Good for him, right? I really expect this to go over like a lead air raid vehicle, especially since Wes Borland isn’t likely to rejoin (Wes and I both, separately, came to the conclusion that Limp Bizkit is a terrible band after we heard 2000’s Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water). So, some time in the future, we may have more Limp Bizkit forced upon us. For his part, Wes Borland has started playing guitar for Marilyn Manson.
The good news is: New Rademacher record!! The ERA ep came out on Tuesday and I’m still an internet-less putz (I’m writing from work right now). They had this to say:
We are really, really, really excited to let you know that we have a new record for sale!!! We recorded it last spring and it is called ERA. It is a little spooky, a little fun. There is some ukelele on it and vocoders and loud guitars.
I’m really freaking excited, too. I just need a chance to listen to it. You lucky Internet persons, however, can do so now!! You can buy it on iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody and more!! There’s links to loads of reviews of it here, I can only tell you I love the band and hope you trust my judgment.
An interesting thing has come to my attention regarding my band, Birds Without, playing at the Avalon on Saturday. It was an exciting prospect from the beginning, playing at a venue where I’d actually been to see a band I’d actually heard of before (I saw Love You Long Time, Dave also saw Eisley there, but I missed that one) and having people in the crowd who didn’t ride there with somebody playing that night, but it just got more exciting. Turns out the show will be taped and available on ComCast’s On Demand Presents Band Wagon LIVE. This is copy/pasted from the Avalon website:
ComCasts On Demand Presents Band Wagon LIVE. They will be filming live tonight at this show! Come show your local music support tonight on ComCast!
Tickets are ten bucks, doors at 6:30, show at 7:00. The lineup will be Going Second, Uncomfortable Silence, Birds Without, The Desert, and our friends in Arienette, with whom we’ve played a few times.
I’m really excited to play this show, guys. We’ve got a few new songs* that we’ve worked out, Dave got a drum kit, so this will be his first show on that instead of the bongos, and we haven’t played in a few weeks, I’m getting the itch (or maybe it’s just this Mountain Dew I had for breakfast).
Anyhow, come out and support us and Arienette and these other fine bands. You can even do it without going to the Avalon (3605 South State Street)! You can watch us at home (at least that’s my understanding of how On Demand works, I’m simple in the ways of cable and satellite teevee).
*”New” here meaning new to me. Ned put a band together so he could play some of his newer, more experimental songs live, and then Dave (Ned’s brother) and Mick (who went to high school with Ned and played bass for him occasionally back then) got Ned interested in all these old songs he wrote in high school. We’re working on rounding out the set, and even with all this old material, we’ve written one song since the band formed as such.
My two favourite piano-based pop singers, Ben Folds and Regina Spektor, will be performing together on tonight’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien. The song, “You Don’t Know Me”, is the first single from Ben’s album Way To Normal, which came out on Tuesday. When I saw Ben back in June, he played a fair number of songs from the new record and I’m really excited for it (yeah, I haven’t heard it yet, even though it’s up in its entirety on his MySpace page, once I get Internets at home I’ll be a much better informed blogger). Somebody make sure to upload that one to YouTube so I can watch it later (I don’t have TV at home, either).
I’ll admit that I don’t normally visit Stereogum. It’s a great source of musical information, but it’s freaking overwhelming. There’s a positive avalanche of content, most of which makes me feel like a bad person for having not listened to the Vampire Weekend album yet, refusing to buy into the National’s hypefest, and for my irrational hatred of Sigur Rós. However I do subscribe to their newsletter and will float over there when something catches my eye (in this case their extensive Bonaroo coverage). One article lead to another lead to me finding this video that I really want to watch but can’t because my computer at work (where I am) is not capable of showing moving things with sound. So I thought I’d do the generous thing and, instead of filing it away (that is, losing it) somewhere in my email, I’d recycle the information and share it with you fine people.
The reasons that I think this video is interesting enough to save for later are these: I’m sure I should like Vampire Weekend, but I don’t yet; I’m baffled that people still acknowledge Andrew W.K.; and I grew up on Tom Petty. These things come together with VW, a few days after their set at Bonaroo, playing Summerstage in New York (an event put on by Mr. Wilkes-Kier). Having only one full album, well, here’s what Stereogum told me:
“Sometimes our sets are on the short side,” Ezra told the crowd. “We played at Bonnaroo where sometimes people play for five hours, and we just edged over one hour, and we were very proud of ourselves. We felt like we had to do something special and we were just in Florida so we thought we would play a song by probably the greatest human being who ever came out of Gainesville, Florida. Some people deride this guy, say that he’s like frat rock or whatever, but he’s a true fucking poet.”
I fully approve, and hope you’re looking forward to this video as much as I am.
Also: Tour Dates!
Jun 21 2008 Popped! Music Festival - Drexel University - Philadelphia, PA
Jun 24 2008 Hove Festival - Arendal, Norway
Jun 25 2008 Accelerator - Stockholm, Sweden
Jun 27-28 2008 Glastonbury Festival - Glastonbury, UK
Jun 29 2008 The Eden Project - Cornwall, UK
Jul 1 2008 Tivoli - Utrecht, Holland
Jul 3 2008 Werchter Festival - Werchter, Belgium
Jul 4 2008 Solidays Festival - Paris, France
Jul 5 2008 Les Eurockeennes Festival - Belfort, France
Jul 6 2008 Main Square Festival - Roubaix, France
Jul 7 2008 Montreaux Jazz Fest / Miles Davis Hall - Montreaux, Switzerland
Jul 8 2008 Turin Spaziale Festival - Turin, Italy
Jul 10 2008 Alive Festival - Lisbon, Portugal
Jul 12 2008 Oxegen Festival - Naas, Ireland
Jul 13 2008 T in the Park - Kinross, Scotland
Jul 19 2008 Pitchfork Festival @ Union Park - Chicago, IL
Jul 20 2008 Rogers Picnic - Toronto, Canada
Jul 25 2008 Capital Hill Block Party - Seattle, WA
Jul 27 2008 Pemberton Festival - Pemberton, BC
Jul 29 2008 Pipeline Cafe - Honolulu, HI
Aug 3 2008 Splendour in the Grass Festival - Byron, New Zealand
Aug 4 2008 Metro - Sydney, Australia
Aug 6 2008 Prince of Wales - Melbourne, Australia
Aug 7 2008 Prince of Wales - Melbourne, Australia
Aug 9 2008 Summer Sonic - Tokyo - Tokyo, Japan
Aug 10 2008 Summer Sonic - Osaka - Osaka, Japan
Aug 22 2008 Reading Festival - Reading, UK
Aug 23 2008 Leeds Festival - Leeds, UK
Sep 13 2008 Monolith Festival - Red Rocks Denver, Colorado
Sep 17 2008 the Wiltern - Los Angeles, CA
Sep 18 2008 the Wiltern - Los Angeles, CA
Sep 23 2008 Rialto - Tucson, AZ
Sep 24 2008 Marquee Theatre - Tempe, AZ
Sep 27 2008 Austin City Limits - Zilker Park Austin, TX
They be from D.C., where my man is from. One cool point. Pretty sweet mp3. Two cool points. Oh, they’re coming to Tampa, okay, thats 3 out of 5. I’m so easy.
JUKEBOX THE GHOST TOUR DATES
6/3 – New York, NY – Blender Theater *
6/5 – Mt. Pleasant, SC – Village Tavern **
6/6 – Athens, GA – Tasty World **
6/7 – Tampa, FL – New World Brewery **
6/8 – West Palm Beach, FL – Dada **
6/9 – Orlando, FL – Backbooth **
6/10 – Melbourne, FL – Melbourne Jaycees **
6/12 – Houston, TX – Rocbar **
6/13 – Austin, TX – The Mohawk **
6/14 – Dallas, TX – House On Swiss **
6/15 – Springfield, MO – Randy Bacon Gallery (w/ SSLYBY) **
6/16 – Cape Girardeau, MO – Port Cape **
6/18 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland **
6/19 – Rochester, NY – Bug Jar **
6/20 – Brooklyn, NY – Union Hall **
6/21 – Westport, CT – Toquet Hall Teen Center **
7/12 – State College, PA – Central PA Festival Of Arts (Allen Street Stage)
An interesting thing has come to my attention regarding my band, 
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