Other than the fact that the doors opened an hour and a half late, there really wasn't a bad thing about this show. The first band, The Selmanaires' set was really great. I thought their sound was pretty great; it's sort of a Deerhunter/Animal Collective/Post Rock mix which was pretty fun to see live.

Atlas Sound, the show's headliner went on second (I assume he did this because of how late the show started and that there might have been people who needed to get going pretty soon). His set was really great! I have a hard time deciding what the highlight was: either the song "Attic Lights" or when Bradford invited a heckler on stage for some serious public reaming. To see a video of said reaming, here's a link to a video recorded by Shawn of ElectricMustache.com:

Bradford Cox Destroys A Heckler At The End Of Altas Sound Show in Phoenix

I guess you could call Broadcast the closing band, but that seems to carry a negative connotation and I don't mean it to because the part of their set that I saw was pretty incredible (it was getting late and I had to get going). Their light show really made it an performance. It was a series of black and white images that would warp and distort as they effected their music. It was pretty intense.

All and all it was a very fun, but late night.

Regina Spektor, November 1st, Roseland Theatre, Portland OR

I feel like I dwell on the negative a little too much in reviews, and that's something I should work on, but the crowd fucking sucked. Yes you, the crowd of 12 year old girls and high school drama nerds who have no idea what it means to be a good concert goer. When Jupiter One came out I had about 15 or 16 middle school girls inside my asshole (not literally) who started screaming like the Backstreet Boys just walked on stage.

Jupiter One did put on a good show though. Their music isn't really my cup of tea; it's a little poppy for my tastes, but I could tell that they were having fun, and that the loved what they did, so that made it pretty enjoyable. Also, their lyrics were a little cliche (a personal pet peeve), but that hasn't stopped about 99% of the music industry.

Regina was awesome! Her music is just so much damn fun! She's almost too cute to live! But the crowd got even more annoying and pushy during her set (screaming lyrics and burrowing deeper into my butt hole), so my girlfriend and I had to move out of our great spot (4 people away from the stage!) to the back in order to enjoy the show.

All and all it was a fun show, almost ruined by kids too young to be set loose onto the world without supervision. I want to close this by saying that the point of getting to a show early is to be close to the stage. If you are too short and too young to be able to see over people, come early, don't shove your way to the front when the lights go out. It's just not cool, and that's what we're all going for, right? To be cool?