2 posts tagged “as tall as lions”

I'd like to go to three different shows tonight, but having prior plans means I'm not going to any of them:

• As Tall As Lions at Popscene
• The Veils at Cafe Du Nord
• Fair To Midland at Slim's

In my latest installment of "When The Lights Go Down In The City" on SFist, I wrote about all three bands, I'm giving away a copy of Audrye Sessions' new record and I recorded my Top 5 moments at Feist's show at the Fillmore this past Tuesday.

What albums are in heavy rotation for you right now?

These questions always stump me;  as soon as someone asks me this all the music knowledge just drains out of my head.  I'm going to think of 2 or 3 other albums this week that I should have included...

Here are three I can think of now:

I've written about Scanners and RATATAT already.  As Tall As Lions is kind of indie-emo-rock, but I like that the singer sounds a little bit like Craig Wedren except not nearly as genius, of course.

I feel a bit self-conscious that this is all new music, but I guess that's what I've been in the mood for lately.  When I was in LA, Jason was playing the latest Fair to Midland album, inter.funda.stifle, in his dressing room.  He described it as The Mars Volta (FTM's from Denton, TMV's from El Paso) but with stronger songwriting.  I loved what I heard:  it was lush, bombastic, dynamic (Laurie, they're opening for System of a Down) and all over the place in a way that made total sense, if you were willing to go with it.  (I tried to upload their album into my audio stream but Amazon doesn't have the album cover on file.  So I had to add it the old school way.)