Tonight!

Last Night!

To be honest, last night kind of sucked. The Sox lost and then after arriving at the Black Cat, it turned out that, contrary to what I was told earlier, I was not on The Lemonheads guest list, so Sommer and I decided not to pay $20 to see them play. This Echo & the Bunnymen gig in November has really skewed my concert ticket value system. Those tickets only cost $20, so I keep comparing everything to that total. $20 for The Lemonheads? Not hardly. I'm thinking like $15. $25 for Death Cab? As if.

When I got up this morning, there was an email from the tour mamanger, sent at 2:17 a.m., explaining that he didn't check his email until AFTER the gig. Right, because why in the world would even think about doing it BEFORE the gig? So I didn't get to hear "My Drug Buddy" or "Hannah and Gabi" or anything like that. Did anyone go? How was it? And I also missed Lost, so do not breathe a fucking word of it over here until I spend some quality time with my DVR. I guess no visits to the land of Zunta for me today.

Thankfully Mark Gardener fucking ruled during his short set at the 930 Club. He played about eight songs and had a small but vocal crowd of grizzled shoegazer fans down in front of the stage. He played two Ride songs, "Vapour Trail", which was lovelier than words, and also "In A Different Place". I had seen him once before, playing solo at the Knitting Factory, when I lived in NYC (before I started blogging, if you can believe it), but this time he was backed by another guitar player and a female keyboard/tambourine player that also did backing vocals. Oh, and she sang a song too. The other people on stage really added alot to the songs, filling in all the little flourishes that you rememeber from the records. The keyboardist did the string parts in "Vapour Trail" while the other guitarist filled in the secondary guitar parts, and it was tiggs. Mark Gardener: worth $15! He says he'll be back in December with a full band! w00t! Peep my photos here.

What's causing all the traffic in Houston?

You knows it! Peep the Jackie Christie Collection!

Deadspin crashes the Sports Guy book signing in NYC, which was at...The Riviera Cafe? WTF?

El WaPo disses Dcist yet again. Also under discussion today, isn't the term "web blogger" redundant?

Related: A survey of British taxi drivers, pub landlords and hairdressers -- often seen as barometers of popular trends -- found that nearly 90 percent had no idea what a podcast is and more than 70 percent had never heard of blogging. [via Becca] Silly rabbit, Blogs are for dogs. And pictures of Mr. Pink.

Did Moz re-sign with Sanctuary?

Damon Albarn: We will continue soldiering on (and sucking) without Graham.

Can we start a petition to stop Coldplay from playing "Ring of Fire" ever again? Or is this another sign of the impending apocalypse?

Will you bite the hand that feeds? / Will you chew until it bleeds? What if this whole crusade's a charade? And behind it all there's a price to be paid. For the blood on which we dine, justified in the name of the holy and the divine.

Some links I've been meaning to pass alomg:

Music sampler for The Magic Numbers. I've heard good things about this UK group. Can anyone fill me in?

Watch 10 minutes of footage from the upcoming movie, Dandelion. The soundtrack has Doves, Cat Power and Creeper Lagoon(?!?) on it.

Download the Living Things track Bom Bom Bom. Watch the video.

Go here for that NPR brodcast of the White Stripes/Shins/M Ward gig a few nights back.

Stream the new track from The Subways, the lead track from the new OC Compilation.

Download some MIA Remixes:
"Galang" remixed by that ugly System of a Down dude
"Galang" remixed by Dave Kelly

Head over to Myspace to stream the Elizabethtown soundtrack.

Oasis! Tonight!