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Red Sox sign Adrian Beltre.

I'm guessing it will be somewhere in Canada. Montreal maybe ...

Bon Iver, Dennis MA 5/11/09 - by far my favorite show of the year Throwing Muses, Cambridge MA 3/14/09 Wilco, Portland ME 7/17/09 Neko Case, Boston MA 11/10/09 Yo La Tengo, Boston MA 9/16/09

WFAN radio station in New York is reporting that outfielder Jason Bay will sign with the Mets and that the team will announce it early next week. WFAN afternoon host Mike Francesa says the deal is pending a physical. Bay, who spent the last season and a half with the Red Sox, was considered one of the prizes of this year's free agent market. He batted .267 last season with 36 home runs and 119 RBI. The New York Post's Joel Sherman says the deal is for 4 years and $66 million. Bay had previously turned down a 4-year, $60 million offer to remain in Boston.

Glenn Kotche's top 10 (according to Filter Magazine): 1. Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers 2. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor 3. Alex Cline - Continuation 4. John Luther Adams - The Place We Began 5. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship 6. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca 7. Frank Rosaly - Milkwork 8. Nels Cline - Coward 9. Bobb Bruno - Dreamt On EP 10. Chris Corsano - Another Dull Dawn

Panic Pure (Vic Chestnutt) my earliest memory is of holding up a sparkler high up to the darkest sky some 4th of July spectacular I shook it with an urgency I'll never be able to repeat at times i might be accused of being painfully nostalgic but as of late i'm looking forward to the future thought i've never been much of a planner throwing caution into the fan catch as catch as catchers can and so all you observers in your scrutiny don't count my scars like tree rings my jigsaw disposition, it's piecemeal properties are either smoked or honey cured by the panic pure

And Bill Janovitz has a nice tribute on his Cover of the Week blog.

30 years ago tonight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSZbZ0Z4zcM&feature=related

It is great on Reckoning. Reckoning also has one of my favorite versions of Bird Song (for me, rivaled by the 8/27/72 version).

A studio version of To Lay Me Down is also included on So Many Roads and is listed as an American Beauty outtake from 1970. A different studio version showed up two years later on Garcia's first solo album.

Well we can parse his grammar all day but in his defense he was talking about how it was recorded for Workingmans Dead but that that studio version was not released until So Many Roads, which is correct.

And Hideki Matsui to the Angels (1 year/$6.5m)

5 years/$85 million

The TV show is over December 10th Bret, Jemaine and James (co-creator/director) said “we’ve noticed the less we say about the future of the show, the more people want to talk about it, so in an effort to reverse this trend we are today announcing that we won’t be returning for a 3rd season. We’re very proud of the two seasons we made and we like the way the show ended. We’d like to thank everyone who helped make the show and also everyone who watched it. While the characters Bret and Jemaine will no longer be around, the real Bret and Jemaine will continue to exist.

Bill Janovitz (from Buffalo Tom) had a pretty good write up of this song/video on his blog a couple of weeks ago.

What is it? (I can barely see the cover ...)

Or you could just reuse your Wilco calendar from 1982 ...

"playing tighter than Daisy Duke’s shorts ..." Good one.

I love Paul Auster. I think my favorites are New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, and Music of Chance. The movie of Music of Chance was pretty good, although I saw it a long time ago. His new one got a glowing review in the New York Times Book Review; they say it is the best novel he has written.

I am not even that familiar with Too Much Joy but this blog post is a pretty interesting look at how artists get (or don't get) royalties from online downloads and streams.

That's the first one that came to mind. Saw them live once and they were great ...