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Yup, that was a great tour. Tinnitus, did you see it at the Paradise?

A few of my favorites: Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense tour. Most of my concert viewing to that point had been the Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia Band so this gave me a whole new take on a concert performance. Wilco - summer 2000. Opened with Airline and I was hooked. Arcade Fire - Funeral tour. Opened with Wake Up and I was floored. They were all singing, even the band members without microphones. Pixies, the Rat in Boston circa 1988. I had seen them before and liked them but wasn't blown away. Then they came out and opened with with Bone Machine. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Song

Bon Iver tonight in Boston

Hideki Irabu found dead; suicide suspected http://hardballtalk....pected/related/

Not surprising at all. But it did remind me how good those first three albums are.

RIlo Kiley split Country-pop band Rilo Kiley have split up, guitarist Blake Sennett has said. The quartet, who feature Jenny Lewis as their lead singer, were thought to be on hiatus while Sennett recorded as part of The Elected and Lewis worked as part of Jenny and Jonny with her partner Jonathan Rice, but the guitarist has now said they will not be reuniting. Speaking to Spinner, Sennett explained the reasons for the split: "I just felt like there was a lot of deception, disloyalty, greed and things I don't really want to submit myself to. I had related that frustration to music but I j

1. Got AM when it came out. 2. Camden Maine July 3, 2000. I know I have mentioned this here before but by about 30 seconds in to the opening song (Airline to Heaven) I knew I had a new favorite band.

Really liked this movie ...

One of my favorites that I haven't seen mentioned yet is Buffalo Tom's Skins.

Wow - what an adventure. Good luck!

Agreed. I'm not going to say that I didn't laugh but I felt sort of used when it was over.

And here is a couple of kids covering the Foo Fighters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrWA3Fu6wto

It's funny - I got home last night and one of my neighbors had dropped off a whole pile of music magazines. There was a copy of MOJO that Tom Waits had edited. In it Waits lists his favorite books, and the first one on the list was Pancake's.

I like it. I had read some of the stories about 20 years ago, then lost the book, but picked up another copy recently. He's definitely a talented writer. Are you a fan?

Been reading short stories recently, including:

Just went out to lunch in Harvard Square and A Ghost is Born was playing. I came in during Muzzle of Bees and heard the rest. The bartender gave Less Than You Think about five minutes before skipping to Late Greats.

Horton to miss rest of Finals.

Mangum tickets on ebay for $5,600. (Via Stereogum)

Lengthy - and I thought pretty good - article in today's New York Times Magazine.

Pretty sad article about Bill Haley on this exact topic.

Dice-K's checkered career with the Red Sox might be over.

Still liking this one ...

There was a really good - and somewhat sad - profile of him in The New Yorker last year.