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Billy Bragg - Levi Stubb's Tears

And as young as Slint were, Brian McMahan and Britt Walford had already been in the amazing Squirrel Bait. I remember reading an article that said Squirrel Bait broke up when two of the guys went of to college and that's when it struck me how young they were.

Pavement - Unseen Power of the Picket Fence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DvVYwXqFEE

Really liked this. It is a post apocalyptic novel but somehow brings a little more humanity to it than something like The Road.

Wow - awesome. In 1990 I lived about a block from the Middle East but had never heard of Uncle Tupelo.

Indirectly thaat is the show that got me into the Dead. My family was on Cape Cod that August and I got really sick so I lay in bed for a few days listening to the radio. Some local radio station kept playing ads for the show and also played a lot of Dead songs and it made me realize that I liked them. Didn't see the band until the next year though ...

I haven't hear Kozelek's new record yet but saw this quote on Pitchfork as part of their review: They also tease out and amplify his sharp sense of humor, which can often get lost in his deadpan delivery. “I can play like Fripp or Johnny Marr, and I can play circles ‘round Jay Farrar,” he boasts or possibly just daydreams on “Livingstone Bramble”, and when he claims, “I hate Nels Cline,” Carney inserts some scribbles and skreeks behind him, suggesting a very sly parody of Wilco’s artsy noise. It’s one of the album’s best moments-- and also its funniest.

Who Is It? - Talking Heads What Do I Get? - Buzzcocks Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’? - Rolling Stones Do You Believe in Rapture? - Sonic Youth Where is My Mind? - Pixies

As much as I love 69 Love Songs, this may be my favorite Magnetic Fields album.

Sean Hannity v. Ryan Adams: http://www.stereogum.com/1428872/sean-hannity-blasts-ryan-adams-following-twitter-spat/franchises/wheres-the-beef/

Tanya Donelly's got some great new music out ...

Very positive review in Pitchfork today: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18312-grant-hart-the-argument/

I wonder how Aaron Rodgers is feeling about the whole thing: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2013/07/23/aaron-rodgers-bet-a-years-salary-that-ryan-braun-was-clean/

Future Bible Heroes

Buffalo Tom and the Lemonheads at a free outdoor show in Boston (weather permitting - heavy thunderstorms are predicted right about the time BT is scheduled to play.)

You know that was four years ago, right? (But what is weird is that I saw it posted somewhere else today as well.)

Came across this last night on cable. Hadn't ever heard of it and I found it surprisingly affecting.

Most of my early concert going experience was the Dead and Jerry Garcia Band so I assumed most concerts had mistakes, no set list, muffed lyrics, long pauses between songs, and other imperfections. Then I saw Talking Heads on the Stop Making Sense tour and it was pretty eye opening for me.

I stood next to a friend of a friend and he was wearing a Solid Sound shirt. We chatted about Wilco for a while and he said SS was his 50th Wilco show. I thought he said he was on this site but I didn't get his screen name. Anyway, nice work. I think I was 12th row and over to your right.

Me too! I got a call from a friend at about 6:00 saying he had an extra ticket. It was a great show. (Wait - was I standing nextx to you? Are you Chris C.'s neighbor?)

Two thoughts: 1. I agree with what others have said that the rise of other social media has changed things, at least for me. This place used to be one of only a couple of different sites that I would go to throughout the day and now there is a longer list. 2. The user name thing is funny. The other day I was at lunch and the person I was eating with asked the waiter to change something as part of their order. My first thought was "I wonder if that is a legal sandwich maneuver ..." (with "legalsandwichmaneuver" being the user name of someone who posted here regularly a while back).

Good point; I missed that ...

Pretty interesting article in today's NY Times Magazine about Jason Everman, who was kicked out of both Nirvana and Soundgarden and is now a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces. It's interesting, in part, because it was written by former Bullet LaVolta/Chavez member Clay Tarver. Don't know if it will go behind a paywall at some point but for now it's at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/magazine/evermans-war.html?smid=fb-share

For me it was Airline to Heaven (Camden Maine 2000) and it was a great opener.