The Chances released their first music video, for the song “No Escape.”
Watch below:
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Highlights of last night’s Holly Miranda show at LA’s Bootleg Theatre were “Waves,” “I’d Rather Go Blind,” “Every Time I Go To Sleep,” and “Slow Burn Treason.”
Photos & video by After The Show:
“Using Music to Learn Vocabulary” (read part 1 here) is back with a second installment.
1. Jackalope: “We’re All Stuck Out In the Desert” by Johnathan Rice
A jackalope is a mythical animal of North American folklore described as a jackrabbit with antelope horns or deer antlers and sometimes a pheasant’s tail (and often hind legs).
2. Polystyrene: “Something Borrowed, Something Blue” by Ben Lee
Polystyrene is a rigid clear thermoplastic polymer that can be molded into objects or made into a foam that is used to insulate refrigerators.
3. Carpetbagger: “Carpetbaggers” by Jenny Lewis
A carpetbagger refers to a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction & refers to a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
4. Aztlán: “New Yorker Cartoon” by Jenny and Johnny
Aztlán refers to the mythical ancestral home of the Nahuas, one of the main populations in Mesoamerica.
5. Tucker Telephone: “I Don’t Mind” by Phantom Planet
Tucker Telephone refers to a torture device used at Arkansas’ Tucker State Prison Farm in the 1960s. The device, designed using parts from an old-fashioned crank telephone and batteries, administered electric shocks.
Here is a list of good songs about “limbs” — hands, feet, arms, legs, etc:
“Sleight of Hand” by Army Navy
“Out of My Hands” by The Donnas
“Hand in Hand” by Hanson
“Hand of God” by Jason Boesel
“Soft Hands” by Michael Runion
“Thieves and Their Hands” by Rachael Cantu
“Sun Feet” by Eisley
“Got My Feet on the Ground” by The Kinks
“The Finger and the Moon” by Ben Lee
“You’ll Need Those Fingers For Crossing” by Los Campesinos!
“Weary Arms” by Crooked Fingers
“With Arms Outstretched” by Rilo Kiley
“Your Legs Grow” by Nada Surf
Song of the Day is “Divorce Song” by Liz Phair:
The Elected (Blake Sennett) played at New York’s Mercury Lounge on Tuesday, May 24, 2011.
The band opened the show with a cover of “You Got Lucky” by Tom Petty going into The Elected’s song “Not Going Home”:
Highlights of the show included “Greetings in Braille,” an acoustic version of “Time is Coming” to end the show, and “Babyface” (see video clip below):
The best part of the concert was when Blake played a snippet of his Rilo Kiley song “August”:
Photos below taken by After The Show:
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