Sufjan Stevens - Photos from Nashville

The evening started with a two hour line just to get into the club!

Sufjan Stevens and the Illinoisemakers opened up their set with "The 50 States" song.

The Illinois State Seal is proudly displayed.

It's cheer time!

The gals of the Illinoisemakers.

Sufjan and guitar.

Goodnight Nashville

Sufjan Stevens Tonight In Nashville!

Sufjan Stevens will be performing at the Mercy Lounge tonight in the Cannery Ballroom. Thank goodness I bought those tickets early seeing as the show is now sold out!

The Music Lovers playlist for 9/22/05

1. I Know There's An Answer - Sonic Youth from Goo (Deluxe Edition)
2. Crooked In the Weird of the Catacombs - Oranger from New Comes and Goes
3. Mr. Insecurity - Agent Sparks from Not So Merry EP
4. Ruins - Kingsbury Manx from The Fast Rise and Fall of the South
5. Zoom! - Super Furry Animals from Love Kraft
6. Guardians of the Second Tower - Saxon Shore from Be A Bright Blue
7. Bodies and Minds -Great Lake Swimmers from Bodies and Minds
8. Every Day That We Wake Up It's A Beautiful Day - Fruit Bats from Spelled In Bones
9. All of Our Tomorrows - Sam Champion from Slow Rewind
10. I Will Tell - Carter Tanton from Birds and Rain
11. Era Prison - The Joggers from With A Cape And A Cane
12. Looking Back I Should Have Been Home More - Richard Swift from The Novelist
13. Teachers - Soulwax from Night Versions
14. Give Me Every Little Thing - The Juan Maclean from DFA Compliation #2
15. I Need Your Love - The Rapture from Channel 3 - A Compilation of Output Recordings
16. Blacking Out the Friction/Brand New Love - Death Cab For Cutie from The John Byrd EP
17. Cinderland - Grandaddy from Excerpts from the Diary of Todd Zilla
18. What I Would Say In Your Funeral - Mugison from Mugimama Is This Monkey Music?
19. Fire Engine On Fire Pt. 1 - Flotation Toy Warning from Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck
20. Happy Birthday - Sufjan Stevens from A Sun Came
21. Year of the Tiger - Sufjan Stevens from Enjoy Your Rabbit
22. Holland - Sufjan Stevens from Greetings from Michigan
23. He Woke Me Up Again - Sufjan Stevens from Seven Swans
24. Chicago (To String Remix By Jongalloway - iTunes Exclusive) - Sufjan Stevens from Illinois
25. Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros from Takk...
26. I'm Getting Back Into Getting Into You - Silver Jews from Tanglewiid Numbers

The Walkmen w/Richard Swift - The Evidence

The Walkmen performed a highly energetic show last night at the Hi Tone. Above singer Hamilton Leithauser pleases the crowd with the hit "We've Been Had" from the 2002 album Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone.

The boys ended the show with the cover "(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone".

The show started a bit early than I expected but I still got to see the last four songs from Richard Swift's set.

The Walkmen Play the HiTone!

The Walkmen will be making a rare apperance in Memphis on Tuesday night at the Hi Tone. Their 2004 release Bows and Arrows was one of the most critically acclaimed records of that year and the explosive single "The Rat" was number 5 on the Lover's Top 20 singles of 2004 show. I have a friend that would listen to "The Rat" each morning on his way to work just to get ready for the day ahead. He really could have picked any number of songs from The Walkmen to get that same feeling.

Opening for The Walkmen is Richard Swift whose albums The Novelist and Walking Without Effort have both been reissued on Secretly Canadian. I really enjoy Swift's sound and look foward to seeing how it all translates to a live audience.

Hi Fidelity Becomes A Blog

If you are a regular listener of the Lovers than you know there is one show on WEVL that I plug more than any other. And that is the always excellent Hi Fidelity, which comes on every Wednesday night between Midnight - 2AM (and repeated Monday afternoons between 2-4). For the past months, the show has had a home on a Myspace page but host Doug has now moved into the blog world. You can check out the new site here.