Yearly Archives: 2004

The video for “Leaving New York” can be viewed here, on VH1.com.

At least I think so. Those VH1 suckas don’t support Apple.

The “real” press were all over U2 yesterday, finally reporting that their new album comes out 11/23. Luckily for you we’re friends, and you knew this information because we posted it on donewaiting.com last month.

I wasn’t planning on going to see Hayden in Cleveland, but when Kim said she had an extra ticket, how could I pass it up?

We drove into Cleveland around 9pm, and as soon as we arrived at the street where the Grog Shop was located, half of the power in Cleveland went out. After 2+ hours in the car, this is not how you want to be greeted by a city.

We walked to the venue, and at that point they were not letting anyone in or out. They didn’t know if they were going to have to cancel the show, refund everyone’s money, no one knew. So we waited for thirty minutes.

Time passed and the Grog eventually started to let people in. The power was still out, but they lit a bunch of candles and had about five lights that were battery powered. This is where the magic happened.

Because there was no power it became one of the most intimate shows I’ve ever experienced. The crowd sat on the floor in a semi-circle with Hayden in the center. He played his acoustic with no amplification or microphone. Could things have worked out any better? I don’t think so.

As time passed, the lights slowly began to fade until they completely turned off. For about three songs, Hayden played with only two pen lights from the crowd lighting him up.

I have to admit that I’ve not followed Hayden’s career lately. I had his first two albums but he sort of escaped my sights. Listening to him in that setting, though, really touched me. Each song told a perfect little story, and I now have to go back and pick up all of his records I’ve missed.

Shows like this can’t be planned, and they only happen once in a blue moon. I know Kim saw Hayden the next night in Pittsburgh, and unless the power outages were following her, I can’t imagine it being as special as our show. It probably was great, but in Cleveland, the audience and performer melded together for one beautiful performance.

Interesting quote in this interview of Les Savy Fav done by our bud Stephen Slaybaugh:

We want to start a Frenchkiss Records club this fall where fans can sign up and it?s like an old-school club where you get free stuff. Say it?s $10 or $20 a year, you?d get discounts on things and maybe we?d play some shows just for our club members. We?re about to launch our new website, and it will have that as an option. We want to start to build a community of Frenchkiss people. With everyone that works here, it was important to them to be involved in a rock community, and we feel that?s been fading. So we want to bring it back. (full interview)

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A group of peeps from various backgrounds get together to produce an ad-hoc, distributed audio book of Larry Lessig’s Free Culture (PDF downloadable here). Additional post and comments on the project here—including the idea of aggregating everyone’s work using RSS.

This is where the light bulb goes off.

Since the main purpose of record labels is aggregation, could the “functionality” of record labels be replaced with RSS? Artists could distribute compilations, “albums”, EPs, remixes, playlists, etc…using RSS 2.0 with enclosures. Some discussion on RSS 2.0 at Joi Ito’s blog. See also Dave Winer’s Payloads For RSS.

For an example, see Christopher Lydon’s blog, where he aggregates an impressive list of interviews for syndication using a RSS2.0 feed.

Following the success of an amped-up, extended re-issue of Slanted & Enchanted, the kids went nuts when Matador announced they’d be doing the same with Pavement’s second album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. As the release date approaches, Matador’s Patrick Amory spills the beans about the tracklisting on the label’s message board:

DISC ONE

Back to the Gold Soundz

1. Silence Kit
2. Elevate Me Later
3. Stop Breathin
4. Cut Your Hair
5. Newark Wilder
6. Unfair
7. Gold Soundz
8. 5-4 = Unity
9. Range Life
10. Heaven Is a Truck
11. Hit the Plane Down
12. Fillmore Jive

======== end of original album =========

13. Camera
14. Stare
15. Raft
16. Cooling by Sound
17. Kneeling Bus
18. Strings of Nashville
19. Exit Theory
20. 5-4 Vocal
21. Jam Kids
22. Haunt You Down
23. Unseen Power of the Picket Fence
24. Nail Clinic

#1-12 from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
#13-14 from “Cut Your Hair” released 1994
#15-16 from “Range Life” released 1994
#17-19 from “Gold Soundz” released 1994
#20 from “Gold Soundz” Australian tour ep released 1994
#21-22 from 7″ included with Crooked Rain
#23 from “No Alternative” released 1993
#24 from “Hey Drag City” released 1993

DISC TWO

After the Glow (Where Eagles Dare)

1. All My Friends
2. Soiled Little Filly
3. Range Life
4. Stop Breathing
5. Ell Ess Two
6. Flux = Rad
7. Bad Version of War
8. Same Way of Saying
9. Hands Off the Bayou
10. Heaven Is a Truck (Egg Shell)
11. Grounded
12. Kennel District
13. Pueblo (Beach Boys)
14. Fucking Righteous
15. Colorado
16. Dark Ages
17. Flood Victim
18. JMC Retro
19. Rug Rat
20. Strings of Nashville (instrumental)
21. Instrumental
22. Brink of the Clouds
23. Orange Black
24. Tartar Martyr
25. Pueblo

#1-21 previously unreleased
#22-25 from John Peel Session Feb 26, 2004 (??? – we presume he meant 1994, rather)

I wrote a little bit about the upcoming Black Swans album over here, on OH Columbus! I love the record, and if you’re the type of person that links bands like Iron and Wine, Tindersticks, Bonny Prince Billy or Songs:Ohia, chances are you’ll like ’em too.

Here’s two mp3s from their upcoming album: “Who Will Walk In the Darkness With You” | “Blue Skies”

This is so weird but I love it.

Donewaiting.com England writer Steve Miller writes up his experiences at a recent Morrissey concert. It seems almost cliche that our England writer saw Morrissey, but there you go.