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October Show List

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(Arcade Fire @ the Shrine 10/8/10)

Great month of shows for you to choose from (FYI, green = recommended)
10/09/10
Culture Collide: White Lies & more @ EchoPlex
Klaxons @ The Troubador
Kaskade @ The Hollywood Palladium
Tom Tom Club @ The Getty Museum
Bassnectar @ The Wiltern

10/10/10

Dntel, The Long Lost, Ana Caravelle @ Bootleg Theater
Tom Tom Club @ EchoPlex
Filter’s Cutlure Collide Block Party w/ White Lies, Jenny & Johnny, Tokyo Police Club & more @ Reservoir Street
The Weepies @ the El Rey
10/11/10
Fran Healy, Carina Round @ Bardot
Teenage Fan Club, Radar Brothers @ the El Rey
Crayon Fields @ Soda Bar (San Diego)
10/12/10
Eels @ the Music Box
Remy Zero @ Spaceland
The 88 @ the Troubadour
Punch Brothers @ the El Rey
The Script @ Wiltern
10/13/10
Frightened Rabbit, Plants and Animals @ Mayan Theatre
Bettie Serveert @ Spaceland
James, Ed Harcourt @ the Music Box
Gogol Bordello @ Club Nokia
Matt Costa @ the Troubadour
The Corin Tucker Band @ the El Rey
10/14/10
Mike Snow, Mark Ronson & the Business Intl, MNDR @ Club Nokia
The Morning Benders, Twin Sister, Cults @ The Music Box
Shadow Shadow Shade @ EchoPlex
K-OS @ the El Rey
John West @ the Troubadour
Devin Townsend @ the Key Club
10/15/10
LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, Sleigh Bells @ Hollywood Bowl (see you there!)
Mike Snow @ the Wiltern
Four Tet @ the Music Box
David Bazan @ Spaceland
Tilt 3 Year Anniversary @ EchoPlex
Slant @ the Troubadour
10/16/10
DJ Quik @ the Key Club
Gaelic Storm @ the Troubadour
Negrita + @ the El Rey
The Legendary Pink Dot @ the Echo
Ron White @ the Wiltern
The National, Owen Pallett @ Pomona Fox Theater
10/17/10
Jonsi @ the Wiltern
Holy Fuck @ EchoPlex
Mountain Men @ Amoeba Music
T. Mills @ the Troubadour
The Spazmatics @ the Key Club
10/18/10
Foals @ the El Rey
Mumford & Sons @ the Hollywood Palladium
Griffin House @ the Troubadour
Steel Panther @ the Key Club
Jonsi @ the Pomona Fox Theater
10/19/10
Broken Social Scene @ the Wiltern
Superchunk, The Vaselines, Telekinesis @ the Music Box
Deer Tick @ the El Rey
Spencer Day @ the Troubadour
Interpol @ the Pomona Fox Theater
Ra Ra Riot @ the Glass House
Sleigh Bells @ Detroit Bar
10/20/10
Ra Ra Riot @ the Music Box
Envy @ the Troubadour
10/21/10
Slayer, Megadeath, Anthrax @ the Gibson
Born Ruffians @ the Troubadour
Four Year Strong @ the Glass House
10/22/10
Recoil @ the El Rey
Owen Pallett @ EchoPlex
Minus the Bear @ the Wiltern
Azure Ray @ the Troubadour
Electric Six @ the Key Club
The Temper Trap, Delphic, The Hundred in the Hands @ the Pomona Fox Theater
10/23/10
Interpol @ the Greek
The Temper Trap, Delphic, The Hundred in the Hands @ Club Nokia
Starfucker, The Octopus Project, Strength @ EchoPlex
Azure Ray @ the Glass House
Sufjan Stevens @ the Wiltern
10/24/10
Sufjan Stevens @ the Wiltern
Triptykon @ the El Rey
Spazmatics @ the Key Club
10/25/10
Boom Boom Satellites @ the Troubadour
Steel Panther @ the Key Club
10/26/10
Lights @ the El Rey
Seabear @ the Troubadour
Nevershoutnever @ the Wiltern
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros @ the Grove of Anaheim
10/27/10
Gorillaz, Little Dragon, N.E.R.D. @ the Gibson (see you there!)
10/28/10
Built to Spill, Revolt Revolt @ the El Rey
Fun., Steel Train @ the Music Box
All Hallows Eve @ Spaceland
Kate Nash @ the Music Box
Starfucker @ Detroit Bar
10/29/10
Kate Nash @ the Music Box
Moving Units @ the Troubadour
All Hallows Eve @ Spaceland
The Crayon Fields @ the Hotel Cafe
10/30/10
Of Montreal @ Hollywood Palladium
Ladytron (DJ Set) @ Supper Club LA
Potrugal. The Man @ the El Rey

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MAXIMUM O

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The new Karen O track (If You’re Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough from the Jackass 3D soundtrack. You can listen to this track here) has garnered quite a bit of attention on the blogosphere as of late. Lucky for Karen O fans there’s another new Karen O track that hit the airwaves recently and is just as deserving of the attention.

Technically, this isn’t a Karen O track. The track belongs to Maximum Balloon’s (TV on the Radio bandmember/producer Dave Sitek) recent self-titled release. The Karen O track is Communion and I really dig it. It has a very It’s Blitz! sound, and it should, especially considering Mr. Sitek was one of the albums producer’s. MIXTAPE MAESTRO (2.0) pretty much gives the best description of the track, so I’m not even going to try, but go ahead and listen to the track (below) and let me know what you think.
As a little bonus, i’m also including If You Return (ft. Little Dragon), another excellent Maximum Balloon track.
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ON THE ROAD: PASSION PIT

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OCTOBER

01 Albuquerque, NM – Santa Ana Star Center (w/ MUSE)
02 Denver, CO – Pepsi Center (w/ MUSE)
04 Des Moines, IA – Val Air Ballroom
05 Minneapolis, MN – Target Center (w/ MUSE)
06 Milwaukee, WI – Bradley Center (w/ MUSE)
08 Oklahoma City, OK – The Ford Center (w/ MUSE)
14 Durham, NH – Field Room (University of New Hampshire)
15 State College, PA – Penn State University
16 Philadelphia, PA – Liacouras Center (Temple University)
18 East Lansing, MI – MSU Auditorium
20 Champaign, IL – Assembly Hall (University of Illinois)
21 DeKalb, IL – Northern Illinois University
22 Nashville, TN – Vanderbilt University
23 Bloomington, IN – Assembly Hall (Indiana University)
29 Chapel Hill, NC – University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
30 Greensboro, NC – Greensboro Coliseum (University of North Carolina)


NOVEMBER
18 Buenos Aires, Argentina – Groove
20 Barra Funda, Brazil – Planeta Terra Festival
29 Vancouver, British Columbia – Vogue Theatre
30 Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre

DECEMBER
01 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
03 Santa Cruz, CA – Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
04 Pomona, CA – The Fox Theatre
05 San Diego, CA – Soma
07 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
09 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
11 Honolulu, Hi – Pipeline Cafe

Way back (Feb 2009), Passion Pit recorded a live studio session for the late WOXY (RIP). You can download the tracks for free here.


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UPDATE – ON THE ROAD: FRANKIE ROSE & THE OUTS

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Frankie Rose & the Outs are out and about in support of their self-titled debut album. The album is out September 20th and this marks the first solo outing for the always impressive Frankie Rose (Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts, & Dum Dum Girls). The tour kicks off tonight in Brooklyn and wraps up in Chicago on October 28th. See all the dates on the band’s myspace page

UPDATE: Paste Magazine recently interviewed Rose as part of the “Best of What’s Next” feature. Read the interview here
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pitchfork.tv

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We all know the odds of watching an actual music video on MTV are worse than Weezer ever making a decent album again, but I’ve been on a music video kick as of late and have been looking elsewhere to get my fix.

You’ll generally have luck searching youtube, vimeo, or even last.fm, but what i’ve been enjoying, most recently, is pitchfork.tv. They have a good selection of music videos, live shows, behind the scenes, making of, and so on.
If you’re need a music video fix, or even just bored, head on over to pitchfork.tv and kill some time.

Here are a couple of videos I like: