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Do yourself a favor and right click on this link and SAVE AS a new MP3 from Yo La Tengo’s upcoming album, “Summer Sun.”

It’s great and wonderful and will make you feel like everything’s gonna be okay.

Jesus.

For those of you keeping score at home, we had the donewaiting.com launch party last night at Little Brother’s. Maybe you were there. If not, you missed out.

From every angle, the show was a success. It was something I had been planning since mid October, so you can imagine the self imposed stress and worry I put on myself. But it worked out. Fuck, it worked out.

Little Brother’s was packed last night. We’re talking “hard to walk from the stage to the bar and back without getting stuck in the crowd” packed. And they all came out to see local music. It’s a beautiful thing.

Ken Gould, Miranda Sound, Stardrop and Manda and the Marbles all poured their heart into their sets. Ken shocked the crowd (who is this guy?), Stardrop proved themselves as a player in the local scene, Miranda Sound put on quite possibly their best show I’ve ever seen, and the Marbles capped the night off with a tight set that blew everyone away.

Also, the local press really did a great job supporting it. The Other Paper, Alive, Dispatch, Columbusmusic.com and Swizzle Stick all contributed to the show’s success. Thanks everyone.

Read and write your review of the show here.

We’ve got a few other live events in early development, both inside and outside of Columbus OH. Hopefully we can keep making lightning strike over and over again.

You know, when I started donewaiting.com, I wanted it to be more than just a site that wrote about music. I didn’t want to just sit on the sidelines, reporting things as they happened. I wanted to get in there, be a music activist, promote good music, introduce new people to new sounds. Because outlets like Rolling Stone and MTV (and shitty MTV2) are only introducing people to such a small percentage of sound that is out there for your ears. And sure I love the Strokes, Eminem, even Linkin Park, but there’s so much more than that. Doing these live events is just an extension of what we’re trying to do on the website.

With donewaiting.com I’m trying to be a voice for bands that don’t get that kind of press, and at the same time support the big acts. Because the big boys need love too from the little people. Fuck, I want bands like Miranda Sound to be on the covers of Rolling Stone. But until then, we’ll keep doing what we do.

Last night, 2/1/03, Saturday night, donewaiting.com fully arrived on the scene. Hello, nice to meet you. Glad you could make it.

This launch concert has been in the works since 10/25/02.

It all comes down to tonight.

How does that old saying go about measuring someone about the friends they keep? I don’t remember. Nonetheless, Linkin Park is going to embark on a summer tour with some interesting choices:

“Once we hit the summer we’re going to do a stadium tour with Metallica and Limp Bizkit,” Hahn said. “We’re excited about all those shows because there’s different levels of intimacy. You know, the smaller ones being more intimate, but when you get the bigger shows it gets crazier so, it’s a trade-off.” (full story)

Doing a show with one of those bands would have been hurtful, but both? Aye, carumba.

I’m still really looking forward to the new Linkin Park record. Just don’t expect to see me at this tour.

I know a lot of people get angry when their favorite bands lend out their songs for commercials. “Sell out!” they cry until their lungs bleed. Get over yourselves.

Where else are they going to get their music heard? Radio? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. MTV? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No. MTV2? Sadly, no.

These days, it’s getting harder and harder for bands to get their music heard. So you gotta do what you gotta do. It worked for Moby. His album Play sold 5.32 trillion records thanks to the appearances of songs in countless movies, commercials, video games and TV shows. It works.

I bring this up because a few weeks back me and my girlfriend were watching some sort of cartoon on TV when a commercial for the new Saturn car came on. We liked the song, tucked it in or brains, forgot about it. Then a few days later Methodmal posts something in the donewaiting.com forum about The Walkmen doing a song in the Saturn commercial, and yee-haw, the connection is made.

I go out, I buy the CD, I love the CD. Never would’ve happened if not for the song in the commercial.

On the other end of the spectrum, if I were to hear “Come As You Are” by Nirvana in a Ford Focus commercial, I’d probably think it’s lame.

Hip hop fighting moves from the rappers to the writers:

For a rapper, there’s no better way to make a name than through a battle, preferably a verbal one. But with the appearance of a two-sided poster in the February issue of The Source, the magazine regarded by many as the bible of hip-hop, it appears that rhetorical tussles aren’t limited to rappers anymore. A cartoon depicts Elliott Wilson, the editor in chief of The Source’s main competitor, the younger publication XXL, being crushed by a hulking monster wearing a Source T-shirt. Beneath the image is the warning “Respect the architect or get broken.” (full story)

Personally, I’m not a fan of Pitchfork Media, but I don’t think you’ll see us go to battle. Sorry.

I’ve been told that Fred Durst is unravelling over on the Limp Bizkit site. My good friend Charlesworth of The Sports Frog is going to keep an eye on ol’ Fred now and again, and let us know if he’s lost his fool mind.

Charlesworth’s findings will be posted here, on the main page.

I want someone to run a blog on donewaiting.com about hip hop. Something like England Made Me, Atomic Ned or OH Columbus!

If you are that someone, or know someone who is up for it, please have them contact me.

Speaking of OH Columbus, I finally posted my long overdue update featuring ramblings about The All Golden, The Black Keys, Miranda Sound, Stepford Five, John Chinn, and more.

This is going to get bad for the Rob Duffy bank account:

Pearl Jam has unveiled details of the delivery method for the official “bootlegs” of its 2003 tour, which will kick off Feb. 8 in Brisbane, Australia … Fans who pre-order shows from the band’s Ten Club fan organization will first receive a secure Web link to download unmastered MP3 files a day after any given performance. A mastered double-CD copy of the concert, complete with custom-designed packaging, will then arrive approximately 7-10 business days later. (full story)

Ten Club Members can get each recording for $12.98 or buy all 15 shows for $194.00. God help me. I have no self control.