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Northeast
Friday
Mute Math / As Tall As Lions - Nokia Theare @ Times Square
Goodie Mob / Scarface - Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC
Art Brut / Surfer Blood - Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn
PEACHES / Amanda Blank - Theatre of Living Arts, Philly
Saturday
Medeski, Martin, & Wood - Nokia Theatre @ Times Square
Minus the Bear / As Tall As Lions - The Note, West Chester PA
Sunday
Band of Skulls - Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - First Unitarian Church, Philly (!!!)
Mountain
Sunday
Ozomatli - Belly Up, Aspen
Imogen Heap - Boulder Theater, Boulder
Monday
THE PIXIES - The Fillmore, Denver
Wolfmother/Heartless Bastards - The Ogden, Denver
It's true. I'll be the first to admit that I expected the soundtrack to the upcoming Twilight: New Moon movie to be terrible. Sure, the films director lined up some big names, but I thought the tracks would sound forced and, you know, vampire-y.
But the indie pop collective actually shines, for the most part. Death Cab for Cutie's "Meet Me at the Equinox" opens, and is less annoying than usual. Radiohead's twitch-genius Thom Yorke gets in on the fun with "Hearing Damage", a fuzz beat laden pendulum of a track not safe for driving late at night. The St. Vincent/Bon Iver collaboration "Roslyn" is a keeper, with both artists sticking to what they know. The haunting Lykke Li ("Possibility") and Sea Wolf ("The Violet Hour") have solid contributions, but the standouts are London's Band of Skulls (above), whose "Friends" is the soundtrack's clear-cut best, and Anya Marina's(below) "Satellite Heart". The former is a simple, riff-heavy straight jab that gets it rebelliousness across w
ithout overdoing it, and gets the cocktail of love and confusion measured out just right. Marina's "Heart" is as gushing as Bella Swan's in those awful yet-bestselling books, but it is also unmistakeably elegant. I'm new to her music, but its immediately evident that her reeling voice could lead to bitemarks in the future.
