I Need Some Fine Wine And You Need To Be Nicer

The Cardigans performed a live acoustic session for BBC 6 Music's Gideon Coe today which featured performances of "I Need Some Fine Wine And You Need To Be Nicer" and "Don't Blame Your Daughter". Listen to the session here(the session is around the 20:40:00 mark and the program's archived for about a week). Compare their acoustic performance of "I Need Some Fine Wine And You Need To Be Nicer" with the band version. Watch the music video here, featuring the full band version of the song. The acoustic and full band versions of the song are like night and day but man do they both do the job nicely. The acoustic version sounds melodically like something off of "Long Gone Before Daylight" but the band version has the band rockin' out in their own unique melodic way. Check out Nina's rock poses in the video too. Can't wait for the new album "Super Extra Gravity" which according to the band's website is set for an international release on October 17th. Explore the minisite for the new album. The single for "I Need Some Fine Wine And You Need To Be Nicer" was released in the UK today. [photo from http://../]

Teenage Fanclub will be performing a live session for Morning Becomes Eclectic tomorrow at 11:15 am PST, 2:15 pm EST.

The Arcade Fire launch their new website. It's pretty but a little cumbersome at first. The website seems nothing more than the band's cyberspace scrapbook. Those of you using an 800 X 600 display may have to fullscreen the display in order to see the whole page. It appears that Us Kids Know will continue to carry the USEFUL info like tourdates and such.

Read The Posies' Jon Auers' wife Michelle's blog as she posts about the first two days of the band's current tour. I think I'm having an 11th hour change of heart(I stayed home from work today because I had a cold but I'm feeling a little better) and I'll likely head down to Lee's Palace soon to go to the show. We'll see. Update(8:47 pm): I'm not going anymore. I'm hungry, I'm tired, I'm not fully dressed and I haven't fully gotten rid of this cold yet. Who am I kidding? I guess I'll have to read Michelle's blog to find out how the concert went. Hope there's a good turnout and the show goes well.