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Yeah, the Lee Ranaldo band was very good. (Unlike that Conor Oberst fellow who was the last guy I saw open for Wilco. That dude needs to shut up like yesterday.)

Not to toot our own horn, but the sister paper to the paper I edit had this story in a few weeks ago. http://www.woodstockx.com/2012/07/26/carry-it-on-larry-campbell-wants-the-music-to-continue-at-levons/

I'll say this - you couldn't possibly get this kind of punk rock cred anywhere else but Russia. (Or China, Iran or North Korea and probably several other places.) Seriously - here in America, music has been completely defanged politically, but in some places, it's still taken very very seriously, what musicians say.

Thanks, man - it was perhaps the best Wilco show I have ever seen. Certainly the most enjoyable.

1. That column was funny. 2. There are Wilco message "boards"? I am reacting to this like 1000 AD Man would react to hearing that there are other continents.

Exactly. Thank you.

Yeah, really. Anyone who thinks Nugent deserves the least bit of attention for his political beliefs is a either a fool or a fool.

Going to the Cooperstown show. Ommegang makes that GOOD beer.

1. Big Black rules. Any thread is improved by their presence. 2. Romney has a really tough row to hoe. He has to somehow repair all the off-putting stuff that came out during the primary process, specifically the "War on Women," and convince people there's a compelling case to un-elect Obama in an environment where the economy is gradually improving. Romney seems weak on foreign policy, but that's not what this election is going to be about anyway, unless the Iran thing blows up. (Huge spike in gas prices would tend to hurt Obama.)

That you, Marleen?

Oh man. If I did not have to pay, oh, just shy of 10 grand in taxes (not including the $2300 or so in Medicare/Soc. Sec., as I am hoping to get that back at some point) on a just shy of 40 grand gross income, that would RULE. What candidate is pushing that plan?

Whatevs. You can play your cassette, plug in your from-eBay Atari and jam out on Asteroids, but you will never be able to recreate the '80s, and trust me, that's a good thing.

I love Wilco, but this is a dumb idea. Vinyl records are one thing - you can make a sound argument for their sonic superiority - but take it from your Uncle Bjorn - commercial cassette tapes always blew.

Ooo, not good proofreading here. "Aside from the creature comforts of touring, compared with what touring use to be like 20 years ago"

This makes me think of a review of the BEP's latest in a Swedish newspaper. Here's the translated version: "The Beginning" is one long stretched middle finger against humanity. When all the taboos have been broken, finally left just overall bad taste of that challenge. And no other group know more about total TASTELESSNESS than Black Eyed Peas. It is by all means quite fascinating to follow the group's ongoing effort to always try to set the bar a bit lower. The indigestible mix of one part iced calculated copying of the recent R & B and hip-hop trends and on the other basic clumsily

Great story! Thanks!

This album has a metric ton of sonic beauty. I am well-pleased, very well-pleased. It's like a Wilco tent revival for me; faith, thou art restored.

You know, when that dude said what he said about seeing the future of rock 'n' roll, I bet he didn't have a clue that what he was really talking about was the pervasiveness of the glockenspiel in today's music.

It also has a glockenspiel, so it's in compliance with the U.S. Indie Rock Code. Seriously, it is a GOOD song.

I have logged in to say that this song rules.

There was a "Secrets of the Dead" about some village in Britain where many of the inhabitants had that mutation and thus survived the plague.

I did note that there only seems to be one sex position in Westerlo, but hey, it's early yet!

I liked it very much - I could spot pretty much every epic fantasy trope there is, but it didn't strike me as being facile or unsophisticated.

http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=67562604-8280-4d56-8af4-a27f59d70de5 ergo, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h45WnW0ASFY

Terrible decisions for whom? Not themselves - they got bailed out. I have yet to see a banker ask me for a buck on the street. The oligarchy used the "free market" to F the American people out of billions and billions, and got away with it, because the alternative of them not getting the bailout would be even worse. They haven't even given us the courtesy of telling us we can eat cake. Paging Mme. Guillotine!