Fantastic set again from Jenn & Andy, this time in support of Barack Obama for reasons we went over at length last week.

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Wye Oak
The Metro Gallery
Baltimore, MD
October 26, 2008

Band:
Jenn Wasner-guitar, vocals
Andy Stack-keyboard, guitar, vocals

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this interview are highly political and solely my own, which is why I have identified the interviewer as myself and not the whole of Aural States.  Aural States as an entity is politically neutral…like Sweden.

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MP3: Wye Oak – Remember, Above from Daytrotter Sessions

As I walked into El Rancho Grande, that lovely community-invoking coffee-house on Falls Road in Hampden, I see strewn across the table lots of construction paper.  Surrounded by people cutting furiously and laughing.  The cutting is for hand-crafted posters advertising Hope Night, an Obama benefit night of music, community and activism.  It is an immediate realization of the ideas inspiring the night.

And they’re just getting started…

I took some time out last night to chat with Andy about this Sunday’s event, how it developed, and more specific reflections on the nature of politics and music…

Greg Szeto- So…what happened exactly? Read the rest…

I have tried to apply the lede to nut graf format I learned during my brief print journalism career to Aural States posts. My former editor rode me for excessive “throat clearing.” I never got over that habit, and I’ll now take the chance to indulge.

I had gotten very little sleep the night prior to this show, and had been working outside in the hot sun all day. I came to the Metro Gallery badly sunburned and dehydrated. All I really wanted to do was zone out on the couches in the back. I seriously contemplated skipping out on the night, and going to sleep early.

Physically I was present for the opening acts, but not really mentally with it enough to make definitive critical judgments. Read the rest…