Rattail - “Go Green” When I was a kid my family moved around a lot, because of work and other things. We had trouble affording to live on our own a lot, so we would live with extended family members, and that would kind of run its course sometimes. I didn't really stay in one place for more than a year. It was good and bad and all that, but I'm only talking about it because of one very specific feeling. I would keep it a secret from everyone I met that I could be leaving forever at any given moment. It was this burning secret that I would keep to myself, and it would lay a thick layer of emotion onto simple interactions. If I was mad at people, it would make me feel better, fuck them I don't need them. If I liked people, if I was in love with someone, I could force that burning secret into the wound and make it hurt even more. This song makes me remember that very specific feeling, of driving away from some place forever. It's early morning, we'd stop for food nearby, and then I'd eat as I watched all the neighbourhood stuff pass through the foggy car window. I'd write shapes or words in the wetness. This song feels like the act of pulling two people apart.

Rattail - “Keeper” Gorgeous, throaty guitar and a thick, fuzzy pulse. I can sleep in this music. Finally, I can sleep.

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Sleep Whale – “Cotton Curls” From the Denton, TX band’s forthcoming full-length, Houseboat, out 11/10 from Western Vinyl.

“Wish He Was You” is a great new Best Coast song, and it’s now streaming on her Myspace.

I am very excited about seeing Phoenix perform tomorrow night in Central Park. I know most people are just really into the songs, and yeah, they’re great, but I mostly go to Phoenix gigs for the free bread. If you didn’t know, Phoenix is notorious for tossing baguettes out to the audience during the song “If I Ever Feel Better.” They used to have a baguette cannon, but I guess someone got hurt at a gig, and now they just toss them underhand to people in the first few rows. So you know, you’ve got to get up front if you’re hungry.

I love it when bands have an official food or beverage that they share with the audience during their concerts. I have personally experienced the following:

• Animal Collective They spray the audience with a Kombucha hose during the lead-up to “Fireworks.”
• Sufjan Stevens Has stagehands pass out tiny cups filled with samples of local beers and wines from whatever city he is playing that night.
• Neko Case Fun-size packs of Goldfish crackers handed out to the people furthest from the stage.
• Nine Inch Nails Concertgoers who purchased their tickets for the Wave Goodbye tour through NIN.com received a coupon for a free “Love It”-sized ice cream creation at Cold Stone Creamery at the merch booth.
• Feist Pinkberry frozen yogurt gun, part of official endorsement deal.
• Lykke Li Cream of mushroom soup.
• The Smashing Pumpkins Pumpkin spice flavored fortune cookies, the “fortune” is a spiritual blessing or aphorism from Billy Corgan.
• Sonic Youth Skittles.
• Vampire Weekend Water balloons filled with gazpacho.
• U2 Provisions dropped on the cheap seats from helicopters above the stadium.
• Insane Clown Posse Faygo, duh.

What is the best food or beverage you’ve seen a band toss out/spray at their audience?