I'm taking cue from another friend Missy who for some days uses themes to help keep her blogging by giving her something specific to focus on instead of staring at the screen until inspiration strikes. So with Tuesdays being the day that new dvds and cds are released, it seemed only natural to post something music related. While I'll try to share some of my new discoveries with you, I thought who better to kick things off with than Guster, the suburban wuss rok band that I consider to be one of my favorite bands.
It's been 479 days...
...since I last saw Guster live in concert. This is the 4th longest stretch that I've ever gone, and with no tour in sight for 2008, this may top out as my longest break yet. Okay, I'll give you a moment to finish laughing. I think we've established before that I'm a little OCD when it comes to keeping track of the concerts I've been to over the years, so it seemed a natural thing to calculate the days between shows of the band I've seen the most times.
That leads me into the recent Guster news - that they have left Reprise/Warner Brothers Records for Aware/Columbia Records with a new album in 2009. For me, this is bringing it full circle. When I first discovered Guster, I bought their first two albums (Parachute and Goldfly) from Viv (once stranger, now friend) as well as the Aware III compilation that they were featured on. I listened to the compilation manyMANYmany times over Christmas break that year and it was the beginning of a musical path for me. I discovered quite a few bands via Aware and would later become an Aware Rep (that would be how I end up with so many free promos to give out to friends). Also along the way, I became a Guster rep (rep name = "Jorgensen"), because that's what we fan(atics) do. I don't think I ever sold that many albums, but I'd like to think that I've converted a few friends over the years into fans.
With that, I give you "One Man Wrecking Machine" off of their most recent release "Ganging Up on the Sun."
