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My friend was in the first few rows at the show in DC. He said Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke played about 35 instruments between them. You'll have plenty to discuss.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05...fa_fact_remnick >Every weekday for the past twenty-seven years, a long-in-the-tooth history major named Phil Schaap has hosted a morning program on WKCR, Columbia University

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>MHD was running "Radiohead - From The Basement" the other day. They did most of their new songs and threw in a couple from Kid A/Amnesiac. I always love hearing 'Optimistic'. Looked superb in HD. Both the audio and video are up on Dime.

http://www.lawrence.com/news/2008/may/09/blue_skies/

>I have tapes going back to 1977 - that I use to make by taping songs off the radio I made a few of those, and to this day, all these years later, I can still hear the dj introducing some of the songs. "The Who. . . You Better . . . You Better . . . You . . . Bet."

>holy crap! Funny,. the couple a people I've emailed the review to have had the exact same reaction.

The opening show of the tour got a glowing review in today's Wall Street Journal: A Band of Prowess and Ingenuity By JIM FUSILLI May 7, 2008; Page D9 West Palm Beach, Fla. It doesn't get much better in modern rock than when Radiohead kicked off their tour at the Cruzan Amphitheatre here on Monday. Playing with passion, intensity and a joy their often-stoic demeanor conceals, they offered two-dozen wonderfully textured songs with daring musicianship and vivid invention. The show wasn't perfect, as befits an opening night. But it was brilliant. The quintet of multi-instrumentalists, le

>I now believe this show jumped the shark with the whole Jim-Pam thing. I'm tending to agree. I'm sure it won't be long before they break up and a Rebecca character will be introduced to play off of their Sam and Diane. How bad was Cheers when everything was roses for Sam and Diane? It was best when they hated each other with underlying longing. That pending post-break-up vitriol would take the Office in a different direction than the former unrequited love and present relationship.

http://www.csindy.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A24945 (Colorado Springs Independent) >With the elegiac "Impossible Germany" and the R&B-influenced "Side with the Seeds" able to stand proudly alongside Wilco favorites like "Jesus Etc.," the album has a generally more relaxed and organic feel that Stirrat says reflects its making. "We just wanted to sort of sit in a circle and jam and see what would happen, not really get into too much of an overdub or postproduction mindset," he recalls. "It was a really cool, musical, civilized way to make a record, sitting around arguing about pas

>this is one of my all-time favorite records (from the alt-country movement that is) Mine, too, from any genre. >[Radio City Music Hall]. The Strokes and White Stripes (amazing show) I caught that show. That was when the Strokes were the "it" band, and I remember thinking how much better and more interesting the White Stripes' opener was.

Paste's review of the reissue. The album affected the writer the same way it affected me. http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/articl..._deluxe_edition Whiskeytown Strangers Almanac (Deluxe Edition) Writer: Jeff Leven Reviews, Issue 42, Published online on 15 Apr 2008 An expanded version of an underrated gem by Ryan

If you had to choose one, would you rather be with someone who a general apathy for music but enjoyed it somewhat or one who absolutely loves music but music you can't stand and you're forced to endure it?

>I've never heard of a rock act playing at Tanglewood. Wow. I saw the Moody Blues there in about 1982 or so. I'll leave it up to you if they're categorized as a "rock act."

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111798400...d=2857&cs=1 An hour onstage with Jackson Browne Adding transparency to the critical process By PHIL GALLO Apr. 14, 2008 Give musicians a bit of annuity by including their names in the music publishing, says Jackson Browne, who is looking for a new vehicle to financially reward band members who make crucial contributions to recordings. Arrangers from the decades prior to Browne's arrival would have loved to heard that way of thinking, too: Then as now, studio wizards get paid by the job and don't share in the wealth generated when a record b

>just tries to hard to be weird/rock staresque. That's exactly it. At Town Hall in NYC last year he wore these huge silver 4-inch platform Ace Frehley boots up to his knees. I found it a bit distracting and part of his "look-at-me" posing.

>The April 1 gig for BBC Radio 2 will be held at the BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House in central London. The evening show is up on Dime right now. I think it was captured from digital radio. Sounds great.

Great post, Louie. I've read great things the Felice Brothers and checked out their myspace pade yesterday. Sounds pretty good, and I'd like to see them live. I'll have to look for that Waco Bros live album. Nice description. >Long live alt.country. Love that.

>The guy is fairly damaged and comes off as trying too hard when interviewed or live. As much as I enjoy almost all of his music, that has been my problem with him in his post-Gold days. He seemed more innocent pre-Gold. Now he comes off to me as trying so hard to be a rock star, rather than just being himself. It's like he's applying principles from Rockstar for Dummies. That being said, at least he more than backs up his schtick with unlimited great music, for which I more than give him the benefit of the doubt. >the Cardinals kill Whiskeytown as far as I'm concerned. (Sound o

>Great read, though. I think it's great because it reads as fiction even though it's non-fiction, which plays into the story even a non-history buff can appreciate. That's true. It reads like fiction. It's unusual for this type of book to be a pageturner. >When you finish it get the companion book (I checked it out from the library) to check out some of the landmarks described in the book. It's a coffee table-type picture book and I forget the name of it. Pretty nice companion piece. Great idea. It would also be interesting to visit some of the places mentioned. On a similar

I just finished Krakauer's Into the Wild. While interesting, I'm glad I read it on vacation, where I finished it in three days. If I'd read my typical 10-20 pages a night before bed, I likely would have stopped reading after about 100 pages. I'm now 135 or so pages into Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, by James L. Swanson. It's a fast and gripping read. Even a non-history buff would like it. It would make for a great movie, with Johnnie Depp as John Wilkes Booth.

>I would like to see him do a full-band electric show sometime, leaning heavily on his first few albums. Yes, I would love to see that. I saw him play with a full band at the Beacon in NYC maybe 10 years ago, and it sounded incredible.

>That's probably more the result of the completely sterile, no warmth sound of the post-Brent GD. Yes, if anything needs to buried in the mix, it's Vince's casio.

>There are some straight soundboards tapes floating around out there--some sound great, but some sound uneven, dry, and just plain weird. I recently listened to a Dead SBD from '91 where the instruments sounded completely separated and with uneven levels. It sounded sterile, with no warmth at all to it.

Great thread. There was a somewhat similar thread in December or January where people posted their top 10 songs of the 2007. I thought that was a great way of discovering other bands that Wilco fans liked. When I streamed those lists, I found that most of the songs posted were from newer bands like Carribou, The National, Band of Horses, Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective, etc. It occurred to me that while I came to Wilco from a classic rock, Grateful Dead, The Band, Americana, alt-country, jazz perspective, many VCers came to Wilco from much more modern music. It's interesting that Wilco is