Sat 15 Jan – Girl Talk, Penguin Prison

So, as it happens, with research and a little determination, it is possible to be one of the stage dancers at a Girl Talk concert. I need to look into this for my next Flaming Lips concert. What a time! I was dressed up as a skeleton and my friends were in various bizarre outfits of their own.

I can say this: Gregg Gillis aka Girl Talk IS in fact mixing live on stage. The guy's a genius. He gave up his job as a lab microbiologist for this stuff.

In any…

In vaguely descending order

Daft Punk
Nine Inch Nails
Radiohead
Beck
Ghostland Observatory
Sleigh Bells (coming soon with CSS, no less!)
jj
The Knife
The xx
Smashing Pumpkins (it's tricky as it's not the band so much as the Billy Corgan show, but up until and including Mellon Collie was my favorite band)
Chromeo
Nellie McKay
Rob Zombie
Mono
Black Moth Super Rainbow
STS9
Bassnectar
La Roux
Santigold
The Ting Tings
First Aid Kit

I'm going to try and follow this trend. I plan to make this more chronological. It's also currently missing many artists. I'm adding as I remember.

1997

__Jingle Bell Jam (Connecticut)____
Heather Nova (so I'm told – it's been a minute – I thought I saw The Rentals)
The Toadies
Garbage

__Free Earth Day Concert (Connecticut)____
The Barenaked Ladies

__Lollapalooza 1997 (Hartford, Connecticut)____
Snoop Dogg
Tool

__Woodstock '99 (Rome, New York)____
The Offspring
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
George Clinton (x2)
DMX

__(San Diego, California)____
Jane's Addiction

__Free Press SummerFest 2010 (Houston, Texas)____
The Flaming Lips
Girl Talk
Kid Sister…

Fri 12 Nov – Astronautalis

astronautalis himself commented that this was his first-ever sold-out U.S. show after 7 years of shows and a two-year tour consisting of 300-400 stops. What better way to end a tour but where it all started? 11 years ago, Andy Bothwell, the given name of Astro, saw Get Up Kids at Rubber Gloves. Now, full-circle, he's on the stage selling out shows with a line around the building.

The opening acts didn't particularly impress me. The first band, Bad Design, had good guitar hooks but the singer's voice was flat and dragged it down. That…