Justice, People Don't Blog About Them Enough

So I've decided that I am very eager to see the much ballyhooed Justice on October 20th. They've put out the best straight dance album of the year (Dan Deacon falling somewhere between quirk-pop, noise rock and dance is out of the running) and post Daft Punk I'm really terribly excited to have a more directly engaging French electronic experience.

The other thing is of course the defining buzz. How can one possibly not want to be at this show?!

Tickets go on sale today. The show is at the brand new Terminal 5. They cost $25. It starts pretty early for a Saturday night dance show(7pm).

P.S: This show is sadly a Ticketmaster event. Echk.

OMG! The Totally Irrelevant MTV VMA's Are In Full Hype Swing

Anybody watch last year's VMA's? I didn't. In spite of the Racounteurs and Jack Black I couldn't imagine careing about an award show for music videos presented by a reality TV network dedicated to not promoting music videos at all. This year something strange has happened a few catagories have nothing to do with videos. Which is cool.

Even cooler though is the fact that amongst the nominees are some pretty great acts. I know what you're thinking Rihanna, Lil Mama, Justin Timberlake all great, maybe the White Stripes and perhaps the fresh and fairly popular Lily Allen are represented. "Great Tim, but really no surprises there." That's true no surprises there. What is surprising is Swedes Peter Bjorn and John being nominated for Best New Artist. Still more surprising is the Video of the Year nomination for Justice's "D.A.N.C.E", really?!

Of course getting me to watch is still a bit more difficult impending performances from Lily Allen, Kanye West and the Foo Fighters (who were in spite of my mixed feelings the only performance worth seeing in the Live Earth TV coverage) might help. Will I watch I suppose that depends on my options for the night but at least Mtv has acknowledged how terrible their last few years have been.

My Choice for video of the year wasn't nominated:

Justice Video

Earlier today Pitchfork posted this video in their Fork-cast section. For some reason it has disapeared, but I think the video and Justice themselves are awesome. As such I've reposted the darn thing...
Justice "D.A.N.C.E."