Lacey’s Music Guide: November
Boy, do we have a treat for you this month. Forget the turkey; many fine bands are making it through Utah in the upcoming weeks. Plus, YHO’s first-ever live music giveaway!
Ben Lee plays this Friday at In The Venue. If you like Ben Folds, you’ll also dig this Australian Ben. His catchy pop songs are filled with fun beats and lyrics. Lee started making music in his teens. Five albums later, he continues to be a brilliant song crafter: enticing beats, catchy choruses, thoughtful lyrics. Case in point: Listen to “Catch my Disease” from “Awake is the New Sleep.”
Listen here. Suggested track: “Love Me Like the World”
Perhaps you’ve heard the Outback Steakhouse commercial with a jingle that goes something like “Let’s go Outback, tonight. Life will still be here tomorrow.” You might have found yourself tapping your toe, as you were hearing a catchy melody from Of Montreal. This band is known to layer quirky, psychedelic beats with peculiar lyrics. (In the “real” song, the lyrics go, “Let’s pretend we don’t exist. Let’s pretend we’re in Antarctica.”) I picked up “The Sundandic Twins” a couple years ago, and it took a few listens to get used to the high-pitched voice of the singer. But the bouncy beats keep me coming back for more. Listen up on November 16 at In the Venue.
Listen here. Suggested track: “Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse”
And last, but certainly not least, you’ve got David Bazan: the solo artist from Pedro the Lion. The often-ironic songster has proven to be a worthy solo artist who can hold up to his earlier work. Bazan’s music carries some religious undertones (he is the son of a pastor), thus, many have dubbed his a “Christian band.” One of my favorite albums, possibly ever, is Pedro the Lion’s “It’s Hard to Find a Friend.” Give it a listen if you haven’t already, or see him live December 4 at In The Venue. There are lots of Bazan-isms left to uncover.
Listen here. Suggested track: “Selling Advertising”
More shows to pencil in your calendar:
- Kid Theodore with Saturday Looks Good To Me: Wednesday, November 14
- Tori Amos: Thursday, November 29
- Iron and Wine: Friday, December 7
{Doorprize!} Oh, this is a good one. 24Tix happens to be my fave place to scout-out who’s coming through. The 24Tix crew contacted YHO and wants to give a pair of free tickets (up to $50 in value) to any concert they are promoting in the coming YEAR to just one lucky listener … err, reader. All you have to do is leave one comment on this post by 10 p.m. on Monday, November 12 for your chance to win.
Though not all shows in the below guide are available through 24Tix, you can get started on your shopping by clicking through the links in the below guide. Also, be sure to check out the 24Tix Experience Blog and its first-ever Community for a Cause benefit concert.
To get started on your 24Tix shopping, click on the pink links in the below guide. Also, be sure to check out the 24Tix Experience Blog and its first-ever Community for a Cause benefit concert.
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November 7th, 2007 at 9:45 am
This is an awesome giveaway. Thanks!
November 7th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Tori Amos would be awesome to see live. She does her thing and she does it well.
November 7th, 2007 at 10:00 am
I love concerts!!!!
November 7th, 2007 at 10:01 am
pick me! I need to go to a concert.
November 7th, 2007 at 10:18 am
I haven’t been to a concert in so long since I’ve had a baby. I need free tickets!
November 7th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Lacey- Love the tips ! Those are some great shows..
THanks! your the best!
- Cam
November 7th, 2007 at 10:36 am
Oh please pick me!!!
November 7th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Cool prize! Count me in!
November 7th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Sweet.
Lacey rocks!
November 7th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Oh my goodness! I have SO lost my groove, and these free tickets will MOST definitely help me find it again! Pick me please!
November 7th, 2007 at 11:34 am
I am so busy with grad-school that I can’t make it out to shows anymore. I am an Iron and Wine fanatic!!!! Swoon. Please pick me to win this prize. I am also a starving student and if I want to be the cool student teacher, I need to stay in touch with what the cool young kids are listening to. Ha! I am a true music lover. pick me! ;D
November 7th, 2007 at 11:40 am
I would love to win free tickets to a concert.
November 7th, 2007 at 11:44 am
I think I really need these free tickets.
November 7th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Lacey, always knows how to make YHO readers happy. Thanks for the run down of concerts. And free tickets?! Who wouldn’t post a comment for this prize?!
November 7th, 2007 at 11:49 am
GIMME some tickets! PLEASE!
November 7th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Count me in!
November 7th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Great giveaway! Pick me!
November 7th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
This one would be incredible to win. Hope I am the lucky one.
November 7th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Mannheim Steamroller…ready or not, here I come!
November 7th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I like this doorprize!
November 7th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
well this is the PERFECT giveaway for a music feen like me!
November 7th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
i agree with amanda p. i would LOVE to see tori live!
November 7th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I am the WINNER.
November 7th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
WOW! What a sweet giveaway. Yes Please!
November 7th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
iron and wine!!! pick me please! iron and wine!!! i just moved and i can’t afford groceries, let alone tickets! please, i would LOVE (we’re talking L-O-V-E) to go!!!!
November 7th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Yeah, concerts tickets. Thanks for the great info, I love Ben Lee!!!
November 7th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Oh la la! I heart Of Montreal.
November 7th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Dear Lacy, please stop letting everyone in on all the secret bands. They crowd the shows. ;)
November 7th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
would love to win. we don’t get out enough.
November 7th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
I would love to win me a pair!
November 7th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
ME ME ME!
November 7th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Oh, random number god: please pick me!
November 7th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Ooo, please pick me!!
November 7th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
ooh love it! so many great bands but would love to see iron and wine :)
November 7th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I have no clue who’d I’d pick if I won. But it’d most likely be a toss up between Of Montreal and Iron and Wine. Either way, I’m so down free tickets!
November 7th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Awesome! What a great give away.
November 7th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
This is a great give-away! It helps out those of us who don’t get out to the concert scene much any more. Pick me!!
November 7th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
concert+free=WOOHOO
November 7th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
This could be the best YHO giveaway yet.
November 7th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Here’s to my good luck!
November 7th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
okay
November 7th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
If I said “Pick the girl five above me” would that be the blogging equivalent of a psychological psyche-out (like, knocking on wood on the interwebs?) and make you want to pick me instead?
November 8th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Can’t resist throwing my name in …
November 8th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Pick me! My husband and I need a night out.
November 8th, 2007 at 9:08 am
I would love to see iron and wine and bazaan
November 8th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Yay for concerts! Love your website…
November 8th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I want to win!!! Have you ever seen Iron and Wine? I think they would be good to see???
November 8th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
My oh my! Pick me!
November 8th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
I would love to win this one!
November 9th, 2007 at 12:46 am
This could be the best giveaway yet! I heart YHO!
November 9th, 2007 at 11:38 am
I would love to go with J to Iron and Wine!!
November 9th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Seriously? Free tickets to a live show. YHO, you must know how much it would mean to me to win this one! For real.
November 9th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
I heart 24 tix.
November 9th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Very cool! I see a few listed that Id love to go to. Hmm… :”)
November 9th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
I’m dying to go to a free concert!
November 12th, 2007 at 8:48 am
My picks: Shonen Knife (sooooo entertaining) and Iron and Wine (though they make me feel a little melancholy sometimes)…. great prize.
November 12th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Wow, what a lineup! Sounds so fun…Pick Me!