DAVID KITT "No Truth in Your Eyes" Official Video, dir. Asad Raza from David Kitt on Vimeo.

He's streaming the whole bloody album on his myspace. hispace?

• Ruby Suns: Excellent
• Lawrence Arabia: Surprisingly good. Will need to investigate further.
• High Places: Not my thing. Noisy and Whiny. I'm pretty sure the drummer was faking.
• Beaches: Rhythmic Chick Rock. Not bad.
• Dan Deacon. Kitsch Shtick. Also not my thing.

God, I love these guys. Shame about the googly-eye problem, though.

Something tells me that Fela Kuti (1939-1997) would be pleased.

Sarah and I arrived at the Molson Amphitheatre in a complete downpour. As the sun started peaking out from behind some clouds to the west, a vision appeared:

We were literally In_Rainbows! Get it?

Anyway, we found our seats roughly in time for the opener Grizzly Bear to leave the stage. Still Pouring. Good thing I brought my rain suit. And then, during the stage change, and before Radiohead takes the stage, the sky clears!

Radiohead start playing music with almost nary a word. But the stage! What a light show.

Somehow, Radiohead even managed to cue up airplanes flying over during song climaxes, and fireworks synchronized from CNE grounds. These guys really bring out the stops!

The girl next to us was at her first Radiohead concert, and she'd been trying to see them since the days of Pablo Honey. She was giddy like she was watching the Beatles. She took a picture everytime the colours changed on stage. The people in front of us were very talkative and let us their binoculars (yeah, we were that far back). Radiohead played two encores. Good show.

]]> http://breakablecrate.com/2008/08/16/radiohead-molson-amphitheatre-toronto-aug-15-2008/feed/ 0 http://breakablecrate.com/2008/07/28/hillside25-the-good-bits-version/ http://breakablecrate.com/2008/07/28/hillside25-the-good-bits-version/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:48:48 +0000 cardinal fang http://breakablecrate.com/?p=334 Saturday.

• The day started off with a bang, Emma arrives at 11am, but is a dear in waiting for me to get my shit together. Huge downpour w/ hail @ 1pm (including power outage). Passes quickly, fortunately. Followed by beautiful day.
• Arrive in time to catch the end of The Burning Hell set. It's a song about conferences. sweet! Emma and I eat Roti.
• Catch a bit of Land of Talk (mostly spent explaining what web 2.0 is to Emma. We get all 2.0 later by changing our facebook statuses via cellphone), head back to see Akron/Family. Emma secretly hopes it's actually Akon and his family. Turns out they couldn't make it. We wait patiently for Plants and Animals. Who rock.
  • Emma admits to loving moustaches. We play count the moustaches.
• Thunderheist comes on next and kicks the festival's ass. The whole tent is on its feet and dancing. The lead singer/rapper Isis is hot.
• Dinner with Jason Collett. He's kinda dull, but it goes well with dinner. Dessert with Born Ruffians. I liked these guys. I think I spot the guy in that frozen yoghurt ad, where doesn't want to try it, then he does, then he's all "mmm, mmm".
• The big draw is supposed to be the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, but E and I decide that they're pretty dull, so we move on to see Jason Rutledge bare his city/country soul. Emma's in love. I spot an ex. Jason closes with a jaunty sing-a-long, which is a bit of fun.
• Back to watch Islands, but huge delay means we only catch a song before we have to leave.

Sunday.

• Sarah and I have evening tickets, and we arrive a little bit before 6, just enough time to get something to eat and find a place to watch Stuart Mclean record a Vinyl Cafe show. In reality, it's just enough time to get something to eat, and then have a big ol' cold/rain/hail downpour soak us and my Roti (yes, #2).  The surprise musical guest was Ron Sexsmith.
• We decide to check out Moshav and Taxi Chain do some kinda fusion of Middle East meats Scotland meets Jamaica thing. It went well with a beer.
• We do some wandering (get ice cream), and eventually make it over to The Speakeasies. We think our friend Sam is the bassist, maybe. Sure looked like. These guys took it to another level with a Zeppelin cover to close the set.
• More wandering, Sarah buys a longsleeve to stay warm, back to see Mr. Something Something do some Afrobeat. I attempt to dance on the picnic table seat. I am told not to. You can't stop the dance, baby. I proclaim that "I love that shit", afterwards.
• Finally, the closers, Broken Social Scene take the stage. I quite like the stuff from "You Forgot in People", the rest was so-so.

The End.

Of course, with my computer gone, all my mp3s are gone too. So, when I'm working on my computer, I have to find other ways of listening to music.

Right now, that other way is the muxtape. I actually wrote about the muxtape back in March, but just in this past week I've had people say "where do you find this stuff?" and "Muxtape? Is that a band?", so here I go again.

A muxtape is a just a mixtape that people create, upload to the muxtape website, and share it. Anyone can go and listen to them. Simple. Ingenious.

I'm going to help you out, though, because while muxtapes are great, what takes it to the next level is being able to search them. MuxFind and MuxtapeStumbler let you search for an artist (or song), and discover what muxtapes have those artists. It's a jumping off point for discovering new stuff. You never know what someone will throw in their mix.

Update: if you create a muxtape account, you can scrobble listened tracks to last.fm. Man, the internet is great.

Here's some mixes I like. Share your faves. Upload a mix, share it with us.

• http://misterfiction.muxtape.com/
• http://pblair.muxtape.com/
• http://fatoe.muxtape.com/
• http://margthrax.muxtape.com/
• http://kapoksummer.muxtape.com/

Hotdogs and mustard,
~c. fang

May I also recommend (not necessarily for workouts) the new Cut Copy album, In Ghost Colours? It's on repeat over here in the Breakable Apartment.

And lastly, if you're an old geek (I'm looking at you, Jimmy. , you might get a kick out of this old Atari box art.

Some new old music for you: Yeasayer
I'm way behind the times on this, but good music is good music.
You can download these tracks on their site.

Yeasayer - 2080

Yeasayer - Sunrises