Results tagged “nekocase”

The first time we heard the name A Fine Frenzy, the stage name of Alison Sudol, we quite honestly saw covering her as a way to see the Rufus Wainwright/Neko Case show at the Mann over the summer. What we didn't expect was for her to be, positively, the best act of the night. Alison and her gorgeous piano-driven pop have gotten quite popular since August: her song "You Picked Me," the complicated 5/8-time love song on her debut album, , has been an iTunes featured download, and she's all over VH1 these days, joining the growing cadre of talented female singer-songwriters that has sprung up in the last nine months or so.

Friday night marked my third time seeing The New Pornographers, and as I've come to expect, they totally rocked the house. After a fantastic set by Immaculate Machine and a really solid set by Emma Pollock (whose album, , has been on pretty frequent rotation on my work computer), they took the stage, ready to perform to a sold-out crowd at The Trocadero.

I arrived at the Mann last Friday with nothing but the highest of expectations, and I left positively annoyed. It wasn't because of the weather (there was a thunderstorm between A Fine Frenzy and Neko Case's sets, but I loved it). It wasn't because of the audience (although there were plenty of obnoxious people there). Those are things that you get annoyed with, and then get over.

, has been getting outstanding reviews. (Really. Google her.)

Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word "Jackass" in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we're going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto's craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn't contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public pools, as the issue never came up when they interviewed the creators of art installations in their public wading pools.

T-minus-five days till we officially start work, and yet here we are, 3:30 in the morning and still blogging. We're going to try to get on a better sleep schedule, but meanwhile, here's some of what you missed on our sister sites since last we met!

Best of the week is compiled and edited by Seattlest's Dan Gonsiorowski.

The New Pornographers bring Twin Cinema and the sketchy Neko Case to the Trocadero tonight for one of those rock concert things. No word on whether or not David Cross will be there to boo Case. (Go read the latest issue of MAGNET, kids.)