THE CANON LOGIC

Most of us saw these guys at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, our off night, from tour. It was without a doubt the best show that I have seen since Radiohead at Bonnaroo. I lucked out, my brother and I had the crappiest seats in the entire place, perhaps there were 30 people who had worst seats, and because of this it forced us to sneak down to the lower level and walk around. After roaming for the first Arcade Fire song we found two open seats and since the owners of the seats never came back we ended up with sick seats for the entire show. Classic example of turning a wrong in to a right.

Genius as they are, Arcade Fire decided to stream the entire second show on Youtube the following night and there are clips from it here.

These guys are on top of the world right now, it blows my mind how intense their show was, like they were literally untouchable. If you haven’t heard it yet, their new album The Suburbs is quite amazing and I think it sells on amazon for only $3.99.

We also do a cover of their song “Tunnels,” you can find a few versions on youtube.

Come check us out in Washington DC at DC9 (18+) this tuesday!

Good friend and super star violinist Marques Toliver ( playing my Accordion in our apartment on the left) has been making  killer headway with recent success in London and NYC. He was playing with Holly Miranda, former member of the Jealous Girlfriends (who we used to play with in Philly), and her band for a while but is now working on his own solo career and traveling back and forth between London and NYC to record and play various gigs. A recent review of Holly Miranda’s newest album can be seen at NME where there is a video, embedded below, of Holly and Marques playing a take away show with acclaimed filmmaker Vincent Moon . If you have ever seen the video of Arcade Fire playing in an elevator, that was all Vincent Moon and can be seen here . Also, if that is not enough, yours truly was also in one of Vincent Moon’s take away shows, featuring Noah & the Whale and can be seen here. I come in around 1:10. Marques and Holly video below:

Win Butler is a cool dude.

Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #1 – (Tunnels)
Everything these guys write is great, and they just signed on to write the score to the new Spike Jonze flick ‘Where the Wild Things Are”.