SXSW Day Party!! NY2LA via Myspace bulletin from Voxtrot.

NY2LON at SXSW 2006
Saturday March 18th 200612-6pm
The Velvet Spade912 Red River Street

featuring Voxtrot, Editors, Two Gallants, The Rakes, The Morning After Girls, The Kooks, Tapes N Tapes, Boy Kill Boy, The Heights and special guest The Charlatans. It is a private party so SXSW badges will not be honored but there are spots being held for fans. RSVPs will be honored in the order they are received and you will receive a confirmation if you made it the week of March 13th.

RSVP at www.ny2lon.com

- I already RSVP'D or whatever. I hope I get in , but if I can't does anyone have any connections???

Here's a couple of songs from the bands playing.

MP3 ::: Voxtrot - The start of something

MP3 ::: Tapes N Tapes - Cowbell

God I miss the Unicorns

"Islands is a musical band formed in Canada in early 2005, featuring Nick Diamonds (Nicholas Thorburn) on vocals, J'aime Tambeur (Jamie Thompson) on drums, Patrice Agbokou on bass, and at least temporarily, Jim Guthrie on guitar. Islands is a band that is always in flux, with membership changing when appropriate. Most recently two string players, Alex Chow and Sebastian Chow, and a bass clarinetist, Patrick Gregoire, joined the band." - taken from Wikipedia.

My buddy told me about Islands recently , an offshoot of indie favorites the Unicorns. The band keeps it very lighthearted , and poppy for most of the album Return to Sea. All in all its a solid debut but the standout though has to be the track Rough Gem. A song about mining for Diamonds in Africa, or being a diamond, or how people just want everything fast and perfect. It has flutes, it sounds like the long lost theme song for SpongeBob Squarepants if only Spongebob was in fact a diamond. Anyway, Im definitely adding this group to my list of bands to see at SXSW.

MP3|| The Unicorns - Rough Gem from Return to Sea.


Random Play

MP3|| Ted Leo and the Rx - Shake the Sheets

MP3|| Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel the Illinoise!

Mp3|| Panic at the Disco! - Time to Dance

Nicole Richie SINGS "Dandelion"

So, here's a first post for all of you.

Nicole Ritchie. Isnt this just the perfect role model for young little girls in the USA nowdays? Eat nothing, be famous! Well it seems like Ms. Ritchie is trying to launching a singing career now. Strike while the iron is hot , right?

In the next few weeks/months/years this blog will serve as a constantly updating menu of mp3 selections of bands/artists you might have heard, you have not heard of , have always wanted to hear, or will hear a lot of very soon.
This is America is Burning.