Lisztomania!

Our favorite children's choir continues to make beautiful music. As a testament to Teacher Gregg's coolness, he got his PS22 kids to do a Phoenix song. Do you love Phoenix? I love their pop-rock-electronica sound so much I can put on my running shoes and hit the pavement for a whole hour listening to them and just them. So here it is, a personal family summer hit revisited. Lisztomania sung a cappella... 

As the band mentioned on The Creators Project, on paper it shouldn't work but it does, and even got them teary-eyed. Yes, PS 22 tends to do that. Now here are the boys from Versailles themselves, live, stripped of any sound engineering magic, but awesome, nevertheless...

Thank you teacher Jojie for the heads up on Lisztomania PS22 version. Thank you Entourage Season 1 (or 2?) for putting this song in one episode's end credits. I tracked it down with my google-investigating skills then et voila, have been in love with Phoenix ever since.  Falling, falling, falling, falling....

Tegan and Sara

If you like the music of Tegan and Sara well, FYI, they will be touring Asia this year. Pappy discovered the facebook survey going on to see if enough of us in Manila would watch them. Shall we? Let's go. Here they are at Coachella 2008. In lieu of Coachella... November 2010 in Manila? Say yes to the survey and it could happen.

For the kids... Alligator "sanitized" for a live performance on Canada's Mamma Yamma show. Cute. But as Bear points out, "There were no bad words in the real version... why'd they change it?"  Yes son, it had no bad words, but there were sex-related metaphors and descriptions of obsessive love. 

Of course I didn't tell him that!

They've been remixed by everyone from DJ Tiesto to Passion Pit... but my favorite is by these young guys from RAC/Remix Artist Collective. Press play to hear the track. Click down arrow to download. Free.

  Tegan & Sara - Alligator (RAC Mix) by Remix Artist Collective

You're welcome!

Mrs. Brightside

Concert Gods are still mad at me -- Killers concert killed, Kings of Convenience also kaput. So what other concert am I NOT going to this year? While feeling gloomy about all this, I get a ray of light from my gmail inbox minutes ago. Taadaaah... Vampire Weekend's latest video... 

Thank you VW for cheering me up and Jake Gyllenhaal for cracking me up. One day The Concert Gods will love me again and I SWEAR I am watching you in New York or frikkin' Coachella with MGMT, Animal Collective, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and a slew other rock gods and demigods. One day this is going to happen, I promise. Oh and, Tashie's Mom I hope you like VW! Now back to work.