Here....Omar Souleyman There...See His Show! Where...Syria and the World
This past weekend, SUNY Purchase's Stoodent Center went in a frenzy over the most unique and feel good pop music. Syrian Pop-star Omar Souleyman played to the entire school, who in return cheered, danced and squeezed all together into an audience of hot mess. Souleman had a keyboardist lay down the beats with a two-tier keyboard setup. It was one of the gretest shows I have ever seen. BTW, I endlessly tried doing the shoulder dance featured in the video below. No one could figure it out haha.
Foals 10/1/10 w/ Esben and the Witch The show went great! I feel bad for those of you who did not come out and enjoy a little British invasion @ the Bowery Ballroom. The concert opened with Esben and the Witch, who played a solid set. I never heard them before, but now I will have to download some of their stuff. To me they were a perfect compliment to the Foals. Not so much "math" rock for this group but more of The XX and Crystal Castles mix. Check Em Out! --> Esben and the Witch The Foals played non-stop and had me singing to every single song. They played everything I could have hoped for. Each song building and being more epic than the last. They even had a killer Encore! Check Em Out! --> Foals
The Set List from 10/1/10 1. Blue Blood 2. Olympic Airways 3. Total Life Forever 4. Cassius 5. Miami 6. Balloons 7. After Glow 8. 2 Trees 9. Spanish Sahara 10. Red Socks Pugie 11. Electric Bloom - Killer Encore - 12. The French Open 13. Two Steps, Twice
Where... The Bowery Ballroom 6 Delancey St. NY,NY 10002
Ages - 18+ Doors - 8:00 PM / Show: 9:00 PM Price - $20 day of show
BLOGGERS: I will be attending the show with my girlfriend Catherine. She got me tickets for my Birthday! Hope to see you there too!
From Cam Lindsay at Exclaim: "Foals are a band that have been on my“to do list" for quite some time now. A friend just caught them on the weekend at CMJ in New York and texted me “HOLY FUCKING SHIT. amazing" not to my surprise. Wrapping up post-punk in its most rigid package, these five from Oxford and Brighton are as tight as a duck's arse, as the saying goes. Out of the new wave that began back in around 2000 or so with acts like Liars, the Rapture, and so on, Foals make a case for being the most astute out of any band with a Gang of Four hang-up. Much like that legendary band, Foals are all fucking business; there's no room for cute catch phrases, pretentious wanking or obvious attempts to get playlisted on commercial radio. The focus is centered squarely on rhythmic tension and building it with an upsurge that never loses its clout. That they just so happen to know a thing or two about melody, well, that's all the more reason to blog like mad about them. They've come a long way since last year's debut single, “Try This On Your Piano." This year's pair of singles “Hummer" and “Mathletics" (especially the former) have put the band at the forefront of the UK's indie scene and ushered them into the New York studio of TV On the Radio's David Sitek. “Balloons" is their third single for the brilliant Transgressive label (out next month), and shows immediate signs of breaking these guys into the consciousness of a much bigger market. From the opening guitar riffs Foals demonstrate the same kind of calculative precision that's made Battles one of the year's most talked about bands. The guitars climb up and down with stressed out staccato, the sharp, danceable polyrhythms are fiercely meticulous, and the seemingly bothered singer Yannis Philippakis even invites some help to boost the chant-heavy chorus into a celebration."
