<![CDATA[Idolator: Chavez]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Idolator: Chavez]]> http://idolator.com/tag/chavez http://idolator.com/tag/chavez <![CDATA[Neil Diamond Rides The Fader]]>
Thanks to the sedentary demands of blogging and the 200-person capacity of New York's Bitter End, I didn't make it to last night's MySpace-sponsored Neil Diamond show. But through current videotape and Flash video technology, I can feel like I was there while half-blindfolded and surrounded by people yelling "WOOOOOO"! Check out the clip of "Cherry Cherry" above—and if you have better vision than I do, you, like the Daily Swarm, may notice that Neil's guitarist is none other than Matt Sweeney of Chavez and Zwan. Yes, really. He's "all over" the new Neil Diamond record, too. Hey, this seems like a fine excuse to post the video for "Unreal Is Here," doesn't it?



I also like that this is one of the first YouTube search results for "chavez -cesar -hugo":

Neil Diamond rocks out with Chavez (sort of) [The Daily Swarm]
Chavez - Unreal Is Here [YouTube]
Neil Diamond On Bleecker Street, Take Three [YouTube]

]]> http://idolator.com/388603/neil-diamond-rides-the-fader http://idolator.com/388603/neil-diamond-rides-the-fader Thu, 08 May 2008 14:00:00 EDT Maura Johnston http://idolator.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=388603&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Chavez Hears The Roar Of The (Possibly Imaginary) Crowd]]>
Because it's Friday afternoon, Maura's left me to fend for myself a la Don't Tell Mom The Babysitters Dead (complete with sink full of unwashed dishes), and the fact that it's the kind of week where this starts looking like a juicy story, it's time to reach for that all-purpose space-filler: songs I loved in college. But judging by how many 2006 Jackin' Pop ballots Chavez appeared on (including mine) thanks to their complete discographical compilation Better Days Will Haunt You, the knotty '90s New York indie rockers are still widely beloved (at least by rock critics) for records like the tender "The Unreal Is Here," a slightly anomalous entry in their all-killer catalog with a big ol' wink of a video that captures their brief heyday of stadium-hopping and hobnobbing on choppers with current and future Hollywood celebs located on lists b through z. Wait, wait...could these be the "arena rockers" Courtney Love was talking about? [YouTube]

]]> http://idolator.com/362553/chavez-hears-the-roar-of-the-possibly-imaginary-crowd http://idolator.com/362553/chavez-hears-the-roar-of-the-possibly-imaginary-crowd Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:50:06 EST Jess Harvell http://idolator.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=362553&view=rss&microfeed=true