The Bends

I've had a rebirth of my love for Radiohead........I haven't listened to anything else in 5 days now, so expect a lot more of these post. I was just searching some different videos of old performances and came across a couple of jewels. *Thom Yorke singing 'Be Mine' with R.E.M. *Michael Stipe singing 'Lucky' with Radiohead *Thom and Beck doing Velvet Underground's 'I'm Set Free'

The first video installment will be 'Planet Telex'

More From Festival 8

I found this video on Jambase today from Festival 8.....shows a little more than my pictures! Michael Marantz made this incredible video from still photographs.....about 50,000 of them.

Phish - Festival 8 from Michael Marantz on Vimeo.

She's Still Out To Get Me

I've been listening to The Kooks a lot lately. I really like their music....it's just enjoyable. One of my favorite songs of theirs is 'Naive.' This performance of the song at Abbey Road is really good. You can here an acoustic version here and Lily Allen also does a cover that I like. Check'em out...

Them Crooked Vultures

I hope your ready for this.....A new project has emerged consisting of Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, Alain Johannes, and wait for it.....The John Paul Jones!!! Apparently they have been working on this idea for a while and the album is finally here. Them Crooked Vultures started touring in 2009 with basically no promotion....however; they were selling out shows. They are now touring the west coast and then heading overseas. You can go here on Spinner and check out the album. Loving it so far....here's a teaser....

Have A Double With Me

I saw the Noisettes on Later with Jools Holland a few nights ago. Their performance was great and I really like their sound......british/indie/pop-ish. The lead singer Shingai Shoniwa has a very interesting voice (old/jazzy) that lends itself to the pop sound. You can check out an acoustic version of 'Wild Young Hearts' here. This is 'Never Forget You'....live...you can watch the official video here.....enjoy.

Lucky Ones Are We All.....Til It Is Over

Song of the week is 'Marry Song' from Band of Horses '07 release Cease to Begin.....freakin awesome album.....totally in love with them.

Back from Festival 8

These are some of the pics from the weekend.

Festival 8 was pretty incredible. As far as festival set-ups go, they had everything very well organized and in place. The scenery in the desert was beautiful. Everywhere I was the entire weekend was surrounded by mountains. It was a really good place for this event.

The highlight in the set design was the lighting. Everything was lit up at night, changing colors constantly....palm trees, artwork lining the field and even the vending tents. The theme for the installations on the site seemed to be 'fire.' All of the artwork was fire-related in some way. Instead of a typical bonfire.....they had this amazing metal sculpture that threw flames around on the inside (on the top) and actually was warm too.

The weather was spectacular.....although the acoustic set on Sunday was pretty hot, but well worth it. The acoustic set and the last set of the weekend were my favorites. You can view the set lists from all three days here.

I could go on and on about all the 'cool' stuff (some great costumes of course and I saw Greenman, which was enough for me) that was there and how amazing Phish sounded, but I guess you just really had to be there to experience the magic.....

This is a snip-it from the encore of the last set....