The Airborne Toxic Event are playing at the Black CAt here in DC tomorrow night (with Henry Clay People opening, who you should definitely not miss). This is a band whose musicial influences and preferences are pretty interesting and different (this is a band covering Goodbye Horses for pete's sake). Drummer Daren Taylor and lead singer/guitarist Mikel Jollet founded Airborne a couple years ago, and something I've always enjoyed the two of them is how truly fucking funny they are together.
This gives you a good indication of both these points; the music is good but the banter is priceless: Daren Taylor and Mikel Jollet dj on Q RAdio, 7/3/09.
Playlist:
:: The Airborne Toxic Event - Some Time Around Midnight
:: Neil Young - Revolution Blues
:: PJ Harvey - This is Love
:: White Stripes - Red Rain
:: XTC - Radios in Motion
:: Roxy Music - Editions of You
:: Stevie Wonder - Heaven Help Us All
:: Bob Dylan - Boots of Spanish Leather
:: David Bowie - Quicksand
:: The National - November
:: Modest Mouse - Bankrupt on Selling
:: The Clean - Tally Ho!
:: Brian Eno - Third Uncle
:: Pavement - Here
:: Leonard Cohen - If It Be Your Will
:: Pulp - Common People
:: Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
:: New Order - Age of Consent
:: Iggy & the Stooges - Gimme Danger
:: M83 - Kim and Jessie
:: Beach House - Gila
:: Lykke Li - Little Bit
:: The Cure - Close to Me
:: The Airborne Toxic Event - Gasoline
