Wednesday, January 22nd, 2003
Yo La Tengo is coming to Canada in April. Details forthcoming. They also have copies of their The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science available on their website for $10 US, way cheaper than how much it is in stores up here. I may have to order me up one.
It appears that we will be getting to perform at a Wavelength sometime in the upcoming months, it’s just a matter of scheduling. This is very exciting, and also means we need to get our shit together lickety-split. Hmm, maybe I shouldn’t use the words ‘shit’ and ‘lick’ in the same sentence. This also means that we’ll need some sort of photo for the monthly zine… hopefully I will have better hair than the toque-head I am sporting today.
np – Mogwai / Rock Action
Tuesday, January 21st, 2003
Slow day. Spent most of this evening researching guitar tuners. I need a new one, so, uh, I did some research. About what was out there and how much they cost. Y’know. Yeah, told you it was a slow day.
Cold day, too, but that doesn’t really merit further exposition.
New music find – Rilo Kiley got a writeup in the new Magnet. A couple sample tracks on their website and I am hooked.
New Rainer Maria came out today – Long Knives Drawn. Caitlin is all glammed up in their new promo photos. Their label has put together a promotional website for the album, with it’s own URL and everything. Fancy. www.longknivesdrawn.com.
np – Unrest / Perfect Teeth
Tuesday, January 21st, 2003
This is juvenile, offensive, cliched and quite possibly the funniest thing I’ve found online in a long long time.
The Get-Up Kids have been kidnapped by Steven Tyler and made his sex slaves, and you must lead a rag-tag band of emo boys to rescue them, battling Creed, Weezer and Courtney Love along the way.
The Emo Game
(link from the latest issue of Magnet)
Monday, January 20th, 2003
The lineup for the Wavelength 3rd Anniversary show is looking pretty interesting. Do Make Say Think at Lee’s on Thursday February 13 and + / – on the 14th, among many others. I think I should try and make some of these shows.
The Big Takeover is reporting that Idlewild will finally be releasing The Remote Part in North America in March, and that will coincide with a tour. Hooray!
Monday, January 20th, 2003
Gads. Getting back into the rock is both tiring and tough on the fingertips. Any callouses I had have apparently gotten soft and ineffective, cause my digits is sore. But it’s good to suffer for your art, or so I’m told. Rehearsals go well, I think we’ve shaken the rust of inactivity off and are ready to move forward. We’re getting more adventurous with our arrangements, and in a sonically pleasing way, I think and I hope. Putting together the core of a set and then we’ll keep adding to our repetioire – before you know it, we’ll actually be able to add and remove songs from the set at our leisure, and without needing four weeks of practice time beforehand! I’m now pestering Brad and Seventeen to start beating the bushes to get us some shows. I figure we won’t get anything before late March or April anyway, which is lots of time to get this beast fighting fit. Yessir.
Got the new issue of Magnet today, it’s the 2002 in review issue with Mr. Tom Petty on the cover. I love this magazine but it’s such a quick read, I’m usually done within a day or two. I wish they’d go monthly.
Cool site – The Covers Project is a database of cover songs, noting both songs that bands have covered as well as other bands which have covered a given band’s songs. Brilliant, especially for covers fans like myself. The only problem is that tracking down most of these songs is probably nigh impossible. Thanks to Catbirdseat for the link.
Homestar Runner has been down all day due to excessive bandwidth consumption. What’s especially distressing is the message I’m getting, which is a Yahoo placeholder page stating that the URL is no longer valid! It’s been confirmed that this is only temporary, and I will get to see this week’s Strong Bad email soon enough, but gaaaaaah. Gaaaaaah, I say.
np – Death Cab For Cutie / Something About Airplanes
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