Amazing. If you haven't seen this yet, please do yourself a favor and check it out. Should work in any HTML5 compliant browser, but I'd recommend Google Chrome for the best experience.
Mogwai is releasing a live album (Special Moves), complete with a concert film titled Burning. I will definitely be checking it out, as Mogwai was amazing live when I saw them in Seattle.
Sunny Day Real Estate: 9-29-09 Jimmy Fallon Live (via tech1250)
Had the pleasure of seeing them in Cleveland during their first reunion, then two times in Seattle, while we lived there — an amazing band.
The only time I will ever mention Michael Jackson on this blog…
Ben Gibbard (from Death Cab for Cutie) covering Thriller:
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My all-time favorite hardcore band. Wow. Watching this still gives me chills, just like it did when I first heard them, first saw them. An amazing band that embodied everything I felt and believed. And I know, from talking to others, many kids felt the same way and still do. Not too many bands make that kind of impact.
Touch and Go Records, one of my favorite record labels of all time (and a key partner with many other key indie labels), is cutting back due to the economy by cutting ties with 20 indie labels and laying off employees.
Very sad news!
“The current state of the economy has reached the point where we can no longer afford” to provide manufacturing and distribution services for the labels, including stalwarts such as Chicago-based Drag City, All Natural, Overcoat. Flameshovel and Atavistic Records; Delaware’s Jade Tree; and Kill Rock Stars in the Pacific Northwest, said Touch and Go founder Corey Rusk.