Posts tagged with explosions in the sky

10/10/2011

Explosions In The Sky/Wye Oak @ Royal Oak Music Theater 10.8.11

It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Chicago back in 2008. I was at my first Lollapalooza and was faced with the choice between Explosions In The Sky on one end of the park and Brand New on the other end. Being the festival amateur that I was at the time, I decided to just stick with my friends and see Brand New even though I knew nothing about them. Long story short, the Brand New frontman stormed off the stage 20 minutes into the set and I later heard from multiple people how mind-blowing the Explosions In The Sky set was. Lesson learned.

After giving my friends hell about it ever since then, I was finally granted some redemption when the group played this past weekend at the Royal Oak Music Theater. When I find out that Wye Oak (whose high fives I collected after their set) were the openers, that was just the icing on the cake. Check out some pictures below from this pretty nice little Saturday night.

Trembling Hands by Explosions in the Sky

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06/13/2009

bonnaroo preview – yeasayer – tightrope

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day 3 of bonnaroo. things have been pretty good so far, except for the herd of hippos that rolled through the campsites last night eating everything and everyone in their paths and the patchouli flu thats been spreading around the festival. just kidding, that didnt happen, or at least if it is going to happen, i dont know about it yet, because its only tuesday and i havent even left. but im going to pretend that im posting live from bonnaroo, even though theres no way in heck im bringing my computer and im pretty confident that i wont get cell phone reception in manchester, tennessee, much less a wireless internet signal. this is a little trick we use in the blogging industry called “saying its one day when its really not”. its pretty sneaky and only us insiders of the biz know about it. lucky for me, the secret dead poet free mason blogger society anonymous teaches you this little trick of the trade after youve had a blog for 3 weeks or more, so i just made the cut.

im pretty excited for the late night shows tonight. i didnt know about the late night shows until a few weeks ago, and if my prior festival experience is any indicator, i have no clue how im going to stay awake for the late night shows, but im gonna try. tonight is going to provide us with the 1-2 punch of yeasayer and mgmt. i was supposed to see mgmt at lolla last year, but we missed them due to the “brand new” debacle (for which we also missed explosions in the sky). ask me about that one later. im not still bitter at all. not in the slightest. what gave you that impression?

anyway, yeasayer is one of those groups for me that has a sound all its own. their album “all hour cymbals” is a strange mix of dark and light. id say 60% dark, and 40% light. if not, then id say 55% dark, 30% light, and 15% viking. that was an obscure reference to the drink order of jeff lewis on bravos “flipping out”. i tried for a long time to find the video clip and couldnt but you should try, its worth it. todays track, tightrope, is part of the red hot compilation entitled dark was the night, put together by the national’s aaron and bryce dessner to help fight hiv. this track is a favorite of mine from the compilation because it shows the brighter and happier side of yeasayer. what say you of this tune?

yeasayer – tightrope

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