we saw: King Khan & the Shrins and Deerhunter

"It Never Stops"
{Bad Ass Photo's by Dese'Rae L. Stage}

First things first, King Khan is a fucking lunatic. That said, it should come as no surprise that he threw hundreds of banana's at the audience, spit the remnants at us, jumped on us, got a Beeej from Duffy (via Spin cover), hated on Germany, threw some more bananas, made a beautiful Man-gina, walked around with flowers in his ass crack, pulled Tim Harrington's cock out and then poured beer down his pants. If that wasn't enough, he rocked the park hard and then Deerhunter came on.

Bradford and Co did not disappoint, performing crowd favorites like "Strange Lights" and "Flourescent Grey", while also touching on Microcastle jams "Never Stops", "Nothing Ever Happened" and "Saved By Old Times." We didn't stick around for the Black Lips, but from the looks of it they brought there usual antics, and more King Khan pranks. Definitely a lot sweeter than the line at the MGMT show.

King Kahn & The Shrines


Deerhunter

Pitchfork Day 3: King Khan and His Shrines

"Throw Some Mother Fucking Trash"
(This Great Photo by dde)
Day 3 of Pitchfork got off to a slow start, but that's just because we were still drained from having our heads warped by Animal Collective. While Mahjongg played one of the most unexpectedly enjoyable sets of the weekend, Sunday didn't really get started until King Khan and The Shrines brought their sex'd up punking psychedelic soul revue to the B stage. Needless to say, the dude did not disappoint, delivering a set that exceeded the hype and cemented Khan as the Indian love child of Iggy Pop and James Brown. We were also treated, although we didn't know it at the time, to a short set by King Khan, Bradford Cox and Jay Reatard later in the evening, but it was nothing like Khan's ridiculously raw powered afternoon show. Really excited to see him tear up McCarren Pool in a few weeks, when he comes to Brooklyn with Black Lips and Deerhunter (August 3rd).

King Khan killing Pitchfork

Sunday Brunch: SwitchBurn.TV

"He's got old, cold hands"

Sunday Brunch is a recurring feature where we explore some music related ish that we find enjoyable. In this edition we highlight live music documenteer's SwitchBurn.TV. While, there is no shortage of unique live performance videos competing on the web these days (La Blogotheque's Take Away Shows, The Black Cab Sessions, etc), what makes SwitchBurn.TV so great is that they take us to the most familiar place but provide a unique angle makes viewing a regular gig seem utterly fresh. Like Wallace Steven's "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (my favorite poem), it's all about perspective.

The concept is simple: the SwitchBurn guys capture a show, like the Black Lips show at Austin's Emo's (above), by using multiple cameras to document different angles. But rather than editing the different angles into a single shot, instead they present all three angles at one time, giving you the feeling of being in the middle of the pit, center stage and on stage all at the same time. Unless you're a total schizo, you've never seen a show the way SwitchBurn.TV presents it. Essentially, they make it possible for you to be in the bathroom, at the bar and raging the front row at the same time. Pretty cool if you ask me. So far these guys have done videos of ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Dan Deacon, Dead Confederate, {{{Sunset}}}, and the aforementioned Black Lips. Expect more in the near future.

Dan Deacon "Crystal Cat" at Emo's, Austin, Texas 1/11/2008