so i’ve just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list — which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list — and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i’ve [...]

i’ve slowly begun working on the third revision of my personal top 100 albums list. as planned, this year i am making the transition to a one album per artist limit… which has automatically disqualified twenty excellent albums from last year’s list (see below). this has been a hard step for me to take, but [...]

there’s been a lot of great live music in dc this month and it keeps on coming.
old, but still awesome, randy newman is at the strathmore tomorrow night, playing two 45 minute sets. only the cheap sets are left, and they’re nearly gone, so pick em up now if you want in. check out npr [...]

well, i still don’t know what the deal is in terms of my original question (update: yea i do = no go…).. but i do know the encore from that philly show was insane… 12+ minutes of car! with meat puppets and dean ween joining in / taking things over… crazy stuff. check it out [...]

mp3: meat puppets – split myself in two ….. [buy it]
built to spill will be playing perfect from now on in it’s entirety at the 9:30 club tomorrow night and ram’s head in baltimore on wednesday night. that’s cool and everything, but what i really want to know is what the opening act, meat [...]

despite the meager details, doug martsch letting it slip that there may be a new halo benders album sometime in the possibly distant future really tugged at my heart strings… one of which is connected to a 100 watt incandescent bulb buried deep in my chest. doug pulled the string and the bulb — thought [...]

mp3: the halo benders – don’t touch my bikini ……… [buy god don't make no junk]mp3: the halo benders – virginia reel around the fountain …….. [buy the rebels not in]
Paste: Any plans for another solo album or more work with Boise Cover Band?
[Doug] Martsch: Nah, neither of them. But maybe in a year or [...]

mp3: built to spill – in the morning
after admitting perfect from now on would not be my chosen built to spill album to see performed live in its entirety, i was asked what album i’d prefer. the answer, without a doubt, is there’s nothing wrong with love. following the tour announcement, i realized that many [...]

mp3: mission of burma – that’s how i escaped my certain fate [link expired]mission of burma will be playing their 1982 album vs. in its entirety (including the 4 bonus tracks from the reissue) at the black cat on june 28, as part of their tour in support of the recently released “definitive editions” of [...]

mp3: beck – some things last a long time [link expired]more mp3s below….
the cover of the week this week comes thanks to rbally, who recently posted a short acoustic set beck did for kcrw back in 2000, the highlight being beck’s cover of the daniel johnston song “some things last a long time.” the [...]