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If the internet didn’t exist, it’s safe to say we’d never get to hear these two commerical masterpieces from Ween:

Earlier in 2002 we were hired by the largest advertising firm in the country to write music for a Pizza Hut commercial. Pizza Hut had hired them to come up with a whole new image to promote their new Pizza, “The Insider” which had all the cheese inside the crust. In keeping in line with their new cutting edge image, the agency hired Ween to do the music, and we delivered in a big way. Unfortunately, they didn’t like a single piece of the 6 tunes we submitted and they had us rewriting the song every day for a couple of weeks before they hired someone else. In my opinion, it is one of the best tunes we wrote all last year. Click on the links below to hear our 2 masterpieces. (listen!)

I just don’t know. Many people loved the Interpol record. So I gave it another chance. This was chance #9 I think.

And I just couldn’t force myself into liking it.

On the new Johnny Cash album, “American 4“, the man in black does a lot of cover songs mixed in with his originals. One of them is a cover of the Nine Inch Nails staple, “Hurt.” Well, they’ve gone and made a video of that song and you can watch it here.

If I had heard the song first without seeing the video I probably would have hated it. But with the visual narrative that the video adds, hol-lee shit. I think I’m going to be depressed for the next two weeks.

I ran my old website (RIP) with my good friends Eric and Maher. These days they’re tearing up the sports industry with their new journal, The Frog.

Show them the love they deserve and make with the clicky.

I was able to grab a copy of the new Beth Gibbons record, “Out of Season,” a few weeks back. For those who don’t know, Beth is the voice behind Portishead. This record, though, couldn’t be any farther from that band. This is the record I wanted Beth Orton’s “Daybreaker” to be: new, exciting, and rich. Sometimes jazzy, sometimes folky, but always haunting, “Out of Season” is a great album that I can’t stop playing.

Especially when it’s raining. It’s a great soundtrack to falling raindrops.

I checked the big music websites around the web, and I can’t find anything cheaper than $19.99 due to import status. You might be able to find it cheaper. I’d almost say $19.99 is worth it, but I won’t. Because no singular CD is worth $19.99. (do you hear me, Sam Goody/Record Town/every-other-mall-record-store?)

Interesting article about the people who book musicians for late night shows.

The Times Online from the UK wrote up an interesting commentary on the importance of fanzines:

Fanzines remain an essential tool to rein in rampant egos and cut out corporate journalism. A British music monthly recently ended a long-running column that regularly flayed sacred cows from Van Morrison to Joy Division ? the publishers reckoned it was affecting their advertising revenue. But a fanzine can be as political as it likes and never be blackmailed by advertisers or press offices.

In a somewhat but not really but kinda related story, Rob Harvilla (you may know him as Arts Editor of Columbus’ The Other Paper) wrote a story for the Houston Press about what’s wrong with music journalism and how to fix it.

It’s a pretty good article, pointing out a lot of the problems that magazines like Rolling Stone and Spin have. But I don’t think there’s a way to fix them. In fact, let them stay broken and beaten, lying in a dark alley like a dog with a broken leg. These things are old. There time has come. Out with the old, in with the new.

They had their chance at evolving and blew it. Now all of us with a few dollars and an internet connection are slowly creeping up on these dinosaurs, and are doing a better job. Because we have true opinions and because we still care about music, not what some label exec thinks about us.

We get a lot of referrals to our site based on this live Loose Fur review that our man Charlie Tokyo did in December. So I guess y’alls want it, so y’alls can have it.

Oh, the fun we have in the donewaiting.com message board. Get in on the fun and tell us some of your favorite and worst band names.

New video from Low shows the trials of crossing into our northern neighbor. The song is really good — looks like I gotta go buy the album.