Yearly Archives: 2005

Scott McCaughey may seem virtually unknown, but he must have the most famous friends around. After years of powerpop greatness with the Young Fresh Fellows, McCaughey’s been running the Minus 5 as a supergroup collective of sorts and their new record features the deepest, most famousest lineup yet.

Alongside the R.E.M. b-team of Peter Buck, Ken Stringfellow and Bill Rieflin you also get the other Posie, Jon Auer, the Decemberists’ Colin Meloy and Jon Moen, Sean Nelson of the Long Winters, John Wesley Harding, Kelly Hogan and a troika of Wilco in Tweedy/Kotchke/Stirratt.

I bring all this up only because Songs:Illinois has two tracks up, including “Cemetery Row” featuring (swoon Duffy, swoon) Colin Meloy on lead vocal.

The Minus 5, aka The Gun Album, is due February 7th from Yep Roc Records.

Donewaiting.com Houston writer David A. Cobb has posted his 20 favorite albums of the year. Check it out and then post your favorites in our message board.

I heard “podcast” was voted word of the year by some magazine or some website or some dude at the supermarket. I fucking hate the word, but it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.

They Might Be Giants’ very first podcast is available right now right here. To subscribe to this unique free service subscribe here. This first episode is approximately 20 minutes long and features a number of exclusive recordings and some unusual tracks we suspect you’ll find interesting. The host is the Duke of Dead Air- Cecil Portesque- broadcasting from an undisclosed, very rainy location. Future podcasts are already in the works. (get it)

Hey, donewaiting.com has a podcast, too. People download it and like it, I think.

Who am I kidding? The thought of Warrant without Jani Lane is like the thought of peanut butter without jelly, Van Halen without Roth, Baker without Ponch, and while I’ve said time and time again that I have no interest in a Jaime St. James-led Warrant, I’d be fooling myself if I said that I wasn’t going to check out the new Warrant album, Born Again, which will be released February 17 by MTM Music (this is a German label – I’m not sure if there is a scheduled U.S. release date).

You can sample two songs from the forthcoming album (15 sec. samples):

Devil’s Juice
Dirty Jack

Meanwhile, Jani Lane (ex-Warrant singer), who seemed to have cleaned up his act thanks in part to VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club 2, appears to be up to his old tricks (missing shows, falling off the wagon, etc.). Here’s hoping that he works things out.

(The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily the views of Donewaiting.com as a whole and should not be viewed as so. Frankly, we think Atomic Ned is nuts. – The Mgmt.)

• NPR : Matt Pond PA Powers Up the Chamber Rock
  (tags: music npr)
• The Digital Audiophile’s Toolbox
  Everything you need to know to nerd it up.
  (tags: music mp3)
• Each Note Secure Christmas Mix
  Some good holiday downloads
  (tags: music mp3 christmas)
• Cat Power 2006 Tour Dates
  (tags: music tour)

We’re happy to welcome Ali Watkins to the donewaiting.com family. She’ll be joining Craig Ness for the donewaiting.com San Francisco music column, Foghorn.

You may know Ali from her writing on Tinymixtapes.com, one of my favorite music news sites.

Seems like I should have done this along time ago, but whatever.

Now you can buy donewaiting.com related goods directly from us. This includes the donewaiting.com t-shirt, the Donewaiting.com Vinyl/CD combo featuring Tiara and Miranda Sound as well as releases from the donewaiting.com record label, Sunken Treasure Records. (Just the Celebrity Pilots… for now!)

Click here to check out the store and get your Christmas shopping done early. Woot.

• Interview: Alan Sparhawk of Low | The A.V. Club
  Alan discusses the departure of his bass player and more
  (tags: music interview)
• RealNetworks opens Rhapsody to Macs
  (tags: music mac)