Do You Realize

Tahiti 80 will be guests of Laurent Lavige today on Radio France Inter's Ondes de choc at 23:30(which I'd assume is Paris time, converting to 4:30 pm Eastern Standard Time). Listen here. [info from band site]

New York City folk continue to prove why they live in the BEST city in the world(at least some of the time): catherine's pita(blog post 25-03-2005), daily refill dot com, and brooklynvegan got to see The Flaming Lips at Gotham Hall in the big apple last week. So even if it was a promo party for a car manufacturer, half-filled with celebrities and Flaming Lips fans forced to wait for hours in lineups in order to get in, it still looked amazing. [photo above of The Flaming Lips which I took at the 2004 Coachella festival]

There are a bunch of things on the horizon for Metric in the coming months, highlights of which include[info from the news update(March 28th) from the band's site]:

-> "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?’" is being released across Europe by NAÏVE. ! The album will come out April 12 in France, May 16 in Spain, April 19 in Belgium & Switzerland.
-> they'll be playing a couple shows in Vancouver on April 7 & 8 before heading to France for "Les Femmes S'en Mêlent" festival.
-> they'll be going to Tokyo to play CANADA WET! with Broken Social Scene, The Dears, Stars and Death From Above 1979.
-> on June 2 they’ve been invited by "Clean" director Olivier Assayas to play his event at the Art Rock festival in St-Brieuc, France.
- when they get back to Canada in mid-June they’ll be finishing up the new record and making the video for "The List".

David Gedge of The Wedding Present and Cinerama lists the "Music You Should Hear" over at Amazon.com. [link from Largehearted Boy]

Beck and his band will be performing songs from the new album "Guero" appearing on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic on March 31/05 at 11:15 PST(2:15 EST).

BBC 6 Music's Gideon Coe will be hosting some stellar live sessions this week with Kristin Hersh(March 29th) and Teenage Fanclub(March 30th). The live sessions usually begin around the 20:40:00 mark(about 8:40 London, England time or about 2:40 Eastern Standard Time). Or else the shows are usually archived for a week.

Shout out to Mishie of the super-terrific blog The Tear That Hangs Inside My Soul Forever
which was mentioned in the recent issue of Eye[see the piece on Coldplay]. Unfortunately, they didn't provide a link to her site. Make up for that oversight and go check out her blog. Now.