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Matt & Kim - 6
The Decemberists - 6

Wavves - 5

The Antlers - 4
The National - 4

The Killers - 3
Spoon - 3
Cold War Kids - 3
Kings of Leon - 3
The Redwalls - 3
Death Cab for Cutie - 3
Kansas - 3
The Whigs - 3
Cymbals Eat Guitars - 3
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - 3
LCD Soundsystem - 3
Blitzen Trapper - 3
The Cribs - 3
U2 - 3
The Flaming Lips - 3
Fleet Foxes - 3
Deerhunter - 3
TV on the Radio - 3
Best Coast - 3

Coldplay - 2
Red Hot Chili Peppers - 2
The Shins - 2
blink-182 - 2
Foo Fighters - 2
Styx - 2
Louis XIV - 2
The Raconteurs - 2
Tokyo Police Club - 2
Angels & Airwaves - 2
Kanye West - 2
Rage Against the Machine - 2
OK Go - 2
The Doobie Brothers - 2
The Black Keys - 2
Viva Voce - 2
My Morning Jacket - 2
Ben Kweller - 2
White Rabbits - 2
!!! - 2
Animal Collective - 2
Titus Andronicus - 2
Atlas Sound - 2
No Age - 2
Bon Iver - 2
Occidental Brothers Dance Band International - 2
Born Ruffians - 2
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some are laughable, but whatever.

The Beach Boys
Simple Plan [x2]
Avril Lavigne
War
Sugarcult
MXPX
Lesbians on Ecstasy
Le Tigre
The Faint [x2]
Bright Eyes
Boys Night Out
Motion City Soundtrack
Panic! At the Disco
Fall Out Boy
Placebo
Limbeck
The Format
Grand Ole Party
The Bird and The Bee
Rilo Kiley
Northern State [x2]
Tegan and Sara [x5]
Lupe Fiasco
N*E*R*D
Kanye West
An Horse
The Dollyrots
Ratatat
West Indian Girl
Cold War Kids
The Hives
The National
Man Man
Ssion
Tilly And The Wall
Kaki King [x2]
The Daylights
Katy Perry
Stephen Steinbrink
Jamie Stewart
Figo
Ladytron
Ear Pwr
Nite Jewel
Telepathe
Hesta Prynn
The Ting Tings
P!nk
Ingrid Michaelson
MEN
Peaches
Princeton
Art Brut
Metric [x2]
HUNX + THE PUNKETTES
Smith Westerns
Girls
Wildbirds & Peacedrums
St. Vincent [x2]
Nico Vega
Keltic Cowboys
The Bollox
Flogging Molly
Between the Buried and Me
Mastodon
Audra Mae
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Best Coast
Bad Veins
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Flight of the Conchords
Flogging Molly
Frightened Rabbit
Grand Ole Party
Heartless Bastards
Jenny Lewis
Jimmy Eat World
Kings of Leon
The Kooks (3 times)
Minus the Bear
The Morning Benders
Mumford And Sons
Plants & Animals
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Whigs
Weezer
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Ziggy Marley

+Sun God Festival: Free!
May 15, 2009
Picture with Motion City & autographs! Dancing to Girl Talk ftw.
~Grand Ole Party
~Iron & Wine
~Sara Bareilles
~Motion City Soundtrack
~Girl Talk
~Nerd

+Switchfoot: Free
June 27th, 2009
~Timmy Curran
~Tristan Prettyman
~Switchfoot

+Copeland: $15
House of Blues
July 12, 2009
Hate HOB, but awesome lineup and great performances. Bought a shirt. :D
~Meese
~Anchor & Braille
~Sherwood
~Copeland

+Club Moscow: $10
Boardner's, LA
Sept 10, 2009
~As Tall As Lions

+The Cavern Club: Free
Liverpool, UK
Dec 23, 2010
Kappa

+Nation of Shopkeepers
Leeds, UK
Jan 29, 2010
Spectrals
Fair Ohs
Real Estate

+Brudenell Social Club
Leeds, UK
Mar 19, 2010
Times New Viking
plus guests

+Nation of Shopkeepers
Leeds, UK
June 2, 2010
Milk Maids
Medusa snare
Smith Westerns

+Newport Beach Food Festival
Newport Beach, CA
Sept 18th, 2010
Don't Stop Believin'
Foreigner

+Disneyland Tomorrowland Terrace
Anaheim, CA
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Here's whom I can remember seeing over the years:

* = seen live multiple times
*** = seen live so many times I should get an award

A Place To Bury Strangers
A-Trak
Against Me!
The Airborne Toxic Event
American Bang*
American Music Club
amiina*
Amy Winehouse
Andrea Corr
Andrew W.K.
Angus & Julia Stone
Animal Collective
Annie Lennox
Annie Stela
Antony
The Apples in Stereo
The Arcade Fire*
Architecture in Helsinki
The Arctic Monkeys
Aretha Franklin
Aṣa
Asobi Sesku*
Atlas Sound*
Autolux

B. Dolan
Bad Brains*
Band of Horses
Basia Bulat*
Bat for Lashes
The Battle Royale
Beach House
Beastie Boys***
The Beets
Ben Harper*
Benevento/Russo Duo
Big Audio Dynamite*
The Bird and The Bee
Biz Markie
Bjork***
Black Ice
The Black Keys*
Black Kids
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Black Swan Green
Blank Dogs
Bloc Party*
BoDeans*
Bonde do Role
Bone thugs-n-harmony
Bootsy Collins
Boris
Boys Noize*
The Breeders
Brother Ali
Bruce Springsteen
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1. How did you get into 31?
Tsunami Bomb
I first heard them on a duncan yoyo video. then my cousin got me into them again.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Broken Social Scene
i think it was "wind surfing nation"

3. What's your favourite lyric by 29?
Coldplay
"We live in a beautiful world"

4. What is your favourite album by 49?
Tegan and Sara
"So Jealous"

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Arcade Fire
5 includng the two LPs a bunch of demos, Live Ep with David Bowie and a string Quartet tribute

6. What is your favourite song by 50?
The Action Design
"connect/disconnect"

7. Is there a song by 4 that makes you sad?
Regina Spektor
maybe "Samson"

8. What is your favourite song by 15?
Explosions in the Sky
"Your hand in Mine"

9. What is your favourite song by 5?
Interpol
"Narc"

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Danny Elfman
the opening credits to charlie and the chocolate factory.
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The Hood Internet - DePaul University (01/09/2009)

The Virgins w/ Lissy Trullie - Schubas (01/29/2009)

Lykke Li - The Metro (02/07/2009)

Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham (performing 13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests) - Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art (03/07/2009)

The Kills w/ Magic Wands - The Metro (05/09/2009)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs w/ Grand Ole Party - The Aragon (05/26/09)

What was the last concert you attended?
Amon Amarth/ Ensiferum/ Belphegor/ The Absence @ The House of Blues in Chicago, 10/13/08

How many people were there?
i dunno, a few hundred at least

What bands have you seen in concert the most, and how many times?
Haste The Day (when Jimmy was still the singer)- 7 times
Black Label Society- 6 times
Still Remains- 5 times (b/c they played with Haste the Day a lot)
Umphrey's McGee- 4 times
Demiricous- 4 times

Do you have any set lists? From what bands?
the actual physical set list that the band had taped to the floor or wherever? No. I do have a ton of set lists that I wrote down from different bands at Bonnaroo each year, both Tool shows, and Amon Amarth.

Are there any CDs in close proximity to you? Which ones?
hundreds. I shan't name them all.

What band are you in the mood to see live right this second?
Tool (I'm always in the mood to see them, so I suppose they don't count), Amon Amarth, Phish, Yonder Mountain String Band, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Amorphis
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