Yearly Archives: 2004

It wasn’t easy to assemble the entire staff of donewaiting.com for a group photo, considering we have writers in England, California, New York, and places in between. But we did it, just for you.

Fans of the whole ‘sounds a lot like Coldplay’ genre will be heartened by the news that, in the absence of any new Snow Patrol material at the start of next year, Athlete are releasing a new UK single in January. I suspect it’s going to be ubiquitous, and it will probably end up with a US release about a year later.

As part of the whole ‘giving’ thing that Chip instigated below, I’ve found the video here – its rather dull, but believe me, this track sounds fantastic on the radio.

Yesterday I alerted you to the demise of the Ultimate Fakebook. Today I received the following email from Eric Melin, former UFB drummer:

Nick and Eric from Ultimate fakebook have a new band called Dead Girls Ruin Everything, who have cut some demos and are getting ready to go into the studio to record a full-length album. There is a contest for local Lawrence, KS bands to win some studio time, and this would really help us get this album done quicker and better! So, here is your chance to download the new stuff, and help fund our recording by spending none of you money at all and getting free tunes in the process!

Go here!

Click on “Never Too Late”. Right click on “Play the Mp3,” save as… and you’ve got 1 of 2 free songs!

While you’re at it, check out “The Turnpike,” a 1/2 hour TV show featuring funny interviews and rockin’ live songs by Dead Girls Ruin Everything.

If lots of you download “Never Too Late” and/or other Dead Girls songs, then we’ll get 2 days with the fabulous Ed Rose to make our record even better.

The contest ends on December 31st, so please download soon!

Thanks for your time, and we hope this email finds you still rocking.

So … you get TWO free songs by the new band Dead Girls Ruin Everything AND you can help them earn studio time to cut their new record. It’s a win-win proposition. Now get to it (and tell all your friends about this contest too). You’ll need some new tunes to put on that iPod you’re getting for Christmas (don’t worry, you ARE getting one, I spoke with Santa Claus this evening) and Dead Girls Ruin Everything are offering you two songs for free.

Donewaiting.com United Kingdom writer Steve Miller has posted his favorites of the year.

I still have not posted my list up, after yelling at the writers to get their lists in time. I am sometimes mean.

Here it is.

We have one of them, too.

The Favorites of 2004 lists have been piling up. Check out lists from the following Donewaiting contributors: Craig Ness (Foghorn), Jawbreaker (Signal-to-Noise) and Han Q Duong (I Hate the Kids).

Two Cow Garage will be doing a string of dates with Slobberbone on their farewell tour. I don’t know if these are all of Slobberbone’s shows, but these are the ones Two cow is playing on:

March 2nd @ Off Broadway (St. Louis)
March 3rd @ Rhythm & Brews (Wapakoneta, OH)
March 4th @ Abbey Pub (Chicago)
March 5th @ 400 Bar (Minneapolis)
March 6th @ Duffy’s (Lincoln, NE) TENTATIVE

Laura Cantrell signed to Matador? Yo La Tengo best-of collection? And news on a BBC Mogwai release? Chromewaves has it all.

I saw Laura play many years ago and her live show is amazing. Glad to see her getting the proper recognition.