I will not be getting a good night sleep until the first half of November is over!

Three really special shows within days of one another:
Emma Pollock – Nov 8th at Crocodile Cafe
Scout Niblett – Nov 10th at Sunset Tavern
Celebration – Nov 13th at Crocodile Cafe

I can’t decide which show I am most excited about as all three of these artists have released some of this year’s best albums.

Emma Pollock’s Watch the Fireworks is just what music needs: good, intelligent pop with simple harmonies. I believe she has a full backing band but I wouldn’t mind if it was just her and a guitar.

Hearing and seeing Scout Niblett perform is so unique and hair-raising. Scout and her blazing guitar/vocals will give you goose bumps. I think it will be interesting to see how the duets from This Fool Can Die Now (isn’t that is the funniest title and cover ?!?!) will translate live. If she comes to your town, go see her!

The grand finale is Celebration on the 13th! The first time Celebration played in Seattle, Katrina was in the audience and we got to talking about 4AD, Baltimore, TVOTR & graphic design. She is really very sweet even if she seems like a banshee on stage! If you are anywhere near the place that Celebration are playing, do EVERYTHING you can to go. Katrina Ford is one of the best live performers to ever exist. Go see them!

post josh by Seattle Street Team

(Photo of Josh’s work in action at Everyday Music, Seattle)

Our friends at Lost At E Minor posted this nice recommendation by Tegan, of Tegan and Sara on THE NATIONAL and how amazingly awesome they are. It’s true!

Lucky Chicago!  You get three chances to catch Film School this week!

Film School will play an instore performance on November 1st in Chicago in addition their two shows at Schubas (10/31 & 11/1) at the Broadway location of Reckless Records!!!

Film School
Thursday, November 1st at 7:30pm
Reckless Records
3161 N. Broadway
Chicago, IL 60657

Shubas

Wednesday 10/31 and Thursday 11/1

Sigur Rós played an acoustic set at their UK premiere of Heima at the BBC’s Electric Proms 2007 – we assume electric proms has nothing to do with high schoolers getting drunk and doing acid.

Watch it (and see photos) on the BBC website.

While we are unable to confirm nor deny what this recently discovered South Williamsburg graffiti asserts, I do know, that mere seconds after this photo was snapped my two-year old son refused to get into his car seat and caused a real stir in the hood complete with blood-curdling screams and kicking.

Coincidently, he paid $9.99 for his digital version of In Rainbows and plans to buy the $80 version as well.

1. Bela Lugosi’s Dead by Bauhaus
from Crackle (Buy Here)
Sure, it’s the obvious pick, but if we didn’t start here, you’d just be wondering where it is for the rest of the list.  Probably the consensus choice for Halloween anthem in the 40+ years since "The Monster Mash," Bauhaus’s classic has been used and abused by everyone looking to add a little menace to their October for more than a generation.  And it still holds up!  The best film use so far: soundtracking the kinky murder/sex clubbing of goth vampires David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve in Tony Scott’s 1983 film "The Hunger."

I know this is sort of old news, but I was just thinking last night about how amazing this is going to be and how I wish I was friends with Anthony Bourdain so I could have been invited.

Thanksgiving will never be the same again.

As the climactic end to our CMJ week, we threw down at Home Sweet Home on Friday night.  It was – in the words of Bernie Casey in Revenge Of The Nerds – "some good shit".  Simon from iLiKETRAiNS hopped on the 1s and 2s early-style while Ramesh showed up at about 3am to take us home.   Totally worth the outrageous bar tab that Matt ran up.  (shhhhh…don’t tell LB)

Rainy days in New York always get me down a bit, but thinking back to happy times help get me out of the funk.  Like thinking about to this year’s Beggars Marketing Department Summer Retreat.

This was taken right after a killer game of kickball.

David Bergander, of CELEBRATION fame, is QUITE the man about town these days. He got some nice attention in the New York Times during CMJ, and now he did a blog entry for the folks at Modern Drummer!

It’s here for your enjoyment too:

Greetings! I’m David Bergander of the band Celebration. We’re very excited that our second album, The Modern Tribe, is out now on 4AD. We’ve learned many things creating this record, the most important being, follow your heart, trust your gut, and free your mind.

Thanks for reading, and if you wish to see what Celebration is about or find out if we’re playing near you….www.myspace.com/celebrationcelebration.