Yearly Archives: 2004

Air has a new album coming out that is triple gold HOTT. Trust me. Anyway, there’s two versions of the first video off the album, “Cherry Blossom Girl.” This is the version with the nudity and the sex and this is the censored version. Choose wisely.

From their management:

Due to a back injury that Bob suffered in houston on last friday night, the following GBV dates have been cancelled but will be rescheduled for later date:

1/20 Columbia, MO @ Blue Note
1/21 St. Louis, MO @ Mississippi Nights
1/23 Louisville, KY @ Headliners
1/24 Columbus, OH @ Little Brothers

Donewaiting.com Writer Chip Midnight asks: Why all you rock shows gotta start so late? He wants answers.

Han hits us up with a review of a Los Angeles Decemberists show:

Crowding the stage with five members, the Decemberists weighed their setlists heavily towards their uptempo pop work and were able to put together a driving show that didn’t lag at any moment. Blasting off with their ode to Bee Season author, “Myla Goldberg,” the band’s work has a little more oomph than on vinyl. The lineup starts as a traditional rock band, but within a few songs Jenny Conlee substitutes her keys with an accordion, Chris Funk alternates his Telecaster with a pedal steel and Nate Query ditches his bass for an upright. (full review)

I really want to see this band live.

We just upgrade to the latest version of Movable Type. Weird things are happening (like formatting). I’m working on that.

This will either help the site or kill us. If you experience any weirdness, send me an e-mail.

UPDATE: Things are looking better

Feb-23 Vancouver, BC @ Richards on Richards
Feb-24 Seattle, WA @ Crocodile Caf?
Feb-25 Portland, OR @ Berbatis Pan
Feb-27 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill (Noisepop)
Feb-28 Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
Feb-29 Los Angeles, CA @ Echo
Mar-02 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
Mar-03 Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
Mar-04 Columbia, MO @ Mojos
Mar-05 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
Mar-06 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
Mar-08 Toronto, ONT @ Horseshoe Tavern
Mar-09 Montreal, PQ @ La Salla Rosa
Mar-10 Cambridge, MA @ TT the Bears
Mar-11 Providence, RI @ The Call
Mar-12 Philadelphia, PA @ Northstar
Mar-13 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Mar-15 Washington, DC @ Black Cat
Mar-16 Carrboro, NC @ Go Studios
Mar-19 Austin, TX @ Rock Star (Rough Trade Night/SXSW)

One of my favorite writers, Warren Ellis, writes about taste tribes in his latest Artbomb.net column. Let it sink in.

The mass audience is breaking down into smaller sets; and beyond that, into what Dr Joshua Ellis (no relation) terms “taste tribes” — people whose group status is defined by their particular cultural apprehension. Where one says, I know and interact with this person on the initial basis that we share tastes. Not that we all trade notes on Star Trek — not a fan thing — but that we share a cultural sphere. This creates and defines a loose community of its own, stitched together by cultural communication. And with the net in place, taste tribes are borderless. (continued)

The whole column is Essential Reading. Wrap your mind about it for a little while. We’ll get back to this idea next week.

Remember that brilliant Onion article that was about Yo La Tengo about 2 years back? “Thirty-seven record-store clerks are missing and feared dead in the aftermath of a partial roof collapse during a Yo La Tengo concert Monday”. Well, last month when Yo La Tengo played the Onion Holiday concert, they recreated the disaster onstage:

Then it was time for disaster. Light fixtures, real and fake, fell from the ceiling. Speaker cabinets, all fake, dropped too, sending James and Georgia to their bloody doom. David Cross and Jon Benjamin came on stage to calm the panicked crowd, while medics, armed with plastic stethoscopes and real stretchers, ran to the rescue.

More info, including some funny photos, can be found here on Yo La’s website.

Chip Midnight’s post right below this one is the start of a weekly feature on donewaiting.com. Each week a different one of the DW writers will recommend something: a band, a record label, a song, an album, an mp3, a venue, whatever.

Hopefully you’ll check out whatever we’re pimping and think it’s worth your while. If not, you can always blame Atomic Ned.

In 1996 the members of the Cincinnati band Thistle started a record company – Tiberius Records – as a vehicle for releases by Thistle and the other bands that the individual members were in (El Gigante, Ampline). In late 2003 the Tiberius roster expanded to include veterans of the Columbus scene Silo the Huskie and The Light Wires, a band featuring ex-Ladderday singer Jeremy Pinnell, guitarist Andy Hittle (El Gigante), bassist Mike Montgomery (Thistle, El Gigante, Ampline), and drummer Rick McCarty (Thistle, El Gigante, Ampline). In addition to Thistle, both Silo the Huskie and The Light Wires released CDs in 2003. The label has also recently added Cari Clara (ex-Simpletons, Throneberry) to the roster and that band will release Miniature American Model Society in March.

From the Archers of Loaf sound of Thistle to the Americana rock of The Light Wires, everything released on Tiberius is highly recommended. Although many of the bands share members, no two bands sound exactly the same.

The Light Wires and Silo the Huskie will be performing at Bernie’s (Columbus) tonight, January 16.