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Brett Milano, a Boston music writer and pal, recently interviewed Paul Westerberg for the Rock Band site (”Alex Chilton” is featured on RB2). He dishes on his ode to the Big Star frontman, the “49″ record and a maybe-kiboshed, maybe-not-kiboshed Mats reunion. His son plays Rock Band but not he:
It’s beyond my coordination to hit the buttons.
Here’s the transcipt, and full audio!
“No way. The Norrsten is more your style.”
Wow(ee zowee). A friend emailed us the following link and said, “Am I being PUNK’D?” She loves Pavement *and* IKEA — to the Nth — so when this “Shop with a member of Pavement at IKEA contest” popped up on her pvmnt lstgrp, she lost her plastic-coated shit.
But yes, it’s true. $500 and the caring Queer eye of one of the 90s greatest exports could be yours (member as yet unknown). We just wanna know — are Malkmus or Nastanovich gonna be there to help us put the JÄMSUNDA sideboard together? Cause that’s when you’d really need them.
As the frontman for the New Pornographers, AC Newman’s been stuffing records full of consummate pop arrangements for the better part of a decade. Here comes another one - “Get Guilty” is due Jan. 20 and features cameos by Jon Wurster, Nicole Atkins and Mates of State.
Matador included a preview on their fall sampler, Intended Play. It’s good. Let’s hope Brooklyn and (a New York Times plugged) marriage didn’t dent his mojo and that the balance matches his first solo disc, “Slow Wonder.”
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The whole sampler, which includes tracks by Belle and Sebastian, Lou Reed and Mogwai, is available for download here.
He’s touring in February — the only confirmed date so far is NoisePop in SF the week of Feb. 24.
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For those in Boston, I’ll be DJing at River Gods tonight with Chris Marstall as part of his Tourfilter thang.
We’ll be spinning tunes by bands playing Boston during the next month or so — everything from Wilco, Delta Spirit and Passion Pit to Aimee Mann, Ted Leo and Marissa Nadler. We’ve also got a stash of tix to Mercury Rev, King Khan and The Slip to give away care of LiveNation.
I am on 9-11pm, then Chris comes on. River Gods is at 125 River St, Cambridge, just outside Central Square. They gots good food (til 10), good drink (til 1) and good peoples (always).
Not on Tourfilter yet? If you are a showgoer, TF will be your new best friend. Track your favorite bands, pop em into your iCal, etc.
While I was at Bill Janovitz last night watching Tom Perrotta rock “Powderfinger” on the guitar (dude can type. dude can rock), I was missing this: Wilco on The Colbert Report.
“Wilco is on the show tonight,” Colbert introduced earlier. “Their real fans will listen to the interview on vinyl.”
THE INTERVIEW
NEW SONG, “WILCO”
“Let me try to match your energy…. I think my endochrine system just stopped producing hormones.”
Superchunk of change!
Wow. 200 smackeroos and the overly indulgent, 14-disc 20th Anniversary Merge Box Set can be yours. Looking like there will be some pretty cool stuff on here, and I love that Merge, a great label, is throwing themselves such a cool birthday party but $200 is a bit much to ask of people at this full-crisis mo’ doncha think?
The Merge Covers Album is nearing completion, with the following artists having contributed interpretations of their favorites from the Merge catalogue (and a few more expected):
Ryan Adams
Apples In Stereo
Bright Eyes
Bill Callahan
Laura Cantrell
Death Cab for Cutie
Dirty Projectors
Calvin Johnson
Ted Leo
Les Savy Fav
Barbara Manning
Mountain Goats
The National
New Pornographers
Okkervil River
Quasi
Times New Viking
Tracey Thorn & Jens LekmanThe Merge Remix Album is nearly finished as well, with mixes having been submitted thus far by:
Battles
Caribou
Jason Forrest
Hands Off Cuba
Kieran Hebden (Four Tet)
Junior Boys
John McEntire
Barbara Morgenstern
Mark Robinson
Trey Told ‘Em (Gregg Gillis & Frank Musarra)As previously announced, the full list of curators for the next 12 volumes has been confirmed and is as follows: Amy Poehler, David Byrne, Miranda July, Jonathan Lethem, artist Marcel Dzama, Momofuku chef David Chang, Georgia Hubley of Yo La Tengo, Zach Galifianakis, New Yorker critic/The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross, Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi, and artists Andrea Zittel and Kara Walker.
The entire SCORE! Merge Records: The First 20 Years project will benefit specific charitable causes handpicked by these curators.
Subscribers will receive the sixteen CDs, MRG, and other exclusive content in the mail throughout 2009, Merge’s 20th Anniversary year, as well as a special box to put them all in.
Quantities will be limited to the number of subscribers who enroll prior to the January 2009 delivery of the first two volumes (curated respectively by Peter Buck of R.E.M. and director Phil Morrison).
Those ordering before November 8 will receive the entire collection for $179. After that date, the price will be $199 until pre-orders close in January (exact date TBD).
To subscribe to SCORE! Merge Records: The First 20 Years: http://tinyurl.com/46ha7d
Just wondering… has Michael Cera changed his clothes (specifically that gd sweatshirt) in the last, oh, five years? And the use of the JUNO-brown-paper-bag-coveredschoolbook scrawl is offensive. Bah - I’m just old.
On a better note: Chris Bell’s Speed of Sound opens the soundtrack and it’s nice to see Bishop Allen, former Bostonians (whose moniker’s inspiration is a street one block from my house), getting their due. Some of their shouty, flailing indie pop.
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