Yearly Archives: 2004

Click here for our somewhat live coverage at the Little Brother’s Voter Appreciation Concert featuring Nada Surf, Maplewood, Tim Easton, Miranda Sound and maybe Chuck D.

Talk about the election here in our message board.

If you really need me donewaiting.com to be the one that reminds you to vote, then we’ve got problems.

Today is election day and living in Columbus OH, the heart of a swing state, a state that has always gone to the presidential winner, has been tiresome.It’s exciting and annoying and really draining on my soul.

There’s a big election day show going on at Little Brother’s. Nada Surf (acoustic), Maplewood, Tim Easton and Miranda Sound. The host of the evening will be CHUCK D from Public Enemy/Air America Radio, and he’ll be broadcasting live. Doors 8pm, $10 but wear your election sticker if you know what I mean.

Donewaiting.com will be attempting to do live coverage at the event. We won’t have any video or audio streams, but I’ll be taking photos from soudcheck through the end of the event, and trying to post them up as frequent as possible. I’ll also try to get Nada Surf and Chuck to post messages onto the site.

This idea came together very quickly, so it might not happen, but visit our site later just in case.

The power to dream / to rule

to wrestle the world from fools

it’s decreed the people rule

it’s decreed the people rule

LISTEN

I believe everything we dream

can come to pass through our union

we can turn the world around

we can turn the earth’s revolution

we have the power

People have the power …

— Patti Smith

Most people heard about the cease and desist letter that the US Postal Service filed with Sub Pop in reaction to the band name “Postal Service.” But did you know that the dispute turned into a cross-promotional marketing deal between the band and the USPS?

(sorry you have to register for the article, but I can’t find it anywhere else)

Watch it here via the Windows Media platform.

We’ve said how great the new Ted Leo record is about 30 times already, right?

I think you can get information over on Kerry’s official site.

I’m sure Stephen will fill us in on more of the details, but here’s the basics:

Saturday, November 5, 2004
Jersey City, NJ – Uncle Joe’s
w/ Sans Alabaster (Rye Coalition side project), The Multi-Purpose Solution, Day Day Dead Eye
Doors 8pm, $5, 21+

Sleater Kinney says goodbye to Kill Rock Stars and hello to Sub Pop. Here’s the story.

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The other day I was watching Jeapordy and every single commercial was a political ad. Living in Ohio, with it’s swing state status, I now realize how a high school chearleader must feel. So popular, everyone wanting my attention (and my vote).

We get people knocking on our door almost every weekend, and the amount of voice mail from people reminding us to vote has been staggaring. It’s starting to piss me off.

The swing state status benefit paid off yesterday as I was able to attend a John Kerry rally that also had Bruce Springsteen play two songs acoustically. He played “Promised Land” and “No Surrender,” and both songs never seemed more important. He also spoke about why he’s chosen to endorse Kerry, and how he believes that America can be a better place.

As we left the rally, we had to walk through a crowd of Bush supporters on both sides of us. They were yelling at us with such venom, calling me a baby killer, a faggot, just about every nasty thing in the book. Hopefully their hatred will one day heal.

GBV’s Bob Pollard sold an autographed copy of 1992’s Propeller for $6,200 on eBay. The auction winner, Ed McGowan, an attorney in Brooklyn, says

?The LP was from Bob?s private collection and he had signed it. It was a relatively low numbered copy and it has the handwritten lyrics to ?Ergo Space Pig? on the cover. This is not merely a record; it is in all seriousness a bona fide work of art by one of America?s most under appreciated masters of the rock/pop form. When people ask how it could be worth that much I ask them why a painting by de Kooning is worth what it is, or a Barry Bonds baseball for that matter. I think I got a good deal.?

Read the full article here. (Thanks to Fyffo for the head’s up)

Here’s a look at the new video for U2’s new single “Vertigo”. Watch it here now, and then many times over on VH1.

Bonus points for anyone who writes a compare/contrast essay between this video, the IPod commercial and the Hitchcock thriller.