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Good news to start off with! Belle & Sebastian’s first ever compilation album, a collection of all 25 tracks from the band’s seven Jeepster EPs and singles entitled ‘Push Barman To Open Old Wounds’, will be
released by Jeepster Recordings on May 23rd 2005.

In the UK and Europe the collection will be available in a deluxe casebound double CD package and on limited-edition triple gatefold vinyl.

The album will be released by Matador Records in the US and Canada on
May 24th in the deluxe CD and vinyl editions plus a standard 2CD jewelcase edition. In Japan, Toshiba-EMI will release the album on May 18th in a standard 2CD jewelcase and a ‘semi-domestic’ edition featuring the deluxe casebound packaging with Japanese liner notes.

The complete tracklisting of the album is:

CD1
Dog On Wheels
The State I Am In
String Bean Jean
Belle and Sebastian
Lazy Line Painter Jane
You Made Me Forget My Dreams
A Century Of Elvis
Photo Jenny
A Century Of Fakers
Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie
Beautiful
Put The Book Back On The Shelf

CD2
This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
I Know Where The Summer Goes
The Gate
Slow Graffiti
Legal Man
Judy Is A Dickslap
Winter Wooskie
Jonathan David
Take Your Carriage Clock And Shove It
The Loneliness Of The Middle Distance Runner
I’m Waking Up To Us
I Love My Car
Marx & Engels

Back from SXSW. My laptop is broken, my ears are ringing, and I’m barely awake.

I can’t wait for next year.

At some time between 3 a.m. and 8 a.m., the band?s gear trailer was stolen from outside a house in SE Portland, near the Aladdin Theatre. Heartbreakingly, it housed practically every piece of instrumentation belonging to the Decemberists.

So this is a sort of call to arms; I figure if we get the word out, maybe we all can collectively track it down.

The trailer in question is a WHITE 6′ x 12′ WELLS CARGO trailer. There?s a green ?VT? (as in Vermont) sticker on the side door, among other smaller stickers, a BRITISH FLAG sticker on the front, and a ?NO ON 36′ sticker on the left back door. The license number is U34 8717 (Oregon).

Any information you might have on this, please report to the Portland Police. If you do see it, by all means call 911.

Former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown is taken into police custody after an on-stage melee involving him, a fan, a security guard, and his band. More info here.

I love it when people expose lame corporate attempts at fake blogs.

Having an official blog by a company is a good thing, having a company put together a blog pretending it is real is weak.

Like I said, I wasn?t born yesterday. And 99.99% of the readers that come to this website weren?t either. Don?t give me shit and claim it?s chocolate.

PS. Your website does not work on a mac , nor do you allow the use of firefox to view your website. Go to hell. (continued)

Here is their 2005 watchlist.

I was going to make some sort of mean spirited remark about the quality of Rolling Stone these days, but I just don’t have it in me.

Not much info in this article, but the name of the album is gonna be “X&Y”.

This review from Stephen Slaybaugh put a smile on my face today. To be honest, I don’t know much about the album, but damn this is one pissed off review.

One of the perverse phenomena of recent years has been the rise of the Vice empire. Launched as a magazine endeavor documenting the cultural ephemera of the hip fashionista with a coke-crusted nose-in-the-air attitude, the Montreal company expanded into music, film, books and clothing. Also opening a string of boutiques, Vice?in a twist even more ironic than their fashion sense?is no longer cultural barometer but a self-perpetuating manufacturer of hip commodities, simultaneously digesting and pooping out trends to sell back to the lemmings who eat up this shit.

Perhaps most indicative of their music division?s style-before-substance roster is Death from Above 1979, a duo sporting correctly prescribed haircuts, T-shirts, jeans and even a mustache for good measure.

The band?s debut, You?re a Woman, I?m a Machine, is a turgid farting of prevailing winds, a paper-thin facsimile of vogue guitar scratching and gutter disco beats matched to inane lyrical self-indulgences. Preened as steely and dangerous, this sort of musical masturbation is only scary for its inherent narcissism, and for the fact that?with the right marketing?someone might mistake it for being good.

This just in from The Gorillaz:

It’s official. Gorillaz have completed recording their brand new album. The very first outing for the forthcoming album is said to be happening at this years’ South by South West festival in the USA. Murdoc is rumoured to be taking the album over in person. He said, “I’m hand-delivering this precious baby myself. One slip up and these 15 tracks of gold will be splashed all over the internet faster than you can say ‘bring forward the release date'” We’ll keep you posted on all the latest news on the album release as soon as we have it.

(If anyone sees Mr. Albarn trotting around Austin, please do say hello to him for me. Thanks.)

If you own the latest Wilco album, plop it into your computer and download a free EP.