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He's got a couple of Exile covers up on his excellent blog, Part Time Man of Rock. For those who like Janovitz and haven't seen his site, it's a must see. He now has about 50 songs (his Cover of the Week project) for free downloading, ranging from the Replacements to Tom Waits to the Grateful Dead. Recent highlights include Big Star's Thirteen (which he recorded with Kay Hanley from Letters to Cleo), Elton John's Rocketman, and REM's Wendell Gee. He records them in his basment and some are a little rough around the edges. Most of the entries include a short write-up about the song, and he

I just finished the article on my subway ride in to work this morning. I agree that the connection to dogfighting was a stretch and probably unnecessary. However, some of what several of the doctors said about what a lineman's head goes through over the course of a career was pretty sobering.

Exile on Main Street. I saw a fun show last night. Bill Janovitz (from Buffalo Tom) wrote the 33 1/3 book on Exile and he put together a show where he did some readings from the book and then he and a band (mostly his other band, Crown Victoria) played songs. It was largely Exile songs but they threw in a few others too. He had a small horn section (sax and trumpet) which made it great.

Yeah! Oh Yeah! by the Magnetic Fields (with Stephin Merritt and Claudia Gonson singing the two parts)

Me too. I still love that album.

And that recommendation right there might be reason enough for me to go see it. (That and my 11 year old daughter who already saw it and liked it ...)

Me too. One of my earliest TV memories is watching him on What's My Line.

That's too bad. I am a big Russo fan and I've got that one on my bedside table.

Sadly, this is what I thought of when I read that sentence.

Y'know, despite the score I really don't think the Patriots ran up the score (and believe, me, there were times in 2007 when I think they did). Brady played for one drive in the second half and a rookie quarterback played the rest of the game. They mostly ran the ball in the 4th quarter. Should Brady have started taking a knee before halftime?

I can't believe that you and I would consider McAdam a celebrity but, yes, I saw him at the Worcester Neil Young/Wilco show.

Iron & WIne - Woman King

I didn't read the whole article but is there any chance he's coming back to play for the Padres?

Some that I have not seen mentioned (except in the other mirror thread): Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over Throwing Muses - Limbo Belly - Star Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted Sugar - Copper Blue Luna - Penthouse My Blood Valentine - Loveless PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love Sleater-Kinney - Call The Doctor Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Magnetic Fields had a nice run in the 1990s: Distant Plastic Trees (1991) The Wayward Bus (1992) The House of Tomorrow (EP) (1992) Holiday (1994) The Charm of the Highway Strip (1994) Get Lost (1995) 69 Love Songs (1999) As did Buffalo Tom: Birdbrain (1990) Let Me Come Over (1992) Big Red Letter Day (1993) Sleepy Eyed (1995) Smitten (1998) But if I had to choose I would probably go with Pavement or Yo La Tengo.

I love Eleven:Eleven, although I must admit that I have not listened to it in a while. I am pretty sure it was recorded by Tim O'Heir and Carl Plaster at Fort Apache.

I'll have to check it out because 2/13 is my favorite Dark Star, and not just from 1970.

Kind of off-topic, but I was just reading a recent interview with Dylan and he was asked about Stevie Wonder. He said "I could write a song like Superstition but I couldn't write one like Sir Duke."

Ouch. That sucked. Now I can get on with my life ...

tinnitus/Tim: great pictures, as always.

Me too. It's one of those books that I really liked and I am tempted to re-read it but I'm afraid I won't like it as much as I think I liked it (if that makes any sense).

And to bring David Crosby/the Byrds back into the discussion, I remember seeing a great interview with Crosby once. He was talking about how early in the Byrds' career people were hyping Dylan but they (the Byrds) didn't think he was so great. Then someone gave them an early version of Mr. Tambourine Man. The way I remember it is that Crosby says he got to the lines "Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship, My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels, To be wanderin'..." and he realized that Dylan was on a differen

I know in terms of percentage it is not as bad as other examples that people have referenced, but I just got hosed. There is a benefit concert next weekend in Boston and the show includes both Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses) and Bill Janovitz (Buffalo Tom), two of my favorite musicians. Tickets are $10 but there was both a $2.50 convenience charge and a $2.60 handling charge. For tickets I'll pick at at Will Call. I get the convenience charge. I thought about going to the box office at lunch but when I first looked only the convenience charge showed up and I thought "I will pay $2.50 fo

Finally saw this last night and really liked it. The relationship between Lips and Robb Reiner was pretty touching. FYI - they are on Conan on Tuesday night.

He struck out Randy Ruiz on back-to-back 80 mph fastballs. It was probably the highlight of the game ...