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Really, really liked this book ...

I really really like it, even after just a few listens. My one complaint is the sequencing of the songs. Ending it with the three long songs doesn't really work for me.

They have been playing a couple of new songs that sound pretty good. I found this quote in this interview. Howard: And are you guys recording at all? Glenn: I did demos of some new songs. I have kind of been recording all along. I did a solo record, had everybody from the Feelies except Bill play on it. We are kind of looking toward that as a goal. But not knocking ourselves out with it either. We never were really that prolific anyway so…I can’t foresee us having albums with this stuff any time soon but we are working towards that.

The reissues of Crazy Rhythms and the Good Earth are out today. I just went to go buy them but didn't pull the trigger. I already have them both on vinyl and CD and somehow having a third copy of each seems a little silly.

Indeed they were, particularly the second night. I was just thinking of those shows because yesterday I drove home to Boston from Bar Harbor and drove right by the Augusta Civic Center.

Just finished this and really enjoyed it.

I must spend too much time on facebook because I was looking for the "Like" button. But yes, although I won't take sides in the Hart/Mould debate, a new Grant Hart album is certainly good news.

Hmm, y'know, on my crappy work speakers with the volume turned down low so as not to bother my colleagues I would have sworn it was someone else.

I just saw this clip on from 1971 that has footage of Big Star filmed by Chris Bell and Andy Hummel.

Blurb on spinner.com During last month's Wilco show at Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Coney Island, Yo La Tengo were brought up on stage to help out during 'Spiders (Kidsmoke),' effectively marking a meeting of two great indie-rock institutions. But more so, for Yo La Tengo -- who are known for having scores of special guests sit in with them, especially at their Hanukkah shows -- the fact that the tables were turned on them didn't go unnoticed. "That was not lost on all of us when it was being talked about," guitarist/vocalist Ira Kaplan tells Spinner. "We always put people in the situations, where we

Haven't seen this mentioned before but I just saw a preview for a movie called Passenger Side that includes someone (Greg Dulli maybe?) covering Passenger Side. The credits also say that the movie features songs by a lot of cool bands, including Wilco.

Feelies - Slipping into Something (the whole song more than one specific solo)

I saw them in 2006 and it was really great. You are right: the rhythm section (live and on record) is tremendous. But he said that Andy Gill and Jon King are playing some shows in England this summer as Gang of Four but without Burnham and Dave Allen.

It's a great one. I was playing it, in part, because I met Hugo Burnham over the weekend. He lives and teaches in the Boston area. He's a really nice guy.

Not that it is known for its high fidelity but the Velvet Underground's Live at Max's Kansas City album was recorded on a portable cassette recorder in 1970.

Red Sox get Billy Wagner. Hope he's better than Eric Gagne ...

Or, as it turns out, as a starter. He sure looked good yesterday ...

Not counting live or greatest hits albums, (and off the top of my head), I'd include: Exile on Main Street London Calling Zen Arcade Daydream Nation

True. But women (or at least some women) seem to like him. Last year he was dating a Penthouse Pet and now he is engaged to a “Deal or No Deal” Briefcase Model.

That article got his quote wrong. He actually said "I'm going to revert to my ethnic heritage and answer your question with a question ..."

I think it's funny that in the Eagles on-line store you can buy a jersey for your dog.

According to wikia24: "Kanin was named after Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty member Ethan Canin who is a longtime friend of 24 show-runner Howard Gordon and writer Alex Gansa."

Steven Tyler in today's Boston Globe Hmm. Judging from this photo of Steven Tyler and actor Chuck Slavin at Pembroke Center Liquors, the Aerosmith singer is indeed in no shape to continue the band's summer tour. Tyler's arm is in a sling as a result of a broken shoulder suffered when he fell off the stage in South Dakota. (Those Zsa Zsa Gabor glasses aren't doing him any favors.) In an apology over the weekend to fans via Twitter, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry made it sound like it wasn't his idea to cancel the remainder of the tour. "I am so sorry about vocalist Steven Tyler having to ca