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female. scorpio. optimist. frequent concert-goer. traveler. foodie.
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- Jan 31, 12
We Are Scientists will be one of the headliners for the first ever Nowadays Festival at the ArtsQuest Center at the SteelStacks arts and cultural campus in Bethlehem, PA on March 30-31. Tickets are on sale this Friday. Go to the ArtsQuest website for more info.
- Oct 24, 11
Guy Eppel took some photos of We Are Scientists at Pianos last Saturday during CMJ. MTV Hive has the rest of them, starting on photo number 10 of the slide show.
- Sep 22, 11
The Fred Perry Subcluture website has footage of their performance from this year’s Dot to Dot Festival and an interview with the guys.
- Sep 01, 11
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS CAIN!Send all your birthday greetings over to Chris on Twitter and on the WAS Facebook page!
- Aug 12, 11
American stars WE ARE SCIENTISTS have joined forces with Northern Irish rockers ASH to record a song for charity.
The two bands are teaming up for a cover of songwriter Robert Manning’s track Washington Parks to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
We Are Scientists bassist Chris Cain tells The Examiner, “The concept of the song is that if you listen to it on headphones or stereo, the musicians of Ash are on the left channel and all the We Are Scientists guys are playing it in the right channel. We’re playing the same song essentially but in different ways.” Manning, who suffers from the debilitating disease, is selling the collaboration via his official website.
Singer Ed Harcourt and Emmy the Great have also recorded tracks for the project.
You can buy the track at the Happy Monster bandcamp page HERE.
The track will be available via iTunes, Amazon and etc. soon but you can go to Robert Manning’s site HERE for more information about the track.
You can also donate to Robert Manning’s Multiple Sclerosis charity at his fundraising site HERE. He’s so close to reaching that fundraising goal, please help if you can!
- Aug 12, 11
Love Music Love Food is a cookbook that features over 60 musicians and portraits of each musician with their favorite food. All the proceeds for purchasing this book go to Teenage Cancer Trust.
“Dig in to the food that makes the stars shine – starring Brett Anderson, Johnny Borrell, Buzzcocks, Biffy Clyro, Roger Daltrey CBE, Brandon Flowers, Noel Gallagher, Ellie Goulding, Professor Green, Mick Hucknall, Kelly Jones, Alex Kapranos, Kasabian, Juliette Lewis, Madness, Mani, Brian May, Paul Oakenfold, Sir Cliff Richard, Francis Rossi OBE, Siouxsie Sioux, Sugababes, Tinie Tempah, Bullet For My Valentine, White Lies, We Are Scientists, Paul Weller, Rob Zombie & many more.” * (from Amazon.co.uk’s description)
You can find out more about the book at the Love Music Love Food website. And the book is available for purchase at the Teenage Cancer Trust website and through pre-order from Amazon.co.uk.
I think this is the picture of the guys in the book via a post I saw on Tumblr a while ago:
- Aug 03, 11
WAS hinted about this free show a few days ago, and I’ve just found out the rest of the details on this thing:
According to this site, My Free Concert, and this Facebook event they linked to, We Are Scientists will be playing a free show this Friday, August 5, around noon at Gansevoort Plaza in New York.
- Jul 04, 11
We Are Scientists will be at the Nano Mugen Festival at Yokohama Arena on July 16 and 17. Tickets are on sale at the Nano Mugen Festival site.
- Jun 23, 11
NAAG.com: We Are Scientists Touring the UK Summer Festivals Looks Like This
Keith has some pictures and notes from their recent UK tour up at NAAG’s blog.
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2011 Year End Lists: Britt Daniel, Spoon
- Pj Harvey – Let England Shake
- Dale Watson & The Texas Two – The Sun Sessions
- Ty Segall – Goodbye Bread
- Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital
- Cold Cave – Cherish The Light Years
- Cliff Martinez – Drive Soundtrack
- Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
- Girls – Father Son Holy Ghost
- Eleanor Friedberger – Last Summer
- Nurses – Dracula
- Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Comittee
- Black Keys – El Camino
Spoon at FunFunFunFest 2011 (parts of it)(and some other stuff) download
New Spoonthings, hell yeah! As you know Spoon played their only show this year (no one cares about the ND show) on their homeland Austin, TX for FunFunFunFest. I don’t want to brag or anything but I WAS THERE OMG OMG OMG. This batch of videos is pretty awesome because aside form the performances, you get an interview and some behind the scene stuff in crafting a magnificent Spoon show.
Eco size MP4s, only 76.8 MB. Click picture or here!
Content:
- Video 1 - Clip of their sound check/set up, Interview thing +The Underdog
- Video 2 - Their light guy explaining the light setup +I Turn My Camera On
- Video 3 - Even more of the interview +You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
- Video 4 - Hyper Spoon fans +The Way We Get By
Noisey.com: After Nearly Two Decades, Austin’s Power Pop Monarchs Still Sound Like Hungry Upstarts
This site has videos and pictures from Spoon’s performance at Fun Fun Fun Fest last month in Austin along with some behind-the-scenes clips and short interview with the guys.
(And please ignore that fourth video on that site because if you know me, you’ll recognized me in there. I have the giddy post-Spoon show high and sound like such a nerdy fangirl.)
Britt Daniel / “JC Auto” / Live at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on November 21, 2011
And this is the other song Britt performed at the Bob Mould tribute show..
Britt Daniel / “The Act We Act” / Live at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on November 21, 2011
I recorded this using my iPhone…so it sounds ok for a little bit, then it gets a little bit quiet because I think my iPhone must have shifted somewhere in my purse. Anyway, if you’re curious about how the rest of the song sounded prior to the clip I filmed, here it is! I’ll be uploading the other song he covered, “JC Auto,” later.
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Ok so this was my best attempt at trying to take video at the “See A Little Light: A Celebration of the Music and Legacy of Bob Mould” at the Walt Disney Concert Hall tonight! And this is the first time I’ve done the whole filming with an iPhone thing at a show so I apologize that the quality isn’t as good as it should be.
The other person performing with Britt there to the right is Jessica Dobson (Deep Sea Diver). Jon Wurster (Superchunk) was on the drums and Jason Narducy (Telekinesis and Verbow) was playing bass.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s twitter account just sent out this out via twitter. Tickets are still on sale for this event via Ticketmaster.
(Sorry to say that I probably won’t be able to take any photos of this because this venue never lets anyone take photos. But holy crap, I can’t believe I’m going to see Britt Daniel in THIS VENUE:
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- Two by Ryan Adams
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- The Animator by The War On Drugs
- Your Love Is Calling My Name by The War On Drugs
- I Was There by The War On Drugs
- Brothers by The War On Drugs
- Best Night by The War On Drugs
- A Crime by Sharon van Etten
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- Senior Claims Administrator at Cunard LineLeisure, Travel & Tourism | Greater Los Angeles Area, USExperience
- Dec 2007 - PresentSenior Claims Administrator / Princess Cruises
- Dec 2007 - PresentSenior Claims Administrator / Cunard Line
- Apr 2004 - Nov 2007Customer Relations Specialist / Princess Cruises
- Aug 2003 - Apr 2004Reservations Agent / Princess Cruises
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2007 - 2009The Art Institute of California - HollywoodGraphic Design
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2004 - 2004California State University-NorthridgeJournalism
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2000 - 2001University of California, RiversideEnglish
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