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Fruit Bats, Moviola, The Stepford Five, Poop House Reilly, Woolworthy and Aether were bands that I saw over the weekend. I’d like to share my experiences with you.

Beatles tunes, done Metallica style. Not as cool as you want it to be, but a fun download nonetheless.

[found via deviated septum]

Our Houston correspondent, David Cobb, files an interview with Houston band Ignite the Morning (formerly known as Serene). Read it read it and read it.

Tatu fascinate me.

The man behind “paedophile pop” duo Tatu was arrested yesterday and accused of perverting the morals of underage girls. Ivan Shapovalov, 36, was held in Moscow’s Red Square after arranging for more than 300 girls to be in a new video by the lesbian duo. (full story)

Things like this will only make the band more popular.

Guess I’ll have to hold out for the fall, hoping they come close to my town at that time, cuz they aint coming near me during the summer.

JUNE 16 Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
JUNE 17 Charlotte, NC – Grady Cole Center
JUNE 18 Tampa, FL – USF Special Events Center
JUNE 19 Boca Raton FL – Mizner Park Amphitheater
JUNE 20 Stone Mountain, GA – Stone Mountain Park
JUNE 21 Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
JUNE 23 New Orleans, LA – Municipal Auditorium
JUNE 24 Houston, TX – Verizon Wireless Theatre
JUNE 25 Austin, TX – Stubb’s Bar-B-Q
JUNE 26 Grand Prairie, TX – Next Stage
JUNE 27 Oklahoma City, OK – Bricktown Events Center
JUNE 28 Kansas City, KS – Memorial Hall
JUNE 30 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
JULY 1 AND 2 Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom
JULY 3 St. Paul, MN – Roy Wilkins Auditorium
JULY 5 Milwaukee, WI – Eagles Ballroom
JULY 23 New York, NY Central Park Summer Stage

I’ll be making my triumphant return to San Francisco next week from 5/22 through 5/26. I’m not seeing any concerts that are really grabbing my goat. Am I missing anything? Drop me a note.

Okay, time to break down pieces of this article from Reuters. Article is indented, my comments below.

Lollapalooza organizers admit that early sales are disappointing in some markets. But they say this may be the way festivals sell post-Sept. 11, 2001. … “Some of these ticket counts are not unusual and not different from what we’re seeing on other festivals,” Wavra continues. “We may be finding out that the buying pattern has changed since 9/11 and the war.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Seriously, that made my anus hurt I laughed so hard. How lame is it to blame the death of thousands of people as the reason kids don’t want to go to this shitty concert? It’s so sad it’s hilarious.

“We have a strong value proposition to the customer, when you look at the quality of the acts and ticket prices,” Schneider says. Tickets run from $40 to $60. “We have a compelling show we’re putting forward to the public.”

Is this the first time the word value was used when discussing Lollapalooza? We have a pretty good discussion going on in our message board regarding how much the ticket value is worth. Donewaiting.com users say: not much.

Both Wavra and Schneider believe the tour will get a boost from the release of the new Jane’s Addiction album later this summer.

Seriously, okay, come on now. This article is filled with so many ridiculous statements, I am looking around my office here wondering if there is a hidden camera TV show watching me, to see my responses. Is that you, Jamie Kenndy? Or Am I being Punk’d?

Newsflash to all: Jane’s Addiction Album will not sell 500,000 copies. Garunteed.

I can’t handle this anymore.

Spoon are releasing a 7-track mini-LP for That’s The Way We Get By in August on 12XU Records. In addition to the title track, there’ll be 6 live tracks and scads of videos from Kill The Moonlight. Okay, maybe not scads, but more than one. Maybe. (source)

I found this today on Chromewaves, a great little music site that I check daily, and seriously, you should too.

Barenaked Ladies have a blog and they put it to excellent use. Check it out here. Funny entries, exclusive photos, videos, and all the yummyness you’d expect from the fellas.

[found via kottke.org]

From his newsletter:

Due to overwhelming demand, we’ve made clips from the songs Mike Doughty
recorded for the film “EvenHand” available at Mike’s website. Surf on by and check the news page for a link. The files are 30-40 second excerpts from each of the four songs Mike wrote and recorded for the film.

Get the goods here. For those not keeping track of such things, Mike used to be the lead singer of Soul Coughing.