The Bird and The Bee Video

Pretty good group emerging.

This is directed by Eric Warheim from Tim & Eric. Awesome Show, Great Job. Weird shit.

Major content coming

After a short hiatus, expect some new content on ClapTrapped. Among this new content:

• Review of Fleet Foxes at Metro (Oct. 12)
• Review of Secret Machines at Metro (Oct. 24)
• Review of the new Kings of Leon album (I just bought it today)

In the meantime, here are some albums that a few of us are listening to:

Apehands:

• M83 - Saturdays = Youth
• Islands - Arm's Way
• Connor Oberst - Connor Oberst
• Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
• Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping

Mickey:

• Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
• Metallica - Death Magnetic
• Bon Ivers - For Emma, Forever Ago
• Stars - Sad Robot EP
• The National - Boxer

OD:

• Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
• Secret Machines - Now Here is Nowhere
• Battles - Mirrored
• Electrelane - No Shouts, No Calls
• Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
  

Poll discussion: Favorite Chicago venue

So it looks like the Vic is the popular choice for favorite Chicago music venue. I'm interested to hear why you guys think it's the best. I'm not saying I don't like it, but I don't think it's my favorite.

I voted for Park West. Despite the fact that I really don't like the location of Park West, this would be my No. 1 choice for seeing any band live. It's big enough that it's not cramped, but it's small enough to have an intimate feel. Plus it has that awesome table arrangement thing going on.

Any thoughts on why you voted for a particular venue? If you voted for other, please share.

Islands - A Matured and Better Band

Last year I downloaded an album I saw on Pitchforks website that had some free samples to listen to. One of these songs was a very poppy upbeat track called 'Rough Gem'. It stuck in my head for months and I could not shake it. It was your pretty cheesy indie typical pop song, but what can I say everytime I listened to it I felt as happy as a teenage girl. I gave the whole album a chance and in the end thought it was pretty decent, but it was lost in the vast mixture of my iTunes library.

Flashfoward to 2008. I frequent a little site many of you know about called Pandora. In the beginning of the summer I became a junkie of finding out about everything I could about every band I heard streaming on thier site. It was then that I stumbled upon the group, Islands, once again. I came to discover that thier sophmore effort, Arm's Way, was a much more mature and well put together album. They have really hoined thier producing and when I think TIGHT album of 08 I think Arm's Way. Still poppy and really indie, but so much fun. I really want to review this baby a little better after listening to it about a million more times, but right now I just want you guys to check it out.

Start with tracks...

Pieces of You

Creeper

Kids Don't Know Shit (My Personal Fav)