Been having problems with Google-related web-based services (that is gmail and blogger), where you try to log in and then nothing happens. It's off and on, and I would have posted yesterday or the day before but I couldn't get into the web site.
Anyway.
On Friday we finally managed to go to an honest-to-goodness indie inspired music type show thing here in Buenos Aires, a very small one at a cafe. I get the feeling it was just the people who didn't go on holiday figuring out something to do with themselves - it really is like the Paris of South America in that the entire city empties out for summer. There were three acts, the first one who seemed to have a different guest star come up for each track, and it was all OK but seemed a little uninspired - kind of like a translation, if you know what I mean
Next was a guy by the name of Rubin, and he did a lot of covers of English stuff (including a Magnetic Fields song that I'd never heard of) and he was Veronica's favorite. He seemed a bit disillusioned and not having much fun, though. Maybe he was having a bad day?
The third group was a kid by the name of Ale Lago who is now fronting a band by the name of Impermeables, one of whose distinguishing characteristics is a lack of any youtube videos with decent sound. But their references seemed to be a bit more recent - Foo Fighters and Weezer instead of The Beatles, Elvis Costello et al. - and doing what sounded best to him.
Also, last night we went to an open-air amphitheater type thing to see an old-school tango guy perform on the accordion along with a pianist and someone on upright bass. We got cold in the end and left before it was over, but it was pretty good music.
Will hopefully have a report on a jazz bar that looks pretty good as well, sometime next week, if I can log in!
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