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Nope, our Adams is by all reports a good enough dude. Ryan Adams is all yours, America.

Ahhh a European run to warm up before the soon to be announced 10 province, 3 territory Canadian tour. Yes, very smart.

Yikes. We've always known he was an asshole. If you told me yesterday "TCP, tomorrow the New York Times will publish a takedown of a popular songwriter that own records of" I wouldn't even hesitate in guessing Ryan. But writing beautiful songs doesn't excuse abusive behaviour. It's all bad but the stuff with the underage girl is utterly unforgivable and disgusting. I wonder what happens from here? The music community has been way too forgiving to abusers.

As a non-American and non-European, Discogs seems to be more US focused than any where else, in my experience. If you're looking at a US pressing of a record you should see mostly US sellers. I would trust a seller on Discogs much more than eBay. Discogs has a pretty good reputation system so (unless they're new) you'll know if someone is grading their records correctly, selling the correct pressing, and packing their albums properly. An eBay seller might be selling lots of non-record things, so they have a good rating, but they're not be experienced with records. eBay is also notorious for co

Yeah it's with Nils, basically the Santa Monica Flyers lineup, they did a few Tonight's The Night songs last night, sounded great!

Neil Young and Crazy Horse again tonight!

Yeah that's where he's playing tonight. I will, thank you!

It's warm out today! -21C/-5F... earlier this week with the windchill it was -51C/-60F. Now that was chilly!

Neil Young and Crazy Horse. I've lived in Winnipeg for 6 weeks now and I'm already getting to see Neil play a home town show in a fairly small theatre. Nice!

Happy Holidays, Donna and VC!

I saw a lot of shows this year including three festivals. Here are a few: The Decemberists doing The Crane Wife in full at Travelers Rest Fest in Missoula Montana. This was two nights, the second night they did The Crane Wife plus some other classics. It was my favourite show of the year. The National at Sasquatch Music Fest. They were just really good. Matt almost took my head off with his mic cable when he came into the crowd. The War on Drugs at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle. They were also just really good. Jeff Tweedy at The Moore in Seattle. I saw Jeff four times this year, this nig

Great review! But I will also echo lost highway. I get that music reviews are your own opinions, but you write off Schmilco and Star Wars as if that's the general consensus. Which I would argue, especially in the case of Star Wars, is not the case.

What a time to be alive! Now maybe Pitchfork will adjust the A Ghost Is Born and Sky Blue Sky scores up a few points each. Make it right, Pitchfork!

Ah yes, like when Jeff use to bring Glenn out at solo shows to play some songs as a two-piece. I bet that'd work great with Spencer.

I heard rumours here and there, that there would be a release this Spring. Until yesterday I assumed it was another acoustic Loft Sessions, which would be great of course, but this is very exciting. Between this, the Wilco album next fall, and of course, the third Loose Fur album which is definitely happening*, 2019 is going to be a fun year. *probably not

Here's Pitchfork giving Jeff the best review they've given him since YHF.

Did JT say this last night??

Warm...er?!?! Nice to see that some of those mysterious other songs Jeff has been playing in 2018, that surprisingly weren't on the Warm track listing, are coming out after all.

"Now people sayWhat drugs did you takeAnd why don't you start taking them again?"

Amazon.ca dropped the ball BIG time. I guess that's what I get for trying to earn a single airmile instead of supporting my local indie store :-\ But, I did listen to the record via Spotify today and I think it's really good. Having Been Is No Way To Be is an absolute stunner. I love the transition from from The Red Brick into Warm (When The Sun Has Died). The whole thing has a cohesive sound yet no two songs sound too similar to each other. This record continues a streak of really solid songwriting since, well, I mean you could say since Uncle Tupelo... but I feel like he's been on a roll wi

http://youtu.be/zz2v2Ix7FwE This is a really good song.

Well shit, now I look like an asshole!! Sorry everyone

No real order but I think the top 3 are my most played records this year. Sloan - 12 Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer Rolling Blackouts C.F. - Hope Downs Kurt Vile - Bottle It In Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks - Sparkle Hard King Tuff - The Other Adrianne Lenker - Abysskiss Snail Mail - Lush Phosphorescent - C’est La Vie The Decemberists - I'll Be Your Girl

Finally finished this tonight. I originally got about 2/3rd though and then had to put it down with some work / life stuff popping up this past week. Honestly it's been hard for me to find the time and (mental) energy to read in recent years but this was an easy read and felt like Jeff just sitting talking about his life. It felt like a conversation, at the end when Jeff starts talking about getting in to the minutiae of hi-hat sounds, I wish I could have told him how much I relate to that (for the record; hard panned, prominent but not too bright, kind of... crunchy) and how getting that into

I caught the stream, pretty good performance, Mountain Bed always sounds great. Though, I was really hoping someone would request Gun or Screen Door after reading the parts about them in Jeff's book. This post seems unnecessarily harsh.