The Music Post...

Reporting Mumbling from The Kleinette


We have been listening to loads of music lately --- while in the car driving back to DC from Miami in the days immediately following New Years Eve, we listened to both the Sirius XM Alt-Nation countdown and Sirius-XMU countdowns and found ourselves particularly impressed with the Silversun Pick-Ups, The XX (they grew on us, especially when remixed by Florence and the Machines), Pheonix, Kings of Leon (literally, we listened to every album of theirs, from the loud, swashbuckling southern swaggered first albums to the packged to light up a stadium current album), PHISH (after seeing a three set show, the album music, or the jams flowing through 'XM Jam On' sounded even better.  I can't get enough of 'Joy' - its really gorgeous), Julian Casablancas (yes, we're still locked on).  


What have you been listening to lately that you really like??  Anything we should know about? :)


We also were at the 9.30 club, TOGETHER, twice - once for Julian Casablancas and a second time for a DC special, The Junior League Band and Justin Jones and the Driving Rain.  Julian Casablancas, eh, the album is good, and some of the songs are really nice on it, but live, really not that awesome.  It seems like the 9.30 club can't get its mixing together and kept the vocals a little too low and some of the other lines much too high.  He only played 55 minutes which was a dissapointment.  We loved Justin Jones, he works at the 9.30 club and owned his stage, and owned his bluesy, alt-country, high style rock songs.  His voice fills the place and his banter with the audience was a lot of fun.  The Junior League band had a fun bluegrass pop sound, but the mixing was again bad.  The singer, Lissy, was a star of that band and her vocals were too low! The drummer was also, in the Kleiners opinion, AWESOME.  They did a really memorable cover of  the Beatles, I've got a Feeling!  


I'd see them again - hopefully somewhere smaller.  


We wanted to catch the Silversun Pickups, but why oh why are they opening for Muse??  They could fill the 9.30 club twice with their sound and popularity, couldn't they please just tour on their own? :)


For your listening pleasure - Junior League Band - South Carolina Blues

Don't Be A Coconut (SOTD)

Pursuant to the Kleinette's latest SOTD, I've rapidly become completely obsessed with Julian Casablancas' new album. Totally expecting a huge dissapointment, I found it to be a tight, fascinating eight-track beauty which sounds like the best of The Strokes' but heavy on the keyboards, while simultaneously pushing further against generic boundries than any of the previous three albums. I do hope they follow through on their plans for a new album, but this album makes me feel like it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if they didn't so long as Casablancas keeps making music. I've just fallen straight into it.

Anyway, here's a personal favorite Strokes tune of mine:

SOTD: Tourist - Julian Casablancas

Yesterday, I was driving along Constitution Avenue around 5.00pm.  The sky was a gorgeous combination of orange and blue, the chill was there and perfect, and leaves were falling.  Traffic was moving slowly and I was watching the washed out white federal buildings pass me.  I felt.. at home and like I was looking at something new at the same time....

This song, Tourist, by Julian Casablancas of the Strokes fame was playing on the radio, and it all just seemed to make such a nice fall moment.

-The Kleinette