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While most music blogs are telling you important things about Radiohead’s new release, donewaiting.com’s Durst Watch is answering the hard questions: Who is Fred Durst dating now?

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Steve Miller, donewaiting.com’s columnist overseas, checks in with one of the best things written on the site so far. It’s a review of two REM concerts at Brixton Academy in England. The venue only holds about 4,000 people, so seeing the band in such a small venue is a special occasion, indeed:

As I said before, my relationship with REM has had its ups and downs, but every time I see them, I?m, reminded of all the reasons I fell for them in the first place. Stipe?s extraordinary voice, vulnerable and powerful in the same breath, Buck?s wonderful guitar moves, Mills? bass and vitally important counterpoint vocals. And the songs. Never forget the songs. And the humour. And the fans. And the songs. Never forget the songs. (full review)

I’ve seen REM several times before, and I have to agree with Steve. They’re a really special band, and seeing them live is a testament to that fact.

MTV aint showing a Foo Fighters video because Jack Black and Dave Grohl dress in drag and do all sorts of silly things.

The video is not being played by MTV because of two controversial scenes, one depicting the two dressed in drag spanking each other, and one in which Grohl and Black’s legs are horizontal on the floor intermingling with each other, implying a sex scene. (full story)

Seriously, fuck MTV.

[found @ Rocktober]

People love them, people hate them, but you can’t deny the importance Pitchfork Media has had on online music journalism. I go to the site daily, and I bet you do too.

There’s currently a letter on the top page thanking people for visiting the site and to announce that they’ve actually gone and opened up an office in Chicago.

Well, Pitchfork is opening its first-ever office space today in Chicago. I can’t help but feel like we don’t rightly deserve it. All we’ve really done for this music is to attempt to cover it as thoroughly as possible, to hopefully serve as some kind of tool to help it reach those who can see the same things in it that we do. These bands work so incredibly fucking hard for their art; all I want is for that art to reach and affect people the way it affects me.

I would love to be in a position to afford an office for donewaiting.com. Good job, Forkers.

Very good recap of a Travis/Arab Strap/Teenage Fanclub concert in Edinburgh (complete with photos) over at House of Hot Sauce. By now I hope you clicked the link in the last sentence.

David Cobb continues his interview series of Houston bands, this time with Forskalii. Give it a read.

There are so many perfect quotes in this interview I’d like to reprint the whole thing here. But that’d be dumb. Instead, here is just one:

Funny little story… I drove on a field trip once, to a guitar factory, to show all these little kids how to make guitars. So we’re standing there, and I’m looking around, and folks are looking over at me, and I’m just waiting for someone to recognize me, you know, “Hey, aren’t you that music guy? That singer guy?” Nobody. Nothing. We’re there for, like, two hours, watching them put the frets on and all that, and I’m waiting and waiting. A week later, I took the same group of kids on a field trip to the dump, and as I pulled up, don’t ask me how, but my truck was surrounded by people that wanted an autograph. It was a dump, for Christ’s sake. I guess everybody knows me at the dump. (full interview)

I really would like to see Tom live in concert.

All of the rock and roll cliches were there: a storm of lighters surrounding us, the crowd singing along as loud as the band, and me with my arm around my girlfriend.

As we sang along with Eddie Vedder to “Elderly Woman Behind a Counter In A Small Town”, I thought, this is what music is all about. This is why I built donewaiting.com. This is why I do what I do.

I wasn’t the only one who felt this way last night, I’m sure. Once the song ended the applause went on for several minutes, the audience in agreement that they just were a part of something special, something important, something beautiful.

This is why I love Pearl Jam.

I don’t know how I feel about this just yet:

Insight Louisville is one of five cable systems that launched MTV2 Local 360 in June. The initiative combines localized on-air elements from MTV2 with a co-branded, broadband-optimized local website in each market.

Sarah Cohen, VP of programming and production at MTV.com, and her team are producing and maintaining the local broadband websites on behalf of affiliates … The on-air elements integrate local content seamlessly into the national MTV2 feed, such as Louisville music scene info and affiliate branding and messages to drive viewers to the website. (full story)

On one hand, I like the idea of people tuning into MTV2 and getting info about their local scene. On the other hand, it is MTV and as a rule they are Not To Be Trusted.

[found @ paidcontent.org]