Yearly Archives: 2004

The original Duran Duran lineup split up in the mid-80s, when most of the members were only in their mid-20s. The subsequent years saw Duran Duran continue but with a revolving door of new members. Setting all bad feelings aside (or at least not bringing them up every time they were in a room together), the original members of Duran Duran — Simon LeBon (vocals), Andy Taylor (guitars), Nick Rhodes (keyboards), John Taylor (bass) and Roger Taylor (drums) — reunited last year and wrote an album of entirely new Duran Duran material. Astronaut will be released a week from today. The new stuff can be described as “new wave disco music” which, in my opinion, isn’t a terrible thing. The International Herald Tribune ran a feature story on the band today that documents the reformation of one of the greatest video bands ever. If the reformed Pixies can fit Columbus into their tour schedule, there is no reason why we shouldn’t expect to see Duran Duran here sometime in the next couple of months.

I swear I saw 25.4% of the entire donewaiting.com message board population at last night’s show. Check out everyone’s reviews and post your own if you were there. (statistically, you probably were)

People are so silly.

Billing Microsoft as the good guys and Apple the villains of the piece – at least as far as corporate America, rather than users, is concerned, Ballmer said: “We?ve had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is ‘stolen’.” (full story)

If you can’t laugh, cry.

Han offers up a review of a recent Los Angeles Pixies show he attended:

I wasn’t that excited about the Pixies reunion. I’m probably a medium sized Pixies fan, owning all their records but not lovingly caressing them on a daily basis. There was just something about the way the tour was put together and announced that never made it seem an essential experience. It was a cash-in reunion for a nostalgic audience wanting one more chance and a small percentage of new hipster fans weaned on the Pixies’ descendants looking for their first time. I’m inbetween, old enough to be familiar but never seeing them live the first time ’round. Given that, I figured one shot would be worth it, even if it was the Pixies in their Fat Elvis mode. (full review)

I see the Pixies tomorrow.

Tom Waits MP3 from his upcoming album, Real Gone, can be downloaded here: “How’s It Gonna End”

I also found this site that has a ton of Waits mp3 live shows and other assorted things.

Chromewaves reviews the Arcade Fire CD release party that happened the other night up there in Canada. Sounds like a great show and I can’t wait to see them next month.

Link-O-Rama
// Discuss the album here, in our message board.
// Listen to songs off the new record.
// Buy the album there.

I can’t wait for tonight’s show, but this photo just ain’t right:

I’m heading up to Cleveland tonight for the Springsteen/REM/Bright Eyes Vote for Change tour. I can’t wait. I saw Springsteen and company a few years back in NJ at Continental Airlines Arena. It was the first show he played with the E Street Band after his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction. It was an amazing night, and I’m thinking tonight’s gonna be great too.

Details from the first show on the tour in Philadelphia:

Bruce and the E Street Band kicked off their contribution to the Vote For Change tour with a blistering two-hour performance last night at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia. First Bruce joined Michael Stipe and REM for a duet on “Man on the Moon”. After REM’s set Nils Lofgren came on stage and played a Jimi Hendrix style “Star Spangled Banner” before the whole E Street Band and Bruce entered and kicked into “Born in the USA”. “Badlands”, “No Surrender”, “Lost in the Flood”, full-band “Youngstown” and many other classics followed. John Fogerty joined Bruce for three of his own songs plus a duet on “The Promised Land”. The show ended with all the artists on stage together for a version of Patti Smith’s “People Have the Power”.

Complete set list and more info found here.

From Merge:

The first 100 people who order AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB’S Love Songs For Patriots from www.mergerecords.com will receive a free copy of the band’s self released collection entitled American Music Club 1984-1995. Consisting of album tracks, b-sides, unreleased demos, and rare live tracks hand-picked and sequenced by the band from their archives, this release was previously only available from American Music Club’s website and at AMC shows.

Donewaiting.com Houston writer David A. Cobb slams radio in his latest column. The gentleman is fired up, so you better stay out of his way in Texas this weekend.