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The Delgados, the Scottish indie band who’ve been recording for roughly a decade and created the Chemikal Underground label to release both their own records and those of friends, have announced plans to dissolve.

“Their two principal songwriters Emma Pollock and Alun Woodward will be pursuing individual projects and drummer Paul Savage will continue production duties at the band’s Chem19 Studios in Hamilton.”

The fine folks of the donewaiting.com message board are slowly piecing together news and details about Cleveland’s CMJ Music Festival in June.

April 25 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
April 28 Dallas, TX Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie
April 30 Phoenix, AR Glendale Arena
May 2 Los Angeles, CA Pantages Theatre
May 3 Los Angeles, CA Pantages Theatre
May 5 Oakland, CA Oakland Theatre
May 7 Denver, CO Convention Theatre
May 10 St Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
May 11 Chicago, IL Rosemont Theatre
May 14 Fairfax, VA Patriot Center
May 15 Cleveland, OH CSU Convocation Center
May 17 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre
May 19 East Rutherford, NJ The Theater at Continental Airlines Arena
May 20 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre

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In a House committee hearing yesterday, Rep. Lamar Smith [R-TX] and Rep. Howard Berman [D-CA], proposed Congressional action to mandate music file compatibility. If Berman’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he was responsible for introducing the infamous “Hollywood Hacking Bill” that would have given the RI/MPAA carte blanche to hack/disable/destroy any computer they suspected of “sharing illegal files” (more here.) Apple declined to participate in the hearing.

Easytree, perhaps one of the most popular torrent sites around, unexpectedly made its grand exit today:

April 6, 2005, 16:00 GMT

Hello gals and guys,

We’re very sorry having to tell you that we had to shut down EZT just a couple of minutes ago.

We got a call from our provider, they had received a few letters from a couple of lawyers. They requested EZT to be shut down immediately, otherwise we and the hosting service would be sued.

As you may imagine, we do not have the funds to fight a battle we most probably can’t win anyway.

We would like to thank everyone here for their contributions to EZT, one way or the other, for sharing the music, sharing an ideal, for all your mails, rants, praises…

UPDATE: Thanks to new hosting, Easytree lives!

These photos by Kim rule. I’d put a sample up but my Photoshop is being a jerk to me.

Click it to win it.

Our friend DJ Riko’s got a new song that is worth your while:

Here’s a tune that’s part mashup and part cover. I took LCD Soundsystem’s “Daft Punk is Playing at my House” and added reworked lyrics sung by Columbus’s own Gerald A (you might know him under a different name) and Katie Enlow of Chicago, and tossed in a bunch of samples by Parliament and Funkadelic. It was part of the mix I did on London’s XFM last month, and now it’s getting play on KCRW in Los Angeles.

Download the song here. Or tell Riko personally how much you love him in our message board.

It seems that I’m always behind on things when it comes to this site. Either it’s writing up my SXSW reviews, getting new radio shows up, etc. etc. etc., I’m always late. And the loving donewaiting.com audience isn’t afraid to remind me again and again. (winks!)

On top of that, there is a small percentage of people who like to swim around in our message board, reminding me how much I and the site sucks. It doesn’t bother me too much, it’s more annoying than anything else, but still, it takes time away from the real goals of the website.

But then I get an e-mail like this and I’m reminded as to why I do what I do:

Hope things are well with you. The Evil Queens and I want you to be the first to know, especially since you turned me on to the boys. My label Addison Records will be re-releasing The Evil Queens album “First it Boils, Then It Spills” to an unexpecting public sometime at the end of June.

So the way it worked out: I played a new song off the self-released Queens album on one of my podcast/radio shows awhile back. Marc over at Addision hears the song, loves the song, comes to Columbus for the band’s CD release show back in March. Loves their live show. (Who doesn’t?)

A month later, the album goes from being self-released to having a national presence. Granted, I don’t feel that to be successful you have to be ‘signed’ to a label, but to know that the band is going to have some additional support behind them to win over new fans, that really warms my cold, bitter heart.

Congrats to both the Evil Queens and Addison for what will hopefully be a great working relationship.

Random:

— Jacob from the Evil Queens writes up a review of the Cleveland Queens of the Stone Age concert.

— This is cool. Smitshonian Folkways to offer $.99 mp3 downloads without any DRM.

— Pitchfork doesn’t like the new Hot Hot Heat album. Or the new Ben Lee.

— Brooklyn Vegan has posts of LCD Soundsystems live in New York.

Donewaiting.com’s Chip Midnight caught Duran Duran earlier this week and said it was pretty disappointing. His report is complete with sexxxxxy photos.