Hot Tix

La Roux is coming to Chicago on 21Oct to Lincoln Hall.

Buy tickets here.

By the way, all of the shows that I'm going to are underlined on the column to the right. So.... you should come with me to stuff.

This weekend just keeps getting better.

La Roux mon La Roux

So I can't tell you how much I love this girl and this album. I think the CD laser is going to burn through it by the end of the month.

Not only is she beautiful, but her voice pierces my heart with femininity darts.

However, (there's a however?!), yes however I don't think she's matched up with the right production people. Already I've got 20 different remixes, with 10 just for Bulletproof, that different people have mixed. Her voice and lyrics are fantastic, but the current instrumentalism behind her is lacking. I can understand it's synthpop and I love that sort of sound, but sometimes it is just downright cheesy (Cover my Eyes, As if by Magic). After seeing the same thing for the video for 'I'm Not Your Toy', I almost feel that whoever is managing Elly is taking advantage of her talents.

Decent video:


Bad video:


Great Video:


AWESOME:


WAIT
According to La Roux's myspace, she's supposed to be playing at Schuba's on 21Oct. I don't see anything yet, but I will be there for sure if it's the case. Checking tomorrow.

UPDATE
I emailed the booking manager at Schuba's and he tells me that she's scheduled to play Schuba's new venue. It is occupying the space where the Three Penny Cinema on north Lincoln avenue used to take up. Excellence.

Whom to see Saturday edition

In true style of doing things at the last minute, here's the proposed course for Sat at Lollapalooza. Apologies for the lack of detail. Trust me on these though:

Miike Snow (1:30, Vitaminwater)

Miike Snow - Cult Logic <-- Winner

Santogold (5:30, Playstation)

LA Riots (6:30, Perry's)

Diplo (7pm, Perry's)

Major Lazer - Hold the Line

transitions well with (duh)...

The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird

Dick Dale - Miserlou (Pulp Fiction intro)

Yeah Yeah Yeah's (8:30 Bud) or get ready for afterparties

Afterparties.

I'm going to throw this out there too because it's too tight.

Holy Ghost! - I will come back (Classixx Version)

Oh hey non-paragraph form. Let's throw a Teddy III shot in here for good measure.



Oh La Roux, why did you cancel on Lolla?

La Roux - Quicksand (Beni's sinking at 1.56 mix)

Meine Liebe ist La Roux

La Roux - Quicksand (BENI's Sinking at 1.56 mix) <-- Blast right now

Let me tell about the things that I should probably keep to myself:

1. I want to fondle La Roux's hair but only if it snaps back to the proper new-wave-feather-to-the-side style.
2. I want to dance with La Roux to La Roux.
3. I want to make a comforter 35 acres in size with Elly Jackson's voice so I can wrap myself in a ball while I'm melting into bubbling pool of ecstasy.

And for those who haven't been don't pay attention:

La Roux - Tigerlily

Turns out that the guy doing the quasi-Thriller voice at the end of the song is actually Elly's father.

New resource

source

So I was checking out my analytics one day and I saw that I got a hit from wearehunted.com. What is it? Basically whereas traditionally charts rank their music according to record/mp3 sales, these guys blogcrawl and try and figure out what people have been talking about and they base their rankings on that. Interesting concept: instead of looking at the economic side of music, it takes into account what all the fanboys are saying. Anyway, it turns out that La Roux is up there and I'm part of the cause. She's great!

I've come to appreciate good vocals in music now. Not so much the content, but the delivery. This is in contrast to opera or other classical music where the goal is to achieve a sort of perfection therebywhich everyone starts sounding the same. Elly Jackson (La Roux), Hope Sandoval (of course), Stephen Merritt (The Magnetic Fields), Alison Moyet (Yazoo), Morrissey, and Laura Marling specifically on young love. There are more, but let's not advertise everybody just yet. You know if a voice is good when you can close your eyes, nod your head, and feel enchanted with goosebumps and want to go to their next book reading written in Italian or Portuguese with lots of vowels.

P.S. Just found a new blog whose last like 10 posts align perfectly with my tastes. Winner: offtheradarmusic.com

Like Sita Sings The Blues, that's all.

Unfair

-Jon-

Oh my. I've been so bad to you guys lately, selfishly keeping these to myself... listening to them almost everyday in the car without any consideration to how tight these are.

La Roux - Tigerlily (not the whole thing. Can't find it. Unfair!)

Kid Alex - Fame (Headman remix). Headman myspace. Indie/electro/pop/dance/yowza. No srsly, this guy is intense. He just did a podcast for Modular here. I'm listening to the myspace songs and I think it's time to go out. With you.

Kano - Another Life. Beginning taken into Discopolis. (mp3 later)

Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss a Beat (Cut Copy Mix) <-- Tres boss.

AAH! Get them all and start floor stomping. Not too much though. Apparently Mark Gertz of the DWD DJ's was doing a mix and it was just him and his gf and it was so good that he was stomping so hard he broke his foot. True story. My hair dude told me.

By the way

Here's something you should check out from a place that is pretty good in LA: Turntable Lab. I picked a bunch of stuff while I was there. Very happy.

In Flagranti LP from Kitsune... not bad.

Also from Kitsune, dig her:


La Roux

She's got sweet hair to match her voice. One person thinks that she's the 2009's Ladyhawke.


La Roux - Quicksand (Autokratz Drags to Riches Mix)

What a vertical post.