Yearly Archives: 2004

Save your pennies, folks:

the box set is coming out in july. we could blubber on and on about how much work it was, but it turned out pretty cool and we hope people will like it. it will have 3 full discs of B-sides, rarities, and unreleased stuff (over 50 songs…) a DVD with all the videos and the documentary that marC gartman made, plus extras, and a 32 page booklet with lots of photos and commentary – all in a box (thus “box” set). we are releasing it ourselves through secretly canadian in the US and rough trade in the UK and europe. i don’t want to sound like too much of a salesman, but fishing through all the stuff for this was alot of fun and there’s some stuff on it that, for what it’s worth, we’re really proud of. (continued)

Low is one of those bands that I really, really like, but I don’t listen to enough.

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For those of you who don’t hang on every word that’s generated on the site, here’s some highlights from last week:

• Paul “The Rub” Cox Joins Donewaiting.com Staff
• Donewaiting.com Interviews Local H
• Milwaulkee brings the rock with their Summerfest
• Rob Duffy, all alone at the French Kicks and Ambulance Ltd concert.
• New PJ Harvey Video
• Donewaiting.com Interviews the Detachment Kit

  And here’s some discussions in the message board that are “heating up”.

• The Strokes, all drunk at their Columbus concert.
• There is lots of hate and lots of love for the new Beta Band album.
• Mostly love for the new Magnetic Fields album.
• Trouble with the MC5 reunion show?

After releasing three wonderously sample-heavy, yet uncluttered albums for Matador Records, Solex (known to friends and family as Elisabeth Esselink) will be issuing her fourth long player this fall on the Arena Rock label.

The album’s title? The Laughing Stock of Indie Rock. Self-deprecation makes the world go round, y’know.

A surprisingly really good interview by the New York Times. A highlight:

FRISKICS-WARREN: Jack, you’ve been quoted as saying that Loretta is the greatest female singer-songwriter of the 20th century.

LYNN: Oh, mercy.

WHITE: It’s true. Loretta was breaking down barriers for women at the right time, and writing all of her own songs. Those hits were songs she wrote, not songs that she was handed. And the innocence, coming from her, saying: “This is how women live. This is what women are thinking.” You’d think that would have come from a rock singer, like maybe Janis Joplin, in the late 60’s. But Loretta was doing it earlier than that, and in the country realm, where a lot of women weren’t able to do what they wanted. I don’t think anyone has the natural songwriting ability she has inside of her, where it just comes out and it’s so real. (full interview)

“Van Lear Rose” is quite a strong album, much more than just a gimmick. Definitely check it out if you can.

No, no, no. It’s all a bloody false rumor.

My Frames review has been posted on 75 or Less. Dig it, yo!

If you’re still holding out on this band, let these mp3s change your mind: Lay Me Down (my personal favorite) and Star Star.

David continues his quest of interviewing every band in the world. This time around he has an interview with Local H.

Tortoise has cancelled their Friday show in Cleveland (@ the Beachland Ballroom), moving it to June 15. Beachland’s website sites “a sudden injury” for the show postponement, so other shows may be impacted.

It seems that my report on this Friday night’s show at Uncle Joe’s is also unreliable.

Well, not entirely. These things happen.

Unfortunately, Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer had to cancel. They send their apologies. No worries, though, they’ll be around to play more shows in the near future.

So, any bands out there wanna play? I’m pooped.

MTV.com reports that former GN’R members Slash and Duff McKagan are suing Axl for “rejecting requests to use old Guns N’ Roses songs in major motion pictures even though he lacks controlling interest in the material.”

According to the story, Axl turned down offers to feature songs in the films We Were Soldiers, Death to Smoochy, Old School and Just Married. He entertained an offer to let the producers of Black Hawk Down use “Welcome to the Jungle” for an integral scene in the film, but only if they would accept a re-recorded version with his new, “improved” band. They wisely passed, securing instead the rights to use Faith No More’s “Falling to Pieces.”

I hope there’s never a new Guns N’ Roses album, because the spectacle Axl creates while we’re waiting is waaay more entertaining than anything he could lay down on tape.