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I'm sure they'll be touring extensively over the summer and fall, and they'll probably have some dates in North America before and after they return to Europe. --Mike

Loose Fur St. Anne's Warehouse 12-7-2002 --Mike

I think WVU got screwed too, but given that fact that I'm from West Virginia I am psychologically incapable of thinking otherwise. --Mike

He just can't quit him. --Mike

Apparently despite going 22-9 in the Big East, WVU isn't a lock to get into this thing. I guess I'm going to have to follow the NIT too this year. --Mike

I've been thinking about this all morning and I'm pretty sure it's AM BT ST YHF AGIB (Demos) AGIB KT SBS --Mike

I wasn't to impressed with what I heard from that either. Maroon had it's moments, but everything up to and including Stunt is much better. I could listen to Brian Wilson for days and I love their cover of Bruce Cockburn's Lovers in a Dangerous Time. --Mike

I was thinking that today actually, Speed. I kind of prefer You're Really Gone, though Hate it Here is slowly growing on me. --Mike

Yeah, it was part of a half hour documentary VH-1 did on the video re-realease of Yellow Submarine and the Yellow Submarine soundtrack disc that came out in 1999. I have it buried somewhere in my VHS collection at home. It was pretty interesting. --Mike

As usual, you find some of the best music stuff on the internets. Thanks a lot for the link. --Mike

Yeah I'm pretty sure the only thing circulating at the moment is people's rips of the webcast. --Mike

Yeah I am with everyone on the love for You Are My Face it's the perfect marriage of two of my favorite Tweedy cuts, Muzzle of Bees (which might be my favorite song ever) and Loose Fur's Wreckroom. It's a stand out for me and I can't get enough of Sky Blue Sky and Please Be Patient With Me. Hate it Here is starting to grow on me, and the album as a whole is quite pleasing to me. While my favorite stuff of theirs is probably always going to be more in the vein of YHF, Ghost, More Like The Moon EP, and The Wilco Book, I still appreciate the direction on SBS and I'm looking forward to seeing thes

I love the Dream Academy, Life in a Northern Town is an incredible track, I enjoy their self titled record quite a bit. I've heard of the Missing Persons, but not actually anything by them sadly. As far as guilty pleasures, I'm a fan of the Barenaked Ladies I find their earlier work to incredibly enjoyable to listen to and I followed them up to Maroon, I sort of download a few tracks from the more recent releases here and there. I enjoy the first three Counting Crows albums a lot, they were one of the first semi-contemporary bands I got heavily into, and I love Phish's Billy Breathes and enj

I'm just in a Loose Fur mood tonight. --Mike

. What a strange, beautiful record this is. --Mike

I'm a big fan of Glenn's, his work on the new album is great though I'd love to hear a lot more of him on it. I can't think of a single rock drummer I enjoy listening to more. --Mike

Well for awhile it was the trifecta of Wilco, Elliott Smith and Grandaddy for me, though now sadly two of those artists in that trifecta are no longer making music. I consider Radiohead, Yo La Tengo, The White Stripes The Flaming Lips, Jon Brion and Califone to be in the same ballpark as Wilco, but they still are the leaders of the pack in my mind. At the moment I'm in a pretty heavy Smog/Bill Callahan and Eels period, so I have a feeling those bands will probably end up, up there soon enough. If Neutral Milk Hotel ever does anything active again I'd have them up there. --Mike

That'd make would make Ghost Tweedy's "Plastic Ono Band", the heartwrenching album of intense reflection he made as his first statement after losing his songwriting partner. That sounds about right actually. And eventually time showed us that Lennon could write great songs without McCartney, but overall he was a hell of lot more consistent with Paul around. Same thing could be happening here, too. And countining this analogy out even further, we're due for Jay's "Band on the Run." --Mike

Majestic "Desolation, hurt, and anguish are hardly the only things in life, or in Astral Weeks. They're just the things, perhaps, that we can most easily grasp and explicate, which I suppose shows about what level our souls have evolved to." --Lester Bangs

... They better do Feed of Man with Donna in attendance. --Mike

I had the same expierence. Both are worth checking out, and Ghost is probably going to take some time to get into, but it's worth sitting with. --Mike

Yeah espiecally considering how excellent Lewishon's recording sessions book is. Though considering my love for all things Fab Four, I'm sure I'll eventually get this. --Mike

Looking forward to reading reports of this. I hope Jon's still playing when I have some disposable income ten years down the line, until then I'll listen to bootlegs and read Uyen's blog while eating Ramen . --Mike