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Bringing You Comfort, Baby

RILO KILEY AT STUBB’S

Sometimes when you go and see one of your favorite bands play, however good the show may be, you find yourself strangely disappointed, either because the set sounded too stagey and planned, the group didn’t play any of your favorite songs, or the crowd was just not feeling it. That was definitely NOT the case with Rilo Kiley’s set last night at Stubb’s here in Austin. Blasting through a set of stone cold classics (”Pictures of Success” AND “Better Son/Daughter”?? No way!) and amazing newer tracks (”Dreamworld”, “Breakin’ Up”, “Close Call”? Awesome!) on this one of the band’s last stops on their “Under the Blacklight Tour”, Blake Sennet, Jenny Lewis, and the rest of the gang mounted an indie assault with loose flair in front of an incredibly receptive Austin audience that would soon forget! More pictures and the setlist (as best as I can remember it and a little bit out of order) and more pictures below!

Setlist: “Close Call”, “Moneymaker”, “Capturing Moods”, “Dreamworld”, “Breakin’ Up”, “Ripcord”, “The Absence of God”, “It’s a Hit”, “With Arms Outstretched”, “Does He Love You?”, “Better Son/Daughter”, “Silver Lining”, “I Never”
Encore: “Pictures of Success”, “15″, “Portions for Foxes/Spectacular Views”

Rilo Kiley – “Spectacular Views”
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MF DOOM/J DILLA COLLAB EMERGES

According to the Stones Throw website, before J Dilla’s untimely passing he collaborated with none other than our favorite emcee MF Doom as well as the infamouse Ghostface Killah on a variety of tracks using samples from his swan song Donuts (some of these tracks ended up on Fishscale, while the Doom tracks have never surfaced).

Now, Stones Throw will be releasing two of these Dilla/Doom/Ghostface tunes exclusively through their website (they’re called “Sniperlite” and “Murder Goons”). You know as soon as we get wind of these tracks we’ll let you readers in on a listen, but let’s just all salivate at the possibility of Doom’s awesome flow over a J Dilla beat. Sweetness!
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GIRL TALK TALKS NEW ALBUM

According to this interview with Pitchfork, Gregg Gillis AKA Girl Talk will be releasing his newest album via ‘the Radiohead/NIN/pay-what-you-want model’ before the end of the week! That’s good news to us as this mashup-artist’s Night Ripper was one of our favorite pop wonderworks of yesteryear so we’ll be waiting with bated breath for Feed the Animals (not Food for Animals mind you, haha). Also check out the Girl Talk Myspace for the dronetastic prep-track for the album. Weird stuff man!

Comments anyone? Anyone at this Rilo Kiley show get any better pictures?