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…they’re playing at the Belmont Army Surplus store as one of their “Renegade” shows peppered in-between their dates with Nine Inch Nails.

Awe-sumb.

Oh damn.

The new iPod will be available in capacities up to 80GB and will be slightly smaller than current color iPods, sources have said. It’s unknown whether Apple will keep the white casing or go with a silver version Think Secret sources spied in January. Contrary to Apple’s initial estimates, iPod nano sales have favored the black units suggesting that Apple may offer another color alongside the iconic white and chrome. (full story)

Apparently only John Densmore of The Doors has his head screwed on straight. Who’da thunk it? This is really ironic when you consider Densmore was the one who really just absolutely hated lead singer Jim Morrison. One would figure that Densmore would take the years of psychic abuse, sells Morrison?s songs on Madison Avenue and take the money and run. So why doesn?t He?

“People lost their virginity to this music, got high for the first time to this music,” Densmore said. “I’ve had people say kids died in Vietnam listening to this music, other people say they know someone who didn’t commit suicide because of this music?. On stage, when we played these songs, they felt mysterious and magic. That’s not for rent.”

That not only sets the Doors apart from the long, long list of classic rock acts that have had their songs licensed for major U.S. commercial campaigns, it also has added considerably to Densmore’s estrangement from former bandmates Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger, a trio that last set eyes on one another in the Los Angeles County Superior Courthouse last year. (full story at The L.A. Times)

Right on, dude. Right on.

For the record, I?ve always hated Manzarek and his bogus hippy-drippy bullshit. I just wanted to get that in.

And the the frizzy-haired one? I have no opinion on him.

I love animation. I love music videos. I love music. But I do not like animated music videos, for the most part.

And lately there seems to be a LOT of them.

Please stop that, thanks.

Kim always gets the best photos, and you know it. Here’s a highlight:

Click here to get all of the pics.

Lots of random junk for you.

• U2 is taking over Conan O’Brien for the entire hour broadcast.
• Fiona Apple is touring the US.
• So is the new INXS.
• Want to hear a new song by The Darkness? Okay.

I found this floating around on a few websites tonight. I’m not actually ON the SubPop mailouts, so I can’t confirm the veracity of this, but here’s some (possibly) exciting news about next year’s ATP Festival:

All Tomorrow’s Parties May 2006, aka The United States of ATP to be curated by our own Mudhoney, The Shins and Sleater-Kinney! Weekend One takes place May 12th-14th, during which Mudhoney, along with the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs and a still-TBA special guest will perform and curate one day each, programming bands/DJ sets and a television channel. Weekend Two takes place May 19th-21st and that weekend Sleater-Kinney, The Shins and Ween will do the same deal. ATP is a remarkably good time, put together the way that every festival should be (and because of the on-site lodging there’s never that annoying trapped-rat feeling so pervasive at most music festivals) and if you can possibly make it, you really, really should. Tickets can be purchased directly through:

http://www.atpfestival.com

Ticket’s CAN’T be purchased now, and there’s no actual info on the ATP official site. The news doesn’t even mention a festival site, but I’m guessing this would be the newest iteration of ATP Pacific in Long Beach, or more likely, a site in the Pacific Northwest in either Seattle or Portland.

update: Looks like it’ll be in Camber Sands, UK.

Everything went really well, thanks to everyone who helped out, attended, help promote, etc.

Time to get to work.

Believe it!

UPDATE: Here’s the scan, from their “Essentials Mix” page:

My little podcast gets some love, how about that?! Now if only it would show up in the iTunes directory!

Donewaiting.com record label Sunken Treasure Records celebrates the release of our first album by The Celebrity Pilots this week in Hoboken and Boston.

The basic details:

Thursday, September 29 – Hoboken, NJ

Maxwell?s 8:30pm

Doug Gillard, Celebrity Pilots, Hero Pattern

Saturday is a big day for us and the NEMO Music Festival in Boston.

Saturday afternoon you’ll get to see me, Robert Duffy, be a panelist on the “Creating Buzz” panel. I’ve never been on a panel before, and I am sure to make a fool of myself.

Here’s the list of people on the panel:

“Creating a Buzz” 1:45-3:15
With: Joseph McCombs, freelance writer, starpolish.com
Karen Lee, Evolution Promotion
Laurie Gail, Waltham/Promo Only
Robert Duffy, Donewaiting.com
Galen Lipin, Planetary
Jordan Tishler, Digital Bear Entertainment
Tony van Veen, Disc Makers

The panel is taking place at Cyclorama at the Boston Center of Performing Arts. It located in Boston’s South End. 539 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116

To be honest, I’m not sure if you need to be a registered NEMO ticket
holder to see the panels or anyone can go.

Later in the evening there will be a Donewaiting.com Showcase at the
Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA. This is a really amazing show we’ve put together, so you better be there:

Doug Gillard 12:45-1:30
Dirty On Purpose 11:30-12:15
Doveman 10:30-11:15
Celebrity Pilots 9:30-10:15
Snowleopards 8:30-9:15

Any NEMO general details can be found at: http://www.nemoboston.com

This is a lot of information, I know. If you plan to be at any of the
events, please be sure to say hello. We’re really excited about all of
this.