Oil Can Boyd

Saw them last night. As always, they put on a great show.

It is a running joke in Boston. A lot of bands play the Orpheum Theater which is kind of a dump, even though every ticket as long as I can remember has included a restoration fee.

It would but it does not. Ticketmaster is owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp.

If you don't trust your memory, check the wiki (where everything is true): The Fillmore The Fillmore (also known as Fillmore Auditorium, or Fillmore West) is a historic music venue in San Francisco, California made famous by Bill Graham. Named for its original location at the intersection of Fillmore Street and Geary Boulevard, it lies on the boundary of the Western Addition and the Pacific Heights neighborhoods. In 1968 the venue was moved to a location at Market Street and South Van Ness Avenue; the original Fillmore location became The Elite Club. The Market St. venue closed due to earth

I have no particular feeling about that song but about six months ago I had a dream that I was on stage playing that song with Semisonic. I was playing the piano, which I don't play.

Are you David Fricke?

There was an AV Club interview with Kozelek where he said this: AVC: What inspired you to write when you made Ghosts Of The Great Highway? MK: I'm embarrassed to say it, but I think that there was some sort of post-September 11th things happening in my psyche and in my life. I had a tour scheduled in Europe, and some stuff in Florida and New York, right around Sept. 11, and I'd cancelled it when Sept. 11 happened, and I remember wanting to be around my girlfriend at the time, and just sort of wanting to be home. It wasn't until April 2002 that I got on an airplane. There's a real theme of

Meat Puppets performing Meat Puppets II

About two years ago I changed jobs and went from driving 20 miles each way (which took about 30 minutes) to taking public transportation about 6 miles each way (which takes about 40 minutes).

Josh Beckett misses a start with a stiff neck.

Goin' to Acapulco is the best thing on the I'm Not There soundtrack. It's also the best thing Jim James/MMJ have ever done.

It is Feelies 2.0: Mercer Million Brenda Sauter Stanley Demeski Dave Weckerman And yes, I'd love to see them with Anton Fier.

I just saw Destroyer and on my way home heard What Light on the radio.

According to Dead.net it's Jerry.

Gotta love an 11:00 AM start for a baseball game. Happy Patriot's Day everyone!

The first Big Audio Dynamite album is better than most Clash albums.

Speaking of bullpen management: "Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner told the New York Times in a phone interview that he wants setup man Joba Chamberlain moved into the starting rotation, saying, "I want him as a starter and so does everyone else, including him . . . you don't have a guy with a 100-mile-per-hour fastball and keep him as a setup guy. You just don't do that. You have to be an idiot to do that." . . . "

Thanks - I'll poke around. I'm one of those people who still likes to have the actual CD. And, if all else fails, it looks like it is available on itunes.

Gaaah. Been meaning to pick up the first one probably since Analogman posted that it was out ...

Yeah, he infuriated me last year when he was on the Sox but now I just feel sorry for the guy.

Reported at Jambase and other places. David Byrne & Brian Eno Back At Work On "Electronic Gospel" The Daily Swarm and Drowned In Sound are reporting some seriously exciting news. According to these reliable sources, David Byrne and Brian Eno are reuniting for a new album and apparently a tour. From Drowned In Sound: The dream art-rock team of David Byrne and Brian Eno will return with new, strange fruit soon, the former Talking Heads man told NME.com recently. Speaking at an event in New York, Byrne revealed that the duo had rekindled the relationship they formed in the late 70s/ea

Since I had kids my tolerance for bad movies has become pretty high. This, however, was unbearable. Perhaps the worst movie I have ever seen:

Most people who say Trout Mask Replica is a great album haven't listened to the whole thing.

Tom Magliozzi was having lunch in my building the other day. I heard his laugh before I saw him.