Last night, emo godheads Dashboard Confessional and pop-punk has-beens New Found Glory kicked of a national acoustic tour here in L.A., fittingly at this city’s most famous home of strum, the Troubadour. Read about the surprising results here (via Spin).
Balls for all my friends!
There’s also a separate photo gallery featuring Andrew Herrold’s excellent images from the night, and you can read my review of Dashboard’s Alter The Ending here (via The A.V. Club).
Brooklyn’s Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino, collectively Matt And Kim, may be best known for turning out warehouse parties with their synthesizer-heavy, four-on-the-floor dance-rock, but the pair are pop-punk kids and hip-hop heads at heart. And, as it turns out, fans of The Microphones (Mt. Eerie) and Belle And Sebastian to boot. We recently played “Random Rules” (via The A.V. Club) and the results will make you laugh, cry (maybe just a little), and — if the comments section is any indication — shout obscenities. Click here, after watching the amazing video for “Lessons Learned.”
Also, if you never got a chance to hear Eagles Of Death Metal’s Jesse Hughes snort meth during his “Random Rules” interview, check that out too.
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