Friday night. Summer "break" (grad students do not have breaks). 2:30 am after watching the amazing Manchurian Candidate (the old version with Sinatra and Angela Lansbury). I realized I needed 5 tracks to reach the song # 20,000 in Last.FM . I consider it an accomplishment given the limited amount of time I have to listen to music. Well … I decided it needed to be The Libertines - Don't Look Back Into The Sun. I left most of my 90's music in Chile (namely, Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Suede, Supergrass, Manics, Charlatans, which are my favorite bands ever) therefore it…

Sun 18 Feb – Deerhoof, Busdriver, Harlem Shakes

I first heard of Deerhoof thanks to Audiogalaxy while living in Chile some years ago. I guess it was by the time they released Milk Man or maybe the one before(don't remember the name now). What I do remember clearly is how that tiny and playful voice grabbed my attention inmediately. Some years passed and I lost their track until The Runners Four, their most (accessible) pop album definitely. O'Malley Former Underdog, Spirit Ditties Of No Tone, Twin Killers, Siriustar had a secured slot on my Ipod playlists for…

Thu 25 Jan – The Rapture

One of the bands I listened a lot last year was The Rapture and regardless of what the critics said about Pieces Of The People We Love I loved the album, always being played in my Ipod while walking to campus.
Certainly Echoes was the album that got me into The Rapture with killer tracks like Heaven (the track they chose to open the gig), I Need Your Love, Echoes, Sister Saviour and obviously House Of Jealous Lovers (all of them played in the gig). However, one of the highlights of the night was…

Thu 1 Feb – Yo La Tengo

When I was working in Chile around 4 years ago, one of my colleagues (Raul) was talking about how amazing was the first time he saw live Yo La Tengo in Hoboken while he was living in NYC. I could not help but feeling a little jealous thinking in how fortunate he had been and at the same time thinking in when I could see them live (at that point coming to the States was not in my plans). Well, and I did see them live on February 1 2007 and it was…