My Brightest Diamond Visits Other Music

Enjoy Sunday night's performance of 'Golden Star' below. MP3 at bottom of post.


MP3: My Brightest Diamond - Inside A Boy

Eat Pizza, Enjoy Clinic's Visitations

Via The Trip Wire: If you live in the NYC area, like to eat pizza and would enjoy checking out the brand new album from Clinic, you are in luck! Domino Records has teamed up with the indie record shop Other Music to host a listening party for Visitations, Clinic's latest studio album. They will also be previewing the new albums by The Shins and Menomena. How can you go wrong with free pizza and soda along with great music? The listening party takes place on Tuesday, January 18 from 6 to 9pm at Other Music.

Vistations will hit stores on January 23 as a deluxe hardbound edition. Domino is still offering up a free MP3 of the single "Harvest," so snag that one while you can. Don't forget that Clinic is coming to the US in March.

The NYC date, once again, is 3/9 (same night as Antony @ BAM, grrr!) @ The Gramercy.

MP3: Clinic - If You Could Read Your Mind

Grandaddy @ Other Music, Final NY Show

Well, Jason from Grandaddy, at least.

Other Music was packed to the brim last night for a special intimate acoustic set from Grandpa himself.

Jason stormed through a 35-minute set which featured mostly Fambly tracks. "Summer..It's Gone" and "Disconnecty" (yousendit) sounded fantastic, but it was the show-closing "The Group Who Couldn't Say" which got everybody ooh-ing. Perhaps an appropriate finale.

Throughout the set, the crowd was extremely well-behaved and Jason was so very humble. Also of note, out of the 75 people or so jam packed into the record shop, i would say about 70 of them were guys! Do women really hate Grandaddy that much? I know Jen does and a few other female friends of mine completely dislike the band.

Interesting.

The only other time I saw a ratio of men to women that skewed was when I saw Spritiualized in Philly. My friend Megan was literally the only girl in a room that held 1000+ people. Not kidding! Odd.

Regardless of who was at the show, it was sad that it was the last one we'll ever see.

Grandaddy, you will be missed.