The Airborne Toxic Event (w/ Red Cortez and The Henry Clay People) @ Metro, Chicago, IL 10/23/09 (Videos & Review)

We posted the setlist and a clip of The Airborne Toxic Event's encore performance of "Missy" over here. Check it if you haven't already. I promised some more clips from the show and have finally been able to get a few uploaded.

I didn't get to Metro in time to see Red Cortez (8:15 is too late on a Friday night?) and only caught the last couple tunes from The Henry Clay People. Check out their version of the T. Rex classic, "Get It On".

The Henry Clay People - "Get It On" (T. Rex cover)


I did get to secure a solid spot for Airborne Toxic Event despite the packed house for the show. Good performance. I'm always curious how a band with one album of material will fill a show and ATE did a good job of playing most of their current album, some new unreleased songs, and some fun covers (see setlist). Some covers worked better than others. I'll stick to the original on "This Magic Moment", but the cover of recently passed Jim Carroll's "People Who Died" (a past TGITh Jam) by ATE w/ members of Red Cortez and The Henry Clay People was high energy and a fitting tribute to the fallen scribe.

Check the video of that tune and a couple others below.


The Airborne Toxic Event - "Does This Mean You're Moving On?"


The Airborne Toxic Event - "Gasoline"


The Airborne Toxic Event - "People Who Died" (Jim Carroll cover w. members of Red Cortez and The Henry Clay People)



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Airborne Toxic Event @ Metro 10/23/09 Chicago, IL (Setlist)

Airborne Toxic Event - "Missy"


Good show last night from Airborne Toxic Event @ Metro in Chicago. Many more videos to come. In the meantime here's the setlist from the last night.

Airborne Toxic Event @ Metro 10/23/09 Chicago, IL

Setlist:
Does This Mean You're Moving On?
Something New
This Magic Moment (The Drifters cover)
Gasoline
Sugarcube (Yo La Tengo Cover)
This Losing
Papillon
A Letter To Georgia
Wishing Well
I'm On Fire (Bruce Springsteen cover)
Sometime Around Midnight
New Tune (I like everyone/thing?)

ENCORE:
Innocence
Happiness Is Overrated
People Who Died (Jim Carroll cover)
Missy

Anybody else catch the show? Thoughts? More videos coming soon...

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Lollapalooza 2009 Day 3: Sunday Pictures (Alberta Cross, Ra Ra Riot, Passion Pit, and more)

After rain Friday and hotness Saturday it was another scorcher in Grant Park for Lollapalooza's Sunday Performances.

KZ was there and grabbed a bunch of good pics for those of us who weren't able to make it. Her photos from Day 3 BELOW.

Alberta Cross



Ra Ra Riot






Q101 Wall


Bat For Lashes



Airborne Toxic Event







Rock 'N Roll Poet Thax Douglas w/ his ladies


Dan Deacon






Passion Pit




Snoop Dogg




The Killers






As KZ said:

"Overall, a great weekend! I'm sad it's over. It's the same every year....so much anticipation and excitement and then the weekend flies by in a blur. But at least we have the pics..."

Thanks for sharing with the rest of us KZ.

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On The Run From Johnny Law

So we're relatively new at the blog thing but have been getting the hang of it and generally having a good time with it. This week we had our first post removed because the songs that were included and possible copyright infringements that the hosting of these songs would entail. Not a huge deal, but I am left to wonder if the copyright police stopped to read the post. We were recommending the Airborne Toxic Event album and that everyone go BUY it. You still should. I've reposted the text below and if you're a resourceful internet user you can still find the tracks (or if you've subscribed to our blog feed, the links still work). Try the hype machine or the band's myspace page.

The L.A. band, Airborne Toxic Event was just out in New York playing two sold out shows last week at the Bowery Ballroom with Alberta Cross. I originally stumbled onto The Airborne Toxic Event while searching for Alberta Cross shows. When I saw the two aforementioned Bowery shows were already sold out and Alberta Cross (who you also need to check out) was just an opening act I decided I needed to check out this headliner.
A busy week didn't allow me to make the attempt at getting into the shows last week but I did go so far to buy The Airborne Toxic Event's self-titled full length debut which came out last summer. The band has been compared to Arcade Fire and while I can see where this comes from I'd say they've got their own sound.
Anyway, when people ask me who I've been listening to of late I've been telling them to go buy this CD. So I will do the same here. Go pick up The Airborne Toxic Event. From what I hear they also put on a rad show, so check 'em out when they come to your town. Concert dates can be found here.