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MEC on NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...toryId=12550016 'Musician Glen Hansard tells the story of lending his guitar to Magnolia Electric Company's Jason Molina when the two crossed paths in Ireland. Before using it, Molina duct-taped a little white cross onto the instrument; when Hansard asked him about it, the MEC songwriter replied that it was a protection spell. Hansard liked that idea, so he kept the cross on it. Months later, in the Czech Republic, he accidentally left his guitar behind after a gig, and when he returned the next day, it was long gone. He was frantic

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/fit.nation/obesity.map/ scary

love the book, Especially the conversational tone and the way things were presented so simply

Permie, It has just been a good music day. Hearing the Drew, Basia Bulat and that Complusive Gamblers disc - all for the first time. Uniformly excellent. And the hyperbole is justified. You like Greg Cartwright right? Well imagine if you'd hadn't heard some of his best stuff - which is the case for me.

Basia Bulat - Oh My Darling Holee shit, she's from my little village. And she's good.

oh my god. this is incredible. Hearing the original of 'Stop and Think it Over' - Cartwright actually sounds like he's trying to imitate how Mary Weiss would do the song 6 years before Mary Weiss actually did the song. And then, and then being really impressed with the Jack Yarber songs and not just the Greg Cartwright songs. Only problem is that pretty soon I can see myself becoming one of those 'Garage Rock and only Garage Rock' extremists - or even worse, if Cartwright is not connected in some way to a band then I won't bother. If that happened, I probably wouldn't run out of music anyt

just listening to the Myspace streams. wow. And that video. Hate it when I put too many Canadian releases in my top 10, thinking that I'm just unconsciously pimping stuff that's local or regional, but geez, what a strong year for hosehead music. Fiest, New Pornos, above, Julie Dorion, wider release of Rock Plaza Central, Arcade Fire... Although I'm sure most of them don't live north of the border anymore.

in my heart there's a place called swampland nine parts water one part sand

rock plaza central re-arranging some of their songs on CBC radio 3 http://radio3.cbc.ca/concerts/Rock-Plaza-Central-2007-03-25/

'If I had, all my karma, and it all came back to me..... ' love that rekurd.

1st watchmen poster: this just CANNOT suck.

Never noticed. There's a nice sticker on the the back that ' Hi Tualla, The New Carolyn! Enjoy! :heart: Mint' I don't remember opening the package or ordering it. It sure is nice though, if somber by her standards.

Parking was a big worry. We were thinking about parking at the Hospital but couldn't get into the garage. Instead, we ended up getting the bouncer to recommend some street guys to watch the car and gladly paid them. The whole time, I was thinking that we were being scammed, but it worked out really well. I was probably overly paranoid about going to downtown Hockey Town. Love that club! Seeing all the Detroit Cobras and Dirt Bombs posters on the wall made me feel right at home. What a thrill to walk up the stairs and see Tim Rogers spazzing out with the best band in the world. Smoking r

One other thing - how do you guys still stand smoking in rock clubs? I had totally forgotten about those dufus smoking indie kids. I kept moving around trying to avoid some stupid exhaling 16-year old. Some where even wearing sunglasses inside. Tres cool. I bet small rock club attendance would actually increase if they went smoke free.

Saw the Detroit show on Sunday. Missed the first song in the opening (!!!!^&S^@^$$@%) slot because of an hour long border wait. What I saw was incredible. 10 songs. 9 from Convicts. My love for this band is confirmed. Trouble was, generously, maybe 25 people were there. Talking to Andy Kent (the Bassist) and he was a tad disappointed in the turn out, but I'm hoping my 'You're my biggest fan' geek out did some to lift his spirits. Smoking Popes in the headlining slot were ok. I'm not a huge fan of their Weezer/Cheap Trick thing, and YAI should not have been opening. I wonder what

hate reading stuff like this, but it is worth a post

Bridget - Public shout out and thank you! What a nice thing to say: http://mystikspiral.blogspot.com/2007/07/b...r-heard-of.html still listening to the Ritter. Used to be that I'd get all the Josh artists mixed up. With Rouse sort of falling off, Groban going major and me forgetting the 4th Josh I useta like, Ritter owns his first name.

I'm a real fan girl. Last year's CD was good. But only good. This one sounds like a wilder sequel to Golden Age of Radio. All kinds of stuff being thrown into the songs - detuned piano, hoots, horns, opera choruses. It's like he's ditched being solo singer-songwriter dude and got a good and strange band behind him.

oh well, top 10 reorder again. sigh in a good way.

yeah - seen them 3 times now and all were short. I was really perplexed after it happened for the first time. I had brought tons of people to the show and it seemed to end just as it was getting going. We wondered if it was something we as an audience had done to piss them off. I asked here if their short set was a usual thing and was told it was. It's just their thing.

I guess we could all joke about how MEC needs as many openers as possible - the only play for 60-70 minutes thing. But I guess we don't complain because what a 60-70 minutes it is.

gotta say that we have some fairly talented Bloggers around here. Just started reading Line of Best Fit --- good stuff.

slow on the uptake of this thing. Thanks Bridget (and red frog)

wish they would ditch those day jobs and go for a North 'full on Rock and Roll' American tour. I bet a band whose timing is near perfect would put on a great show. NP - Blitzen Trapper.