Modern Minstrels

The Young and the Hopeless

Dana and I went to see Mest, Something Corporate and Good Charlotte at the Tower City Amphitheater. I've been listening to Mest for a while, but this was the first time I saw them in concert. I was hoping they would play "What's the Dillio?", but they didn't. They played a bunch of songs from their new self-titled album, and Joel or Benji came out on stage when they played Jaded. They also played Fuct Up Kid, Drawing Board, Hotel Room and ended with Cadillac.

Something Corporate played next, and put on a spectacular show as always. They played 3 songs (Only Ashes, Me and the Moon, and Space) from their upcoming album, North. They also played their standard set of songs including Punk Rock Princess, Hurricane, Fall, and If U C Jordan. The best part of their set was about halfway through when Andrew said, "Ok this next song is kind of long." This was the second time I've heard Konstantine live, and it sounded even better this time. Halfway through the song, Andrew climbed up on the piano and sat and sang. Konstantine is definitely one of the best relationship songs ever written.

The headliners of the show were Good Charlotte. They played a good mix of songs from their self titled album and their newer album, The Young and the Hopeless. You could tell most of the crowd had only heard The Young and the Hopeless, because when they played older songs, the amount of people singing along dropped noticeably. Before playing their last song, Benji said "Ok, this is the part of the show known as an encore, where the band usually acts like they are leaving. So pretend we just played our last song." What followed was a very odd mixture of boos and cheers. Benji stood there for a minute and then said, "No, you're supposed to chant something like 'We want more!'". It was pretty amusing.

One other interesting thing that happened towards the end of Good Charlotte's set is they had some random guy from the crowd come up on stage and play drums with them. Benji said it worked a lot better when Green Day did it, but the guy that got up on stage actually seemed to do pretty well.

Cute Without the 'e' Cut From The Team

Taking Back Sunday was on Jimmy Kimmel last night and they performed Cute Without the 'e'. Mike recorded and encoded it, so here's an mpg of their performance . The new members of the band fit in really well and the crowd really got into it.

The Best of Me and You're So Last Summer

The Starting Line were on Jimmy Kimmel last night and performed The Best of Me. Their performance was excellent, though I was hoping they'd get to play 2 songs. I'm looking forward to seeing them October 4th at the Drive Thru Invasion Tour and their acoustic EP/DVD entitled Make Yourself at Home is due out around the end of November.

Taking Back Sunday will be on Kimmel tonight, and my guess is they'll be performing You're So Last Summer which they just shot a video for with Flava Flav. That song has one of my favorite lyrics in it: "The truth is you could slit my throat and with my one last gasphing breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt." This will be their first TV appearance with the 2 new members of the band. If they play 2 songs, I would have to guess it would be Cute Without the 'e', Cut From the Team, which is a great song and the music video, which is based on Fight Club, is even cooler.

Update: The Starting Line's performance on Kimmel can be downloaded at Punk Rock Vids. Damn, that was fast.

Space

Being Tuesday, Apple added new songs to the iTunes Music Store. So it was about 9:50 and I had Distributed Systems at 10, but I thought I'd see what new songs were added this week. The single Space from Something Corporate's album North (due out Oct 21) was added to the store. A couple clicks and less than 1 minute later and I was on my way to class, listening to the song on my iPod. How cool is that?