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Thanks to everyone who came out last night, it was a blast from top to bottom… Time to sleeep….

FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS FOUR MORE YEARS!

Let’s celebrate with a huge blowout show in Columbus OH tomorrow, shall we? Hope you can make it!

Music Now Festival in Cincinnati has a really cool line-up happening in April. Here’s some information from the press release:

After a successful first year in 2006, the Music Now festival returns to Cincinnati this April 5-7. Curated by Cincinnati-born musician Bryce Dessner, guitarist of rock band The National and the instrumental band Clogs, the Music Now Festival will present musicians from around the world, ranging from rock, experimental, contemporary classical and world music in a three-day event at the exquisite Memorial Hall in Cincinnati’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. The festival highlights include a small theater acoustic performance by Sufjan Stevens (appearing with string quartet), a double-bill with Icelandic string quartet Amiina (best known as frequent collaborators of Sigur Ros) and indie-songstress My Brightest Diamond, and the US debuts of renowned flamenco guitarist Pedro Soler, and the haunting experimental Czech duo of Vojtech and Irena Havel. The Festival will kick off with a marathon-style concert featuring a solo performance by Soler, world premieres of string quartets by Sufjan Stevens and Maria Sigfúsdóttir of Amiina, and a collaborative set by Clogs featuring many of the festival performers. For a look at further details please visit www.musicnowfestival.org.

Who is playing Noise Pop 2007 in San Francisco? Glad you asked..

The Actual
Annuals
Aqueduct
Audrye Sessions
Ryan Auffenberg
Autolux
Maria Bamford
Ray Barbee and the Mattson 2
The Bent Mustache
Black Fiction
Karl Blau
The Bird And The Bee
The Botticellis
Boyskout
Brightblack Morning Light
Built for the Sea
Cake
The Changes
Vic Chesnutt
Clinic
Comedians of Comedy
The Coup
The Dandy Warhols
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Pretty Girls Make Graves wrote this on their website:

We are sorry to announce that our upcoming tour in May will be our last. Nick quit the band and the rest of us feel like it wouldn’t be right to continue on without him. The 5 of us feel very lucky to have met and worked with some truly amazing people over the years. Thank you all so much….

(Thanks Tim)

The New York Times has a good article today about black culture in indie rock.

Mr. Thomas, of This Moment in Black History, said that white fans sometimes want to know why he is not rapping. “It’s the stupidest question,” he said.

Just as often, it is African-Americans who are judgmental. “There’s an unfortunate tendency for some black people to think if you listen to rock music or want to play rock music, you’re an Uncle Tom,” Mr. Thomas said. (full story)

Speaking of This Moment in Black History, here’s an MP3 from their latest album…..

MP3: Garbage In, Garbage Out