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Ryan Adams releasing “Live After Deaf” box set Friday with 218 tracks

…and, according to Ryan Adams’s Facebook page, it’ll have 15 discs of vinyl. From the page:

Oh hey you guys, did you want more information on Live after Deaf ? OK.
144 tracks of live acoustic Ryan spread across 15 vinyl discs…with a download card featuring all 144 tracks PLUS an additional 74 digital-only bonus tracks (yup, that’s a total of 218 tracks) all in a heavyweight cloth box. Super Duper limited numbers available ONLY at http://paxamrecords.com/ beginning 1:30 p.m. EST on Friday, June 15

No word on pricing, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict: expensive. Order through his PaxAm label.

UPDATE: Apparently Pax Am and Kung Fu Nation, which runs Pax Am’s webstore, didn’t anticipate all the traffic. The site crashed and never recovered, prompting this postponement announcement from Kung Fu: “Dear Ryan Adams fans, we apologize for the technical problems with the sale of Live After Deaf. The sale will be postponed until Monday, 4pm est. We will work with our hosting company over the weekend to ensure the problems are rectified well before then. We realize that a great deal of time was wasted by people clicking refresh for hours, and we were right there with you clicking refresh and pulling out our hair. We accept full responsibility for these problems and we ask for your understanding as we promise to make Monday a much better experience. Please see http://site.paxamrecords.com/news/ for full details.”

Also the price will reportedly be $130 plus shipping.

Watch the teaser for a Mike Rep documentary

It looks as though Columbus filmmaker Mike Newman aka Mind Twin Media is working on a documentary about Ohio DIY hero Mike “Rep” Hummel called Outside Looking In. Check out the trailer/teaser for a preview, and to hear Rep talk about his music/life philosophy: “I have a hard time understanding the concept of wanting to do the thing that is most important to your soul for a living.”

Video: Nada Surf – “Waiting for Something”

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The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy is out now. And yes, that’s GBV/Death of Samantha’s Doug Gillard in the video. He added his guitar skillz to the last two Nada Surf records.

MP3: Field Report – “Fergus Falls,” “Taking Alcatraz” and “I Am Not Waiting Anymore”

MP3: Fergus Falls
MP3: I Am Not Waiting Anymore
MP3: Taking Alcatraz

Field Report is Chris Porterfield, who played with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon in DeYarmond Edison, but when the rest of the band went on to form Megafaun, Porterfield struck out in his own, forming Conrad Plymouth, which he recently retired to form this new project.

Listening to these three tracks (the only songs available so far from Field Report) reminds me of stumbling upon some Bon Iver tracks over at MOKB some five years ago, before Jagjaguwar and Kanye and Grammys and all that. It’s not that Porterfield sounds a lot like Vernon, though they’d do just fine together on a “Intimate aught-folk for late nights” mixtape. But it gives me the same feeling of stumbling upon something special, something that resonates deeply and may make other people feel something, too. Maybe you’re one of those people. Give these a listen and see.

Saturday at Woodlands: Megacity Music Marathon feat. Times New Viking, Envelope, The High Strung, Psandwich, Southeast Engine, The Lindsay

Times New Viking‘s first Columbus in about a year, and probably last one for a while (though they’ve got a new EP coming out later this year).

The Lindsay‘s farewell show, and John Olexovitch’s last show with Psandwich.

Heavy Mole reunion. Rare Terribly Empty Pockets performance. Rare-ish Anna Ranger show.

Envelope.

Touring bands Southeast Engine, the High Strung, Shivering Timbers, Happy Maladies, Motel Beds, Smug Brothers, RobtheBank

Nuff said, right? Lots more, too. Everything starts at noon on Saturday at Woodlands Tavern. $10 today, $15 tomorrow. Full schedule of the three stages:
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Friday in Columbus: Eternal Summers @ Cafe Bourbon St.

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With everything going on this weekend — Watershed CD release, Megacity, Peach District Classic, Go West, etc. — don’t forget Eternal Summers is headed to Bourbon St. on Friday in advance of their next record, Correct Behavior, out July 24 on Kanine Records. Above is the video for “Millions,” which finds the Virginia duo going Office Space on a TV and displaying other various destructive behaviors in the desert.

Dirty Girls and The Beers open. 9 pm at Cafe Bourbon St. (2216 Summit St.) $7, 18+ ($10 under 21).

Comfest 2012 schedule posted


(From 2011. No Envelope this year.)

Head to the Comfest website for the full Friday, Saturday and Sunday schedules.

Thoughts? Head to the Farm.

Video: Sigur Rós – Varúð

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The band’s new album, Valtari, is out now.

Dirty Projectors coming to Wexner Center July 12

Two days after the July 10 release of Swing Lo Magellan on Domino Records, the Dirty Projectors will return to the Wexner Center. Montreal’s Purity Ring opens. Update: Purity Ring is now playing the Forecastle Fest instead (Wex opener TBD), but you can catch Purity Ring in Columbus at Ace of Cups on Sept. 17.

The Dirty Projectors’ last show at the Wex performance space ranks as one of my favorite Wexner Center shows of all time.

Video: Blues Control – “Love’s a Rondo”

MP3: Blues Control – Iron Pigs

Via Stereogum. Blues Control’s Drag City debut Valley Tangents is out 6/19, and the band will play Ace of Cups in Columbus on 7/28 with Pink Reason and Day Creeper.