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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.

Exactly! And I assume his response is "hey man, I'm just waiting for my Blimpie sub ..."

And they should be pissed. Neely in his prime was awfully good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZmEJ3mLPs0&feature=player_embedded That save by Tim Thomas last night was pretty crazy good ...

Happy birthday Bob!

According to this story it is 6:00 PM in each time zone. On May 21, "starting in the Pacific Rim at around the 6 p.m. local time hour, in each time zone, there will be a great earthquake, such as has never been in the history of the Earth," he says.