drugs... amy winehouse... no.....

Despite all evidence to the contrary, amy winehouse, was arrested in Norway for possession of the puff puff. luckily she was snagged in the kingdom of the vikings where the puff puff doesn't get you in too much trouble. seeing that both of the previous sentences provides basically no new knowledge for your eager-beaver brain that it didn't already know..... did you know that dublin was founded by the norwegians in 841AD? and the damn french are responsible for the current spelling because they were to lazy to actually call it Dub-linn. fancy day you can't learn something new.

in related news, winehouse's band, the Budos Band, previous mentioned on CYHFSN (here), just announced they are coming to the blackcat on December 15th. petrov loves the funkitude of their music. they are self described as playing a mix of "afrobeat, ethopian jazz and blues, and american funk and soul from the 1960s and 70s." quite the combination, no wonder they are hitting it with winehouse train(wreck).

fyi, petrov thinks the band deserves a seperate entry from winehouse, as he combined them before too, but it was just coincidence that petrov found out both pieces of news this week. so suck it, petrov is too lazy for two entries.

The Budos Band - Chicago Falcon

mountain goats

petrov went with bizzy to see the mountain goats last night at blackcat. petrov is certainly familiar with the mountain goats, but has never really listened that close to them before. who knew, they are pretty good. for those not familiar, its just two guys from Carolina (petrov thinks). this vague recollection is substantiated only by the fact they have a song named "Cotton". and as we all know, petrov likes cotton. but this a side track... they are two guys from Carolina that just play a guitar and a bass. they actually got people shaking for a couple songs, and that is quite a feat for DC. you would think the young whipper-snappers that clusterf*ck blackcat, would be more into dancing, but alas its just a DC thing to stand there and not dance.

The Mountain Goats - Cotton

who's coming to a venue near you

Petrov is excited... after a lul in petrov-excitable bands coming to DC... there is a new list of bands petrov would love to get his greedy little paws on tickets for.

Petrov has therefore provided you with some samples of some of the bands coming to Washington over the next couple months that are worth checking out. This post is going to be a bit on the monstrous side... but there is lots to be heard.

Petrov has also provided a rating system out of 10 of how he thinks these shows will shape up on an overall satisfactory scale (note that petrov clearly wouldn't want to attend any of these if they weren't good). So on a scale of 0-5... 0 is an enjoyment from the back of the crowd with arms folded in appropriate DC stature and 5 is petrov is leading a mosh pit in the front row... granted none of these are mosh pit inducing bands... but you get the idea. don't you? petrov doesn't.... so just pretend like you do and it will make this a lot easier.

*First up is Editors with Ra Ra Riot at 9.30 Club - September 4th
However, be sure to not confuse Ra Ra Riot with petrov's darlings of Ra Ra Rasputin.



**Second up is The National at 9.30 Club - September 5th and 6th
what blog isn't complete without mention of The National? perhaps this accordance will put CYHfSN in the lime light.... petrov doubts that though.


***Third up is Rilo Kiley at 9.30 Club - September 26th and 27th
petrov was having difficulty picking a song for rilo kiley.... for whatever reason, petrov has sentimental feelings associated with Jenny Lewis's voice. but that is neither here nor there. futhermore do not take The Frug as an condolence by petrov to EVER make a video with movie clips in it. petrov has heard they are not amazing in concert... but he still thinks this is questionable.


****Fourth up is The New Pornographers at 9.30 Club - October 27th


***Fifth up is Voxtrot at Blackcat - October 6th


*****Sixth up is Andrew Bird at Sonar (Baltimore) - September 29th

smoosh

when two pre-teens can rock as good as you, you should be a little concerned. but that is in fact what Smoosh does. petrov had heard of them, but had little knowledge of them until he saw them open for The Pipettes at blackcat a while back. he was indeed found to following standard DC indie concert protocol for bands one likes -- tapping foot, nodding head, and the optional a) arms folded or b) beer in hand. petrov was guzzling his beer bottle like a bunny on his mum's teet, so yeah petrov approves of smoosh.

at the SF performance they covered the bloc party song "this modern love" and did quite well in petrov's view. despite not being grown men who can actually rock and not make DAR Constitution Hall's, where petrov saw bloc party, acoustics sound as bad as they are, smoosh gives a good playing of the song. they were unable to make it their own, but like a fine cheese, age will cure that.

all things texan aren't bad

eh, petrov is a liberal northern who prefers snow to heat, so deal with it. so tonight the Austin, TX band, Voxtrot, is gracing the stage of the blackcat, meanwhile several blocks away, my maple syrup loving canadian sweetheart Feist is taking the 9.30 club stage. unfortunately, its a busy school night for petrov so he will be unable to attend either.

the Maple Syrup Princess, already graced a blog entry here a few days ago, so today Petrov is providing one of the slower songs off Voxtrot's first full length album. Petrov had some difficulty picking a song to share with you all because he has pretty much only consumed this album as a single unit, as it is a very digestible carrot album. Petrov just starts listening and next thing he knows its over and when its over it makes petrov very sad. So here is to the the "repeart all button."