Yearly Archives: 2004

Grand Royal Record Label is up for auction and you can buy it here. If you have the right amount of money, of course. Minimum bid is $10,000.

With four nominations, the Darkness lead the field for the 2004 Brit Awards, to be held Feb. 17 at Earls Court in London. The band is up for best British group, rock act, British breakthrough act and album for “Permission To Land.” (full story)

There is a lesson to be learned here. No one will take any notice of the lesson, but there is one to be learned?

A few years ago, one of my favorite rock bands, the Dictators, posed a musical question: “Who will save rock ‘n’ roll?”

Today — as it has been for decades — the answer is “independent labels.”

Don’t take our word for it, though. We direct your attention to “Can Rock Come Back?,” a think piece by Los Angeles Times pop music critic Robert Hilburn that ran on the front page of the paper’s Sunday “Calendar” section Jan. 4. In his story, Hilburn notes the cavernous commercial gulf between the top-selling pop artists — Justin Timberlake, Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken — and the high-profile but relatively meager-selling posse of young rock bands loosely grouped under the rubric “garage rock.”

Without exception, the bands that Hilburn identifies as the shining hope for rock’s future first saw the light of day on indie labels. (full story)

Whew! Thank goodness for that!

Prefix Mag did an interview with the Unicorns and it’s pretty damn funny. In it, we learn that The Stills used to be in a ska band. My favorite quote: “Fuck the Stills!”

This interview is part 1 of 2.

MP3 of Counting Crows covering the Wilco/Billy Bragg “California Stars” can be downloaded here. The Wallflowers are also in on it.

[via lhb]

February 2004 marks the official one year anniversary of donewaiting.com. To celebrate that, we’ve got a boatload of concerts throughout the country to party in style. I’m posting these dates now so you can mark your calendars.

Donewaiting.com Anniversary Concert Series
Thursday, February 5, 2004
Dayton, OH – Elbo’s
w/ Tiara [mp3], Denovo [mp3], Loretta [mp3] & Thank the Knife (formerly Abracadaver)

Friday, February 6, 2004
Chicago, IL – Subterranean
w/ Cobra Verde [mp3], Tiara [mp3], Denovo [mp3] & Cisco Pike (featuring ex-Cells Pat and Randy, Scott from Local H and Tom from The Girls)

Friday, February 6, 2004
Jersey City, NJ – Uncle Joe’s
w/ Asobi Seksu, Tris McCalll and TBA

Saturday, February 7, 2004
Indianapolis, IN – Birdy’s
w/ Cobra Verde [mp3], Tiara [mp3], Denovo [mp3] & Loretta [mp3]

Fri., February 20, 2004
Columbus, OH – Little Brother’s $5 Doors 9pm
w/ Silo the Huskie, Tiara, The Six Parts Seven with Brian Straw, Ken Gould

Fri., February 27, 2004
Columbus, OH – Little Brother’s $5 Doors 9pm
w/ The Party of Helicopters, Miranda Sound, Silencio

If you live in one of these cities and have a music website or blog of your own, it would mean the world to us if you could mention it on your site. If you don’t have a website and want to help out with promoting it via handbills, posters, etc., send me an e-mail and I’ll hook you up with the goods.

This isn’t the last time you’ll hear about these shows.

Here are the details from Chip.

I saw The Frames back in October in Chicago and it was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. They totally blew me away in so many ways it was ridiculous.

03/23/04 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre
03/26/04 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern LG
03/27/04 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
03/29/04 Seattle, WA Moore Theatre
03/30/04 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
04/01/04 Spokane, WA Big Easy
04/02/04 Portland, OR Roseland Theater
04/03/04 Boise, ID Big Easy
04/06/04 Minneapolis, MN Historic Pantages Theatre
04/07/04 Madison, WI Barrymore Theatre
04/09/04 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre
04/10/04 Cincinnati, OH Bogart’s
04/11/04 Pittsburgh, PA Byham Theatre
04/15/04 Upper Darby, PA Tower Theatre
04/16/04 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
04/17/04 Boston, MA Avalon
04/19/04 Portland, ME State Theatre
04/20/04 Winooski, VT Higher Ground
04/21/04 Montreal, QC Outremont Theatre
04/23/04 Toronto, ON Trinity St. Paul Centre
04/24/04 Cleveland, OH Odeon Concert Club
04/25/04 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall
04/27/04 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre
04/28/04 Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall
04/29/04 Saint Louis, MO The Pageant

I’m definitely going to both the Cleveland and Cinci shows.

A music blog that I’ve been clicking on the last few days is Burned By the Sun. Based out of Los Angeles, the site has a lot of stuff worth your while, such as Coachella rumors, photos, news, etc etc etc. So please, this weekend, make with the clicky and see what I’m talking about.

A book of Jeff Tweedy poetry is coming in March. More info here including three poems from the collection.