Yearly Archives: 2005

Bono Joins Bill and Melinda Gates as Time Magazine Persons of the Year

For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are TIME’s Persons of the Year. (read story)

links for 2005-12-18

Graham Coxon defies expectations, continues to release listenable music!

Graham Coxon has a new album, “Love Travels At Illegal Speeds,” coming out March 13. I’m assuming since we live in the States it won’t land here until 2008 so expect to shell out thirty bucks for the disc. It looks promising though since it is again produced by Stephen Street. The pair worked together on Coxon’s last album with terrific results. I know I was certainly pleased to see Coxon move away from dirty tape decks and half-formed songs in order to re-embrace full-blown rock and/or roll couched in some punchy pop songs.

Coxon will be touring the UK in March/April to coincide with the album release, and will also support the Kaiser Chiefs on their April UK tour, but I am again guessing that we won’t see him live until 2010 or so.

Donewaiting.com Nominated for Best Blog Category

The only thing we normally get nominated for is “first off the island,” so this is pretty cool.

Donewaiting.com has been nominated in the best blog category on Livedaily.com. You can vote for us here. A vote for donewaiting.com is a vote for freedom!

You might win some stuff if you vote, so that always helps.

We’re nominated with some other cool joints that I link to a lot so it’s good company.

Bob Pollard 2006 Tour

01/26 Athens, GA-40 Watt Club
01/27 Carrboro, NC-Cat’s Cradle
01/28 Washington, DC-930 Club
02/09 Cleveland, OH- Beachland Ballroom
02/10 Columbus, OH – Little Brothers
02/11 Newport, KY- Southgate House
02/24 Los Angeles, CA- Knitting Factory LA
02/25 San Francisco, CA – The Independent
02/27 Portland, OR- Doug Fir Lounge
02/28 Seattle , WA- Crocodile Cafe
03/30 Minneapolis, MN – First Ave
03/31 Chicago, IL- Metro
04/01 Detroit, MI- St Andrews
04/20 NYC- Irving Plaza
04/21- Boston, MA- Paradise
04/22- Philadelphia, PA- Theatre of Living Arts

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First Official Wave of SXSW 2006 Music Festival Bands Announced

Belle and Sebastian, Echo and the Bunnymen, Annie, Peaches and many more have been announced. Head on over to our SXSW blog for the full list.

First Official Wave of SXSW 2006 Music Festival Bands Announced

Official word from SXSW:

From the 7500 bands that applied, the SXSW Music Festival is pleased to announce a partial list of acts scheduled to perform at the five night festival including: The Adored (Los Angeles CA), Annie (Bergen NORWAY),Arctic Monkeys, Belle and Sebastian (Glasgow UK), The BellRays (Los Angeles CA), Be Your Own PET (Nashville TN), Blockhead (New York NY), The Boy Least Likely To (Wendover UK), The Brokedown (Los Angeles CA), Calexico (Tucson AZ), Neko Case (Tacoma WA), Cat Power (Atlanta GA), clap your hands say yeah (Brooklyn NY), Clor (London UK), Jason Collett (Toronto ON), The Cribs (Wakefield UK), Cuff the Duke (Toronto ON), Jamie Cullum (London UK), Dashboard Confessional (Boca Raton, FL), Death In Vegas (London UK), Death Vessel (Brooklyn NY), Dengue Fever (Los Angeles CA), Destroyer (Vancouver BC), Die! Die! Die! (Auckland NEW ZEALAND), Dirty Pretty Things (London UK), Jorge Drexler (Madrid SPAIN), Dr. Spock (Reykjavik ICELAND), The Duke Spirit (London UK), The Earlies (Manchester UK), Echo & The Bunnymen (Liverpool UK), Editors (Birmingham UK), The Eighteenth Day Of May (London UK), Elbow (Manchester UK), Empire Dogs (Stockholm SWEDEN), Erase Errata (San Francisco CA), Faker (Sydney AUSTRALIA), Flogging Molly (Los Angeles CA), Forward Russia (Leeds UK), Giant Sand (Tucson AZ), Gogol Bordello (New York NY), Jose Gonzalez (Gothenburg SWEDEN), The Go! Team (Brighton UK), Headphones (Seattle WA), The Hellacopters (Stockholm SWEDEN), Clarence Frogman Henry (New Orleans LA), The Juan Maclean (Dover NH), Kaki King (New York NY), Kalas (Oakland CA), k-os (Whitby ON), Sharron Kraus & Christian Kiefer (London UK), Lady Sovereign, The Like (Los Angeles CA), Los De Abajo (Mexico City MEXICO), Luminous Orange (Yokohama JAPAN), Barbara Lynn (Beaumont
TX), The Magic Numbers (London UK), Magnolia Electric Company (Chicago IL), Serena Maneesh (Oslo NORWAY), Mates of State (East Haven CT), The Morning After Girls (Sydney AUSTRALIA), The Most Serene Republic (Toronto ON), Mystery Jets (London UK), My Summer as a Salvation Soldier (Reykjavik ICELAND), Neon Blonde (Seattle WA), Nickel Creek (Carlsbad CA), n0 things (Brooklyn NY), Of Montreal (Athens GA), Beth Orton (London UK), Peaches (Berlin GERMANY), The Plimsouls (Los Angeles CA), Robert Pollard (Dayton OH), Ramblin’ Jack Elliot (New York NY), Saves the Day (Princeton NJ), The Secret Machines (New York NY), Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives (Hendersonville TN), Tarantula A D (New York NY), Susan Tedeschi (Jacksonville FL), Towers of London (London UK), KT Tunstall (London UK), Two Gallants (San Francisco CA), Tom Verlaine (New York NY), Vetiver (San Francisco CA), The Whigs (Athens GA), Witch (Brattleboro VT), and Wolfmother (Sydney AUSTRALIA).

This list is subject to change. Please keep in mind this is only a portion of the showcasing acts that will be playing at the SXSW Music Festival.

links for 2005-12-15

Pitchfork SXSW Event?

Over on Brooklyn Vegan, tour dates for Jose Gonzalez.

Fri 03/17 – AUSTIN, TX – PITCHFORK PARTY Emo’s Annex
Sat 03/19 – AUSTIN, TX – FADER MAGAZINE TENT

Fader is certainly nothing new to SXSW, but Pitchfork? They’ve never put on a show there before.

2006 is gonna be a pretty busy festival, I can smell it already. Prepare your triple platinum badges now.

Download John Vanderslice Concert MP3s

John Vanderslice has posted an entire San Francisco concert on his website in the popular mp3 format.

This is an excellent, early Christmas present fo sho!