Tilly & the Wall on SESAME STREET from Team Love on Vimeo.

Here is Omahype’s slideshow from the Tilly show, including photos of UUVVWWZ, Thunder Power!!! and Tilly.

Here’s the whole set of photos, if you prefer that.

For a bit more detail, I can remember Tilly playing the following older songs: Urgency, Bad Education, Lost Girls, The Freest Man, Fell Down the Stairs, Nights of the Living Dead, and Reckless.

I saw UUVVWWZ, Thunder Power!!! and Tilly and the Wall last night at The Waiting Room. All three bands were pretty awesome. How can you not completely enjoy yourself at a Tilly show? Sadly, I forgot my camera last night, so no photos or videos, but I’m sure Omahype will have some posted soon, so I’ll put a link up when they do. The only disappointment was that Tilly didn’t play their new song Too Excited, which I love. They played some other new ones though, probably about 4 or 5. I’m a little mixed on them. Beat Control was really fun and danceable live. It seems like the vocals are really emphasized in the new ones, and there is less layering of the vocals and some of the sounds. But they still sounded good. I’m anxious to hear the album. Though some haven’t had the same impact upon first listen like some of the other Tilly songs have, I trust them and think it’s cool that they’re exploring different avenues.

It was my first time seeing UUVVWWZ, a band from Lincoln that I’ve been wanting to see for a little while now. They were pretty rad. I think I’d be even more into it had I heard any of the songs before (besides like once on MySpace), but it made me want to hear them more, which is a really good thing. The guitarist is pretty amazing. Their sound reminds me a little of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs…not a ton, but a little, and I’m not drawing comparisons based on their extroverted female lead singers.

Thunder Power!!! also sounded good last night. They played a new song that was upbeat and catchy. There was a good crowd for both opening bands, which is always nice to see.

No show for me tonight, I’m super swamped with work. I shouldn’t even be taking this break to write this post. Back to slaving away…

Free songs can be found here from Whispertown 2000′s Daytrotter session. A few of them are new and unreleased.

Daytrotter is a cool site that offers music from their live, in-studio sessions with bands. The studio is located in Rock Island, Illinois. Go Illinois! They have 3 bands in per week and each record 4 songs that they offer up to the cyberworld. They’ve had a lot of great musicians stop through, and they keep them archived. They seem to have a lot of cool, down to earth people on staff and feature the work of different artists too. Check it out when you can if you haven’t already.

Tilly and the Wall stopped by for an encore performance in September. Their songs (including two unreleased ones and one off their old Woo EP) can be found here. Too Excited is awesome, they played it the other night (Pictures of Houses too) and it was really great and energetic live. Kianna sounds a little like two of my all-time favorite singers in the song – in the opening she sounds kind of like Corin Tucker and then in the chorus (“Boo hoo”) she channels Bikini Kill-era Kathleen Hanna. I’m not one for comparisons, and to even mention either one of those names in conjunction with a different band or singer is near sacrilegious because of my reverance for both of those singers, but that’s what really struck me when I heard this. So that’s a big compliment from me to Tilly. I’m super excited for them to start working on their next album.

Here’s Tilly & the Wall’s entrance to the Slowdown stage tonight in Omaha. They were awesome. They looked like they were having a lot of fun. It’s so great when bands actually smile. Members of Tilly smile a lot. That is one of the great things about them. They played a bunch of great songs, the tap dancing was amazing (the number of tappers is growing…), the crowd was really into it — and the show was free! Can’t get much better than that.