Last weekend, I went to a house party at Adria's and I met a bunch of people. One of the guys I met was actually friends with another guy that I knew that I didn't know knew Adria as well. The guy was having a "dance-off" with Gordy so it was pretty funny, and his name was Ben. Anyway, yesterday Adria called me up and I met her at this coffee shop in the U-District where this Ben guy was playing a mini show. From house party odd ball dancing to somewhat pop-folksy music... totally weird. He actually had a pretty good voice and he was entertaining. He also gave me a funny introduction as I walk in 2/3rd of the way into his gig. :)
Immediately following and an hour or two later, we went to see Ladytron and openers The Presets. I never heard of the Presets before but I thought they were really good (Adar thought so too). They reminded me of a mid-80's Depeche Mode, where it was new wave but borderline Industrial, or the early beginnings of it anyway. I was even more shocked to find that the band came from Australia, cause they have a very european sound to them (I was thinking Dutch actually).
Ladytron was dancey! We had somewhat of an odd view from the balcony and part of our view was cut off by the hanging speaker so I couldnt see their guitarist at all, and I think he did a fantastic job with the sound. The girls both sounded good, or borderline great, and their drummer is top notch. I'm typically not a girl-band fan, not that there's anything wrong with it -- it's just the ones I've seen haven't been very good (I have not seen Sleater-Kinney though). Ladytron is half/half, and they were good.
So what's with the rest of the title of this entry? The Bends is the CD that's been in my player non-stop the past few days. The 1995 sophomore release from Radiohead is just so, so, so full of bombastic rock and emotionally distraught Thom Yorke vocals, it's really a sound to hear. It's easily my favorite Radiohead album, though many would disagree.
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