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Here is the ew trippy video for the first White Stripes single from Elephant, Seven Nation Army.

[discovered via productshopNYC]

Charlesworth, the gentleman that writes donewaiting.com’s Durst Watch, is getting a pounding on his very own message board. Defend his honor. Or knock his teeth out.

You need to pay attention to the Wilco tour page because the band is slowly listing new shows.

Just like the Cleveland show, with Sonic Youth, that I just bought tickets for..

Like we said last week, Beck has started to announce tourdates. The Black Keys and Dashboard Confessional are opening dates. The trio will also be hitting the Long Island festival-of-delight that we’ve been harping about as well.

May 28: Alexandria, Va. (Wolftrap Music Center)
June 4: Columbus, Ohio (PromoWest Pavilion)
June 5: Cleveland (Tower City Amphitheatre)
June 7: Calverton, Long Island, N.Y. (Field Day Festival)
June 10: Detroit (Meadowbrook Amphitheatre)
June 11: Chicago (UIC Pavilion)
June 12: Minneapolis (Wilkins Auditorium) (full story)

I’m sure more dates will be announced soon. Check Beck’s site for details.

And for all y’all that don’t like Dashboard, you can just eat it.

Oh yeah, on some site somewhere someone referred to The Black Keys as “Blues Hammer from the movie ‘Ghostworld.'” After seeing them live, I agree with that.

This is an interesting idea.

You know how software normally comes out with several beta versions (pre-releases) before the official product is launched? What if musicians did the same thing? For a price, you can get key demos of songs in progress sent to you in almost real time from the band. The feeding frenzy over the Radiohead leak (and others) show there is high interest for such a thing.

This works, of course, only if the early-release versions are indeed different from what’s on the final CD. But it can work; some bands have fans so intense that they’ll pay for a chance to come along for the ride as a record is developed. Just as in software development, there would often be new “beta builds” of CD tracks, but only those with significant new features or fixes would be released to the general public. Performers could thereby release early material only when it’s ready and still ensure that the music would be available before it could be distributed illegally. That’s a way for them to accept the inevitable — early Net distribution — but still maintain control. (full story)

You could even go one step further with this. Bands could send MP3s during this process and when the real album comes out these subscribers could get a special 2-disc limited edition of the album, one disc being the demos.

I’d pay for that. You probably would too. Let us discuss, together.

July 8 is the date that Diamond David Lee Roth will release his solo album. This time he’s bringing a few covers along. Tracklisting:

01. Medicine Man
02. Thug Pop
03. Act One
04. Slip Away
05. Bold As Love (JIMI HENDRIX)
06. Soul Kitchen (THE DOORS)
07. Tomorrow Never Knows (THE BEATLES)
08. Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma (STEVE MILLER BAND)
09. Let It All Hang Out (HOMBRES)
10. You Got The Blues, Not Me (SAVOY BROWN)
11. Stay While The Night Is Young (SAVOY BROWN)
12. Made Up My Mind (SAVOY BROWN)
13. Ice Cream Man
14. Bad Habits
15. If 6 Was 9 (JIMI HENDRIX) (full story)

I don’t think I’ll be buying this one.

David interviews DuneTX in his donewaiting.com column, Houston Calling. Get to know the Houston scene before it gets to know you.

Pitchfork is running a really good interview with Spoon today. However, one piece really depressed the hell out of me:

Pitchfork: I was talking to Dan Bejar from Destroyer, who?s also on Merge, and when I asked him if he can make a living from what he does and he said, ?No, not really.? Do you guys make a living off what you do?

Britt: No. No. I mean, right now [the tour] has helped. I don?t have time for anything else and I?m making a few bucks when we tour, but it?s not? it?s enough to pay rent basically, for a few months, and then I’ve got to go do something else. (full interview)

If Spoon isn’t pulling a decent living, who the fuck is?

Me and Charlesworth are loving these. Check out this batch of three headlines recently featured on MTV’s site:

And I quote:

I’m sure the thought of Fred nailing me both turned my husband on and threatened him, and I think he believed at that point that I wouldn’t stray. Little did he know how wrong he was. (full story)

One must wonder what strange internet path our little Charlesworth had to walk to find this strange corner of the internet, but let’s not ask questions. Instead let us celebrate his dedication to the donewaiting.com column, Durst Watch.