Always with the Music...

So, I think I ask this about once every 3 months or so, but it seems like a good way to keep up on good music. That's a tall order these days with the crap that plays on the radio.

So, I saw Gaslight Anthem a couple of weeks ago in San Francisco. All I can say is that if you haven't listened to them, then get on it. If you haven't seen them, then trust me when I say they put on a hell of a show. They do their songs justice live.

I recently started listening to The Lost Cause by Billy the Kid. The interesting thing about her is that I knew her from fronting the punk band Billy and the Lost Boys. This CD is a whole new direction for her, but the songs and the lyrics are fantastic. Not to mention this one is a whole lot more commercially viable than BatLB, but then again, I like both. I also haven't really progressed beyond high school when it comes to pop punk bands, so that might be saying something.

The trailer for Where the Wild Things Are has a whole lot of Wake Up by Arcade Fire. That's pretty damn cool, but the song is off Funeral instead of Neon Bible.

Chase doing S&G

It is painful trying to do a new music show on a weekly basis. Most of the music made now is really terrible. Except The Black Eyed Peas

Adventures in Ticket Buying

This morning U2 tickets went on sale for their D.C. date. Luckily, it's my spring break, so I wasn't at work. I had two computers going at the same time to compare ticket availability. Totally awesome. The first set of tickets that came up were 3rd row, lower level, directly behind the stage. Seriously, these would have been maybe 20 yards back from the band. BUTTTT, they were directly behind the stage. And I don't care what they say about this tour being "in the round." When the stage is set in one endzone and 3/4 of your audience is on the other side, they're going to be playing to that side of the stage. So I dumped my tickets to try for another. (BTW, those were $95 each and we're not really able to afford that anyway). Needless to say, next time around the "best available" tickets were at the opposite end of the field. I'm definitely not paying $200 to be at the other end.

Meanwhile, I was searching for the $55 level tickets on the other computer. They brought back a couple, but both times the sections were lined up where the pegs of the stage canopy. If you check out the stage mockup at U2 360 you can see that at four points around the stage, the view is going to be blocked by the stage. So I kept dumping them waiting for better seats. Sold out. Dang.

So I start checking the upper level, $30 seats on both computers. After a couple of tries, I get seats directly adjacent to the stage. Awesome. Nothing in the way, pretty high up, but right next to the stage. Plus, they were only $30. That's really awesome. Those are cheaper than my Depeche Mode tickets I bought a few weeks ago.



We're sitting in section 426. All for less than $100, even with all of the service charges. That's pretty damn cheap for a big stadium rock show. With tickets that cheap, I might be able to justify seeing them again when they come back to North America. Rumor is they will be playing Ravens Stadium in Baltimore, so we won't even have to drive to D.C. Katie is stoked! (@)

p.s. We get Muse as our opening act. Easily the best of the proposed openers. Snow Patrol would be cool, but I don't care too much for Glasvegas, and I fucking loathe the Black Eyed Peas...sorry Josh (@)