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MP3: Air “Once Upon a Time”

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The other day, we posted some videos from Air. Today, we have an MP3 from the new album. Download it, yo:

MP3: “Once Upon a Time” by Air
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Miranda Sound Benefit for SMA This Weekend in Columbus + Cincy

Miranda Sound is on the donewaiting.com record label Sunken Treasure Records.

They’ve put together two benefits starting tonight, inspired by the plight of J Robbins’ child. The band got to know J really well awhile back when he produced their latest album.

Here’s information on the two shows as well as a nice letter lead singer Billy Peake wrote about the shows:

Fri., Feb 23, 2007
Columbus, OH – Oldfield’s on High
w/ Thistle, Miranda Sound, The Celebrity Pilots & The Moving Parts

Sat., Feb 24, 2007
Cincinnati, OH – Poison Room
w/ Thistle, Strongest Proof and more.

All Proceeds from the shows benefit FSMA.
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Briefly

– Bunch of new Warren Zevon reissues, rarities and a book.

– Gorilla has an mp3 of CSS covering Pretend That We’re Dead by L7.

– Our SXSW blog still going strong.

– About 50 bands are playing the Times New Viking album release in Columbus Saturday. Admission ain’t cheap, but you’re getting a lot of bands.

Win TV on the Radio Tickets for Columbus OH

TV on the Radio are coming to Columbus OH on Wednesday, March 7 at the Newport Music Hall. We’re happy to announce that we’re giving away two pairs of tickets to lucky donewaiting.com readers.

To enter the random drawing, send an e-mail with your first and last name in the body and “TVOTR” in the subject line to contest@donewaiting.com. Winners will randomly be selected on March 6.

If you’d like to play it safe, you can always just buy tickets on Ticketmaster.

LISTEN: TV on the Radio MP3 s

Sasquatch Festival 2007

Behold my mad press release cut/pasting skillzzzz:

Sasquatch! Music Festival is pleased to announce the official line up for their 6th annual event to be held over Memorial Day Weekend on Saturday, May 26th and Sunday, May 27th at the breathtaking Gorge Amphitheatre. The Festival features over 50 artists on 3 stages. Tickets for the festival go on-sale Saturday, March 3rd at 10:00 am. On-site camping for the festival is available for Friday, May 25th through Sunday, May 27th and reservations can be made upon ticket purchase.

Sasquatch! Music Festival 2007 confirmed line up:

Saturday, May 26th:
Bjork
The Arcade Fire
Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System
M.I.A.
Citizen Cope
Neko Case
The Hold Steady
Grizzly Bear
Ghostland Observatory
Electrelane
Two Gallants
The Slip
Loney, Dear
Aqueduct
The Thermals
Viva Voce
The Blow
Gabriel Teodros

Sunday, May 27th:
Beastie Boys
Interpol
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Spoon
Bad Brains
Ozomatli
Dandy Warhols
The Black Angels
Mirah
Tokyo Police Club
Money Mark
St. Vincent
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
Smoosh
Common Market
Helio Sequence
Minus The Bear

***More acts to be announced!***
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Yo La Tengo US Tour

via Pitchfork:

04-05 New Orleans, LA – Tipitina’s
04-06 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live
04-07 Austin, TX – Stubb’s
04-08 Dallas, TX – Granada
04-10 Tulsa, OK – Cain’s
04-11 Lawrence, KS – Granada
04-13 Indianapolis, IN – Vogue
04-14 Madison, WI – The Barrymore
04-16 Newport, KY – Southgate House
04-17 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
04-18 Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre
04-21 Providence, RI – Brown University !
04-29 New York, NY – Webster Hall

^ with New Rules for Boats
% with David Kilgour
$ with Clue to Kalo
! with the Flaming Lips

Air – Inside Pocket Symphony

See the dudes from Air discuss their new album:

You can watch a video for “Once Upon a Time” over here. I’ve not heard anything off this album yet but I’m really looking forward to it. Pre-order at Amazon.

SXSW Music Festival Schedule Live

SXSW has posted the music schedule on their website. Remember, the Donewaiting.com SXSW Blog continues to update with all sorts of day party info and more…

Wilco Reveals Full Tracklisting for “Sky Blue Sky”

“Sky Blue Sky” comes out May 15.

1. Either Way
2. You Are My Face
3. Impossible Germany
4. Sky Blue Sky
5. Side with the Seeds
6. Shake it Off
7. Please Be Patient With Me
8. Hate it Here
9. Leave Me (Like You Found Me)
10. Walken
11. What Light
12. On and On and On

Eric Metronome’s Elliott Smith Covers

Pitchfork just posted news of a 2-disc Elliott Smith compilation coming out by KRS, featuring a ton of unreleased songs. It reminded me of the Elliott Smith tribute albums that our main man Eric Metronome did of Smith.

Here’s the list of songs on the upcoming Elliott Smith compilation:

Disc One:

01 Angel in the Snow
02 Talking to Mary
03 High Times
04 New Monkey
05 Looking Over My Shoulder
06 Going Nowhere
07 Riot Coming
08 All Cleaned Out
09 First Timer
10 Go By
11 Miss Misery (Early Version)
12 Thirteen

Disc Two:

01 Georgia Georgia
02 Whatever (Folk Song in C)
03 Big Decision
04 Placeholder
05 New Disaster
06 Seen How Things Are Hard
07 Fear City
08 Either/Or
09 Pretty Mary K (Other Version)
10 Almost Over
11 See You Later
12 Half Right

Here’s Eric Metronome covers of some of these songs:

MP3: Talking Mary
MP3: New Monkey
MP3: First Timer
MP3: Placeholder
MP3: New Disaster
MP3: Pretty Mary K (Older Version)