I'm Designer

Queens of the Stone Age are playing the Wamu Theatre at Madison Square Garden on October 13 (this post has nothing to do with Dave, but solid picture right?) and I will definitely be attending, occupying the GA pit of course. Get your tickets here, on sale to the general public on September 8th. I already have mine.

Obligatory Dave Post:

For some reason I never get tired of hearing Dave Grohl scream. I'm also going to commend the Arcade Fire cover, though it sounded like he didn't do anything different with it, I don't know if a metal 'Keep the Car Running' would have necessarily worked.

Any new music from the Foo Fighters is always welcome though, and honestly I think Dave Grohl has entered near untouchable status, 1) because of the obvious Kurt connection 2) enough material to justify his place in rock 3) going drummer to frontman/guitarist 4) because he's fucking Dave Grohl.

Rock on.

Foo Fighters - The Pretender
Foo Fighters - Keep the Car Running (Arcade Fire cover)

I'm Nighttiming, Baby

So I got a copy of Jason Schwartzman's new solo project, Coconut Records, and it is pretty outstanding. I've been semi-anticipating this since I heard his track "West Coast" when it premiered on one of the final episodes of the OC and the only way I could continually listen to it was to download a pirated copy of the audio of that episode, so I was listening to the song with the voices of Taylor and Ryan talking intermittently---which I kind of miss now when I listen to the track. I didn't think he would be able to build an entire album around that one song, and honestly he did some stretching on some tracks.

But overall, it's a neat little album, and I'll probably play it more than I did Phantom Planet (where Schwartzman used to drum before Rushmore fame.)

The title track 'Nighttiming' is incredibly catchy and I can sense an addiction forming.

Here are the two aforementioned tracks:
West Coast
Nighttiming
But definitely check out his MySpace.

Listen to These Now

Another fresh installment, I personally recommend the Arctic Monkeys track, but then again, I fucking love the Arctic Monkeys so I'll always recommend their songs. The Coral are opening for them at the upcoming Central Park show, which should definitely be one not to miss.

The Coral - Who's Gonna Find Me
Arctic Monkeys - The Bakery
Daft Punk - Robot Rock
Interpol - No I in Threesome
TV on the Radio - Blues from Down Here

Die, All right!

Tickets are on sale for The Hives at Webster Hall on October 9th.

I got my two. Did you get yours? I'd get on it, you don't want to miss a chance to Howlin' Pelle.

Refresh your memory:
The Hives - B is for Brutus
The Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So