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Pearl Jam continues to find ways to drain me of all my money:

Pearl Jam has quietly begun selling a DVD of its Dec. 6 concert at Seattle’s Showbox club at shows on its current North American tour. A spokesperson says for now, the DVD will only be available at shows and, beginning tomorrow (May 7), via the group’s official Web site. Since every show is filmed, additional DVDs are possible, including a comprehensive 2003 tour retrospective. (full story)

Me want.

Radiohead and Sigur Ros wouldn’t stand a chance at the Download Festival in the U.K. Taking place 5/31 and 6/1, here are the bands that will be performing:

Audioslave, Marilyn Manson, Deftones, Stone Sour, Iron Maiden, Ministry, INME, Murderdolls, HIM (Europe), Chiamara, and Spineshank, Zwan, Stone Sour, Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, NoFX, Less Than Jake, Boy Sets Fire, Strung Out, TSOL, the Bouncing Souls, the Real McKenzies, and Thrice.

Eaten. Alive.

From his label:

UPDATE! Ted Leo/Pharmacists cancel several weeks of the US tour, after performing 4 shows in the midwest. The cancellation begins today May 5 through May 26. That’s Milwaukee through Atlanta. Ted Leo has lost his voice and will head back to NY to find out when he can perform again. For now, the shows after Atlanta are on schedule but please check back here for updates. Ted will take the next few weeks to seek professional care for his voice and prepare to see you soon. The band will reschedule dates in the cities affected by the cancellation as soon as possible.

Those of you who know anything about Ted Leo know that he does not cancel shows. He is perhaps the hardest working person on our label and does everything he can to connect with people and tours non-stop. We are sorry to have to cancel these dates and the band will miss seeing you in May.

And he has his own website, finally! Viewable here.

Alright, I know a lot of you hang out at the cool music blogs that give you every detail about Radiohead, Weezer, whatever. But donewaiting.com loves you more than that. We give you the news you want: glam metal news!

How you like us now?

I have recently become a fan of Fruit Bats and I’m a better person for it. Download Fruit Bats MP3. See Fruit Bats Live. Buy Fruit Bats.

When I was living in San Francisco for a year, I only fell in love with one local band: Orange Peels. (Thanks Methodmal).

But I didn’t see the local scene. While SF had a lot of national bands coming through, I couldn’t get a sense of a San Francisco home grown scene. Maybe I wasn’t looking in the right places, I don’t know.

Or maybe I was right:

After more than a quarter-century of being one of the centers of the pop music world, the famous San Francisco scene has crumbled. While underground rock still percolates in warehouses and lofts around the Bay Area, this insular constituency breeds few mainstream breakouts like AFI, an East Bay punk band whose major-label debut made the Top 10 last month in its first week out. (full story)

John Vanderslice must save us all.

[link found by soldierant]

Okay, they can’t stop you from downloading music on to your computer. We get that. So now they’re gonna try and destroy your computers. Here’s what those baddies are up to:

A more malicious program, dubbed “freeze,” locks up a computer system for a certain duration – minutes or possibly even hours – risking the loss of data that was unsaved if the computer is restarted. It also displays a warning about downloading pirated music. Another program under development, called “silence,” scans a computer’s hard drive for pirated music files and attempts to delete them. One of the executives briefed on the silence program said that it did not work properly and was being reworked because it was deleting legitimate music files, too. (full story)

Joe Henry was one of my favorite musicians bck in the day when I interned for Mammoth Records (RIP). He still is. And he’s still making music. Don’t believe me? Believe this, sucka:

Singer/songwriter Joe Henry has signed to Anti- Records and set a Sept. 9 release date for his ninth album, “Tiny Voices.” The 12-track set is Henry’s first since 2001’s “Scar” (Mammoth/Hollywood), which debuted at No. 36 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart. (full story)

Good news.

It’s true.

Also, if you look closely in the photo you’ll find message board regulars Charlie Tokyo and Minimott.

It’s like Where’s Waldo, but with the middle finger.

The rumors have started.