Oil Can Boyd

Apparently Deer Tick had a little trouble getting there: http://www.vanyaland.com/2014/07/24/deer-tick-kicked-us-airways-flight-en-route-newport-folk-festival/

Clem Snide - Your Favorite Music

Nice piece by Jon Wurster in Spin: http://www.spin.com/articles/jon-wurster-remembers-tommy-ramone-rip/ Didn't realize there was a debate over the Replacements' "Kiss Me On the Bus" solo ...

Funny you mention all of that. I am not much of a re-reader either but this past weekend my local library was having a book sale and I picked up a nice hardcover copy of Cider House Rules.

Great job, as always. Wish I had gone but didn't get my act together. I'm curious about the blankets/chairs. Do people come really early, set them up, and then leave?

It's been a weird season to watch them. They pleasantly over-performed last year and they are surprisingly under-performing this year. I knew they would miss Ellsbury at the top of the order but their offensive problems are greater than that.

Awesome. I saw the shows they did in Boston and NY a few months ago and they were great. How was it?

I have about 3,600 songs on my phone and mostly listen on shuffle. Today during my one-hour trip to work three songs from AGIB came on: Handshake Drugs, Company in my Back, and The Late Greats. It was weird ...

It's a great series. I've probably read about 10 of them and some are better than others. (I liked the Murmur one a lot.) People take very different approaches - some get into the minutiae of the recording process, others write more about what the album meant to them, and at least one (Joe Pernice's book on The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder) is fiction.

Great place to be.

Buffalo Tom

Belly. Like many of these bands, it's a shame to limit them to one hit wonder status. I think Tanya Donelly has a great collection of work from Throwing Muses to Belly to her solo stuff but nothing she has done before or since is as big as Feed the Tree.

And not just blaming the Democrats, but blaming Cooter! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/ben-cooter-jones_n_5463196.html

I liked it a lot. I'm curious to see how it works as an HBO show ...

Watched What's Eating Gilbert Grape last night, probably for the first time since I saw it in the theater. Still liked it ...

I realize that this is the Now Watching thread but I saw Colum McCann read from his new book last night (but I had him sign my copy of Let the Great World Spin). When I saw Philippe Petit read a couple of weeks ago I noticed a couple of people had him sign copies of McCann's Let the Great World Spin. I mentioned this to McCann and he thought it was funny - and then he drew a little doodle of Petit in my book.

The one time I saw Petty was good enough for me. Actually I ended up preferring him to the headliner (Bob Dylan).

I read this a couple months ago but I just saw him do a reading/Q&A and it was great. Pretty interesting guy.

I was at the Burren in Davis Square last night and there was an acoustic bluegrass/folk band playing in the corner. At one point they played a nice version of Sky Blue Sky.

Fantastic, as always. Came on at 9:00 and finished at 12:30 (with a break in the middle). Played a couple of new songs and a mix of stuff from all of their albums. Very few covers in the main two sets (only REM's Shaking Through) but pulled out new and old covers for the five or so encores. A great time.

Yes indeed. They got back together about five years ago and play occasional shows. The shows are pretty much all between the Washington DC to Boston route 95 corridor. And every one I've seen has been fantastic.

The Feelies!

That's a great one. About a year ago I saw him open for another band. I did not know him but he was fantastic.

Well this is disappointing: http://www.vanyaland.com/2014/05/29/lost-angeles-exene-cervenka-x-thinks-santa-barbara-shooting-massacre-hoax/