Yearly Archives: 2003

Our kissing cousin, Hip Hop Anonymous, gives us some info on the new Aesop Rock album. Read about it here.

For whatever reason, I went from loving this band to thinking they’re boring. Maybe I’m just a dick.

David Fricke does an excellent interview with Jackson Browne, reflecting on the life and music of Warren Zevon.

His songs are like short stories — the best songs always are. They tell much more about life than books; they communicate so much more than a longer volume would. But it’s funny. Here we are, talking at great lengths, to describe something that was the very opposite of that — a guy who could say something in a few words that was immediately understood. (full interview)

The band is actually playing in cities other than New York, Berkley and San Francisco. Hol-lee!

Sun-Oct-26 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
Mon-Oct-27 Durham, NC Carolina Theatre
Tue-Oct-28 Washington, DC 930 Club
Thu-Oct-30 Chicago, IL Congress Theatre
Sun-Nov-02 Austin, TX The Backyard
Tue-Nov-04 Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall
Wed-Nov-05 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
Thu-Nov-06 Columbus, OH Mershon Auditorium
Fri-Nov-07 Detroit, MI State Theatre
Sat-Nov-08 Toronto, ON Massey Hall
Mon-Nov-10 New York, NY Town Hall
Tue-Nov-11 New York, NY Town Hall
Wed-Nov-12 Northampton, MA Calvin Theatre
Thu-Nov-13 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
Fri-Nov-14 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre

Yes, Ms. Phair is back on the road. Aren’t you excited? You can find the dates here. You can read about it here.

If you are so inclined you can read my review of her Chicago show here — though I’ve noticed she’s skipping our fair city this time so maybe she actually read my review — and you can discuss her surprising recent career moves here.

How exciting!

We here at Done Waiting appreciate the finer things in life. Well aged red wine. Thoughtful yet witty sentiments whispered by the light of a roaring fire. Kylie Minogue’s oh-so-bouncy “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.”

Well the ex-Neighbors star is dropping her new album later this year everywhere in the world but here in the U.S.A. What?! Why do we have to wait until February when everyone else gets access to this batch of new tunes in November?

In case you can’t tell, it’s a bit of a slow music day in the music world
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Rob Harvilla used to be a music writer for The Other Paper in Columbus. He also freelanced for some fancy glossy magazines like Alternative Press. Rob left Columbus a few months ago for a good gig in San Francisco (it’s kind of like we traded him to SF as the player-to-be-named later in the Duffy to Columbus deal).

As a different way to preview an upcoming Radiohead show, Harvilla went to a local school to see what kids think of Radiohead.

In order to solicit an honest, undiluted opinion about Radiohead, you’d have to find the proverbial People Living Under Rocks. As People Living Under Rocks are unavailable, let’s use fifth graders.

Specifically, Mitsi Kato’s fifth-grade class at Roosevelt Elementary in San Leandro.

Mitsi has consented to a simple experiment: We will play a career-spanning selection of Radiohead songs; the kids, equipped with Sharpies and blank sheets of paper, will simply draw whatever the music suggests to them. We don’t even give them the name of the band. They don’t know anything about Radiohead, the mountain of criticism, the mythology. Their thoughts and interpretations are pure, unsullied, literally unique.

They are also extremely bizarre.

The kids consent to this experiment, if only because Mitsi tells them to. They do, however, immediately request that we play Sean Paul or 50 Cent instead.

Read the article and check out the amazing drawings that Radiohead inspired.

Those yuksters over at Nerve.com have decided to include Beyonce Knowles and lead guitarists in their Unsexy List and while I can?t speak for the entire editorial staff here at Done Waiting I will say that I heartily endorse 98.9% of Nerve.com?s picks.

Another historic NYC music venue to be lost?

Dear Stephen:

Is New York University about to cross out The Bottom Line? The Bottom Line has been presenting live music since February 12, 1974, and is owned and operated by Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky. The Bottom Line is unique because it is a “mom & pop store” amidst a crowded field of conglomerates and corporations.

The problem, as detailed at www.bottomlinecabaret.com is as follows:

Even before the terrorist attacks on the World Trader Center, the nation was already feeling the downturn in the economy. The Bottom Line, along with so many other small businesses, has not been able to recover since the tragedy of September 11th. Attendance to shows has declined. In addition, its customers are feeling economic stress, bills have been multiplying, and the venue has been substantially behind in our rent. The landlord, New York University, has started eviction proceedings.

During negotiations with NYU to resolve this situation, the Bottom Line has presented several different proposals to pay past due rent, while at the same time keeping current with a new, higher rent proposed by NYU.

NYU has not been open to negotiating a long-term solution to this mutual problem. The Bottom Line wants to pay off the debt to NYU, but to do so says it needs to remain in business. To stay in business, it needs a promise from NYU that, if the club pays off the rental arrears, NYU won’t evict the Bottom Line.

According to an online letter from Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky, “We acknowledge that we owe back rent, and we have offered to pay back every penny owed. It would be impossible to list all of the issues which come up in a lease negotiation. There is only one obstacle to The Bottom Line remaining in business. All we have asked NYU to agree to is that if we pay them back all the rent we owe, NYU will be willing to allow The Bottom Line to stay on. This NYU has refused to do.

Even if we do jump through all the hoops that NYU has put before us, and we pay down our debts as we plan to do, NYU is giving us no assurance that we will be able to stay at our current historical location.”

For more details, contact Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky of The Bottom Line at SaveBLT@aol.com, and John Beckman, assistant vice president of the Office of Public Affairs at john.beckman@nyu.edu or Lynne Brown, the VP for University Relations and Public Affairs at NYU at lynne.brown@nyu.edu.

They’ll be gone in a week so listen now.