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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/

He got a nice ovation at Fenway today after they took him out of the game.

Good to hear. I just got it but haven't read it yet. I liked Twisted River a lot but embarrasingly had forgotten about Until I Find You. That was the tatoo themed book?

Pretty lengthy and all-over-the-place interview with Chan: http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/interview-cat-power.html

As are David Lowery's bands Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker.

I know. That is pretty amazing and I hope he can keep it up. I remember Tim Wakefield's first season with the Red Sox (1995) he had a pretty amazing streak. At one point he was 14-1 with an ERA around 1.60. I saw a couple of his games in that stretch and batters just couldn't hit him. Everyone knew the knuckleball was coming and they still couldn't hit it. He had some other nice runs during his time with the Sox but nothing quite like that first one.

On Saturday, my daughter and I waited for hours at the grand opening of Georgetown Cupcake's new store in Boston. When we finally got in the store Pot Kettle Black came on over the store's speakers.

Saw Moonrise Kingdom last night and thought it was great. Very Wes Anderson and very original, clever, and funny. The whole family went and my wife and 13 year old daughter loved it but my 17 year old son said it was "weird."

Sacred sites of REM (from the A.V. Club): http://avc.lu/LkV80j

I guess everything is fine with the Stone Roses: But a spokeswoman has dismissed the incident, telling Sky News: "The band didn't play an encore - which is quite normal for them - and they had already played their full planned set so no one walked off before the end." She added: "All tour dates continue as planned." http://news.sky.com/home/showbiz-news/article/16246390

From Richard Lloyd's facebook page: I regret to inform you that the Richard Lloyd and Grand Strand June 2012 Tour has been cancelled. Richard's health has declined over the past week and on June 11 he was admitted to the hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Again I am sorry for the cancellation. Team Lloyd

They did one tour with all original 4 and that's the one I saw. It was great. They have toured since then with a new drummer and bass player, and I have not seen them. At the show in Boston original drummer Hugo Burnham, who lives around here, came out and played the encore with them.

Feelies Gang of Four

And apparently it's done ... http://www.holymoly....-goes-home63339 EDIT: little hard to tell from this blog whether Reni left the show or left for good.