My blog has been quiet lately because I typically write at night, but I’m in the middle of a concert binge. I went to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Architecture in Helsinki and Takka Takka opened) yesterday at Summerstage in the park. I’m going to Diplo, Girl Talk, and Peeping Tom tonight at Irving Plaza (to benefit Creative Commons). And, I’m seeing Cyrus Chestnut with a wide variety of other jazz musicians at Columbia tomorrow.

Needless to say, this is a very good problem to have. I’m always willing to take on a culture overload.

The CYHSY show was terrific. The highlight of the CYHSY set was a song I never heard before. I’m guessing it was called “Satan” because they repeated it over and over again, but I’m not certain. I bought the tour EP, but I haven’t listened to it yet, so maybe it’s on that. However, the highlight of the whole night was easily the Architecture in Helsinki set. The crowd seemed pretty confused… AIH is not as listenable as the other bands on the billing, but they played with 10x the passion and gusto. “Neverevereverdid” played live is a tidal wave of twee… totally awesome. You can hear it streaming when you load AIH’s site.

I’m excited for Cyrus Chestnut because he and James Carter (who is also playing at Columbia) recently released a series of Pavement covers. I got to see Cyrus play at the Newport Jazz Festival this year, and they he was the best set of the day.

Hear Cyrus and James’s rendition of Pavement’s “Cut Your Hair”. Then watch the Pavement video for “Cut Your Hair”. Cool contrast.

Finally, I can’t believe my luck over the Diplo, Peeping Tom, Girl Talk concert tonight. I went to a Creative Commons session today at the Warhol Foundation today. With the schwag pack, they gave out free tix to the show tonight because it is a benefit for Creative Commons. I have been a big Diplo and Girl Talk fan since their respective pitchfork reviews, so I am stoked about the tix.

The Creative Commons session itself was great, but I’ll follow up on that in a more tech-oriented future post.