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WILCO adds more tour dates and mulls over 700 ideas for the next album. Wilco is playing not only ACL Fest, but also Stubbs BBQ in Austin the night beforehand. There's more…
Read MoreWILCO adds more tour dates and mulls over 700 ideas for the next album. Wilco is playing not only ACL Fest, but also Stubbs BBQ in Austin the night beforehand. There's more…
Read MoreWALK THE LINE: The trailer for the Johhny Cash – June Carter biopic is now online in both Windows and Quicktime formats. Although I'm not thrilled with Reese Witherspoon as June, it…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:YOUR FRIDAY TIMEWASTERS: Games made by TONYPA. Pictured above is Starrunner.RETURN OF THE 80's? It seems like bands are starting to mine another decade for inspiration. Waltham, which oddly…
Read MoreLONDON ATTACKED AGAIN: The coverage is being rounded-up at the Counter-terrorism blog.SUFJAN STEVENS' Illinois gets rave reviews from Seattle Weekly and Rolling Stone, fwiw.ON THE PITCHFORK: Wilco to open for the Stones…
Read MoreKATHLEEN EDWARDS: Jam! proclaims this the summer of Kathleen, which is probably better than the summer of George. The article also discusses the breadth of country music in the U.S.: “There appears…
Read MoreSCOTT MORGAN, from Detroit Rock City, started playing garage-punk at age 16 and has played with played with an array of Motor City musicians, including Bob Seger, Iggy Pop, Stooges drummer Scott…
Read MoreSO, HOW WAS YOUR WEEKEND? I GOT A FARMER'S TAN to bring you highly non-exclusive coverage of the Intonation Music Festival held in Chicago, with plenty ‘o’ links to the bands involved.…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE……with the opening of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Newsday gives it 3 1/2 stars, calling it “a Frankenstein monster of arrested development and unresolved childhood conflicts that have…
Read MoreWONKA WEEK CONTINUES with a few more advance reviewsof Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Gannett News Service is generally negative: “There's so much facade at the center of this movie that it…
Read MoreWONKA WEEK, CONTINUED: There still are not many advance reviews of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but most are positive. The Hollywood Reporter: “Here's a film about kids and for kids that…
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