mad dog in the fog

I saw two of my favorite artists – Glen Phillips and Grant Lee Phillips – last night at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley last night.  Both performances were great.  They played a couple of songs together:

• Solar Flare
• Fountain of Youth

photo by Flickered! (complete set)

I finally got a chance to see Radiohead live at the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival on Friday. This was one of the best live shows that I’ve ever seen despite some audio problems.

Here are some video highlights. My camera was pretty shaky but the audio quality isn’t too bad.

Radiohead Plays Outside Lands Festival from Michael Doeff on Vimeo.

…and here’s an Imeem playlist that I built containing all of the songs from their Outside Lands set in the order that they were played.

I’m loving this new track by Nada Surf. Their new album “Lucky” will be released in February. You can stream the entire album on their MySpace page.

Covering New Order / Ceremony

Covering The Smiths / The Headmaster Ritual

I’ve been playing New Pornographers / Challengers on repeat for the past few days.

The National performed on Letterman the other night…

One of my favorite gadget purchases of the past couple of years has been Sonos. It’s a great way to stream music throughout your house. The source of the music can be mp3’s, music subscription services such as Rhapsody, internet radio, even line-in sources such as an iPod. You can set up multiple “zones” in the house either playing different music or synched up to play the same music. One of the most requested features on the Sonos forums has been integration with Pandora. They added that a few weeks ago and it works great. Here’s an interview / demo with Sonos CEO John McFarlane from ScobleShow.



Here’s a photo of my Sonos controller running Pandora.

I saw The Police play at McAfee Coliseum (Oakland, CA) last night. The highlight of the show for me was ‘So Lonely’. Here’s a video of their performance of that song from last week’s Seattle show.

I saw this performance of “Wolf Like Me” by TV On The Radio on Kimmel a couple of weeks ago and I’ve had it in heavy rotation ever since.

I’m pretty late discovering this band with the weird name. I heard about them on Twitter last week (yes, I know – yet another use for Twitter) and I’ve had the album in heavy rotation ever since. Here’s a track called “Quiet As A Mouse” from their 2006 album “The Dust of the Retreat“.