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My daughter was watching a recent episode of New Girl and California Stars came on in one scene.

Diverting the thread a bit here but while I was watching them play Star Wars all the way through at the Orpheum in Boston a couple of weeks ago, it reminded me that I had seen two other bands play albums straight through at the Orpheum: Lou Reed playing New York and Husker Du playing Warehouse.

Pretty good article about Mavis in today's NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/arts/music/mavis-staplesno-longer-wants-tomake-you-cry.html?_r=0 This was news to me: The documentary notes that Bob Dylan proposed to Ms. Staples when their paths crossed on the folk and civil-rights circuit. Their first kiss was at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, Ms. Staples said in the 2014 book "I'll Take You There" by the Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot. “It was always in my mind that I couldn’t marry a white guy. I was so young and stupid,” she told Mr. Kot. “To this day, I could kick myself

I just read Kristin Hersh's book about Vic and thought it was great.

Wake Up - Arcade Fire

Not my list, I wasn't there, but I saw this posted on FB: EKG More Random Name Generator The Joke Explained Satellite Taste The Ceiling Pickled Ginger Where Do I Begin Cold Slope King of You Magnetized Spiders (Kidsmoke) I am trying to break your heart Art of Almost You are my face Hummingbird Box Full of Letters Heavy Metal Drummer I'm the man who loves you Dawned on me Impossible Germany Red Eyed and Blue I got you (at the end of the century) Outta Mind, Outta Sight Acoustic Misunderstood It's Just That Simple Casino Queen Give back the key to my heart California Stars

Not much to add here - really enjoyable show. Great set list. I do wonder if there was a curfew (though I don't remember the Orpheum having a 10:30 curfew before). I saw on some social media before the show that Wilco was playing 8:30 to 10:30 and that's exactly what they did. Tweedy seemed very business-like, focused on getting in as many songs as they could. He often switched guitars as one song was ending so they could start right up. It kept the show moving - which was great - but allowed no room for banter.

I once saw Belle & Sebastian ask all of the men to sit down for a song (at a GA venue) so that the women could see better.

Here's an hour long video of Peter Wolf interviewing Westerberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkNb8kY_DdI

Tweedy and Dinosaur Jr doing Tarpit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7R6m70eiR4

That is quite a lineup of guests they have had this week.

There was also the big squabble around soundboard recordings on archive.org with Phil on one side and everyone else on the other.

When I lived in NYC in the 1980s I frequented the Tower on 4th Street. I remember walking in once and Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians were just starting an in store performance that included a great a cappella version of Uncorrected Personality Traits.

I love this album.

I'm on the fence on that one. The subject matter looks great to me but most reviews I've read have been pretty mixed. He's doing a reading near me on Monday so maybe I'll check it out and decide then.

I actually had the opposite experience (for Boston). My tickets arrived on Wednesday and I just got an email a few minutes ago saying they have been printed.

Kinski

Greg Norton on facebook earlier today: Whoa, slow down everybody. We're just trying to sell a few t-shirts. There is no reunion in the works. I'd like to thank everyone who shared theChris Riemenschneider piece, some of the headlines were a little misleading. I would like to encourage everyone to check out the web store, Grant Hart (as always) has done a great job with the shirt designs, look for new designs soon. I'd also like to wish Bob Mould a happy birthday.

I just got two in the middle/back of the orchestra. Not crazy about the seats but I'll take 'em.

Crazy. Same thing at 10:00:30

I saw them at Agannis in 2005 and it did suck as a venue. My least enjoyable Wilco show ever.

My take on the article was that Greg was saying that they are talking about issues related to licensing and merchandising not that they are talking about playing again. I suppose anything could happen but having read Bob's autobiography recently, I would be very surprised if they reunited.

Luna

Ha! I came here to say the same thing. They looked terrible last night.