Really quick, some one-sentence summaries for the shows I’ve seen over my extended chapped lipped period recently. Please note the effort I give to masking my run-on sentences.

ps. Where’s my chippie? pps. Everybody’s famous on YouTube. pps. This is me on a daily basis, really, it’s just funnier seeing someone else do it.

Blitzen Trapper: Remarkable in their excellent musicianship and steady tempo; fantastically executed and surprising in their complete wholeness on stage.

Horse Feather: Quiet, delicate, and truffled.

Megafaun: No one has tried to mix ambient electronic with some of the best bluegrass music I have ever heard with such alarming alacrity as these guys ps. they are really funny too.

VHS or Beta / Rapture DJ set: Something about celebrity DJ sets makes me wonder what they actually must be listening to.

Mad Rad: I don’t claim to know much about hiphop, but I think these guys were more rap, I did have fun after a few (6 or 9) shots amidst shirtless, upper-body, slam-dancing and a lyrical post-natal quest to return to the womb.

Elms: Another solid performance by this Indiana band whose talent never ceases to amaze me.

Wolf Parade: Good show, good performance, good music, good people, good times, good night.

The Duke Spirit: Despite being under the weather and thinking that they sounded not so good, this band had the voice of Brazilian Girls and the sound of well, Wolf Parade!

The Duke Spirit afterparty DJ: Really dug your mix, good sir i.e. in the words of Tim and Eric, Great Job!

30-year-old Private Bday Party I Crashed on Saturday DJ: Was this you too? Many good songs mixed in with what can only be compared to the better half of the wedding song catalogue.

VHS or Beta: A quiet night at James and Marple’s transformed into an engaging, danceable show; and yes, I sang along and yes, I saw you looking at me doing it.

Tom Morello: Sucked! Aka to be expected as the best moment of his concert was a brief 15-second Rage guitar part.

Tom Morello Encore: Dear Woody Guthrie, Please forgive Tom for making all the crowd sing along to his hard rock version of This Land Is Your Land. Love, paul.