The New Pornographers cover Electric Light Orchestra’s “Don’t Bring Me Down” on a French TV show:

http://hypem.com/zeitgeist/

Some good stuff in here — a lot of my favorite artists of 2007 are on the top albums list.

This also reminds me that it’s probably about time for me to make my personal top 20-ish songs of 2007 list.

Feist was on Letterman on Monday night with an all-star indie rock chorus backing her up. Members of the chorus include AC Newman of New Pornographers fame and members of Mates of State, The National, Grizzly Bear and Broken Social Scene!

Pitchfork: Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 - Friday
Pitchfork: Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 - Saturday
Pitchfork: Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 - Sunday
Check out Pitchfork’s coverage of their own music festival in convenient bite-sized daily recaps. There are tons of photos here, especially of the madness that was Of Montreal’s Sunday evening set.

Gorilla vs Bear: Pitchfork Music Festival
None of their favorites are my favorites, but their recap of the overall festival experience is right on.

Brooklynvegan: Rilo Kiley announces some 2007 tour dates
No Milwaukee yet, but there are some gaps in the schedule, so let’s wait and see…

Pitchfork: Of Montreal announce Fall tour
They were thoroughly entertaining during their hour-long set at P4k and they’ve got a nice tour coming up, including a stop in Milwaukee (at the Pabst) on October 4th.

Brooklyn Vegan: fire marshall shuts down DAN DEACON & GIRL TALK @ the 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival
The Pitchfork Music Festival was this weekend in Chicago’s Union Park. We were there. It was fun. My brief review:

• The weather was awesome — absolutely zero complaints
• The non-music components of P4K are VERY well done - water (and Fuze!) were only $1 a bottle, and that was for the mega 25 oz bottle of H2O. Beers were $4, and it wasn’t your typical watered down Light beer either, it was one of three varieties of Goose Island. Giveaways were plentiful, the merchandise tents actually had merchandise that you know, you might actually buy. (If you like to collect vinyl versions of today’s best Indie Rock, you could probably find it here.
• The people were friendly
• There were some great performances - New Pornographers, Of Montreal, and Cat Power (even though she kept apologizing) were the most memorable
• Union Park is super easy to get to and from

We were on the other side of a fence for the start of the Dan Deacon show, and as the link above explains, it was a little crowded (we left when we couldn’t see and the crowd started to get annoying).

The only downside of the entire fest experience? The two d-bags who forced their way into the crowd and acted like idiots during the New Porno show. I hope their hangovers were massive, causing them to get fired from their jobs today…

Pitchfork: Overlooked Records of 2007
Looking for some less-hyped music than say, Feist, The National, St Vincent, etc? Well, look here!

The New Pornographers are coming to Milwaukee, with the FULL band (including Neko and Dan!!!) — I couldn’t be more excited!
- Tickets go on sale this Friday