First and foremost on my mind today is the trade of Jay Cutler to the Bears. This will surely prove to cause me and my beloved Packers much pain this season, perhaps as early as this evening since I'm guessing the news isn't going to go well with the coconut shrimp and couscous w/tikka masala that I'm currently enjoying from the dinner table/office. A few bottles of the champagne of beers will be necessary to calm the stomach.
And since It doesn't appear that the Packers are going to do anything dramatic during the offseason, here's hoping for a good draft.
I've got a few days off in May before Memorial Day weekend and lucky for me the Brooklyn three-piece School of Seven Bells will be dropping by Madison on Thursday, May 21 for a show at the Hign Noon Saloon. I've been enjoying what I've heard from SVIIB on WOXY.com, my 8am-5pm musical hangout, and now I can look forward to the show.
School of Seven Bells (via the band's myspace)
School of Seven Bells' Ghostly International full-length debut, Alpinisms, has received critical acclaim across the globe. The band was recently featured in SPIN, and in a recent Rolling Stone cover story on U2, The Edge sites School of Seven Bells' sound as an influence on No Line On The Horizon's droning tribal side. The New York Times called the Bells, "a promising blend of the psychedelic and the futuristic," David Fricke at Rolling Stone said, "the effect is warm goth - New Order with more eros," and PItchfork Media called it, "a reverberating march of twinkling effects, glitchy Bjorkian rhythms, and insistently echoed drones of womanly harmonies."
They'll be joined for most of the tour dates (including the one in Madison) by experimental psych band Black Moth Super Rainbow. They're less my cup of tea, but it certainly makes for an interesting pairing (sort of like my dinner).
School of Seven Bells US Tour Dates:
5/20 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge*
5/21 Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon*
5/22 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club*
5/25 Seattle, WA @ Sasquatch Festival*
5/26 Portland, OR @ Holocene*
5/28 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill*
5/29 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour*
5/30 Costa Mesa, CA @ Detroit Bar*
5/31 Tucson, AZ @ Rhythm Room*
6/02 Austin, TX @ Mohawk*
6/03 Denton, TX @ Hailey's*
6/04 Little Rock, AR @ Sticky Fingerz*
6/05 Nashville, TN @ Exit In*
6/06 Columbus, OH @ Circus*
6/12 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
* w/Black Moth Super Rainbow
Catch up on some School of Seven Bells at their MySpace page.