Last week I went to two concerts in a row, the first on Wednesday to see Big Head Todd and the Monsters, and the second was Vampire Weekend on Valentine's Day. These concerts were a welcome relief after a lot of shows I was interested in seeing were cancelled, postponed, or bypassed Columbus (Marah, Indigo Girls and Super Furry Animals).
As one of the other concert-goers said at the start of the BHTatM show, "Welcome to 1993!" The only album of theirs I have and know is Sister Sweetly, from that year. Although I encountered it much later, on a camping trip during my sophomore year of college. For a six hour van trip, it was the only cassette tape we had to listen to. This album had the song "Bittersweet" on it, and they played it midway through the concert. There is something in the simple definition of bittersweet that I find so terribly worse than misery, and I sat there crying in the audience. I left soon afterwards. Anyway, BHTatM really impressed me; did you knotheir websitew that were commissioned to write a song for NASAs astronauts? and that you can download their newest album for free from their website?
Standing in opposition to BHTatM, Vampire Weekend is the newest, hottest thing in alternative rock- their first, eponymous, album is less than a month old. Lots has been written about them, by far better music bloggers out there, so just give them a listen, on World Cafe for instance. Even Neil Gaiman appreciates their 'punctuation song' "Oxford Comma".
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