Frak It Friday: Elsinore's YES YES YES clip on So You Think You Can Dance

News from the Elsinore Twitter Account! And, may I say, its a very appropriate chorus for a competitive reality show.

Frak it Friday: Elsinore - "Wooden Houses"

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/watch-elsinore-wooden-houses

First alerted to this by tinymixtapes who called Elsinore "orchestral pop wizards."

What a great video to go with such a great song!

New Elsinore Album Out!

...And Facebook thought that I wouldn't know, even though I'm a fan of Elsinore on Facebook, so they helpfully suggested it.

 

Good try, Facebook, I'm all over it!

[You should probably be checking out their new album right freaking now]

Frak It Friday - "Across The Sun" by We Landed On The Moon!

The show (with Elsinore) last night was pretty awesome. The Tea Bazaar was such a great little place that I'd love to pick up and move to DC, preferably down the block from my apartment.

I think I'd seen We Landed On The Moon at some point, but for some reason this time they really stuck out. They were also selling their album on flash drive and it includes the music video above as well as the album art. Its good to know the future is here and some bands accept that the only format of the song I need is the one that goes onto my iPod.

[And now, after fourish hours of sleep, I shall go to work. Totally worth it.]

Elsinore - Yes Yes Yes

I feel like the title needs more exclamation points. Like, "Yes! Yes! Yes! by Elsinore!"

I finally got around to buying the Chemicals EP and I am really enjoying it. I'm hoping to see them tomorrow in Charlottesville, VA as long as the weather cooperates. My fingers are crossed.

Frak it Friday: "Chemicals" by Elsinore

Oh man, so I miss Champaign-Urbana so much that I shouted when the Blind Pig showed up in this.

And I'm seeing them soon! Its a bit of a trek but I definitely can't wait.

Still on an Elsinore kick...

To supplement the concert on Sunday I've been listening to Ryan Groff/Elsinore non-stop. This includes trolling Youtube for videos and being extremely disappointed that Timid Maggie Mae was never filmed. The above is "How To Fight Loneliness" a cover of Wilco. It is excellent.

Side note: I searched "landlocked by cash crops" and my site is first. Out of four. I'm not sure if this is saying anything. Its a tiny bit exciting.

No longer landlocked by cash crops? No problem?

There was a point in my life in which I'd be at an Elsinore concert once a month or so. It's been ten months since my last one.

Towards the end of the concert, I asked if they were going to play "Timid Maggie Mae" which is one of my favorite songs of theirs.

Their response? "Who are you?"

Fair enough. They claim they haven't played that song in two years, when I know for a fact I heard it at the concert in the park last June. Instead, I get the above song dedicated to me: Landlocked. The song I (among others) dumped into an Elsinore playlist three weeks ago. The song that choked me up on the way to the metro:

"People in the Midwest
Have giant hearts inside their chest
Landlocked by cash crops"

Surrounded by tall buildings and honking cars, I am no longer in the Midwest, no longer landlocked by soybeans or corn. No longer able to go to Elsinore concerts once a month or so.

I am a tiny bit homesick. Going to the concert felt a tiny bit like coming home. Apparently the bar (The Velvet Lounge) smells like Recycled Records in Springfield, IL.

It was a great concert. Too bad it was a Sunday night, and Easter Sunday as well.

The below video is just hilarious. Just fantastic. Kristen, you should watch it.



And, OH MY GOD Ryan Groff (lead singer) looks so young in this:

I'm homesick for Elsinore!

Elsinore is coming to DC, and this is a relief. One of the things I miss most about the Champaign-Urbana area are Elsinore concerts.

I need not miss them anymore! They are going to be at the Velvet Lounge on April 12th. I'm breathing a sigh of relief.