Yearly Archives: 2005

Singer/songwriter Ryan Adams is following through on his pledge to release three separate albums this year. On the heels of May’s “Cold Roses” and September’s “Jacksonville City Nights,” the series will conclude with “29,” due Dec. 20 via Lost Highway. (full story)

Get it over at the Panda blog.

Pitchfork has posted ten pages of awful album artwork. There’s a lot of stinkers in there, be sure to check it out.

Have any album covers that you just HATE? Post about them in the comments.

Let the year end listing begin! Amazon.com has posted their editor’s picks of the year, as well as best selling, etc etc etc.

• Low’s Winter 2006 Tour
  Complete with new bass player.
  (tags: music tour)
• Job Listing: CMJ Seeks Showcase Director
  Finally get your band hooked up

Between Thought and Expression brings word of the new Strokes video. You can download it here.

So I saw Bauhaus last night. I had been looking forward to this show for a long time and I did not walk away disappointed. The band is in exceptionally fine form and their set-list was impeccable. One could see glimpses of what cause the group’s break-up two decades ago by the interplay between Peter Murphy and Daniel Ash since both are born frontmen but ultimately they attacked the songs as a team and kept the band’s reputation intact. I had stated in a preview on another site that one of the reasons this particular reunion tour is one to watch is because Bauhaus quit at the top of their game and left behind a catalog that never had a chance to grow into something embarrassing or unwieldy.

In fact the only thing that has been detrimental to the band at all has been the stamping of the imprimatur of the Goth movement upon them and the unfortunate fact that many, many people less inventive than the members of Bauhaus have invoked the band’s name in connection with their own fairy tales about the dark side of humanity set to minor chords. One needs to remember that Bauhaus was actually closer to a glam band – their selections in terms of songs they chose to cover makes that pretty clear — than what now passes for Goth music. The group took what it knew, injected some dub stylings and a healthy dose of guitar atmospherics and ended up with a unique result that has stood the test of time.

So I was going to review the show in detail here but decided it wasn’t necessary since Joshua Klein has already done so in today’s Chicago Tribune. He does a nice job of factually hitting the show’s highlights and occasional weaknesses and for that I have to admire the serviceable side of his review. If only he had kept it to that.
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“Denial Twist” features Conan O’Brien all over the place. You know you love it.

Hey kids! Did you know our little podcast was featured in the September issue of Spin Magazine? We can’t believe it either. Check out the article here.

Download the Donewaiting.com Disposable Radio Show #12 here! | Subscribe to the Podcast Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/donewaitingpodcast

Formalities
Running Length: 25 Minutes
Date of Recording: 8 November 2005
Host: Robert Duffy
File Format: Glorious MP3

Table of Contents
00:34: Tiara, “Everyone’s A Player” [buy]
05:35: The Long Winters, “Ultimatum”[buy]
10:18: Envelope, “Do You Believe Them”
16:27: Broadcast, “America’s Boy” [buy]
21:06: Wolf Parade, “This Heart’s On Fire” [buy]

PS: As a reminder, you do not need an ipod to listen to this. If you can play mp3s on your computer, you can listen to the show.

Interesting story on NPR about the nerd hip hop genre, or nerdcore.

“Geek rap,” with rhymes and references to Star Wars heroes and scientific theories, is gaining ground on the Internet. Jim Colgan reports on the trend, and talks with a few of the genre’s superstars. (listen)

Related: Flik, science fiction folk music.