Yearly Archives: 2004

Yesterday the message board passed 1,000 registered users. Balloons fell, babies were kissed, ribbons were cut.

Hmm.

I dunno.

From the band’s website:

I just got this message from Jonathan Segel – and confirmed by phone with David Lowery as they were headed down to the police station. Get the word out about all this as fast as possible!

If you have info, email me: john [at] cursion [dot] com. Or better yet – contact the Montreal Police.

Message from Jonathan:

all of camper van beethoven’s guitars and violin and our merch got stolen last night in montreal. if anybody has any contacts up here, tell them to look for our stuff in stores. or hunt down the robbers and kill them.

jonathan’s violin with stickers all over it
jonathan’s 1971 strat (sunburst) (with a couple stickers, etc.)O
victor’s 1969 precision bass (natural finish)
david’s green charvel surfcaster
david’s black jackson surfcaster
a couple ibanez acoustics
johnny’s black eric clapton strat
greg’s frankenstein strat (black) and tele (tobacco sunbusrst)
plus mike duclos’ precision bass and ezster balint’s gibson sg and
danelectro semi acoustic.
a few tshirts and a road case of cds.

Forgive the egregious self promotion, but I just thought I’d mention that I’m blogging again. Some people might like to know.

If you’re hosting a Halloween party, here’s all the music you’ll ever need. [credz]

Today was one of the biggest release dates of the year for me. New albums from both Ted Leo and Elliott Smith. And they’re both great.

Talk about Elliott’s new one here and Ted Leo’s here, both in our message board.

I’ll say it againagainagain: Ted Leo’s new one is a top contendor for my favorite album of the year.

From Lying in the Gutters:

Image Comics are currently in talks with Scottish pop group Belle & Sebastian and with British songwriter Stephen Duffy to create graphic novel anthologies, transforming their songs into comic book stories.

Our good friends are performing in New York Thursday, and your attendance is mandatory:

The Last Hotel will be performing at the Lion’s Den in New York Thursday, Oct. 21 as part of the Diskmaker’s Independent Music World Series night. Show starts at 8 p.m. and lasts until Midnight.

Out of 1,000 bands, six were selected by the editors of Billboard magazine to showcase, and one of which will be picked to win up to $35,000 in prizes including a free pressing of 2,000 of our next CD (this makes us drool just a little bit). The winner will be announced at midnight. Other performers include: Chinua Hawk, The Oggs, Melissa Bathory, Mark Geary and The Defog.

For directions, further details, more info on the other acts, click here.

Former Soft Cell leader and solo artist Marc Almond is feared to have suffered severe head and neck injuries as a result of a motorcycle vs. automobile accident in London over the weekend. A witness report doesn’t sound good at all:

?There was an almighty bang as the bike crashed with the car. The motorcyclist and passenger were thrown off into the air and landed in the road. There was blood everywhere.

?I heard someone say it was Marc Almond, he looked like he had done a lot of damage to his head.” (full story)

Download them all. Now if only they’ll put up other songs from the Adult Swim universe… [credz]