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captains dead will be back sometime tomorrow.?? we are switching hosting companies so there maybe a bit of downtime.

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gregor

photo by wendy lynch

dont have too much time to chit chat cause i gots to get ready for work. only, and hopefully, one more week of this over night bullshit. its really starting to take its toll on my body and my ability to accomplish anything during my waking hours.

firstly, wilco world is accepting pre-orders for sky blue sky and of course there are a whole bunch of cool incentives if you do so. i am personally going to be ordering the cd/tshirt deal which i believe is like 33 bucks. they are also pressing it to 180 gram vinyl, which is pretty fantastic, but the cool thing is is that if you order the vinyl you get the cd too.

secondly, my offering of the evening is a beautiful recording of mark kozelek as sun kil moon performing at the great american music hall in san fran on 4.31.04. the second part of the show will be posted tomorrow.

1. intro

2. grace cathedral park

3. dragonflies/void

4. banter

5. pancho villa

6. admiral fell promises

7. all mixed up

8. new jersey

9. banter

10. trailways

11. find me, ruben olivares

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sadly i have only witnessed built to spill live, once. every time they came around i was either too busy, lazy, drunk, broke, or any random combination to attend. i dont remember much of the performance, but they did kick my ass something fierce. it was like doug martsch firmly grabbed, but not too hard, my nuts for an hour and half and had his way with them. by the end of the evening my soul and my bones were shaking in a way that only my bloody valentine and the truckers have ever accomplished. so the only way i have to even slightly relive that glorious evening is through the random live recordings i have accumulated over the years.

here are the men of buit to spill playing live in detroit on 9.28.06

1. liar

2. the plan

3. goin against your mind

4. distopian dream girl

5. untrustable

6. rearrange

7. traces

8. good old boredom

9. conventional wisdom

10. bomb shelter part 2

11. big dipper

12. carry the zero

13. crowd noise/tuning

14. randy described eternity

conventional wisdom video

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have you guys seen smokin aces as of yet? going in i didnt have much of opinion other than the previews made it look kinda badass, and it doesnt disappoint. in fact, i loved it, even if it features my arch nemesis, jeremy piven, as a coked out/has been vegas performer fucktard. why is he my arch nemesis you ask? long story short is that i had three run ins with him and all three encounters were less than cool. the last time took place at the holiday club, in chicago, back in like 1999. he was at the bar with some leggy blonde, i went to say hello and shake his hand when he pulled away and acted as if he was like a ninja. he flailed his arms in a circular fashion and screamed something about a cigar - this was not done in a comedic way either. at that point i just turned and walked away. still, my distaste for mr piven didnt take away from the fact that smokin aces is pretty great.

kevin barnes is a complicated man to say the least. up until of montreal’s latest and greatest release hissing fauna are you the destroyer i never paid too much attention to the lyrical content. i mean i listened and sang along but never picked up on the running themes of isolation and despair that seemingly run through most of their/his records. they are easy to pass over because of his incorporation/fascination of that damn catchy 60’s pop/psychedelia. this new found level of the onion or of montreal as it were makes listening more like sitting in on a therapy session than just a happy little sing a long for 45 or so minutes. one of the paste reviewers said of hissing fauna that, i am paraphrasing here, its “the most fun while wrestling with somebody else’s demons.” that pretty much sums up the experience, and its a grand experience. he’s definitely gone in a more disjointed musical direction but i think it helps create a landscape that is more intune with the severity of the subject manner. hissing fauna is the sound of man and his music that both sound as if they could come undone at any moment.

here they are performing at the wonder ballroom on 2.6.07 in portland, or.

this can now be found here

1. Verdi intro > Suffer for Fashion

2. Sink the Seine

3. Pussy Freak

4. Faberge Falls For Shuggie

5. I Was Never Young

6. Cato as a Pun

7. Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse

8. talking

9. Climb the Ladder

10. Chrissy Kiss the Corpse

11. Labyrinthian Pomp

12. She’s a Rejector> We Were Born Mutants Again with Leafling

13. October is Eternal

14. I Was a Landscape in Your Dream

15. Bunny Ain’t No Kind of Rider

16. Gronlandic Edit

17. A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger

18. Oslo in the Summertime

19. The Party’s Crashing Us

20. Rapture Rapes the Muses

21. encore break

22. Tropical Iceland

23. Requiem for OMM2

24. Forecast Fascist Future

buy of montreal stuff on

worst band name in history, or at least pretty damn close. kiss the anus of a black cat hail which from gent, belguim is the brain child of stef heeren. i am hoping that the name is derived from some regional inside joke. oddly enough their name aptly fits the music. its an interesting blend of arcade fire style emotional outcries, and an even more apocalyptic version of david eugene edwards work with woven hand. their new record an interlude to the outermost was released a couple of weeks ago and i am unsure if its available anywhere but i am sure you can purchase it directly through his site.

the firesky

a scatter brain sings…

woven hand

sparrow falls

bleary eyed duty

white bird

here is the remainder of the bowie show from st. louis

15. we prick you

16. joe the lion

17. a small plot of land

18. reptile

19. nite flights

20. under pressure

21. teenage wildlife

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i make zero excuses to the fact that i watch american idol, but thank god i missed last evenings performance. i probably would have tore my randy jackson/journey poster off my wall in a fit of unadulterated/blind rage after seeing the newest contestant inspired ford commercial.