I love the pit!

Yup! Sounds pretty much exactly like the album. (If my memory serves me correct, doesn't their set even play the songs in the order they're on in the album?) My hope is that they find some room for dirtying it up after a few months on the road.

Good.

And it came in dead even with the new Christina Aguilera.

And it came in dead even with the new Christina Aguilera.

I'm not 100% sure what the sentence: "Alt-J reads as a little too contrived to be authentic" means, especially in the context of a band like this, who seems to be purposely veering away from authenticity and pursuing style instead. I'm not sure "authenticity" is a viable category we can look for in an album that…

I'm not 100% sure what the sentence: "Alt-J reads as a little too contrived to be authentic" means, especially in the context of a band like this, who seems to be purposely veering away from authenticity and pursuing style instead. I'm not sure "authenticity" is a viable category we can look for in an album that…

I went with some friends to one of their shows in Madison. It was like watching two guys check their facebook & email. They just stand there and sip beer and smirk and click. Their "mash-ups" were mostly just the hooks from hip-hop radio hits, interspersed with "You Shook Me All Night Long." At one point I'm 99% sure…

I went with some friends to one of their shows in Madison. It was like watching two guys check their facebook & email. They just stand there and sip beer and smirk and click. Their "mash-ups" were mostly just the hooks from hip-hop radio hits, interspersed with "You Shook Me All Night Long." At one point I'm 99% sure…

The Bajorans & Cardassian conflict always looked like the stuff happening in Bosnia & Serbia and the whereabouts around the time DS9 was airing.