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Download “Sleepyhead” | Passion Pit’s debut EP Chunk of Change only comes out on September 16 (on Frenchkiss records, nonetheless), but I’ve already blown my head to useless bits by over-listening to “Sleepyhead”. I know little about the cute guy in red shirt, but I’ll have learnt more when I see them as a five-piece during a Pianos residency on the 13th, 20th and 27th of August. And if you’ve ever been to the old market in Bahrain, the land of golden smiles, you’ll understand why it’s kind of exciting that band member Ayad Al Adhamy hails from that strange land, at least partly.
“Listen to tonight’s bands” will return tomorrow, maybe.
God knows these morning television shows are easy recipes for cringe-worthy entertainment, but I’m being told that the usual mix of mainly tourists and some local fans who show up at such events was largely replaced by a mass of loyal Feist fans (the first three showed up at 4:30 AM), who bothered little to follow cue cards asking for cheers and applause, and offered their fan-ly services only when Leslie Feist herself showed up with her band. Kashish, who took the photos, suggests that tourists and families may have opted for the Miley Cyrus show at Rockefellar Plaza for the Today Show on NBC instead. Also, two girls participated in a singing contest and the one in yellow (pictures after the jump) won for her rendition of “1, 2, 3, 4″. It’s very possible that the ladies in the wigs were the prizes.
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If it weren’t for people’s obsession with the process of music, there would be no air guitar tournaments, and years spent fantasizing yourself performing some of your favorite songs would vanish. Some people don’t care to watch the bands on stage as long as they can listen, but for others, the slight movement of hands, the swing of the arms, and the expression of faces that manufacture bits of sound that converge to form music makes a whole lot of a difference (though music videos seem to do the opposite, often distracting you from the music). And sometimes, a song you hadn’t specially cared for finally claims your attention when casually hummed by a friend.
The perfection that is sought for in a studio recording and at a live performance, though to a lesser degree in the latter, often pushes the process to an invisible terrain, in varying degrees. Unfortunately, these processes are allowed to surface only in private moments, barred from the audience. Some of La Blogotheque’s Take Away shows are so fabulous because they’re extremely successful in bringing said process to the forefront (which I find the Black Cab Sessions to do less of), and I believe Vincent Moon’s crew does it unknowingly. Though our videos will be no match to either, it’s this process we’re chasing after, knowingly. For our first baby steps, we are graced by the lovely Sharon van Etten.
MySpace has deleted the pictures (covers) of two of our works (our first demo “Addicted to Cannibalism” and our album “Ecstasy in Pain”) because they contained “offensive material”! LOL
We will post external links to these pictures so that if someone wishes he can see them! (It’s not offensive for everyone in this world, there are people who love this music)!”
