Yearly Archives: 2004

From Billboard:

“A hearing to determine whether Courtney Love will be tried on drug charges was postponed today (March 16), but not before the singer/actress had disrupted the proceedings and was admonished by the judge to keep quiet.”

When she entered the court room, she called out “Hello Judge Fox.” I like to think of her saying this in the same voice as Yakko and Wakko on ‘The Animaniacs’ when they used to call out, “Hellllllooooo Nurse!”

Courtney also blurted out, “I’ve got the bottles with me. I’ve got the prescriptions on me.” Read the full story.

Breaking News:
Due to the success of February 6th’s Donewaiting.com Anniversary Party in Jersey City, I will be hosting a monthly event at Uncle Joe’s. From now through the rest of eternity, I suppose, the first Friday of every month will belong to Donewaiting and the Apetown.

Next party:
Friday, April 2

Uncle Joe’s
154 First St., Jersey City
Doors @ 9. 5 bucks.

Awesome bands:
10pm – Sasha Alcott & the Possibilities
11pm – Oxford Collapse
12pm – Rye Coalition

Oh yeah.

This will be a welcome-home party for Rye, who haven’t played in quite awhile. They’ve been back and forth between Jersey and LA, recording their next album, which was produced by Dave Grohl for Dreamworks. The last time they played at Uncle Joe’s, they had to plug their amps into the outlets in the apartments upstairs, and all the power went out. Please welcome them home.

This is going to be LOUD. (And sexy as all hell.)

Josh Homme?s new group The Eagles Of Death Metal ? in which he is known under a pseudonym ? is dropping their debut Peace Love Death Metal on Ipecac Records.

The group’s sound — guitar heavy, um, rock — won?t really shock, surprise or floor anyone in particular but it is a fun little disc.

A short, short, shorter than Herve Villechaize tour is planned and will make the following stops:

April 2 ? Boston, MA ? M<idle East
April 3 ? Brooklyn, NY ? Northsix
April 5 ? New York, NY ? The Mercury Lounge
April 6 ? Philadelphia, PA ? The Khyber
April 7 ? New York, NY ? The Conan O?Brien Show

Wanna hear what they sound like live? Download a full live show right here.

From NME.com

“GEORGE MICHAEL will ?retire? from the music industry after his current album ? but he has no plans to retire from music.

Speaking on Jo Whiley?s Radio 1 show about his new album ?Patience?, he announced that it would be his last conventional album, with all subsequent music made available to fans for free or in exchange for charity donations.” Read the full story.

Mr. Duffy, Stephen Slayballs, Kevin Elliott and Billy “Ace” Peake just loaded themselves into Slayballs’ car and are currently hitting I-71 S toward Texas.

From today until next Monday, I am (wo)manning dw.com HQ. If you have any national music news, please send the info to me at areila@hotmail.com or send me a private message in the message board. Unfortunately, I do not have the power to post info about upcoming Columbus shows – ya’ll are on your own with those in the message board.

Thanks for your time and patience. I’m sure Mr. Duffy will be checking in with some news from SXSW as soon as that little car makes it to Austin. If that little car makes it to Austin.

Looks like Apple is set to dominate the world.

“NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Computer Inc. said on Monday it has sold 50 million songs over the Internet in the 11 months since it launched its iTunes Music Store, putting it at least halfway toward its goal for the year.

Apple, which charges 99 cents a song, said it is currently selling 2.5 million songs per week, which would translate into 130 million songs per year, or about $130 million in annual revenue.” Read the full story.

Modern rock band Taproot spent a week working with Billy Corgan, and apparently gained a lifetime’s worth of wisdom on songwriting. Read the full story.

“Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.” Yes, I can see the infinite wisdom.

Elliott Smith’s family is selling his studio. Their preference is to sell everything as a package deal to someone who will respect the space and the equipment.

Details are here.

I’d love it if this network had the Zack De La Rocha Variety Show every night @ midnight.

The creators of a fledgling liberal talk radio network who hope to challenge the dominance of conservative voices on the nation’s airwaves said yesterday that its programming would make its debut on March 31 on low-rated stations in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

The network, known as Air America Radio, said its hosts would include Al Franken, the comedian and political satirist, whose program will be broadcast from noon to 3 p.m.; Janeane Garofalo, an actress whose program will be on from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Chuck D, a hip-hop artist, who will be a co-anchor of a morning program; and Martin Kaplan, a media analyst who has previously appeared on National Public Radio. (full story)

Our NJ writer Stephen Mejias caught the Asobi Seksu CD release party last week, and recently wrote about it. Please, read it here. It’s a long review, filled with the past, the present, and the future, filled with sickness and filled with love.