Absolutely Magical

I don't know if you've noticed, but I love music. A lot. Like feel it in my bones gives me goosebumps type of love. I can't live without it. I used to be the kind of person that could sit in silence and read a book for hours, and I can still read a book for hours, just not in silence. I need to have something on, which is probably why my iPhone battery is always drained. It probably helps that my brother is a music producer and I have amazing friends that expose me to wonderful DJs and bands. But I think my favorite part is that I don't feel the need to identify with one genre.

I can listen to Britney Spears and then skip over to Beirut and then put on some System of a Down and then listen to Zac Brown Band. Throw in some Afrojack and Old Crow Medicine Show and I'll call it a night. But I will obviously only call it a night if my iPhone is on and playing some XX or Angus and Julia Stone, since I can't fall asleep without it. But I guess that's the beauty of being a music fan, I'm not ashamed that I like Britney Spears - yes her voice is nasally and some of her songs make me want to kill myself, but her other songs still make me smile, and that's all that matters, right? I hate it when people claim to be music fans and then give people like me a hard time for listening to the cheesy music I love. If you love music, be respectful of a persons right to listen to whatever they want. My ear drums can be titillated in a completely different way than yours, so recognize that and move on.

Now to the main point of this post...Arcade Fire. I've been listening to Arcade Fire for a while now, but they were never heavy on my rotation. I mean, I've listened to the Mumford and Sons CD 947 times (seriously, ask my iTunes), but I'd listened to their CD a couple times and I was really excited to see them live for the first time at Coachella. I didn't want to hype it up too much in my head because I didn't want to be disappointed, but I knew I was in for a treat. And let me tell you, I was right.

Their show was a total mind f**k, but in the best way possible. I've been trying to describe the experience to people, and the only word that I seem to be able to get out is magical. But that's really what it was. Magic. Like not possible for something to be so amazing, so it must be magic? Yeah, like that. I hope everyone that saw them at Coachella thought the same thing, but again, different strokes for different folks. For me, it was a mind blowing, feel it in my bones, give me goosebumps performance. For others, it could've been just whatever. I'm hoping it was the feel it in the bones kind for everyone.



If you EVER have a chance to see them live, please do so. They made my heart smile that night and I want your heart to smile too. I'm going to see them at Outside Lands in August, go to www.sfoutsidelands.com for tickets so our hearts can smile together.