6 Weeks of Concerts, 8 Minutes of Video 

Apologies in advance for the pedestrian entry. It's about 2 weeks late and I would have had more to say if I had written this more real-time. Instead, you get a video. So, that's cool.

Over the past few weeks (about 6, to be exact), we've been had a nice run of concerts. First, we had a bill of We Were Promised Jetpacks (best name in music) and Tokyo Police Club (one of the best names in music) at Royale in Boston.

I'd been a bit turned off over the past couple of months at shows, as the crowds had gotten decidedly disinterested in the music and interested in chatting it up and being seen (which is why a place like TT the Bear's is nice -- no one goes there to "be seen"). This was show was better -- it was a random Thursday night, school was over, so it wasn't a scene. It was just a few hundred people who liked the bands there to check them out. Both were spot on.

Then, a few weeks later, we hit up Bank of America Pavilion (probably my second least favorite place to see a show) to see Arcade Fire. Arcade Fire, at the time, were probably the only band I really love that I'd never seen live. They didn't disappoint. Just a spectacle from beginning to end, only tempered by the fact that BoA Pavilion is such a craptastic venue.

Finally, a few days after that, we checked out Interpol at House of Blues. They played a nice mix of older stuff and stuff off the new album (which sounded pretty good). Interpol isn't a hugely dynamic band (especially compared to Arcade Fire), but it was a good crowd and Interpol seemed to feed off it and really ripped into things.

Anyway, after all that, I decided I wanted to screw around and learn iMovie a bit. So, for your pleasure, here's four bands and probably 5.5 hours of music cut down to 8 minutes.