Best concerts, the hardest catagory:
1. The Strokes/Aragon Ballroom )(Brawlroom) (hands down the best show of the year--the boys came of age in just one year--and they announced the transition loud and clear. Great new material, no shoe-gazing, not fucked up, a tight, awe-inspiring set in a venue that isn't worthy of a livestock show).
2. White Stripes/Ist Ave. Minneapolis, MN (saw them in Chicago but THE show was in Minneapolis--they loved the venue and Jack played a very long electrifying set before a crowd that loved him--so much better than the Chicago gig, Jack camped it up with top hats and affectations that I never heard in the music. He proved himself to be a complete entertainer--and was totally at home in this great club)
