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Check it out here! Really great drawing.

Although I was disappointed to see that Tankboy doesn’t wear his donewaiting.com pin…

I thought I was pretty under the radar. I really didn’t expect Rolling Stone to scoop the story before I had a chance to announce it at our Donewaiting.com concert, but those fuckers did. My girlfriend will be having a baby in September, read about it here.

I’ll post a link to our registry soon.

… Greg Duli and the Twilight Singers.

Our good friend Paul Cox used to run a joint called The Rub, but has dropped that outfit in favor of his new, more delicious site, God’s Audio/Visual Aid. Fun stuff.

Make with the clicky and be happy he’s back.

Okay, these are the albums nominated to win this year’s Short List prize:

Alexander Fadoriouk- Art of the Cimbalom
Beck- Sea Change
Blur- Think Tank
Bright Eyes- Lifted
Burning Brides- Fall of the Plastic Empire
Burnside Project- Networks Circuits Streams Harmonies
Campfire Girls- Delongpre
Cat Power- You Are Free
Cave In- Antenna
Chip Taylor + Carrie Rodriguez- Lets Leave this Town
Cody Chesnutt- Headphone Masterpiece
Coral- The Coral
Damien Rice- O
Daniel Lanois- Shine
David Banner Mississippi (the Album)
Dead Prez- Turn Off the Radio
Diplomats- Diplomatic Immunity
Eels- Shootenanny
Etta James- Lets Roll
Field Mob- From tha Roota to that Toota
Floetry- Floetic
Four Tet- Rounds
Freeway- Philadelphia Freeway
Gillian Welch- Soul Journey
Goalpele- Even Closer
Grandaddy- Sumday
GZA/Genius- Legend of the Liquid Sword
Hot Hot Heat- Make Up The Breakdown
Ibraham Ferrar- Buenos Hermanos
Interpol- Turn Off the Bright Lights
Iron & Wine- Creek Drank the Cradle
Jesse Malin- Fine Art of Self Destruction
Jolie Holland- Catalpa
K-Os- Exit
Kathleen Edwards- Failer
Kenna- New Sacred Cow
Kindred the Family- Soul Surrender to Love
Little Brother- Listening
Longwave- Strangest Things
Luciana Souza- North & South
Mark Olson & the Creekdippers- Decembers Child
Metro Area- Metro Area
Mogwai- Happy Songs for Happy People
Moistboyz- Moistboyz III
Ms. Dynamite- A Little Deeper
Nanci Griffith- Winter Marquee
Natacha Atlas- Something Dangerous
Neko Case- Blacklisted
Nick Cave- Noturama
Northern State- Dying in Stereo
Orchestra Baobab- Specialist in All Styles
Pete Yorn- Day I Forgot
Primal Scream- evil Heat
Radiohead- Hail to the Theif
Rilo Kiley- The Execution of all Things
Rooney- Rooney
Royksopp- Melody AM
Sidestepper- 3AM in Beats We Trust
Sigur Ros ()
Solomon Burke- Dont Give up on Me
Sondre Lerche- Faces Down
Soulive- Soulive
Soundtrack of our Lives- Behind the Music
Spoon- Kill the Moonlight
Squarepusher- Do You Know Squarepusher
Stephen Malkmus + the Jicks- Pig Lib
Steve Earle- Jerusalem
Supernatural- The Lost Freestyle Files
Talib Kweli- Quality
Tegan and Sara- If It Was You
The Black Keys- Thickfreakness
The Cramps- Friends of Dope Island
The Jealous Sound- Kill Them With Kindness
The Libertines- Up The Bracket
The Mars Volta- De-Loued in the Comatorium
The Mooney Suzuki- Electric Sweat
The Music- Music
The Postal Service- Give Up
The Sounds- The Neptunes
The Streets- Original Pirate Material
Tomahawk- Mit Gas
Turbonegero- Apocalypse Dudes
Turin Breaks- Ether Song
Wire- Send
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Fever to Tell

So all these cool cats choose ten from this list, and then one winner. I think that’s how it works.

If I had to pick ten, I’d go: Beck, Blur, Eels, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Neko Case, Sigur Ros, Soundtrack of Our Lives….. and some others I guess, too tired to go through list.

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The interesting thing for the Shortlist is the album had to sell less than 500,000. I’m surprised that the Beck album did so little.

While you’re at it, tell us your ten picks.

Interesting article about the history of Dashboard Confessional as well as looks at the overall emo scene and some of the current standouts. The article also calls the new Dashboard album “a remarkable disc that may become the year’s most important rock record.”

Donewaiting.com discussion of the new Dashboard going on now.

Read them here. It’s good to see he gives some local San Francisco bands some props, as well as lovely lovelys like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Outkast are trying to fit 400 words per second in their new single, Ghetto Musick. It’s great and wonderful and now I want the album.

Durst Watch, donewaiting.com’s humor column/Fred Durst shrine, is producing nugget after nugget of laughter. Some examples.

We’re really excited to see LadyFest come to Columbus next year (Memorial Day weekend 2004 I believe). So if you want to get your band involved, here are the details:

Bands must have at least one woman in the band.

Press packets must include a CD with at least three songs and contact information. Any other pertinent information should be included (show dates, bio, website, etc.).

Submissions should be sent to:

Ladyfest Ohio Music
P.O. Box 10236
Columbus, OH 43201

For questions about submissions or information about music at Ladyfest Ohio, e-mails should be sent to ladyfestohiomusic@yahoo.com. For general information, e-mails should be sent to ladyfestohio@yahoo.com.

Do it!