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Lots happened over the weekend, but keeping in line with RTP’s historic eye toward environmental awareness, I’ve condensed three bits of news into one post, saving at least a few eTrees.

ONE

Saturday night Quirken, Rev Dave and I all saw St. Vincent at Schuba’s. Rev was at the early show and Quirken and I were both at the late show, and I have to say that I was a bit disappointed. Now don’t get me wrong…I absolutely love that album, even after what I’m sure has been several hundred listens. For that reason alone, I was expected to be blown away, and I just wasn’t. The arrangements of some of the songs just didn’t do the album justice (Paris is burning comes to mind immediately), and Annie’s stage banter was verging on annoying. Her whole switching from microphone to microphone for (slightly) different vocals effects was way overused and seemed a bit gimmicky, and there was a general sense of apathy among the band. Maybe they were just tired from the first show — I’m interested in hearing Rev Dave’s take. Overall, it was a decent show, but didn’t come anywhere close to fulfilling my expectations. Highlights were the closer — Marry Me — and Annie’s solo, mid-set cover of the Beatles’ Dig a Pony.

TWO

Though I didn’t attend myself, my brother hit up the Angels & Airwaves show at Riviera last night and said that it kind of blowed. For those of you familiar with these guys, you know that the record is a bit over-produced, especially as compared to the Blink-182 catalog, and competing band +44’s studio efforts. Well according to my main boy and brother Anthony, it really showed in the performance, especially with Tom’s vocals, which he said sounded terrible. Not incredibly surprising to hear. At all. I do still like that record, though.

THREE

Perhaps the most exciting part of this post: big congrats to Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova on their Oscar win for best song. The movie Once is a huge favorite among RTPers, and definitely deserved a nod. Their acceptance speeches are included below — and I say speeches because they actually brought Marketa back out after the commercial break because the music started up and cut her off after Glen said his shpeel. This was very cool of whoever made that decision, and very surprising since she wasn’t the only person to get cut off by the music. It also gave John Stewart a few openings for some very good jokes. That Stewart is one funny dude.

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