Here is my totally rad 1998 self excited about the Summerland Tour 2012.
Sugar Ray. Everclear. Lit. Marcy Playground. Gin Blossoms.
$20 in Columbus, Ohio at the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion (an awesome venue where I saw Dave Grohl’s Them Crooked Vultures a few years back). I can’t believe these bands are irrelevant enough to be selling $20 tickets, but whatever. I’ll be there to relive the 90s. Who’s coming with me?
“Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings)” by Silversun Pickups
New Mad Men yesterday and new Silversun Pickups today. Nice!
“Temporary” by White Rabbits
I had never heard of White Rabbits when I first saw them, an opening act for Spoon back in 2007 - and they rocked the entire venue, inspiring more energy in the room with their moody percussion and energetic keyboarding than even the headliner. I went home and immediately downloaded their album Fort Nightly and they’ve been a constant on my playlist ever since. It will be difficult for White Rabbits to surpass the awesomeness that was their 2009 album It’s Frightening, but I’m digging this new song. The album drops tomorrow, so I’m looking forward to hearing the rest of it.
“Rather Lovely Things” by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
“The Judge” by Ben Nichols from his Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian inspired album The Last Pale Light in the West.
Listen to other songs from the album:
“Apertura” by Gustavo Santaolalla (from The Motorcycle Diaries)
For Dani - an absolutely amazing song from Drive, which still remains my favorite film of the year.
“Gold on the Ceiling” by The Black Keys
The Black Keys’ sound sure has evolved since their The Big Come Up and Thickfreakness days, but like many, I don’t mean that as a knock. El Camino is still a hell of a great album. It’s refreshing that in an era overwhelmed with electronic rock-pop a two-piece blues rock can find so much mainstream success.
If there is anything that pisses me off about their success, it’s the fact that two years ago I could see them in concert for $15 and now if I want to see them in Cleveland this March, I am going to have to drop $59.50. That’s insane - and almost $15 more than when I was front and center at the Foo Fighters a couple of months ago. What’s up with that, Dan and Pat? You’re breaking my bank, fellas.
“No Light, No Light” by Florence + The Machine
Turn off the lights. Turn up the volume.
The Black Keys, I love you. Simple, yet extremely enjoyable. Very much looking forward to this album.
From MTV:
Forget about that “Evolution of Dance” guy or the “Double Dream Feet” dude. The real Internet dancing sensation may very well be Derrick T. Tuggle, the 48-year-old actor/musician/part-time security guard currently setting the Web ablaze with his smooth moves in the Black Keys’ “Lonely Boy” video. …
“I was cast as an extra, and there were maybe six or seven other people who were supposedly going to be in the video. … I was the first one to perform in the video. It was a motel shot where the guys from the Black Keys come and give me the keys to their motel room,” he said. “The director just sort of noticed me dancing and asked me, ‘Can you perform?’ I said, ‘I can dance, anybody can dance,’ so I took some moves from everybody: John Travolta from ‘Saturday Night Fever’ and ‘Pulp Fiction,’ the Carlton Banks dance from ‘The Fresh Prince’ and a little bit of Michael Jackson, so it was a smorgasbord of everybody in there.
“It was just a spur-of-the-moment thing,” Tuggle added. “My acting teacher Mark McPherson, he has us do this thing before we start class called ‘Song and Dance,’ where he’ll have us sing one of our favorite songs, and then while we’re singing it, he’ll have us do a crazy dance, or a sexy dance, and I guess it spawned from that.”
The end result is most definitely crazy — not to mention rather incredible, considering Tuggle nailed the routine in a single take (“As an actor, you have to know your lines, you have to be ready, so I was,” he explained). And though he’s had music-video experience in the past (he’s done background work in clips for the Dave Matthews Band, Lenny Kravitz and Lloyd), he’s never experienced anything quite like the reaction to “Lonely Boy,” and he’s hoping it will translate to more roles in the future.
“I’m elated, and I’m still in shock, to be honest. I’ve been out [in Los Angeles] for 10 years, pursuing acting and music, so hopefully this will lead to more work,” he said. “Honestly, I just went down there to do my part and see what would happen. Who knew I would take over the whole thing?”
