I got plenty of Southern sun this morning before the sky opened up and dumped buckets of rain all over as I raced towards my rental car. I’ve crossed the state line from South Caroline into Georgia, currently in Savannah. Sometimes it takes a lengthy road trip to sort through your iPod and rediscover old favorites. That’s exactly what happened today with Visiter, the hard-to-resist recent offering from The Dodos.

I caught these guys based solely on word of mouth buzz at South By Southwest earlier this year, and wasn’t disappointed. Ok, it didn’t hurt that the singer/guitarist was rocking and old school 49ers t-shirt. I was in the front row for their entire Hot Freaks set at The Mohawk.

The Dodos play a free show at the UW Madison campus on Wednesday, July 9th. I’m hoping that scheduling will allowing being able to catch the band and then head over the Majestic in time to catch Lee “Scratch” Perry.

Photo: Chromewaves
Daytotter: The Dodos
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Myspace: The Dodos
MP3: The Dodos – “Fools”

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