Author Archives: robert duffy

Head on over to World of Wumme and Population Doug and add them to your favorite bookmarking tool/RSS reader/memory.

Wumme is run by Kevin Elliott, who is doing a lot of writing for Stylus lately and Doug is run by Doug Elliott, the secret architect of the 24th century.

Both dudes are based in Columbus OH, increasing the Midwest’s dominance of the entire blogaversity. SORRY NYC.

BONUS: Every Day is Like Wednesday is an excellent and often times hilarious comic book blog by Donewaiting.com film critic J Caleb Mozzocco.

DOUBLE POINT BONUS: Electric Pure Land is a music blog from Dusty, who is in Freedom, Sea Bird and other bands on the FBI Most Wanted List. (also Columbus-based)

Mice Parade is heading out on tour starting in May. I booked them last year in Columbus and it was one of my favorite shows.

MP3: Nights Wave

5/19 The Lime Spider, Akron OH
5/20 Schubas Tavern, Chicago IL
5/21 Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON
5/22 Barrymore’s, Ottawa ON
5/23 Main Hall, Montreal QC
5/24 (u) The Middle East – Upstairs, Cambridge MA
5/25 Mercury Lounge, New York NY
5/26 Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia PA
5/27 Rock And Roll Hotel, Washington DC
5/29 Local 506, Chapel Hill NC
5/30 THE EARL, Atlanta GA
5/31 The Social, Orlando FL
6/1 Jack Rabbit’s, Jacksonville FL
6/2 Spanish Moon, Baton Rouge LA
6/3 Emo’s Lounge, Austin TX
6/5 Solar Culture Gallery, Tucson AZ
6/6 Casbah, San Diego CA
6/7 The Echo, Los Angeles CA
6/8 Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco CA
6/10 Someday Lounge, Portland OR
6/11 Triple Door, Seattle WA

WOXY has launched a new blog, The Futurist. It’s being managed primarily by Joe Long, WOXY DJ and owner of donewaiting.com’s distant cousin (twice removed) blog, Each Note Secure.

I’ve always thought the idea of a blog on WOXY was a bit of a no-brainer so it’s good to see it’s finally happening. Real nice design, too.

Music consumption moves at an uncomfortable rate for a lot of music bloggers. You barely spend any time enjoying a new album before you’re off downloading and listening to something new that’s not out for 3 more months. I can usually keep up with the race, but man I’m falling behind lately.

I place the blame mostly on the death of my computer. Since early February, I’ve had to share an iBook with my girlfriend. Besides the usual “I WANNA USE THE COMPUTER NO ME” fist fights, things are generally very civil. I can partition out my own iTunes library and do my thang. But because I’m jacking her hard drive space, I’ve downloaded less, ripped less things into iTunes, and ultimately, less albums onto my iPod. Less consumption.

I’m just getting around to listening to the new LCD Soundsystem record. I’ve not downloaded that National single, nor have I listened to the Panda Bear album. I mean, I’m still enjoying the new Air album and OMG that’s like 3 weeks old!!!!!!!!!!!

In the end this is probably a good thing. Re-train my brain to enjoy listening to music pre-internet, when I actually remembered song titles and lyrics.

The A.V. Club: So, answer the CMJ suits: Why not go to a bigger label?

Ted Leo: There’s three things I have to say about that. The first one is “Because, fuck them.” That’s been my whole life—just fuck this whole world. The second thing is that I actually have thought about it, and I think it would be a really bad decision for me. I think someone of my age, and who makes the kind of music that I make—they would have to make their investment in me pay off. Especially with the current state of the major music world, they’d have to completely change my M.O. I would, for better or for worse, wind up alienating, I’m 100 percent sure, a large percentage of the audience I’ve built for the last 20 years. In some ways, you want to be able to retain your freedom to do whatever you want, so also fuck the naysayers if that ever happened, but at the same time, I know why they’d be upset. Because I grew up a punk kid who felt the same way. I just don’t think it would work, on any front.

Read the full interview here.

You can stream new albums by Ted Leo, El-P, LCD Soundsytem and more over at Spinner.