concert hunting..

i have been looking at summer line-ups and feeling at a loss. i have very few tickets right now, it makes me antsy. i wonder if i am starting to get that jaded New York City been there done that attitude...sigh. Here are some of the shows that are getting me excited, stirring my soul, large groups of my friends will be in attendence at or i am vaguely interested in AND LOOKING FOR CONCERT GOING BUDDIES PRONTO.

5/16 Peaches at Terminal 7 (with half of the world and my sister)
5/20 St. Vincent at Webster Hall (have tickets)
5/29 or (6/27 @Bowery)Au Revior Simone at Music Hall of Williamsburg (i don't have tickets, but really want to go to one, who's down?)
[its the same night as Grizzly Bear, so its not sold out, because the hipsters will be elsewhere hah]
6/1-6/3 Art Brut at Merc Lounge, isn't sold out yet...(no tix yet, and how i love the brits)
6/12 School of Seven Bells at Bowery
6/13 Asobi Seksu at Music Hall of Williamsburg
6/17 Metric at Terminal 7
6/24 Camera Obscura at Webster hall(have tix,going with a friend)
6/26 Blonde Redhead at Prospect Park
7/4 Conor Oberst & Jenny Lewis (free show, i think i am so there this year)
7/8 Juana Molina at SummerStage
7/10 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart at the Seaport
7/12 DJ Lance Rock&Brobee (from YO GABBA GABBA! eeek) at SummerStage
8/1 M. Ward at SummerStage
8/7 The Wave Picture, Casiokids, Slow Club at the Seaport
8/13 Friendly Fires at Music Hall
9/28 or 9/29 FEVER RAY at Webster (HOLY COW BATMAN, if this is ANYTHING like the Knife show, EEK)



I think that is the lot. Any one have anything that is MORE EXCITING to add that i haven't found yet?
[i am contemplating All Points West, but festival shows don't do it for me like intimate small shows do now..sigh]

you're a liar and thats the truth

An Actor Out of Work- St. Vincent
from Annie Clark's new sophomoric album Actor
due out tomorrow, may 5th
its seems like such a rush after her 2007 first solo album, Marry Me, that i was absolutely obsessed with only last summer, but that album was a bit of a sleeper hit.
if you are in Austin tomorrow, go to the listening party with Camera Obscura @the Mohawk, i bet it will be major
this video is from the sxsw sessions from npr, i like it more than the refined video. i like her raw, her voice is so pure and sugar sweet and mixed with those groovy guitar rifts...you know i am sucker for that with a sprinkle of whimsically back beats. i have also heard The Strangers from the album...its great too [paint the black hole, blacker...] this is a delightful, light, not too in your face, but highly enjoyable album to start the summer's slew of indie hits.

i think i love you, i think i am mad
www.ilovestvincent.com

***UPDATE 5/9 Last night at the Bjork/Dirty Projectors show, I had the pleasure of meeting Annie. She was so sweet, she enjoyed the show as much as I. She was so cute and pretty. I definitely will be checking out her show at Webster hall on May 20, tickets aren't sold out yet, PLEASE JOIN ME!