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I’ve threatened it for the past week, and it’s up now.

Read live mini-reviews of The Honey’s, Greenhorn, The Stepford Five, B.A. Baracus, The Bygones, The Black Swans, The Favors, Jason Quicksall and The Last Hotel here.

There’s probably many spelling and grammatical errors, but I can be honest when I say I really don’t care.

Yee haw, motherfuckers.

Here.

Will there be more bands announced? Will there be a second stage? I do not know.

Here you go:

Using a 33,000-pound tractor to obliterate compact discs and other items, a few hundred protesters in Bossier City, La., referring to themselves as backers of U.S. President George Bush and Barksdale Air Force Base, lashed back at Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Texas-based country act the Dixie Chicks, over a recent comment. (full story)

If you need me for anything, you’ll have to build a spaceship. Me and Deltron 3030 are heading off to Mars where it’s safe.

Right now “Think Globally, Rock Locally” is what I’m bouncing around as the new tagline for donewaiting.com. “We’re listening” (as seen above beneath the URL logo) is the current tagline, and it’s cool in a “Big Brother We’re Watching You” sort of way, but I don’t think that fully gets the point across as to what donewaiting.com is slowly turning out to be.

We started out as just the main page, right? What you’re seeing right now (although a very ghetto designed version). Then we added my local Columbus OH music column, OH Columbus! because, well, that’s where I live. And right now the Columbus scene is ruling your ass.

Then we went across the Atlantic Ocean and started England Made Me by Steve Miller, and another Columbus column by Swizzle-Stick owner, Chip Midnight, and we call that one Atomic Ned.

But fuck! It didn’t stop there.

We went to NJ and plucked the guitarist for The Multi-Purpose Solution and started a NYC/NJ column, Bridges and Tunnels. And then we headed South West and opened up shop in Houston Texas with David A. Cobb’s Houston Calling.

We’re not done.

My goal is to add 1-2 new cities (countries?) a month to donewaiting.com. Because the local scenes are really what’s important these days.

Sure, I write about the national outlook of music on the mainpage here, and that’s important too. You gotta know what’s going on via a larger level. But the local columns, that’s where the real meaty bits of donewaiting.com are.

Think Globally, Rock Locally. The new working tagline. I think it’s cool. It’d look nice on a t-shirt, at least, with our skullxbones logo. And when you boil it all down, isn’t that what really matters.

One last thing: if you live in a city that’s not covered so far on donewaiting, and you think you’d want to start a column here, send me an e-mail and let’s try and work something out.

You know what I’m talking about.

Albums you went and bought with excitement in 2002, thinking you were going to love them only to have them fall flat on you.

Maybe you didnt hate it, but it just didn’t inspire any sort of love in you. They’re just sitting there in the corner, barely played, collecting dust.

Post up your forgotten albums of 2002 here.

If you can remember them, of course.

The man is on vacation, so don’t go bothering him for any silly award shows, fool.

From now until 7 days from now, I’ll be guestblogging over at Hip Hop Anonymous while the boys take a much needed vacation.

Give it a go.

If I lived in Los Angeles, I would listen to KCRW all day long.

Check out some Real Audio streams of some recent interviews/performances from their morning show, Morning Becomes Eclectic:

Well well well:

When her Elektra contract expired in August 2002, she chose not to renew it or to seek a deal with another major label. “I would make a big-budget pop album, followed by a year of touring and promotion and then some downtime for recovery,” she said. “I don’t even know if I was writing music that was appropriate for that mold.” Instead she will release her next album, a collection of traditional songs called “The House Carpenter’s Daughter,” on her own label, Myth America Records. It is to be released June 1 through Ms. Merchant’s Web site, nataliemerchant .com, and July 1 in stores. (full story)

Atta girl, Natalie. Who will be next?

He might have been running this thing forever, I don’t know, but here you go.