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It's been my experience that babies pretty much deliver themselves. You will need to have a bulb syringe on hand to aspirate all the fluid, though. Remember: mouth first, then nose.

September 15 will be an ACL Fest aftershow at Stubb's...

They're playing the single (How Will You Shine?) all over the AAA station here in Austin. It's fine. I'll admit, I haven't listened to them much for the past five years or so. They're a lot of fun live, though. I doubt I'll get the new album, but I'll go to the CD release party.

I haven't listened to him in a while, but count me in. Haven't bought an album since Couples in Trouble, but his cover of Believe is the first song I ever acquired from iTunes.

Thanks, whoever did that. Sorry. It won't happen again.

These kids are playing an instore at a local record store this afternoon, but I know nothing about them. Are they worth leaving work early? Aaaahhhhh! I put this under the wrong heading! How do I move it to Someone Else's Song?

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Marfa is a crazy small town out in west Texas known for its art community and eerie "ghost lights." Jeff played a show there on his most recent solo tour. He said he was blown away by the amount of love he was getting from the audience until halfway through the set someone in the back shouted "Who are you?" Unfazed, Jeff identified himself as Jeff Leppard. At his next show he was presented with a t-shirt featuring "Jeff Leppard" written in that Def Leppard font with "Pour some Tweedy on me" underneath it. Anyway, I want one. Please.

I figured I'd take some heat for this. I'm not saying it's a "great" album, just that it's one of my favorites. Other Just-Strike-A-Chord-With-Me discs include Plastic Letters by Blondie and Crown of Creation by Jefferson Airplane. Not necessarily their best, but still my favorites.

Down With Wilco is one of my all time favorite albums. It's no Doolittle or London Calling but it's chock full of catchy tunes and witty lyrics and Jeff sings The Family Gardener. The LP even has some bonus tracks. Don't spend another second of your life without it.

Mr. Understood and I are headed out to Marfa for this year's Chinati Open House. It was at his solo show in Marfa that Jeff came up with his Jeff Leppard alter ego, so I desperately need me one of those infamous Jeff Leppard t-shirts for the trip. Anyone know how I could acquire one, or put me in touch with the genius who devised the prototype?

If this is the dumbest thing you've ever done, you're my new hero.

They're just doing the jobs American bands don't want to do.

The Kinks and the Beatles and the New Pornographers and Arcade Fire and the Pipettes

Especially taken in the context of the last track on the first side (see Abbey Road: I Want You -> Here Comes the Sun)

If the consensus for track two holds up, then things are looking good for Icky Thump. Vinyl, of course, throws a whole other wrench into the works...

I've struggled with this question for years, and can think of no one more enlightened than the VC community to ease my tortured mind. What's the most important track number? The one where you put the awesomest, most kick-ass, most important, super coolest song on the entire album? In my mind it's a three-way tie between 1, 2, and 4. Some of my favorites (It was difficult, but I stuck with one per band): 1 - Misunderstood, Gimme Shelter, Five Years, I Saw Her Standing There 2 - Doctor Rock, Hotel Yorba, Deep Red Bells 4 - Youth Decay, The Bleeding Heart Show

Oh yeah - here's the 411 on that bonus disc: Bonus Tracks: 1. One True Vine (previously unreleased, recorded at Wilco's loft in Chicago) 2. Theologians (live) (previously unreleased, recorded at The Vic Theater in Chicago, as part of the Live in Chicago series of shows that the Kicking Television album came from. This version was not on Kicking Television)

If you ask me, it doesn't seem to mean anything

A message from Jeff

How could this thread have started with Dylan without anyone mentioning Don't Think Twice (It's Alright)? But my vote goes for Making Love With You by the Old 97's.

I only heard that one song Mistaken for Strangers. But it smacked of an I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness vibe that gets me to harken back to the Cure and Echo and the Bunnymen. Which were fine, I suppose, in their own right (the latter, at least), but not my thing. And just try to tell me Fake Empire doesn't have that Nick Cave vocal going for it. Then again, what do I know? I'll probably just end up getting Black Light on CD. Just moved and have yet to hook up my turntable, and am going through serious Calexico withdrawl.

Thanks, biters. Heard The National on The Radio yesterday. Too goth for me. Saw The Ponys at SXSW. Nonplussed. But a little bit o' the Bakersfield sound might be just what the doctor ordered.

I got $55 worth of gift certs to the local indie record shop for graduation. I spent a hour there yesterday but left empty handed. Nothing struck my fancy. Can anyone out there offer a suggestion or two? Recent purchases include the Electric Warrior reissue, We Are The Pipettes, and Jon Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Air Show. Oh, and I'm also in the group of folks still awaiting their SBS vinyl preorder.

This makes it, what, four for six? Not bad for some two-bit Chicago-based outfit. Entire lineup available here: http://www.aclfest.com/lineup.aspx