lost highway

B-sides and outtakes compilation would be good. They've got at least 12-15 tracks we've heard that are great, and I'm sure they've got at least another 10 we've never heard.

Janet Weiss is easily one of the best drummers in rock today. Carrie seems to know how to write a great song, she shreds guitar, and she has a Townsend like magnetism on stage. That said, I miss having Corin Tuckers vocals to mix with all of those strengths. Wild Flag is definitely cool, though.

I will say that Wilco has turned me on to some cool pedals: Freakshow FX (I got the boost they make that Jeff uses, as well as their awesome tremolo which I haven't seen anyone else use), Prunes and Custard (which I still love for the right part, but I think Tweedy pulled his off his pedal board.) The Wilco boys have also got me curious about both of these amps: http://www.teixeiraamps.com/index.html http://www.schroederaudioinc.com/products/

How do you like it? I almost bought one, but went for an Echobox by Subdecay instead.

Just what the world needs. It does seem like Billy is clinging to the scraps of MMA a bit more intensely because he hasn't made much of a splash since those days.

Billy's facebook post seemed a little smarmy. I think there is a disconnect between what each camp perceives as the value of releasing additional material. I seem to remember Jeff's "Billy is full of shit" comment in some interview. I suppose that's more than a little smarmy.

This really shows how they needed to make Summerteeth before they could make YHF. This is a very different band than we see today. There is a sense during the set that they are struggling, pushing against their music, trying to get it to go other places. They were looking for other colors. These days it's more as if they're riding their music all of the wild places it can go. They are in command of all those other colors. The live versions of "Misunderstood" have gotten much better since these days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDimQTJMjB0&feature=related

I feel like El Camino is good and Brothers is great. I haven't listened to El Camino enough to make an intelligent comment, but that's what I'm hearing so far.

This was the best novel I've read in years.

That song is perfect.

I love McNulty but protestants have always made better whiskey (yeah I'm a Mac and not a Mc).

Check this story out: http://pitchfork.com/news/44808-the-avalanches-attack-bon-iver-over-whiskey-advertisements-grammys/

I wouldn't dare. But I will tell you how I enjoy it. I'm sorry if it sounded like a command, I meant it as a celebration.

Sitting during the exciting moments of a football game is kind of weird. Complaining about other people standing is hilariously ridiculous. Sitting during a rock concert (no less a Wilco concert) is just plain bizarre. Celebrate life. You paid to see a band you love. What good would it do our hearts to stand and dance a couple hours. You can sit at the computer, most people can sit at work. Let us stand, dance and be joyful.

What's amazing about Blood on the Tracks is how truly horrible the harmonica solos are on 'Jack of Hearts' and how the song is so good it doesn't even matter. And, for the record I love Dylan's harmonica style.

I love old videos like that- the fact that a band can be that geeky and terrifyingly cool at the same time.....

Bloco do Eu Zozinho, is just ok. You can get Ventura off of Itunes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXYJ36wSoGs&feature=related

The most criminally underhyped band from Brazil is Los Hermanos. They started as just a goofy alt-rock band with Portuguese lyrics and evolved into the sweetest indie rock-meets-samba band ever. Check our their last two Ventura and Cuatro, if you like that kind of thing.

Radiolab. It's the best.

I bet his credit is awesome too.

I bought this. It is really very good. Her last record was charming, this is something else. It feels like it's making a bolder statement.

Oh yeah, I meant the Odyssey, not the Illiad. How embarrassing, getting my Homer mixed up like that.

I would argue the opposite of the original premise. I think sometimes in our culture it takes a concerted effort to hear certain pieces of music as music. The Beatles are like this, as are U2 and the Stones. Their marketing has been so massive, their brand so ubiquitous that it takes effort just to hear a record of theirs as a band making songs. I get the same taste in my mouth from a U2, 3-D movie trailer, or cardboard cutout at Guitar Center as I do from a lame Nike ad. I have to divorce that experience from a very different experience of listening to Joshua Tree as just a great album b

I've said it before "I hate you less than the rest, we're all swine, but you're all mine" might be the most charming anti-romantic lyric. It sounds like something Charles Bukowski would say in some gross novel.