i stole them from your mother.

thanks to morgan i got fantastic seats for antony’s show with the portland symphony.
september 5th needs to hurry up and happen now.

antony in portland!

from the oregonian’s music blog, they should have asked me to write this. how do i get that job?

The Oregon Symphony is set to open PICA’s TBA festival in September in concert with Antony and the Johnsons.

A symphony spokesman said that the joint concert would open TBA in Schnitzer Hall.

Antony and the Johnsons are a NY group led by the Brit-born Antony Hegarty. Bjork often appears with the group. I mistakenly used the word “goth” to describe him, but I’ve been corrected.

Wikipedia says: “One theme explored in the band’s music is aspects of transgender life. This is expressed in songs such as ‘For Today I Am A Boy’, in which a young boy dreams of growing up to be a woman.”

“Antony’s unconventional voice evokes comparisons to singers like Aaron Neville and Nina Simone. He has many fans in the music industry, including Kate Bush, Björk, Philip Glass, Marc Almond, Kembra Pfahler and Laurie Anderson as well as Lou Reed, Devendra Banhart, Rufus Wainwright and Boy George, who are guest vocalists on ‘I Am a Bird Now’.”

i can’t believe my luck. i flew to new york last year for something like this and now it is happening right down the street! i was already planning on buying a pass to the tba festival, keight brought me to a few of the performances last year, and i enjoyed them all. i hope some of my friends from justonestar can make it out here for it. it was great seeing them in new york last year.

i’m overwhelmed with possible live music goodness.

it started last week when erykah badu annouced her tour, playing both seattle and vancouver bc (on june 5th and 6th). rachelle wants to go to both shows and i am always up for a roadtrip.

today radiohead announced the rest of their tour dates including vancouver bc (august 19) and auburn wa (august 20). of course, i must go to both those shows. as a bonus liars are opening the shows. this will be the first time i see radiohead and actually care about the opener.

add those to the shows i already plan on going to; colin meloy, clinic, m.i.a., cut copy (for morgan) and several yellow swans shows, and 2008 is already turning out to be a banner year for live music.

now i just need antony and the johnsons to tour.

the only bone that shows.

baby dee was someone i had to aquire a taste for. she is definably in the same family as antony, in fact she was one of the original johnsons. for some reason though she didn’t click with me right away, but i kept trying. i really wanted to like her, everyone over at justonestar (the antony forum i frequent) loves her, and i like to belong. after i while i started to get it, she finally sneaked her way into my musical subconscious. she stopped sounding like a singing frog and i understood the beauty that was there all along. i went through a very similar process with devendra banhart.

according to wikipedia this is her sixth album, and her debut on a somewhat major label. it is only the third album of hers that i have heard though, and by far this is the most accessible. safe inside the day is a complete success as an album, brilliantly written and produced. i have to give andrew w.k. some credit for his production work. the songs themselves are wonderful, it would be hard to choose a favorite, i have had all of them stuck in my head for a week now. this is a hard review for me to write because i feel like i don’t fully grasp the ideas of most of the songs yet. this is one of those albums that clicked right away, it just may take me some time to fully digest it.

this should have also been a review of her show at the doug fir, but i was too sick to attend. now after spending some time with this album, i am even more upset.

between the new erykah badu and this album it has been a fine week for the ladies on my ipod.

these videos really don’t do her justice.

“fresh out of candles”

some older material. “look what the wind blew in” and “small wonder”

the stars can only get brighter.

recently the antony obsessed world i live in ( www.justonestar.com ) was crushed by the news that antony & the johnsons new album’s release date was being pushed from spring to fall. thankfully antony likes to guest on other artists albums. last year alone he was on albums by bjork, linda thomson, michael cashmore, marc almond, and yoko ono. next month the much blogged about hercules and love affair release their debut album containing five songs featuring antony’s unique voice. the first single “blind” is one of them. since i seem to be going through a disco phase right now, i love this song. sadly this video is lacking any actual antony.