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If you haven’t yet been urged to check out The Airborne Toxic Event, well, number one, what kind of indie cred do you really have, and number two, where have you been!? I’m urging you as strongly as my fingers can type to check out this quintet from outside L.A. before their album drops the first week of August. It’s going to (hopefully) fly off the shelves.

After seeing the band kick off day 3 of Pemberton I’m convinced more than ever that these guys are going to be enjoying some MAJOR success by year’s end. They were sharp, witty, technically surreal and all-around happy people with not an ounce of pretension or ego. Hands down my favourite set of the weekend. I’m already stoked to see them again next week when I’m in L.A., as well as at Toronto’s Virgin Festival in September.

Here’s the set they played, courtesy of Mouse:

Setlist
Papillon
Gasoline
Happiness Is Overrated
This Is Nowhere
Sometime Around Midnight
Wishing Well
Innocence

And yes – they take their name from a section in Don DeLillo’s book White Noise. Journalists, please consider at least glancing at the band’s Wikipedia page before interviewing them cause I’m sure that even at this early stage they’re already growing tired of being asked ‘where their band name comes from’. Seriously!

Links:
MySpace: The Airborne Toxic Event

Posted on Monday, July 28th, 2008 at 5:18 am by Kat and is filed under Concerts & Events.

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