Lupology

La Roux, Silversun Pickups, Jupiter Rising, Still the new Tori Amos, Peaches and bat For Lashes albums, Little Boots,Peter Bjorn & John, Butterfly Boucher..and anticipating what the rest of the year is to bring! OH i was happy to read Kylie Minogue is teamign up with Xenomania for her new album! the first single is due out soon apparently…which means I’ll get to hear it live at the Hollywood Bowl show in october…hopefully! I got the new Black Eyed Peas in hopes it be my summer jam cd, it will not be sad to say…although there are some great tracks…i think they just tried waaaaay to hard to make a dance record..and fell really short, a lot of the hyping in the songs sounds cheesy…although they got good producers to help..i just think they werent meant to make this style music. I never understood will.i.am, never been a fan of him specifically. But Fergie sounds great on it! The others guys do too in a lot of parts…but will.i.am…eh.

Yeah..thats how close I was at the Pioneertown show..

wow, how time flies! Its been almost a month since I posted..been at the internship a lot, working on my own music, etc. Anyway..i went to eh Peaches show here in LA. The Sunday one. I loved it, She was great when i saw here at the Fonda years ago…but wow, has she grown as a live performer. I actually danced, quite a bit! The crowd was great, energy was great and she was out of control! Crowd surfing and even standing straight up on the crowd while singing at one point! here i the set list:

1. Show Stopper

2. Trick or Treat

3. Hit it Hard- this is where she took off her blowfish outfit..lol she was wearing some frilly pod like thing.

4.Operate- one of my classic FAVES

5.Mud- one of my new faves! This is song is sick!

6.Serpentine

7.Hot Rod

8.Shake Ur Dix- this had a cool live breakdown/bridge

9.Lose You- beautiful song, she sounded great singing this live..i wasnt sure if she was gonna pull it of, she did!

10.More

11.Boys Wanna Be Her-this was fun, she talked about how cool Cali is except for prop 8. Then she brought a bunch of couple on stage and married them!

12.Talk to Me-single from the new album, its awesome..its rock n roll..she had these cousin IT things comes out and I swear one of them was Carmen Electra!! They wore these HUGE blond wigs that covered ther entire face and she was the only one who kept revealing her face..as if to say “hey..its me Carmen Electra..recognize me?” I could be wrong..but im no the only person who thought so. Cause I saw the show again the next day in the desert and the two ITs didnt show their faces.

13.BILLIONAIRE-some hate it, some love it…i LOVE it..and Shaunda K came out and did her part! Wonder whats up with her..at the desert show, she wasnt there and someone in the peaches camp was wearing a “free shaunda K” shirt..hmmm

14.Set it Off rock remix-this si where she demanded everyone take their shirts off..no one did..she said more people did that in…er..i forget…some random conservative town..haha

15.Kick It_one of my all time favorite peaches songs…gotta love Iggy Pop!

16.Momma Complex-she had this cool green lazer that i think was triggering MIDI, she seemed to be controlling music with it…or she was just making it look like it was the hi-tech.

17.F**K The Pain Away-one of the ones that started it all!

ENCORE

18.Lover titts

19.I feel Cream- awesome song, awesome performance..her hair cape wings and a giant fans blowing at her…very epic, well..for Peaches.

ENCORE 2

20.Tombstone

ENCORE 3 (yes THREE!)

21. Take U On

At the desert show, i was a bit too drunk to worry about keeping a track list..however it was a WAY shorter set and she let her backing band play two of their own songs in the middle of her set. They were great. The venue was amazing..IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT…literally…nothing around. Pappi & Harriets in Pioneertown. It was a BLAST, people were so cool and it was amazing to watch a show while surrounded by the desert mountains and underneath the open desert sky!

LA ROUX! She has been enjoying lots of success over seas and hasnt quite been able to break here, I mean not in a BIG way. I first heard her song In For The Kill a few months ago. I’ll be honest, my initial reaction was “what the hell is this crap?!” I felt it was someone trying to ride the wave of the GOOD 80’s influenced artists of today(ie: Ladyhawke). Then a very strange thing happened, I couldnt stop thinking about the song. Usually I was thinking about it in a negative way, trying to remind myself of all that I thought was wrong with it….BUT I was thinking about it a lot. I listened again, and again and again…now it’s one of my favorite songs of the moment. Her voice is shrill and takes some getting used to, it has an Imogen Heap like quality to it, just not nearly as inviting. However, on her other songs its not as shocking. I really LOVE the song Bulletproof and the video is quite amazing as well. So In For The Kill is available on US itunes as of yesterday and so is the Quicksand EP. I dig quicksand, but I suggest buying In For The Kill now, Youtube-ing the Bulletproof video a LOT and buying the album

Bulletproof Video

In For The Kill Video