just for the tour) that played real drums.  I was disappointed when they did not play, "Fire in Cairo".  Why wasn't it on the playlist?  That single put them on the map.  After they played "Pogo", they  left the stage and they never returned.  Wow, no encore.  We waited just in case they came back out, but they never did.  I was happy that they played, "Circles" (made my Top 50 of 2011 list) and "2 Hearts".  Nice.      They also had some KICK A$$ visuals and lights.  It was very colorful and they got rid of there signature green.  It OLNY came out when they played, "Pogo".  

After the show, I went to see the shirts because Digitalism always have really cool T-shirts.  Sure enough,  they did and bought one.  I looked down on the table and they had FREE Digitalism matchbooks.  Score!

\m/  \m/  \m/  \m/  \m/ - FCVKn AWESUM!!!

Top.50.Songs.of.2011.(Part.1).

Top.50.Songs.of.2011
Part.1
50.(thru).41

.50.  "Hanging On"_____Active Child

.49.  "Blessed Mother"_____Jessica 6

.48.  "Candy Walls"_____TRUST

.47.  "Sail With Me"_____Ima Robot

.46.  "True Romance"_____Citizens !

.45.  "You Don't Want to Dance With Me"_____Monarchy

.44.  "Lies"_____Is Tropical

.43.  "They Come To Get Us"_____The Death Set

.42.  "Toe the Line"_____Mirrors

.41.  "Polish Girl"_____Neon Indian

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Holy.Ghost! and Jessica.6.(L!V3) in Brooklyn

Holy.Ghost!.2011
@Music.Hall.of.Williamsburg
(Brooklyn, NY)
Saturday.November.26.2011

$H!T.  The L train is shut down for the weekend, so I had to jump on a different train to get to Williamsburg.  At first it looked a bit confusing at the directions they had posted on the wall, but it lined up pretty well. Now, how to get back home.  I hope it's the same way (which it was). 
I arrived to the venue and  the doorman had a hard time scanning my paper ticket.  When it scanned, he told me "if it was scanned before?".  This is the reason why I prefer my tickets at  will call.  He let me, thank God.   I walked in and the place was empty.  Only a few of us here.  There was a DJ (Eli Escobar) playing really cool music (about time).  I walked around and I like this place.  It's half the size of Webster Hall with a really good sound system. 

Midnight.Magic was the first band and they got the party started.  The lead female singer is funny.  She knows how to pump up a empty room and turn it into a party.  She got some people moving.
Jessica.6 was up next and the venue started to get busy.  It was another SOLD OUT concert for Holy.Ghost! and this is the last show for the year.  It was a  night of NYCity bands  and Jessica 6 did a great job.  Nomi came out looking HOT (as always)!  Not to many costume changes, but a strip down.  She slowly took off her top and revealed a almost naked chest.  The bra had nipples that made you think for a second.
My first time seeing Holy.Ghost! and they did not disappoint.  I always missing this band when they come to Los Angeles and what a show.  They had this really cool stage set up that reminded me of the old days (from what I saw in pictures).  They had all this electronic equipment that reminded me of early Kraftwerk concerts.  

I looked into the crowd and I did not see to many young kids in the crowd.   It was an 18 and over concert.  It was more of an older crowd and no drunks out of control around me.  I was up on a platform and you can see huge pockets of smoke in crowd.  This place was smoking it up.  You even smiled it in the bathroom.  

Holy.Ghost! set was quick.   Jessica.6, Midnight.Magic and DJ Eli Escobar all kicked a$$ tonight.  Even the guy up in front singing every song from Jessica.6 had a blast.  Music Hall of Williamsburg is a really cool venue, but $7.00 for beer, that's crazy!!!

\m/  \m/  \m/  \m/ - AWESOME!

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Balam.Arab.(L!V3) @le.poisson.rouge.(NYCity)

Balam.Acab.2011

@le.poisson.rouge.(NYCity)

Thursday.November.18.2011

le.poisson.rouge is a REALLY COOL place.  I always wanted to come here and now I have the opportunity.   

Once I stepped in, they where playing Depeche.Mode's Black Celebration album in it's entirety (this place just won my heart even more) and I saw some kids singing along and dancing.  Groovy.

le.poisson.rouge is by NYU on the famous Bleeker St.  It made me fill I was at some hip and edgy joint in Brooklyn.  There are still cool places in the city still, Awesome! 
The first band, True.Womanhood where really good.  They are a synth/rock band form DC.  At first I was not to crazy about them, but after the second song, they had me tapping my feet to some cool dance beats. 
The second band, Trust was really GOOD!  They had this really cool sound that threw me back to early industrial music when it was minimal and fresh.  Only two members in the band, a girl (synth) and a guy (vocals and programming).  Towards the end of there set, the girl decided to show some personality.  She had a cute little dance, but she stopped it very quickly.  Once I came home I looked them up and there was not much information about them.  All I know, they are from Canada.  

So far, LOVE what I am hearing tonight and lets see what Balam.Acab has in store because it's already 1:00am.
Balam.Acab went on, but they had just a little problem with the second song.  They are two members in the band and it's the same lineup as Trust, but a little different.  The girl is the singer and the guy programs and also sings, but...BOY, are they young!  They look 15 years old.   

Balam.Arab went on around 1:30am and after a couple of songs I was pretty much done.  They bored me.  I wanted to get wowed after two good bands, but I wasn't.  This is a Cold.Wave.  I am glad I came or I would never would of heard of True.Womanhood and Trust.

\m/  \m/  \m/  - Good