Ratatat at Terminal 5, 4/22/09

After hearing how awesome the first Ratatat concert at Terminal 5 was we decided to go see them on their second night. The show wasn't sold out and we bought tickets at the door. The opening acts Despot and Kid Cudi were both rap artists out of New York, (Kid Cudi is from Cleveland originally but is now in NYC.) Despot talked a lot but was a pretty good rapper and rapped some brand new stuff. Kid Cudi had a little more variety and seemed very smooth. He did an awesome rap over a Ratatat song and just looked fresh.

Then Ratatat came on and immediately played some awesome songs off of Lp3. They mixed in some from Classics and 17 years but mostly the songs were from LP3. In my opinion their best song of the night was Loud Pipes, but I am biased because that is my favorite song of theirs. Wildcat, Gettysburg and 17 years were also pretty awesome and crowd engaging. Awesome concert!

+for some reason they didn't allow photography but I managed to snap a few that I might put up+

Steal.

Einstein.

Emile Hirsch, Man of 'Milk'

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By, Emma Rosenblum

[New York Magazine, December 2008]

Last.fm

I just have started to get into last.fm. It seems like the best music networking site out there. If you want to find new music last.fm does almost all the work for you. All you have to do is listen to your favorite songs, as I am sure you already do, and last.fm updates your library and play counts, recommends you new artists, and tells you people who have similar tastes as you. The charts and graphs are also cool because you can find out music trends you didn’t even know you had. For example, if you have been posting on FML.com lately you probably have been listening to lots of the smiths, or funeral for a friend and last.fm will show you the bright blue graphs to prove it.

Last.fm’s library seems to be pretty extensive and since members contribute to the content almost every band has a description and pictures. Another great thing is they list each concert as a separate page so you can be “attending” a concert, or try to get a ticket from someone before the concert, or post the set list and discuss the concert afterward. Another cool thing is if a band is on tour there is a red tag next to their name so you can be sure to go see them.

A brief history, Last.fm was started by Richard Jones while he attended the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science. In 2003 last.fm, which had become pretty developed, merged with audioscrobbler and they have grown into the site it is today.More @ wikipedia

You can sign up here: https://www.last.fm/join
This is the widget that syncs your media player and iPod (or other mp3 player) with last.fm: http://www.last.fm/download


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