Just got back from Nickelback’s show at the Tacoma Dome. Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace opened. And here’s a set list to hold you all over until the full review gets online in the morning:
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Nickelback’s set:
Animals
Woke Up This Morning
Photograph
Because of You
Far Away
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting (Elton John)
If Everyone Cared
Never Again
Savin’ Me
Someday
Side of a Bullet
Flat on the Floor
How You Remind Me
Too Bad
Encore:
Rockstar
The Beastie Boys? Bjork? Interpol? Bad Brains? The peeps at Sasquatch have done it again. The lineup is posted on this page with more additions on the way.
Now if only House of Blues/Live Nation will do something about those nauseating showers and Honey Buckets on site. I’m still having nightmares from last year. *Shudder*
This story from MTV.com really piqued my interest — as if I needed anything else to get me excited about the new NIN album (“Year Zero,” due April 17.) Freaky. And maybe an incredibly inventive promo campaign, assuming Nails is really behind it.
Looks like Chris Cornell’s run with Audioslave is over, kaput, terminado. And just in time for him to release a solo album, and his ex-band mates to hook back up with Zack de la Rocha for the Rage thing again. Read more about it on Cornell’s My Space page.
It ain’t all sushi, “rockaraoke” and good times over at Jazzbones these days. It appears things have officially gone sour – in an “I’ll sue the pants off you” kind of way – over last year’s sale of the popular Sixth Avenue nightclub.
I’d been hearing grumblings about shakeups over there for a while, including the contentious departure of former owner Jason MacKinnon, who had remained on for a while as a consultant and booking agent. Then this morning, I got my hands on a copy of a $340,000 lawsuit that MacKinnon’s attorneys filed Thursday (on behalf
…Aaron Stewart-Ahn – up for best long form video yesterday – sent me this report from the Grammys. Pretty funny. Except the losing part.
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So we lost. In semi-spectacular fashion. We found out at the last
minute that our award was being presented first thing, despite being
one of the last categories. We got stuck in traffic, and literally
sprinted out of the car through Grammy security and ran into the LA
Convention Center asking people to get out of our way as we ran in as
OK, I managed to make it through the entire show this year. And here are a few of my favorite moments:
* Common telling Kanye West, “We’re tired of you cryin’ about not winnin’.” Kanye was in on the joke and all. But, seriously. We are tired of your crying about not winning.
* Christina Aquilera’s bringing the house down with a powerful delivery of James Brown’s “It’s a Man’s World.” There’s a reason why she’s still relevant on the pop spectrum, and we’re more worried about whether or not pop peer Britney is going commando
…The good: Since I didn’t give the Purple One his due props after the greatest Super Bowl halftime show in recent memory. So let me say it now, after his brief cameo, introducing Beyonce. Prince is the man! And I want some of whatever he’s using when I get to my 40s, ’cause that cat still looks 25. Also, Beyonce killed on “Listen.” Justin Timberlake wasn’t too shabby, either.
The bad: Now why did they have to get all impatient and give Mary J. Blige the “wrap it up” music (all the more hilarious since it only reminded me
…… or was the Grammy-opening performance by the Police a bit anti-climactic? There was Sting’s flat declaration, “We’re the Police and we’re back!” There was the predictable choice of “Roxanne,” and the way they took a punchy new wave number and diluted it by gettin’ all jammy, like they were bored with the thing and playing to a crowd at the MGM Grand in Vegas. Hope it gets better before the tour. Granted, I’d built the whole thing up in my head for a while. And a “Don’t Stand So Close to Me/When the World’s Running Down/King of Pain”
…I swung by the office and picked up the tape with my interview with video director Aaron Stewart-Ahn, whose Death Cab history dates back to becoming best friends with bassist Nick Harmer at Puyallup’s Ferrucci Junior high. Those guys are up for a Grammy tonight for best long form video for Death Cab’s “Directions” DVD. And in these clips he talks about…
… how they became friends and how he first learned about Death Cab.
… touring with Death Cab before they were big shots. (Hmmm. Wonder when that footage will
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