Welp, no Soundgarden or Faith No More, instead we get Limp Bizkit and Godsmack, Slash(?), Deftones, Helmet and Mastodon (fuck yes).

If you remember, myself and Chip Midnight did our best last year to bring you the happenings at Rock on the Range 2009 and this year will hopefully be no different.

Full lineup from the Rock on the Range website after the jump.

Godsmack
Rob Zombie
Three Days Grace
Limp Bizkit
Rise Against
Seether
Slash
Deftones
Papa Roach
Five Finger Death Punch
Coheed and Cambria (more…)

rjd2 on twitter about his columbus show

Thanks bustown, last nite was all the way live. Word to the wise: if your chest is hella will farrell, jumping on stage w no shirt=bad look.

rj twitter again:

@wesflexner @donewaiting thanks for setting last nite up PROPERRRRR.

Keep reading for more photos. (more…)

Today, this little website is seven years old. When I let that sink in for a minute or two, it always sort of freaks me out. If this website was a kid, it might be in like 1st or 2nd grade by now… Well, maybe 4th grade because the site skipped a few grades for being a child prodigy.

Thanks everyone for keeping the site going! To the writers, bands, readers, commenters, blackmailers, lawyers, ballers, and everyone in between. Hopefully we’ll see some of you tonight at the anniversary show in Columbus.

Had a conference call last night about adding some new features to the site in the coming year.. Things continue to look great…

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=102501078
For those planning on attending SXSW this year (or for those just curious about who will be there), I’ve been sifting through the extensive list as something of a countdown until the festival.

Today’s video is from Los Angeles-based Local Natives, who will be releasing their record Gorilla Manor on Frenchkiss February 16th.

The psych rock tour de force that is The Entrance Band brings its brand of dirty, loud psychedelia to The Summit on Wednesday night (yes, that’s A Perfect Circle’s Paz Lenchantin on the far right). Brooklyn band Lights(they make me think of a psychedelic School of Seven Bells) and local dudes Brainbow open.

The Entrance Band killed last time they were through. What else is there to do on a Wednesday night?

EARLY SHOW ALERT

8pm doors
Brainbow 9pm
Lights 10pm
The Entrance Band 11pm

Check out The Entrance Band’s video for “Lookout” after the thingie (more…)

OSU is honoring the 50th Anniversary of the 1960’s OSU Men”s Championship team.Above is a picture of Larry Siegfield,Jerry Lucas and John Haliveck still rollin’ deep.
“The General” Bobby Knight was also on this team.
. Read more about the Best Friendships Never Dieing on CNN.com
To keep it 100 hundred, OSU and Homage Clothing have teamed up for this limited edition box set that will be available at the game to honor these great men. Read more about the championship team
Information on Boxset on flyer:

The Courage of Others, Midlake’s long-awaited, Pentangled follow-up to The Trials of Van Occupanther, is streaming in full over at NPR. I’m really digging “Rulers, Ruling All Things” and “Fortune,” but I can’t find anything as awesome as “Roscoe.” Whatchu think?

It’s out Feb. 2 (Tuesday) on Bella Union.

MP3: Sailor Song

As a follow up to their EP Drunken Trees, Swedish duo First Aid Kit released their full length album yesterday on London-based Wichita Recordings. The Big Black and the Blue is an enchantingly beautiful continuation from the first time I heard them cover “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” on YouTube. The raw talent is undeniable in these girls’ voices and appreciation for it can only be heightened by seeing them in person. Even more impressive is that sisters Klara & Johanna Söderberg (born in 90 and 93) have been writing and composing material since adolescence. In a post-show conversation with them during the fall, they commented on the fact that it was Conor Oberst who really inspired them to make music. Since then their creative storm has blown their music all over Europe and it’s slowly trickling its way to the Americas. Similar to Oberst, they seem to write on subjects wise beyond their teenage years. I envision a sizable demographic of desperate housewives all over Sweden blowing out their speakers on songs like “You’re Not Coming Home Tonight.”

Both releases are now available stateside, and they’ll be touring on this album in the spring.

Atown’s/Spain’s Prefuse 73 thanked the crowd with humility after the end of his set because he was overwhelmed by the positive crowd response.
I’m not gonna lie, I’ve never listened to Prefuse in my life aside from when he played with Edan at the Wex but I did enjoy the soft toned layers of sound over the live drums.
It had a very earthy warmth to it…. like being at a cave near a beach with water trickling in.

I think his performance was more refined than the opener that I came to see, the Muthafucking Gaslamp Killer. (more…)

MP3: Caribou – Odessa

Sounds danceable, huh? Swim, the follow-up to 2007’s mighty fine Andorra, is out April 20 on Merge Records.

Four venues, 23 bands, zero dollars, RSVP here

More Info here

Weirdo venue map after the jump (more…)

MP3: Yr Heart

The Super Desserts are set to release their new record Banjo Forever this Sunday (Jan. 24) at Used Kids Records. In a way, this is a new old record, as many tracks come from previously released material that have been remixed with added instrumentation. Singer/guitarist Bobby Miller explains: “Really it’s just the culmination of a plan we had from day one. We set out to record as many songs as we could in a two-year span, releasing them in DIY fashion along the way. Then, we took our favorites and packaged them with the strongest of our “new” songs to create this record.” Whether you’re new to their music or not, their efforts don’t seem to be in vain as they’ve managed to channel all of their energy into a highly enjoyable album.

This quirky gaggle of artists call on a variety of instruments (as with the first album, Barefoot in the Disenchanted Forest) that seem to tell stories of the mishaps of seeing life through melodic, rose-colored glasses. In fact, their airy way of tale-telling can refresh your inner child and leave you whistling, like in the track “Gotta Lotta Sun.” While I’m left wanting to hear more new material, I’ll be playing outstanding tracks such as the Sondre Lerche-like tune “Falling Out of Fashion,” the charming “Yr Heart” and the tragically fun “I Only Love You Because You Can Play Guitar” on repeat for a while.

On Sunday you’ll be able to purchase your own vinyl copy as well as catch an in-store performance from both Saintseneca and Super Desserts.

A new Gorillaz album is coming and I’m really excited. Will I finally get to see them perform live in 2010? A dude can dream, right?

New LP out in March. Tracklisting:

1. Orchestral Intro (featuring Sinfonia ViVA)
2. Welcome To The World Of The Plastic Beach (feat. Snoop Dogg & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
3. White Flag (feat. Kano, Bashy & The National Orchestra For Arabic Music)
4. Rhinestone Eyes
5. Stylo (feat. Bobby Womack & Mos Def)
6. Superfast Jellyfish (feat. Gruff Rhys & De La Soul)
7. Empire Ants (feat. Little Dragon)
8. Glitter Freeze (feat. Mark E Smith)
9. Some Kind Of Nature (feat. Lou Reed)
10. On Melancholy Hill
11. Broken
12. Sweepstakes (feat. Mos Def & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
13. Plastic Beach (feat. Mick Jones & Paul Simonon)
14. To Binge (feat. Little Dragon)
15. Cloud Of Unknowing (feat. Bobby Womack and Sinfonia ViVA)
16. Pirate Jet

MP3: Doubting Comforts

While perusing the SXSW 2010 band list (yet again), I was reminded that Blue Roses will be playing. This is the project of singer/musician Laura Groves from Shipley, Yorkshire whose influences range from Tears For Fears to Debussy. Combining years of practice on the piano and guitar with days of interest on other instruments, she’s managed to compose some heartbreakingly darling folk tunes. “I like writing songs for instruments I can’t play yet and making choirs out of my voice” says Groves. She released her full-length Blue Roses last July and EP Does Anyone Love Me Now in December, both on XL.

MP3: Single #1 – Ghost Shirt

Lots going on in Ghost Shirt world. First off, the Columbus band has announced they’re going to release a new single every week for all of 2010, and you can find them hear at Donewaiting.com first, usually on Friday or Saturday. That’s the first single right up there, titled, appropriately, “Ghost Shirt.” Singer/bandleader/force to be reckoned with Branden Barnett stresses the word “singles,” too; these will be more than demos. About this first one, he says, “I have been listening to a tremendous amount of Television, Pulp and Low Era Bowie and I guess this is what came out.” Barnett also promises to collaborate with other musicians on these singles at least once a month — “to make this a Columbus thing more than just a Ghost Shirt thing.”

As if these dudes (and girl) weren’t busy enough, they’ve also got their first LP coming out, and Bela Koe-Krompecher is resurrecting Anyway Records (Gaunt, New Bomb Turks, The Whiles, Moviola, Greenhorn…) to release it digitally and on vinyl. (Bela says he also plans on working with some other Columbus bands in the somewhat near future…). Domestique is currently being mixed by DJ of St. Moses the Black. Look for that sometime this year. And remember to check Donewaiting.com each week for the next Ghost Shirt single.

(Photo courtesy Meghan Ralston/Photolosophys)