Yearly Archives: 2004

Tankboy knows who the Redwalls are. Do you?

Question: Ever since the song “Hey Ya” by Andre 3000 of Outkast came out, everyone is shaking their Polaroid pictures. I have always been told that you should not shake a Polaroid picture, but I’m having a hard time convincing those around me that this is true. What is the answer?

Answer: The short answer is no, you don’t have to (and shouldn’t) “shake it like a Polaroid picture.” (continued)

Polaroid sets the record straight on their corporate website. Ha!

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Donewaiting.com Writer Chip Midnight has started a weekly musical question for you to ponder inside your head. This week he asks: What is the strangest NON-MUSIC thing you’ve ever seen on stage during a band’s performance?

Check out what Chip has to say, and then post your answer in the message board.

Oh yes, friends, it’s finally here. Check it out.

Get complete donewaiting.com SXSW coverage here.

Have you been listening to Little Steven’s Underground Garage? If you don’t get it in your city, don’t worry. They archive it on their website.

It’s a really good listen. Lots of crazy rants from Steven, as well as great music and some rock and roll education. Highly recommended.

He’s put together a concert 2/21 @ the Beachland Ballroom. Bands scheduled to play are The Romantics, The Chesterfield Kings, The Reigning Sound, the Fondas and Donewaiting.com Alumni Cobra Verde. Lil’ Steve will be at the show, serving as MC.

“It’s a controversial film, but you’ve got to look at it like any other book, like the ‘Lord of the Rings,’ ” Stapp said. “It was made after three books, right? ‘The Passion’ is just another interpretation of a book.” (full story)

Huh? He’s also begging Mel to get some of his newly penned Creed songs into the film.

The Von Bondies have released their album through digital stores one month before their street date. iTunes, Napster, those kinds of joints.

It’s one of my favorites released this year. Every song hooks your ass in hard. And while I normally hate websites with a lot of flash, I really love the zoom in/out aspect of theirs.

Warren Ellis is giving you an opportunity for a lot of exposure. Take him up on the offer.

For the next week on http://www.diepunyhumans.com,
I intend to feature nothing but music and photographs.

If you are making music, give me a link to an mp3 you have online that you’re ready to see snorted up by the internet like it was Keith Richards’ ashes. If you’ve got photographs associated with you, link me to those too.

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Last night, I had the great pleasure of meeting with Justin Morey and Jon Gonnelli of Rye Coalition, my neighbors. I walked up Jersey Avenue, made a left here and a right there, and knocked on their door. They were expecting me, and greeted me with warm handshakes and smiles.

I offered them a bottle of wine, which they were very thankful for, and Justin soon excused himself to the kitchen where he prepared a delicious pot of spaghetti.

But this small article isn’t meant to be about the warmth of their home, or of their talents in the kitchen, or of their passion for making others happy. What I most want to mention now – and I will mention this again – is how incredibly hot and stunningly gorgeous the new album, produced by Dave Grohl for Dreamworks Records, already sounds, even as it is, in the very early stages of its development. The songs haven’t been mixed yet, and I found myself wondering, “What the hell needs to be done? How can these songs sound any better?”

It’s exactly what you might expect if you only expect the best. And I feel confident that you can expect the best from Rye Coalition. They worked extremely hard. And you can hear it, and you can feel it. The songs are definitely Rye, with as much power and urgency as ever, but with a more attractive and embraceable allure. Perhaps you can credit that to Dave Grohl, or perhaps you can credit that to Rye’s maturity. Seems to me that it was the right combination at the right time for everyone involved.

When the new Rye songs were done, Jon popped the Probot CD into the player. Probot is pretty great, too. Yes. But I found myself betting that Dave Grohl felt as honored to work with Rye as Rye felt about working with Dave.

I feel fortunate to finally have the chance to get to know these guys personally, and as I said, I was wildly impressed by the new album. It’s only a shame that we’ll have to wait at all for its release. I don’t want to wait another day, really. I hope that you’ll start talking about it now; I mean for you to spread the word. This is something worth talking about. I hope you’ll feel as privileged as I do to know something about it.

In an unexpected turn of events, Queens Of The Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri and vocalist Mark Lanegan have exited the California-based rock act.

Oliveri and Queens frontman Josh Homme have been friends since high school and played together in revered underground rock combo Kyuss before joining forces in Queens, but their relationship has apparently become irretrievably strained in recent months.

“Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri have recently parted ways,” an Interscope spokesperson said in a statement. “A number of incidents occurring over the last 18 months have led to the decision that the two can no longer maintain a working partnership in the band. The Queens, continuing under frontman Josh Homme, will begin work on a new album this spring.” (full story)

Maybe my girlfriend was right when she said, “Dude, the second that Josh Homme started dating that trashy girl from The Distillers he lost all cool points and officially became un-hot.”

I dunno about that, since I think Brody nee Armstrong is quite the hottie and Josh deserves props for getting all over that, but Homme does seem to be losing his circle o’ friends and that never bodes well.

Look what happened to John Lennon. No buds. Mediocre solo discs. An annoying wife who just WOULDN’T TAKE HER FUCKING SUNGLASSESS OFF IN THE HOUSE!

Y’know, that sort of thing