What are you listening to?

[Löwenherz]

Waited a few days so I could listen to Fiona Apple’s Pretrial (Let Her Go Home) - her first new music in 5 years - on my birthday.

Harkens back to 60s rhythmic drum circle and protest chant music with a theme that reminds me of Bob Dylan’s Hurricane - all with Apple’s The Idler Wheel / Fetch the Bolt Cutters common object percussion and layered vocals flair.

Thanks for dropping by Fiona. Hope to hear from you again soon.

 

[Warhawk]

Just got back from a quick overnight jaunt with my wife to Las Vegas to go catch a couple of icons in concert together that we had never seen live before - Billy Joel and Sting. Billy Joel was one of my wife's "bucket list" performers to see (and Sting is obviously great too) so we celebrated our anniversary a bit late with the trip to catch this.

They were fantastic. I couldn't believe how good they sounded, especially in a football stadium. They had that place dialed in. It sounded great. And they both did some medleys or had a little fun with their songs while playing most of their hits. For instance, Billy Joel worked in a little Elvis (Viva Las Vegas) and had Crystal Taliefero (who is also freaking great) splice in a little River Deep - Mountain High in a song - just awesome. Sting mixed up Roxanne with some new rhythm in the middle (pretty cool) and kicked it up a bit on some other songs (more drums, great guitar work). Just a whole lot of fun! A little article on it:

Billy Joel, Sting performed during packed Las Vegas show | Kats | Entertainment | Entertainment Columns

As you know, these two would not be in my top 10 artists or anything but they put on a heck of a show.

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Wow, glad we got to see him (Billy Joel) when we did! Hope he heals up!

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/entertainment/billy-joel-tour-canceled-nph-brain-disorder

 

[Warhawk]

Also, my wife and I went to go see Simple Minds on Tuesday night in Concord. They put on a very entertaining show and sounded pretty darn good themselves. Very cool.

Was not really impressed with Soft Cell (opener). Pretty meh.

I was bummed we missed Modern English as the first opener. There was a 6-car pile-up as we got close to the amphitheater and the diversion around the back side of the facility was about 3/4 of an hour.

 

[kingofkings07]

The Rock Steady Crew

 

[kingsboi]

after a 16 year absence, its as if they haven't missed a beat. Clipse returns with Let God sort em out (2025) and this will be in constant rotation. much love

 

[Warhawk]

Caught some excellent bluegrass tonight up in Redding!

 

[Warhawk]

Tonight, this: Candlelight: Queen vs. ABBA

These aren't my videos, but it was just like this, except in the Sacramento Railroad Museum surrounded by the metal behemoths of a century ago. ABBA in particular was transformed using the quartet of stringed instruments and no vocals - beautiful music in its own right yet the words are just playing through your brain at the same time. Very cool event.

 

[Warhawk]

Caught this concert tonight. My wife likes the Indigo Girls (just not my vibe for the most part) but I'm a MUCH bigger Melissa Etheridge fan. She puts on a great show and rocks the place. If you like rock music, go see her live if you can - I think she's better live than on her albums. KT Tunstall was good in her own right.

 

[kingsboi]

I've been sleeping but thanks to Spotify, they woke me up. Dame Dolla "The Letter O" is quality material

 

[TheBigO]

We've been expanding our vinyl collection so most of my really focused listening is to those albums, especially the most recent ones. Right now that's been Mk.gee's debut album, "Two Star and the Dream Police". It's really good.

Last Friday I took my two oldest to see Nine Inch Nails at Ball Arena here in Denver. It was supposed to be my wife and daughter (who are both big fans) but my wife was unfortunately sick. So my son (who knew nothing about NIN) went instead. His only review was that it was "very loud", even with the earplugs we gave him.

 

[kingsboi]

the Wu dropping some goodies this summer with Raekwon's Emperors New Clothes and Supreme Clientele 2 by Ghostface

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

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