Monday 24 August 2009

Kurt Vile on tour, Castle a really bad show


I really like this Kurt Vile & the Violators song that Radio K is playing. It's off something called The Hunchback EP, but damn it, the tracks on dude's MySpace page sound nothing like that. How mysterious! Luckily, I found a blog called Sound on Sound that not only has a nice lil' write-up of the title track, but also has--oooooh--an MP3!!! According to Wikipedia, Kurt Vile has been compared to Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, and Tom Petty." Yes, because as we all know, Tom Petty's classic "Mary Jane's Last Dance" is, in reality, about a beautiful woman with an abnormal convex curvature of the upper spine. It's true!


Kurt Vile is, apart from the Violators, (which a very superficial scan of the internetz told me is his "rock'n'roll band" or something) a member of indie favorite War on Drugs.

(Sorry this is not a very "funny" week for me, everyone. My roommate has intriguingly bad cop drama Castle on in the background and its badness is really distracting. The female lead keeps calling him "Castle." As in "Did you look at those reports, Castle? Now, I agree with you, Castle, but you know, Castle, that the DA thinks you're a loose cannon. And Castle, you know, sometimes, I do, too." It's like that.)


08.25.09 - Santa Ana, CA - Galaxy Theature #%
08.26.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubador % !
08.27.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex
08.28.09 - Santa Barbara, CA - Muddy Waters %
08.29.09 - Big Sur, CA - Big Sur (Mexican Summer/Folk Yeah fest)
08.30.09 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill % !
09.01.09 - Portland, OR - Berbati’s Pan %!
09.02.09 - Eugene, OR - Basement 1287 ^
09.03.09 - San Francisco, CA - House Party ^
09.04.09 - Sacramento, CA - TBA ^
09.05.09 - Los Angeles, CA - FYF Fest ^
10.02.09 - Philadelphia, PA - AKA Music
10.03.09 - Philadelphia, PA - Kungfu Necktie
10.07.09 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
10.08.09 - Poughkeepsie, NY - Vassar College
10.11.09 - Lexington, KY - Al’s Bar (WFRL’s Boomslang After Show)
10.12.09 - Bloomington, IN - Video Saloon
10.13.09 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
10.14.09 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
10.17.09 - Seattle, WA - High Dive &
10.18.09 - Portland, OR - Holocene ^ &
10.21.09 - San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern
10.22.09 - Santa Cruz, CA - Crepe Place
10.23.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland
10.25.09 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
10.27.09 - Tempe, AZ - Modified Arts
10.29.09 - Lubbock, TX - Bash Riprocks
10.30.09 - Austin, TX - Mohawk
10.31.09 - Dallas, TX -Lounge on Elm Street
11.02.09 - Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone *
11.03.09 - Atlanta, GA - 529 *
11.05.09 - Washington DC - Black Cat

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