Power Out

Last night's Arcade Fire was good. Not really, really amazing like the folks at Tuesday's show said it would be. Tuesday evening ended with a funeral procession through the crowd and out the door, while Wednesday's show ended with Win getting lost through the crowd and a bunch of kids climbing off stage after contributing to "Wake Up." It didn't really end with a bang. Actually, it was anti-climactic and there was only a single song in the only encore, so yeah, after hearing about two, maybe three encores at Tuesday's show, it was a letdown. But overall the show was worth the $24. The band was tight, Win was crazy, Regine was adorable and the strings sounded amazing.

While I found openers Wolf Parade underwhelming, Final Fantasy (aka Owen Pallett of Hidden Cameras) was simply wonderful. Dressed in really, really tight pants and accompanied by an overhead artist, he looped his violin and made me wish I grew up like every other Asian child and took violin lessons.