Yearly Archives: 2004

Damn ? just, damn. It?s been out for a few hot hip-hop seconds now. It?s that underground sound the backpack kids are always talking about ? it went and tapped that mainstream ass again. I kid you not; a few (including myself) have been sleeping on this for the past six weeks. A quick search of DW gave no results, but if you?d like to talk about it, talk about it. Then shut your trap and get to the record store, because ? for fuck?s sake ? Chi-town’s own is off the hook!

The last day of SXSW coverage has been posted on our SXSW section. Read it here.

Bands I Saw Saturday: Murder by Death, Lucero, Ted Leo, Nada Surf (acoustic), Mike Doughty, Tim Easton, Summer Hymns, The Mendoza Line, Centro-Matic

Donewaiting.com writers David Cobb and Chip Midnight will also be filing their reports.

Bands I Saw Yesterday: Screamfeeder, The Cinema Eye, Gelbison, The Like, The Washdown, The Decemberists, Ken Stringfellow, TV on the Radio, Sufjan Stevens, The Polyphonic Spree

Day three coverage here. One more day left. I think I can do it.

Bands I Saw Wednesday: The Dears, Denali, The Monolith, John Wilkes Booze, Volcano I?m Still Excited, Head of Femur, Jeff Hanson, The Decemberists, Gelbison, Scissor Sisters, Walter Clevenger & The Dairy Kings, Susan Cowsill and the Midcity Ministers, Josh Rouse, Fastball, The Posies.

Get the report here. We’re at the halfway mark.

From MTV.com:

“J.J. Jackson, remembered as one of the first faces of MTV, died Wednesday night in Los Angeles of an apparent heart attack, according to friends and former business associates. He was 62.” Read the full story.

Thanks, Superunision, for the link.

Bands I’ve seen @ SXSW so far: Loose Diamonds, Beaver Nelson, Okkervill River, The Sound Team, Swearing at Motorists, I Love You But I?ve Chosen Darkness, Her Space Holiday, Two Cow Garage, Sea Change, The Natural History, Portastatic, The Rosebuds.

Read all the salty details right here. Three more days to go.

You win this time, Kelly.

From Billboard.com:

“Florida prosecutors dropped child pornography charges against R. Kelly today (March 17), six days after a judge ruled sex photos were illegally seized from his home. Prosecutors in central Florida had charged the R&B singer with 12 counts of possessing child pornography in January 2003, based on photos that Polk County deputies said showed him engaged in sex acts with a girl under 18.

Circuit Judge Dennis Maloney ruled last week that the warrant used to seize the digital photos from Kelly’s home was based on insufficient evidence and the pictures were inadmissible in court.” Read the full story.

Billy Corgan will play an acoustic show in Chicago on April 19.

What’s most intriguing is how tickets will be dispensed.

For entry, fans will “go to a location in Chicago on a certain date, be 18 and over, present an ID and be assigned a date to come to the session,” Corgan wrote on his official Web site. “That way as many fans as possible get to share in something I have rarely done, and that’s let anyone see me work. I can tell you it is not that exciting, but it is interesting as an experience of what goes on behind the scenes.” (full story)

What I wanna know is if any of that will include sliding down the Bat-pole or climbing into an interdimensional telephone booth. That would be soooo rad!

Spin ain?t doing so well.
Now if only Maxim would go bankrupt my life would be perfect.

Well, there still isn’t much of a U.S. tour, but they are going to Minneapolis!

From Pitchfork:

04-13 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line Music Cafe
04-14 Winnipeg, Manitoba – Burton Cummings Theatre
04-15 Regina, Saskatchewan – Doris Knight Ballroom
04-17 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Prairieland
04-18 Edmonton, Alberta – Red’s
04-19 Calgary, Alberta – MacEwan Hall
04-21 Victoria, British Columbia – Victoria Curling Club
04-22 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Ballroom
04-23 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Ballroom
04-24 Spokane, WA – Big Easy
04-25 Boise, Idaho – Big Easy
04-27 Eugene, OR – MacDonald Theatre
04-29 Davis, CA – Freeborn Hall
05-01 Indio, CA – Empire Polo Field (Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival)
05-28 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound Festival
05-29 Madrid, Spain – Festimad
05-30 Langraff, Netherlands – Pinkpop Festival
06-02 London, England – Brixton Academy
06-03 London, England – Brixton Academy
06-04 London, England – Brixton Academy
06-05 London, England – Brixton Academy
06-07 Paris, France – Le Zenith
06-10 Vienna, Austria – Aerodrome Festival
06-11 Lisbon, Portugal – Parque Tejo
06-12 Dublin, Ireland – Phoenix Park (w/Red Hot Chili Peppers)
06-14 Paris, France – Le Zenith
06-15 Paris, France – Parc des Princes (w/Red Hot Chili Peppers)

The exact date of these following four shows haven’t been confirmed, but pixiesmusic.com confirms the band’s participation in these events:

06-18/20 Hultsfred, Sweden – Hultsfred Festival
06-26/28 Scheessel, Germany – Hurricane Festival
06-26/28 Neuhausen Ob Eck, Germany – Southside Festival
07-01/04 Rosklide, Denmark – Roskilde festival

07-02 Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter
07-03 Belfort, France – Les Eurockeennes Festival
07-08 Kristiansand, Norway – Quart Festival
07-10 Kinross, Scotland – T In The Park Festival (w/David Bowie, The Darkness)
07-11 Glasgow, Scotland – T in the Park

Read the full story.