If You Were Me (Early Friday Edition)

so this friday is gonna be jam-packed, and i think you can make it to three (count it THREE!) amazing shows in one night, if you've had enough caffeine. First up, The Modlins at KSDT Studios on UCSD campus. we're playing a free all ages set at KSDT to support our appearance at UCSD's SunGod the following week. Why not catch us early in a far more intimate environment? that's from 8-9pm ..... after our set wraps up, don't bother helping us with our gear. there's no time! you gotta jet off (assuming you're 21+) to the Whistlestop to catch our arch-nemesis's The Frantic Romantic kick off their set, approx 9:30ish, and following them is the massive pop outfit Red Pony Clock (whom we will be playing with later in May at Chasers, don't miss it!).

"but eric, how are we going to make it to a third show if we're already at the whistlestop?"

oh well, i'm glad you asked that ... see whistlestop shows are notorious for ending pretty early. Sam's a cool guy and doesn't want to ruffle the feathers of the neighbors, so that show's gonna wrap up by midnight, maybe sooner .... on the other hand, the Ken Club is notorious for running late. the earliest i've seen a friday ken club show start is 10:30.... so i'm guessing you might only miss Thin Man (or Wild Weekend, depending on who's playing first, i've heard good things of both), but you're almost guaranteed to make it in time for part of one of their sets and the entirety of Grand Ole Party's set. there's really no need to go into detail of the musical juggernaut that Grand Ole Party has become (coachella anyone?), so we'll just hope that the room isn't too packed. worst case scenario, head to the bar side and share a drink with rosey. not sure if they'll be charging for this show (i wouldn't be surprised), but since the first two are free, it's like 3 shows for the price of one (or none, depending)

so that's right, get your beauty rest on Thursday, it's gonna be a long night.

ATP NY 2008 announces more bands, 1/4 of the modlins cave

so they announced a few more bands (Yo La Tengo and The Lilys being a couple) release more tickets and, well, i caved. i'm heading out to upstate NY in Sept for the NY debut of All Tomorrow's Parties. i went to one of these a few years back in London when The Shins, Sleater Kinney and Dinosaur Jr. joint headlined a weekend. it was pretty out of control awesome. here's the line up thus far (only 2/3s of the bands)

ATP NY

MY BLOODY VALENTINE
FUCK BUTTONS
POLVO
LOW
EDAN WITH GUEST DAGHA
MOGWAI
THE DRONES
BUILT TO SPILL PERFORMING PERFECT FROM NOW ON
WOODEN SHJIPS
SHELLAC
THEE SILVER MOUNT ZION ORCHESTRA
AUTOLUX
MEAT PUPPETS PERFORMING MEAT PUPPETS II
TORTOISE PERFORMING MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE
THURSTON MOORE PERFORMING PSYCHIC HEARTS
DINOSAUR JR
MERCURY REV
HARMONIA
LILYS
GROWING
YO LA TENGO

thinking of going? all the details are here. seriously ..... wow.

and so it's monday ... let's talk about wilco

after a weekend in san jose for work, coming back early on sunday to see kerrie caldwell blow my mind with her vocal abilities, and watching the Burn To Shine - Chicago, i dunno, i've got music on the mind (what else is new) ....

i feel the need to say wilco is amazing, and on top of that jeff tweedy is amazing. their performance of muzzle of bees (nels aside) is awesome on the burn to shine video. so much so, we didn't get our fix so we had to bust out "I am trying to break your heart" ... quite possibly my favorite music documentary. easy to say, since i haven't seen too many, but of the ones i have seen, this one stands out. perhaps this is because yankee hotel foxtrot would make it to my "desert island discs" or because Radio Cure is a song that can still bring a tear to my eye when i hear it (why they didn't play it at their last san diego show, i don't know) ... but man, if you haven't seen that dvd, remedy this and rent it. and if you haven't heard the album, please go out and listen to it. and if money is an issue, there's a little thing called the public library. i just checked, they have 3 copies of the album at the Central Library, Rancho Bernardo and University Heights locations. they also have the DVD in the stacks at University Heights, so if you head after work you can probably pick it up. go here: www.sandiego.gov/public-library.

anyway, it just got me thinking, and that outsidelands fest up in san francisco this summer is looking more and more appealing. Broken Social Scene, Wilco, Andrew Bird all on sunday.

Live at KSDT Studio, Friday May 9th!!

sad about the cancelled all ages show? well turn that frown upside down, The Modlins are coming to KSDT studios on UCSD Campus May 9th at 8pm, one week before the uber-huge SunGod Festival goes down. Catch a sneak peek of us in a much more intimate environment, tearing through the hits. The show is free, all ages, and if you live on campus, or in the general UCSD area, it's close. super close (know the old student center?)

details to get to the show here. if you can't make it out, but want to listen live you can stream the show here. just follow the "listen" link.

91x Loudspeaker 4/28/08 love

if you missed it, most likely because, like me, you were already sound asleep from 1am - 3am on 4/28, 91x had a most awesome 2 hours of Loudspeaker. lucky for you, though, you can stream the whole show, and a few of the past ones as well, at 91x.com/loudspeaker.html. lots of some harder-rock-than-Modlins in the first hour, but even that all has solid rock and backup vocals. i thought about making some sort of muxtape after the review of the Staring At The Sun comp came out, because there were comments that that comp. didn't really reflect on San Diego music. i think this most recent loudspeaker fills in for that quite nicely, even if some of our bestest best friends are missing...

the playlist includes, just to name a few, and entice you a bit more :

Get Back Loretta (who we are playing with on June 20th at the Beauty Bar), Vision of a Dying World, Japanese Sunday, Dynamite Walls, Cosmo Speedway (another one of the many excellent bands on the Spanish Archer One compilation), Calico Horse, Red Pony Clock (who we are playing with on May 23rd at Chasers), Thin Man, and your very own The Modlins. and not to hint at too many things all at once, but, you just might see a very awesome music video for the very same song that 91x played, You Said, sometime in the near future. when? well, that is for us, and the master of disaster, Adam, who also happens to be one-third of Secret Apollo, to know, and you to find out at some not-too-much-later point. word.

Cafe La Maze

for those catdirt readers out there, you probably already hit this up, but he's got a good review of the old/new Cafe La Maze place we're playing May 13th. sounds like this could be a new hot spot for the young kids (since turf club is always a bit too packed)

http://catdirtsez.blogspot.com/2008/04/show-review-seesaw-ensemble-cafe-la.html

Solo Britt Daniel of Spoon at Belly Up, SATURDAY!

http://www.etix.com/ticket/servlet/onlineSale?action=selectPerformance&cobrand=bellyup&performance_id=778665

go there now, buy tickets to see Britt Daniel of Spoon do a solo show at the belly up this saturday may 3rd. he did a solo show at the casbah a few years back, it was pretty sweet, he just played with a boombox filled with beats, i think it was post Kill The Moonlight, pre Gimme Fiction ....

sadly i'll be in SF this weekend for work. bust.

CANCELLED!! - Channel Twelve 25, May 9th - All Ages Show, East County

UPDATE: THIS SHOW IS CANCELLED!!! We will not be playing Channcel 12 25 on may 9th!! sorry everyone for having to cancel yet another all ages show. just been having some bad luck, but we promise not to let you guys down again. at least we'll be playing the free Cafe Le Maze and Sungod shows. and we've got a really great show cooking at the Beauty Bar next month. here's the old post still .....

"as you all know, we're playing the great UCSD SunGod Festival Friday May 16th, and though we've been playing around the SD scene for a bit, it often encompasses mostly 21+ clubs. To remedy this, and to give some of the under 21 crowd a first look at us, pre-Sungod, we're playing an all ages show in East County at the new venue Channel Twelve 25 on Friday May 9th (one week before sungod), within the next week we'll announce the other band we're playing with but in the meantime, check out the venue and if you're a UCSD student and/or live out in east county, check out our myspace. hope to see you out there."

UCSD Sungod 2008 Lineup

here is the UCSD SunGod 2008 band line up ... according to The Guardian ... looks like there's a main music stage, a side music stage and a separate stage for comedians:

Main Stage
Coheed & Cambria (Headliner)
Sean Kingston
Little Brothers
The Aquabats
Matt Costa (Daytime Headliner)
Sleepercar- Two main stage acts TBA

Midway Stage (Comedians)
Laura Valdivia
Shery Wang
Chris Farbanks

North Stage
Lady Dottie and the Diamonds (Local Headliner)
Invietus
Masterpiece
Wylde Bunch
Bill Magee
Neon Trees
Radio Racer
The Modlins
The Drowning Men
The Muslims
DJ Artistic

UPDATE: though not listed on the guardian page, apparently DJ Z-Trip is also on the bill.

sungod 08 lineup announced!

on the main stage:
Coheed & Cambria (Headliner)
Sean Kingston
The Aquabats
Matt Costa
and more

on the North Stage:
Lady Dottie and the Diamonds
The Modlins
The Drowning Men
The Muslims
and more

for the full(er) listing, check out : http://ucsdguardian.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9923&Itemid=49

and, just for you, one random fact on one modlins bass player:

once upon a time, in a land far, far away, known as Pomona, inside a house made of glass (the Glasshouse), there was a show of epic proportions, as The Aquabats vanquished the evil from the land. but the vanquishing made the room hot, and a kind bouncer decided to distribute water bottles to the crowd. only, this particular time, at this particularly hot show, with this particular bouncer, the particular distribution method of choice was to throw the bottles as hard as could be straight into the crowd. and one hit me on the head. and left a lump.