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The Shins Live Video: Turn on Me

March 24, 2007 at 11:51 am · Filed under music, portland, video

Subterranean Blog, those somewhat lovable ‘MTV in an indie-blog disguise’ cats, have posted a video of some live Shins material. I didn’t notice at first, but the video is them playing inside the Crystal Ballroom to a crowd of zero, during the day. Perhaps sound checking before their show here? Or maybe just getting some footage for the sake of having some video to toss around. What do you think? Either way, we’re damn lucky to have some of the world’s greatest bands living here in our big little city. Looks like the video footage for A Comet Appears is at the Crystal as well, except at night with all the fancy lights going, yet still without an audience. I’d post the videos here, but since they are MTV, they have some sort of confounded, evil, embedded player that I don’t really care to try to steal from. Call me crazy but I just hate getting sued. Ruins my day, every time. Did anyone here in Portland or anywhere else around the world get the chance to see them? Here tickets sold out at an incredible rate, and scalpers were selling them for as much as 75 bucks a pop.

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grady wrote @ March 24th, 2007 at 3:15 pm

Dude!! I totally want to see that video for Australia! That is by far my most favorite song on the album!

Oh and you need to have a Widget for your RSS Feed!! I’ll make one for ya! And give it to ya on Wednesday! (i’m playing around with mine tonight!)

Zac.Parker wrote @ March 24th, 2007 at 5:15 pm

y’know… I haven’t really spent enough time with the new album to have developed a favorite. I feel bad for that.

I look forward to playing with your widget!

Shirley wrote @ March 25th, 2007 at 11:23 am

Don’t understand a thing Zac!! How about music?? I like most of the country singers, Keith, Josh, Jack, etc.

Zac wrote @ March 25th, 2007 at 12:00 pm

Not everybody will enjoy the same music I do. That is certainly okay. Likewise, I can’t seem to understand how people can intentionally listen to country music.

MTV2 Subterranean wrote @ March 25th, 2007 at 8:38 pm

Zac:

We are watching you.

Love,
Subterranean

jdub wrote @ March 28th, 2007 at 9:23 am

I intentionally listen to country music because its not as inane as say, most other music on the radio. I simply adore 90.3 (which up here is NPR), however, because they play such a vast array of music stylings, its hard to hear a few songs more than a few times. I love them for it, but it without extended technology (mainly a laptop and my ipod… fucking homeless kids) its hard to keep up and enjoy.