Yearly Archives: 2005

• Sabbath, Skynyrd, Sex Pistols, others to join Rock Hall ranks
  I’m not sure the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is really relevant in the world, but here ya go.
  (tags: music)

Lots of birdies chirping about this, including Brookyln Vegan.

I thought this was a fact already but for various reasons let’s keep calling this a “rumor”. (evil winkie face)

Google searches don’t work, so why don’t you link up some good holiday music mp3 blogs in the comments.

Okay, here’s some links I’ve been collecting the past week while I was out of town.

• The Big Takeover launched a real website. It’s nice and shiny. [credz]
• Rick Ruben talks to NPR about Johnny Cash.
• Here’s some news on the new Secret Machines album.
• Songbird is a media player built on Mozilla platform. [credz]
• Archive.org has been forced to take down over 1000 soundboard recordings of the Grateful Dead by Jerry’s wife.

Our photographer Kim does it again. Check out these great photos of the Andrew Bird/Head of Femur show. A highlight:

Go on and click here to get the full gallery.

Chip Midnight has a personal obituary on the life of Chris Whitley. Read it here.

The press release:

The Columbus Music Co-op and the High Five present a night to honor the music of Wilco, Uncle Tupelo and Sun Volt!
(that’s right. the ladies of the cmc don’t believe in “rest”)

OPEN CALL FOR MUSICIANS!

Date: December 9, 2005
Venue: High Five Bar & Grill
Cause: Columbus Music Co-op
for more info on what the CMC is about:
http://www.myspace.com/columbusmusiccoop or www.columbusmusiccoop.org

If you are in a band that is interested in playing OR want to help in organizing, please email us at: columbusmusiccoop@yahoo.com ASAP!

We have a few acts confirmed but we are currently accepting submissions from other artists until MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2005. Bands/musicians will play 1-2 covers and 1-2 original songs.

CMC and the High Five will take care of all promotion & press.

working on it.

I’ve been sitting on these for a while, but Mister Sunshine has given the go-ahead to publicly disperse this link so I’m doing so. The Tommie Sunshine Radio Edits, in particular, are pretty fucking good…I mean he even makes Good Charlotte sound hip and that’s no easy feat!

Catch him on tour:

11/17-11/27 Australian Tour
12/15: Kansas City, MO @ Granada
12/17: Tampa, FL @ Hallucination’s X-Mas Party – Masquerade
12/23: Chicago, IL @ Metro w/ Kill Hannah
12/27: Amsterdam @ RAUW
12/29: Shanghai, China
12/31: Hong Kong

As reported in our message board. A few Link mp3s here.