Planet Earth Is Back!

Melissa and I will be womaning a table at the new Planet Earth at Subterranean this Saturday! I'm very excited since it had been a while since I went to Neo for the Thursday nights, but how can you lose with a Saturday night of dancing close to home?

Check it out! Buy tix in advance for $5!

Bonus video: (Is Simon LeBon wearing knickers?)

Editorial: Hooray for the Racounteurs.

If you don't know the story, read this.

Good on these guys! I know I am probably in the minority here, but I do NOT want to hear a leaked copy of an album I am eagerly anticipating. I miss the days of midnight sales that mean something. I am doing my damndest to not listen to the upcoming R.E.M. album. I saw the video for the first single on MTV2 Sunday night, which is fine. I do not want to hear the album until I am looking at a thing that is that new album. It's going to be officially streaming on Facebook, but I'm not going to crack! I like that the Raconteurs are taking such care to get it out to everyone. Okay, so I have to give kudos to Radiohead too. While I'm kudoing, I'll sling some the way of the Black Crowes who got their latest album reviewed by Maxim magazine without sending out a single copy! Wait, back to the Ranconteurs. Take a look at that cover art, that must have taken longer to make than the whole album!

Why Keith Richards is a legend.

"I snorted my father."

Also, on the state of modern music:
"Everyone's a load of crap," he said. "They are trying to be somebody else and they ain't being themselves. Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party? Load of crap, load of crap. Posers, rubbish."

edit: now he's changing his tune. boooo.

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Thank You Indie Record Companies...

that give out a download code when you buy an album on the vinyls. Companies that come to mind are Matador, Touch and Go/Quarterstick, Polyvinyl, Saddle Creek, Merge (did I miss any?). Sub Pop, Drag City, Yep Roc, Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguar: You need to get on board! I imagine there's some kid out there who is going to have this amazing collection of indie rock records of the 2000's and has never actually played the vinyl, just the downloads, like some archaic 12x12 calling card from another dimension from Robert Pollard.