Donewaiting writer Andrew Patton is at the Rothbury Music Festival this weekend. He’ll have a proper recap of the show when he returns, but for now you can get live updates via his Twitter account. And for extra bonus, donewaiting’s twitter account
MP3: Wouldn’t Wanna Be Ya
MP3: Let Us Play Your Party
When I heard that Seattle’s The Spits are dropping a new LP – their fourth – on the 4th of July, I smiled… That smile was brought on by a couple of different reasons. One – I, like many others, thought there might never be a NEW Spits LP, since the band went on a hiatus due to some of it’s members moving to different cities and getting involved in other projects. Two – there is no more appropriate band to celebrate our great country’s birthday with then The Spits. Why? Because to this humble fan The Spits are what America is all about – taking back alleys, playing parties, drinking beers and being weird.
To those of you who are not in the know, The Spits play the most basic type of punk rock, reminiscent of the great Ramones with a splash of new wave and a whole lot of FUN! The perfect soundtrack for a killer party gone out of control. They bring it live as well. I’ve seen them play a show at our very own Bobo Street where those in attendance, myself included, would not let them of the stage until they played every song that was yelled out at them. So if you get a chance, shell out the dough at the door and never look back. Also make sure to pick up all four of their self-titled LP’s and a singles comp called 19 Million AC
The Spits were gracious enough to answer some questions for us via e-mail. Also they attached a killer track Wouldn’t Wanna Be Ya from the new album for us to enjoy (link above). So, here we go!
You and Sean are from Kalamazoo, MI originally. When and why did you guys re-locate to Seattle?
Sean and I had been traveling the country for a long time, separately and together, working as dishwashers and just seeking our fortune in general. When we landed in Seattle in the early nineties, the city had just the right combination of music, chicks, mountains and thrift stores. We knew we had found our new home.
When and how did the Spits start?
Well, Aleks, it was your classic “Boy meets girl, girl loves boy, boy goes to college for degree in 17th century French literature, boy drops out of college, girl leaves boy, boy hits girl, boy goes to jail for assault, boy gets out of jail and goes on 13-day vision quest with the Ayuhuasca shamans of the Amazon, boy starts band, band turns music world upside down and single-handedly rejuvenates punk genre, girl wants back with boy, boy sleeps with girl one more time and then sleeps with her sister in girl’s house and videotapes it, girl becomes murderous with rage, boy goes on long tours with band in Europe and U.S. to stay one step ahead of vengeful girl, boy blah, blah blah….” We’ve all been there. More →
Pictured: Brainbow w/Lara Yazvac@Comfest
Oh man Comfest...or something like that. Basically there are a number of ways to go about Comfest. You can camp out somewhere in the park on a blanket, go check out bands with “clever” band names, wander around aimlessly running into people you know and drink booze and eat food and not pay attention to any bands, or you can hang out at the Offramp Stage all weekend like I pretty much did and watch bands that you know will be good.
How many times can you say the same things about the same bands? Find out after the jump! More →
Dirty Frank’s Hot Dogs finally opened in Columbus yesterday, and it was worth the way. Everyone in my crew ate big and we can’t wait to go back.
The look of the restaurant was designed by Thom Lessner. There’s lots of paintings of rock and roll heroes, baseball superstars, and a lot more. Kiesha took some photos of the paintings, but we didn’t take photos of everything. You’ll have to go to the restuarant to see it all.
J-swift of Fly Union
Fly.Union’s bi-weekly party Whud up Wednesday’s has become one of my favorite events in Columbus. Eye, J Swifa and Giovanny usually DJ mixing hood favorites like Gucci Mane with music from artists like Drake and Kid Cuddi. Jerreau hosts the event. The party’s are always hype, I even saw my most recent girl fight last time I was there.
From The Athens News:
Paszke’s letter asks the residents to cease using their house for what he calls a commercial venue. “It has come to our attention that your residence is being used on a near weekly basis for touring musical groups,” Paszke wrote, adding that this violates the city code’s residential zone permitted uses. He continues that the activity is “clearly in violation of many national fire codes” as well as the city’s business regulations codes.
“Any further operation of these venues located at this site will warrant an immediate response from our department as well as the Athens Police and Fire departments,” Paszke wrote. “Your landlord has been notified as well, whom we have requested to assist us in prohibiting these events.” Paszke said he had the landlord’s support in each of the houses.
The main venue being targeted is Brown Town. Judging from the comments in this article, it seems like Brown Town is an actual positive force in their neighborhood – no drugs, booze, respectful, and even neighboring families with children go to the shows. The same can’t be say for the frat houses in the area…
Official response from Brown Town after the jump. More →
Bird and Flower’s current live line-up features Erik (from Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos) on lap steel, Tyler (Couch Fort/Super Desserts) on banjo, Dan (Miranda Sound) on cello/bass drum, Justin on harmonium/bass drum/omnichord, and Eve on ukulele/omnichord/freestyle tambourine. On Saturday, they did this great cover of Madonna’s “Borderline”.
Sunken Treasure is releasing the Bird and Flower debut album on vinyl in July. More details coming soon.
MP3:Meta4ce-Monsta Musik(Unmixed)
Columbus rapper Meta4ce came a step closer to winning a million dollars on Sunday. MTV2 aired his second battle. He slayed dood. (we are still locating the video but you can watch the video of the first battle here on donewaiting). The above MP3(Monsta Musik) off of Meta4ce’s upcoming mixtape, has Young Meta describing the horrible things that he is capable of, very rabidly.
Meta4ce needs everyone to vote for him by texting Motv to 99134.
(there is a dollar fee for this text)
In November of 2001 I moved to Columbus from San Francscio due to my day job having a gigantic re-org of staff and resources. A year later, after being inspired by the local music scene by such bands as Miranda Sound, I decided to start a music website called donewaiting.com.
Through these six and a half years, the site has grown tremendously. When I started, we had several people writing about their local music scenes all over the country (Chicago, San Francisco, England, Indianapolis, to name a few). Things sort of moved into a more Columbus+National vibe over the last year, with SXSW coming in for 5 months as well. But the site has always evolved. I mean, do you remember when we had film reviews? (I miss you Caleb!)
Columbus has been great to me, too. I found my wife, got a dog, made some great friends, and for the last 2 and a half years have had an amazing job working for Jerry Dannemiller at the Wexner Center as their web guy. Trust me, if you have any passion for the arts and you live in Ohio, the Wexner Center is the #1 place you want to be working.
But, it’s time to move on.
For those of you who don’t know my complete biography (and why should you), up until the last 10 years of my life I spent it living in NJ. Ever since the time of us getting married, I’ve felt that it’s time to hitch up our tent and move back east to be close to my family. Fortunately, the right job has come along that will allow us to move back home and we are anxious, nervous, excited, and overall a bit loopy in trying to plan the move. The tentative target is to head out of town on August 2, and I’ll be using my Tumblr blog to post about our new life in New York. You can follow along here. Our hope is to move into Brooklyn, maybe Queens, something like that. (Any leads on apartments will be appreciated. +dog +cat)
So what does this mean for donewaiting.com and Columbus? Well, we’re happy to announce that Joel Oliphint, writer at The Other Paper and all around great guy, is coming onboard as the Columbus Editor of the site. Joel will work with our current staff of 6 other Columbus-based writers and photographers to continue our coverage of everything happening in town. If anything, I expect more Columbus-centric writing to come out of the site than ever before. And while in New York, I’ll continue to write the same sort of stuff I’ve been writing forever.
I hope you don’t consider this an ending of any sort. It’s just the beginning of a new chapter of a website that continues to change, grow, and still try to figure out what the hell we’re doing.
Duffy told me that all 50 copies of OH CRAP – VOL.5 sold during the first day of Comfest. Because I was out of town, I didn’t have time to replenish the stock so I’m making the Columbus band compilation available here to download for free.
DOWNLOAD: OH CRAP – VOL.5
“Dirty Power” – The Bom Selleck
“Leave it Tonight” – Josh Fitzwater and The Shambles
“Back to New York” – Keith Jenkins & The Moving Parts
“Hot Boots” – Bird and Flower
“Lonely Bones” – Colin Gawel
“Falls the Shadow” – Hayseed
“Night Crawler” – Bill Kurzenberger
“Conspicuous Consumption” – Vespin
“Record in the Sleeve” – Like Giants
“Metal Hairpiece” – Dr. Robot
“Until it’s Gone” – Paper Airplane
“Echo Wheel” – Woosley Band
“Gravity’s Heart” – Bush League All-Stars
“Sleep Well” – Ryan Smith
“Mystery to Me” – Mike Switzer
“White Water” – Househearts
“Pissed it Away” – The Vague
“Mayqueen” – The Lost Revival
“Lies” – Bookmobile
Post your reviews here.
Confirmed by Los Angeles Times and other sources. Read more.
I figure you’ll be seeing all the hits on other sites, but I wanted to dig up something else. As a kid, I loved Captain EO.
We’ll be selling them at the band merch booth at Comfest for the low low low price of $5. Any extras will be sold via the website at $10.
Modeled by Ben. Designed and printed by Clint Reno, of course.
MP3: She Came Along by Sharam featuring Kid Cudi
(EDIT: Turns out that Kid Cudi is not playing the Rothbury Festival after all, oops. He is embarking on some major touring this summer though, including some European dates and a co-headlining slot on The Great Hangover Tour in July and August. They play the House of Blues in Cleveland on July 17th, so maybe I’ll see you there?)
Shaker Heights, OH (Cleveland suburb) native Kid Cudi has gained attention from the blogs and from urban radio for his involvement with Kanye West and for his single “Day ‘n Nite,” which has slowly gained momentum for the last six months and is now heard coming from local cars on the regular. This phenomenon has not gone unnoticed by this humble website, as champion for Ohio hip-hop Wes Flexner hit you with a then-new MP3 back in December and some hype for the “Day ‘n Nite” video when it hit BET in February, while our noble boss man Rob Duffy reported on Cudi’s performance with Kanye at SXSW 2009. As you can see, the excitement has been building around me and I can’t wait to see him live. The man seems to be inspiring new mainstream-ish excitement for Ohio hip-hop, so I’m interested to see how he progresses with the release of his official debut album, “Man on the Moon: The Guardians,” currently slated for August 25th.
Video footage from February 2009 (youtubed by http://illroots.com/)
Reminds me of The Wrestler. Wreckage of My Past comes out in 2010.
MP3: Revival by Phantods
Phantods, one of the hardest working bands in Columbus, celebrate the release of their new EP “Revival” on July 3rd at Skully’s Music-Diner with Mrs. Fahrenheit and the Loverboys. I feel like Phantods are a band that I don’t go out enough for and if you haven’t caught them, now is your opportunity. Creepy, melodic and super tight, they were kind enough to give me an mp3 to share so download the track “Revival” and tell me it isn’t one of the coolest tracks you’ve heard in a while…dare I say it’s a song I can’t stop listening to?
