Five Things

The D Man is back after some serious legal training. His trial team won a large (imaginary) verdict and The D Man brought down the house with a stirring closing argument. ("Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?"). Unfortunately, all of that heavy lifting ultimately left The D Man in the throes of pneumonia. That's right, good old-fashioned pneumonia. Wish me well, but the music must go on.

• The Dewars opened up for The Drums and Surfer Blood last week. They may be the worst opening band I've ever seen. We wanted to punch them in the face, and the Rizzo got out a few well-timed cat calls that they definitely heard.
• The Drums needed to turn down the reverb on Jonathan Pierce's vocals. Otherwise, cool band with some serious potential. Jacob Graham's washed-out guitar playing was definitely the highlight.
• Surfer Blood sounded excellent with a no nonsense performance. Played some new tunes that were very promising.
• This song came on while celebrating the end of a long week, straight from the jukebox in the hotel pub, and made my entire night. In a perfect world, that should happen much more often.
• "Lemonworld" is a great track from High Violet. Found this live performance. And "Modern Man" from The Suburbs seems to be a first cousin.