Author Archives: Tankboy

Yes, Ms. Phair is back on the road. Aren’t you excited? You can find the dates here. You can read about it here.

If you are so inclined you can read my review of her Chicago show here — though I’ve noticed she’s skipping our fair city this time so maybe she actually read my review — and you can discuss her surprising recent career moves here.

How exciting!

We here at Done Waiting appreciate the finer things in life. Well aged red wine. Thoughtful yet witty sentiments whispered by the light of a roaring fire. Kylie Minogue’s oh-so-bouncy “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.”

Well the ex-Neighbors star is dropping her new album later this year everywhere in the world but here in the U.S.A. What?! Why do we have to wait until February when everyone else gets access to this batch of new tunes in November?

In case you can’t tell, it’s a bit of a slow music day in the music world
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Those yuksters over at Nerve.com have decided to include Beyonce Knowles and lead guitarists in their Unsexy List and while I can?t speak for the entire editorial staff here at Done Waiting I will say that I heartily endorse 98.9% of Nerve.com?s picks.

Has anyone else noticed the little “Thanks for buying our music please don’t upload it on the Internet and suck all the money out of our pockets” blurbs that have recently been popping up in CD cases? I first noticed it in the new BRMC, and then saw it again inside the new Radiohead single.

Radiohead? Yeah, I really believe that message was personally put there by the band. The same band that seems to have done pretty well for themselves despite rampant filesharing of their music. Yeah, I’m sure they’re the ones worries about downloading. It wouldn’t be a bunch of suits slapping those pleas inside of CD cases, would it? Nooooo!

Make ya a deal. If you industry types just stop bugging us, suing twelve year old girls and start putting out good albums we’ll at least try to refrain from dancing on your graves when your whole outmoded, outdated and generally feudal system comes crashing down around you.

Hey Duffy, is there room in that rocket ship for me?

Andrew WK?s new disc The Wolf is so over-the-top that it makes Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf?s past forays into the studio sound like so many collapsing Tinker-Toys. Walls of guitars, oceans of piano, football stadium chants and commitment to having a ?really good time? and ?partying? explode all over the place.

As previously reported in this space, every disc bought through qualifies you for a phone call from the King of Libation and Liberation himself, but don?t forget to finish your registration . Unfortunately we have not been able to substantiate whether as has been rumored, though that would be pretty rad.

If only this album would have come out in May instead of September it would have ruled the Summer and slapped the shit out of those poseurs in Fannypack.

Lately I fear we here at Done Wating have unfairly neglected the style/class/opinion war surrounding Liz Phair this summer.

So Liz did a Q & A with readers of The New York Times just to keep things a ‘rollin’ along.

Later this week I will review Liz’s big sold-out homecoming show here in Chicago two weeks ago. Two weeks ago? Why didn’t I write it sooner?

Let’s just say I’m trying to find nice ways to say some not-so-nice things.

What does it say when I find pictures of Duffy’s puppy more interesting that the menage a trois de la Xtina, BTnY and Ha-Ha-Hot-Madona?

Volumes, my friend. It says volumes.

This just in from Pitchfork.

The Dismemberment Plan is having yet another fucking farewell show!

The Dismemberment Plan are now tied with The Who and The Rolling Stones for largest number of farewell tours/announcements. In another startling similarity to The Who and The Stones it has been discovered that no one really cares whether the band is actually ever going to disband or not. A surprising number of those polled — in a highly unscientific Tankboy survey — said they just wish “the band would shut the fuck up and go away already.”

Which Pixies song are you?

The new disc is out August 19 and features a fine return to form for these boys from Nova Scotia. After a slight detour into the land of concept albums and what I think was meant to be a tribute to Wings, these Halifax heroes get back to the serious business of rocking and rolling while churning out an insane amount of stadium-ready guitar anthems with so many hooks they could clear the Atlantic of all its fish.

Unfortunately, other than a gig in , only people that say ?aboot? will get a chance to see them in the near future. Until a more extensive tour is planned the new disc will keep happily buzzing in my headphones, my stereo and in convertibles across all nations.