Astronautalis Is the Surprise Hit of the Evening

January 7th, 2010

I’m back from the Tegan and Sara show. Man they rocked! I’m still not totally sold on everything in the new album but there are some songs that really caught me during the performance. So tomorrow it will be time to give Sainthood a proper spin.

It was my third time seeing An Horse, the openers this evening, and I think this was the best An Horse show yet! I like them more and more each time I see them.

The first act to go on was Astronautalis who’s a dude with a theater degree that put a laptop on stage with his backing songs and then blew us away with these crazy songs about stealing and blackmail and drug dealing in the 1800’s (strange but true). The highlight for me was when some girl in the front row flipped him off and he went off on a highly entertaining rant at her expense. When he sings he sounds like a mix of Tom Waits with a rapper and an auctioneer.

So I’m totally wiped out and heading to bed. First show of 2010 was awesome and may be the best show of the year.