Yearly Archives: 2004

Our ATP coverage wraps up with a review of day three by Steve:

A few hours later, and I?m down the front for McLusky. Guess what. They?re fucking brilliant. Edgy. Angry. Spiky. Fast. Funny. Angry. Did I mention angry yet? I already loved their CDs but I?d not seen them live before and they?re a revelation. ?Are there any Tories here?? singer / guitarist Falco enquires partway through the set. ?Congratulations on making it here without buying a house,? he hurls back at the twats who cheered in response. I was looking forward to their set but I didn?t really expect it to be my favourite of the festival. Full of fire and fury and fucking, it stood head and shoulders above the rest of the weekend by a country mile. (full review)

Steve says he’s gonna go agaon next year, and I’m okay with that. Still, I need to get him out to SXSW in 2005 as well.

Tons of CD cover artwork by comic book artists posted here. Lots of good stuff.

[credz waxy]

If the MC5 and Pixies aren’t enough to light your nostalgia candles, seminal post-punkers Mission of Burma are going to be touring the country in support of their new album onOFFon, available from Matador on 5/4/04. Break out the soundproof drum barrier and the white noise headphones, Mission of Burma will be rolling to rock, tinnitus be damned.

MAY 7 | Columbia, MO
University of Missouri
KCOU Springfest Stage
All Ages
Free and open to the public!

MAY 14 | Philadelphia, PA
Theatre of Living Arts
All Ages
$18.50 Advance, $10 Door

MAY 15 | Washington, DC
9:30 Club
All Ages
$20

MAY 22 | Boston, MA
Avalon
All Ages
$25.25
6:00pm

June 04 | Vancouver, BC
Commodore Ballroom
19+
$21
9:00pm

June 05 | Seattle, WA
Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room
All Ages
$18 adv, $20 door

June 06 | Portland, OR
Crystal Ballroom
$15 adv, $17 door
9:00pm

June 09 | San Francisco, CA
The Fillmore
$22.50
9:00pm

June 10 | Los Angeles, CA
Henry Fonda Theatre
$20 adv, $22 door
8:30pm

Three original MC5 members are heading out on tour under the name DKT/MC5. Here are the US dates:

June 09 Phoenix Concert Theatre Toronto, ON
June 10 The Majestic Theatre Detroit, MI
June 11 The Metro Chicago, IL
June 12 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
June 13 Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, OH

PS: Mark Lanegan will be a guest singer.

Air brings phallic imagery to the next level with their new video for “Surfing on a Rocket.” Watch here.

Donewaiting.com LA writer Han Q. Duong gives us the goods on the Decemberists’ Los Angeles show last week:

Colin Meloy shyly began the set with “Los Angeles, I’m Yours,” simultaneously serenading and mocking the crowd with its wry lyrics. “I mean no offense,” he apologized as he finished, but the crowd was hot for it, standing to be insulted and paying for the privilege. The set continued with “Billy Liar,” a tremendous “July, July!” and a jaunty “Legionnaire’s Lament,” which is about as catchy a trio of songs as you’ll ever hear. It was as animated an audience as you could expect, mouthing the lyrics with fair accuracy and bouncing along to the pleading choruses. (full review)

Painful:

One fan at the gig told NME.COM: “During their fifth song he smashed his face into his guitar. I noticed something was wrong immediately because he leaned over to his roadie and pointed to his mouth, then I looked and it looked as if someone was pouring a water bottle down his face constantly, but it was blood. He kept spitting up more and more blood until he started to sing, and before he could finish the first few lines he quickly removed his guitar and only said ?I cant sing, I’ve fucked my face up!? and they all rushed offstage.” (full story)

This is another side project of Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age:

The Eagles of Death Metal’s website is pretty awesome, too, in a 1998 HTML sort of way.

Patti Smith called me on the phone and wanted to make sure all you donewaiting.com readers have a happy holiday.

The PlayFair Project is forced offshore–to India

From The Register

The PlayFair project, which removes fair-use restrictions from music purchased through Apple’s online store, has become the latest victim of offshoring. Actually, that’s not quite true: only the hosting provider has moved to India. Not surprisingly, Apple has used the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to ask SourceForge to remove the project. SourceForge declined to use the Safe Harbor provisions of the Act.

PlayFair uses Jon Johansen’s iTunes circumvention to remove fair-use restrictions from iTunes Music Store files. Apple allows buyers to play the files on three authorized Windows or Macintosh computers and an unlimited number of iPods, and to burn up to ten CDs with the same playlist, which many Apple users have no problem with. However the circumvention allows you to play the files on a Linux machine, for example, or a smartphone or any other MP3 player that supports AAC playback. The new location for PlayFair is at Sarovar, a hosting company for software libre projects based in Trivandrum, India.