Friday, May 9, 2008
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY
To any of you who may catch Austin City Limits on PBS from time to time there is a great show scheduled for tomorrow. Explosions in the Sky (EITS) will be the encore presentation. I was lucky enough to sneak in to their show in Buffalo last month. It was the first live show I had been to in years and they did not disappoint. EITS was my exclusive selection for pre-game music last season. It's moving stuff, but takes some time and effort to get into being that all of their music is instrumental. I think that they will only show three songs from EITS. The program tomorrow starts with the Decemberists. I don't know a whole lot about them other than I've heard their stuff on a indie rock station on Sirius radio. Check your local listings. Here's a link for more info about the program.
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Sorry, the link didn't work. Here it is.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pbs.org/klru/austin/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=88&Itemid=295
Both EITS and the Decemberists are amazing.
ReplyDeleteAlright, Kirk's first post! Welcome aboard. I don't know these bands, but I bet I could hold my own if it came to fisticuffs.
ReplyDeleteWe don't really get the PBS station here very well, so I didn't bother finding out if they show Austin City Limits (I watched it semi-regularly before we moved to Texas, ironically). But I did look up EITS and listened to their songs on their Myspace page. Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteI've got one Decemberists album, and they're a lot of fun. I'd recommend them to anyone looking for something a little different. Their songs are mostly narratives. I get the impression that whoever is writing their lyrics was an english major in college, and takes literature very seriously.
This sounds sweet, I don't even have PBS, our TV is just a big DVD monitor.
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