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Britt Daniel has two new bands: http://stereogum.com/1113871/spoons-britt-daniel-has-another-new-band-called-splt-sngle/news/ We’ve already heard a bunch of news about Divine Fits, the new group that Spoon frontman Britt Daniel has formed alongside Wolf Parade/Handsome Furs co-leader Dan Boeckner and the New Bomb Turks’ Sam Brown. And now Daniel says that he’s recording with yet another group. This one is called Spl:t S:ngle, and its other members are Telekinesis/Verbow bassist Jason Narducy and Superchunk/Mountain Goats drummer Jon Wurster. As Pitchfork points out, Daniel recently talked

I'm about 100 pages in but so far, so good. I am a big fan of The Sportswriter and Independence Day but I thought the third book in the triology (The Lay of the Land) was not great. This one is more like his short stories - it's set in Montana (and I'm guessing eventually Canada) in the early 1960s and is somewhat bleak.

Weir and Hart talk about Spring '90: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-grateful-dead-commemorate-peak-shows-with-spring-1990-box-set-20120801

Phillies are selling: they just traded both Shane Victorino and Hunter Pence.

I have not. And I will say that the new stuff doesn't grab me the way the old stuff does. I like it but I have a real attachment to Signals and Vs.

'The Velvet Underground & Nico' to receive six-disc 45th anniversary re-release http://www.nme.com/news/the-velvet-underground/65119 The reissue celebrates the 1967 album's 45th anniversary. The six discs will include the original stereo and mono versions, as well as Nico's 'Chelsea Girl' and two live discs taken from a show at the Valleydale Ballroom in Columbus, Ohio.

John Lennon recording How Do You Sleep

All World Cowboy Romance is such a great song ...

Years ago I went to see Jim Carroll (of Basketball Diaries fame) read and after the reading he was signing books. The only book I had was Invisible Man so I had him sign that. He sort of chuckled right before he signed it.

Just finished this and boy did I like it. It reminded me of a lot of John Irving's work.

Yeah - it came out about a year ago. As you said, there is some great stuff on it. Beyond the two you mentioned, my faves are Plant White Roses (which Kelly Hogan just recorded) and Rats In the Garbage of the Western World.

I left too (because my ride was leaving). On the site that moxiebean linked to above someone said that Simonon doesn't participate in post-Clash rehashing, and someone else said that Rhodes approved the script (although I'm curious what script there was). I wondered why Topper Headon wasn't interviewed.

I saw this movie - The Rise and Fall of the Clash - last night. It apparently debuted at the CBGB Festival last week but they had a showing in Boston. It was pretty good. It focused more on the fall than the rise, and spends a lot of time on the relationship between Joe Strummer and manager Bernie Rhodes. It also includes interviews with the replacement "Clash" guys who were around during the Cut the Crap era, which, they all admit, was a joke and fairly sad. I don't know how widely it is going to be showing but it's worth tracking down if you are a Clash fan.

Not a big Modest Mouse fan but I love this album.

It's a great movie. I don't remember being so creeped out by Woody's relationship with Tracy/Mariel Hemingway last time I saw it (which was a long time ago). Some of it is certainly that I was closer to 17 than 42 at the time and now the reverse is true. And I suppose knowing about Allen's personal life compounds the creepiness of it.

That was awesome.

Watched this for the first time in ages last night. I thought it held up pretty well. The shots of NYC are beautiful.

Just started this over the weekend. I'm 50 pages in and liking it so far ...

Any Dream Syndicate/Wynn fans live in Spain? From SteveWynn.net: This September marks the 30 year anniversary of the release of The Days of Wine and I’m excited to say The Dream Syndicate will be commemorating the date by reforming for a handful of shows in Spain, the first time that Dennis Duck, Mark Walton and I will have performed as the Dream Syndicate since we walked off stage at the I-Beam in San Francisco back in 1988. We’re going to be joined for these dates (and very possibly some more beyond) by Jason Victor who has so ably carried the torch of the guitarists who have played these

From FB: Dawes are excited to join Mumford and Sons on their August tour: August 1 | Hoboken, NJ | Pier A August 6 | Providence, RI | Providence Performing Arts August 7 | Canandaigua, NY | Marvin Sands Performing Arts August 9 | Portsmouth, VA | nTelos Wireless Pavilion August 13 | Louisville, KY | Louisville Waterfront Park August 14 | Columbus, OH | The LC Pavilion August 20 | Lincoln, NE | Pinewood Bowl Theatre August 28 | Morrison, CO | Red Rocks Tickets go on sale Friday, June 28th at 1pm local time:

Since my kids are out of school, this weekend featured: And then we came home and watched:

Me too. Love that album ...

Gang of Four's Dave Allen weighs in, and aside from taking some cheap shots at Lowery, makes some good points: http://www.north.com/latest/the-internet-could-care-less-about-your-mediocre-band/