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For those who care about such things, this is the second straight week that Future Island's For Sure took the Number 1 spot, while James Blake's Are You Even Real? fell from second place to fifth. All the other songs debuted on the charts this week.
Blake is to indie what Drake is to hip-hop: as much as you want to hate him, he unexpectedly pulls something brilliant out of his ass, and you have to give him his due.
Got sidetracked there before I could finish out by recap of Day One of Shaky Knees. After Surfer Blood, Haerts, Mitski, John Grant, Wavves, Zella Day/Mac DeMarco, The Mountain Goats and American Football, I went back to the Buford Highway Stage tent, even though the sun was setting by then, to hear James Blake.
It was a great set, enhanced by the creative use of stage lighting which was then finally possible due to the encroaching night. But honestly, I don''t know if I have anything more to say about it other than to say that live, Blake sounds just like his recordings.
After James Blake, the only band left on the schedule for the day was The Strokes. I left before they started playing, because they're The Strokes and it's not 2003 anymore. However, I saw on the interwebs that Mac DeMarco joined them on stage for one song, so that must have been fun.
That's all I have time for right now, as I'm off to Day Two of Shaky Knees soon. More on all of this and the inevitable recaps later, or follow me live today at Instagram.
