I visited the Arcade Fire concert in Cologne yesterday. What a fine band. I completely enjoyed the band an the show. Very impressing and inspiring. Here is a picture posted on flickr:

And here is the setlist

Keep the car running
No Cars go
Haiti
Black mirror
Intervention
Neon Bible(Extended version)
Windowsill
The well & the lighthouse
Crown of Love
Ocean of Noise
Tunnels(long version)
Power Out
Rebellion
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My body is a cage
Wake Up

On the not so good side I can only say that the sound in the Palladium was awful. The sound guys forgot to turn on the microphone for Win a number of times. Apart from that they had a big problem with songs that had just a little bit more bass in them. Due to the fact that volumes were already at max the extra basses turned the Palladium into a big bowl of acoustic soup. That way at least three songs, including “Black Mirror”, got completely ruined. Thanks guys.

Every time I need to do this, I forget where I found it. This information is copied from here.

Vorbis ogg:
vorbisgain -arfs *

mp3 (using mp3gain):
find -type d -exec sh -c "mp3gain \"{}\"/*.mp3" \;

mp4 and mp3:
find -type d -exec sh -c "mp3gain \"{}\"/*.mp3" \;

mpc:
find -type d -exec sh -c "mp3gain \"{}\"/*.mpc" \;

flac: just use the –replay-gain option when encoding or use the following (treating all the flacs as one album!):

find originals -name "*.flac" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 metaflac --preserve-modtime --add-replay-gain

or you can create the following small script and call it with the name of your base directory (/srv/music, or something like that). This will treat all songs in one directory as one album.
#!/bin/sh
basedir=${1:-.}

IFS="
"
for dir in `find $basedir -type d`; do
ls $dir/*.flac >/dev/null 2>&1 && metaflac --add-replay-gain $dir/*.flac
done

You can listen to Justice. Nice video, nice song. Nothing new though.

Presented by Steve Balmer.

Link.