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Upcoming shows I'm likely to be at:

08-24 Cars Can Be Blue The Note
08-27 Utah Phillips Old Town School
09-08 Touch & Go Anvsry Hideout
09-09 Touch & Go Anvsry Hideout
09-10 Touch & Go Anvsry Hideout
09-10 Smog Old Town School
09-13 Nouvelle Vague Metro
09-14 Richard Buckner Schuba's
09-15 French Kicks Double Door
09-16 Mountain Goats Empty Bottle
09-16 Someone Still Loves You... Double Door
10-05 Minus the Bear Logan Square Auditorium
10-06 The Long Winters Subterranean
10-09 TV on the Radio Metro
10-13 Say Hi To Your Mom Schuba's
10-19 Make Believe Subterranean
10-23 Figurines Schuba's
10-26 The Hold Steady Metro
11-11 The Decemberists Riviera Theater
12-08 Low Old Town School

Recently added to my iPod:

Alan Sparhawk-Solo Guitar
Blood Meridian-Kick Up the Dust
Buell Kazee-Buell Kazee: Sings and Plays
The Carter Family-Anchored In Love
The Decemberists-The Crane Wife
Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley-Original Folkways
I'm From Barcelona-Let Me Introduce My Friends
Nouvelle Vague-Bande A Part
Pelle Carlberg-Go To Hell, Miss Rydell
Pete Seeger-American Industrial Ballads
Pete Seeger-Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Fishes
Roscoe Holcomb-The High Lonesome Sound
Say Hi To Your Mom-Impeccable Blahs
So Many Dynamos-When I Explode
Utah Phillips-We Have Fed You All...
Various-Altamont: Black Stringband Music
Various-Don't Mourn, Organize!
Various-Mountain Music Of Kentucky
Various-Southern Journey, Vol. 1
Woody Guthrie-Hard Travelin'

Gary Numan

Gary Numan played a show to a small sold out room full of digital cameras. Check out my photo and video from the concert.

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Podcast #35 and things start to feel normal again. Listen for new music from Pelle Carlberg, So Many Dynamos, The Robot Ate Me, Hot Chip, Augie March, Judah Johnson, & Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint.

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T.J. Lipple of Aloha

Aloha brought its mesmerizing energy to Chicago on August 20th. Check out my photos and video of the band and openers The Eternals (ex Trenchmouth) and Rahim.

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Podcast #34 is making up for lost time with new tracks from Tilly and the Wall, The Pipettes, Against Lupa, TV on the Radio, Thom Yorke, Stars of Track and Field, & The Decemberists

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Podcast #33 happened sometime between Boston and Europe, and the hodgepodge of sytles reflect that instability. Music from The Rogers Sisters, Cracker, Lansing-Dreiden, The Fairline Parkway, AFI, DAT politics, & Bardo Pond.

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Podcast #32 is a belated return with music from Harris, Mission Of Burma, Baker, Neko Case, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Cock Sparrer, & The Black Heart Procession.

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Josh Grier of Tapes 'n Tapes

On June 5th the ringing sound of righteous indie rock drowned out the hype machine and silenced the naysayers. Check out the photos and video of the Tapes 'n Tapes, Figurines & Cold War Kids.

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Eric Elbogen is Say Hi To Your Mom

A schizophrenic bill eventually gave way to a stunning performance by Brooklyn's Say Hi To Your Mom. Check out my photos from this May 27th show featuring SHTYM and openers Age Rings, Duresse, & Auto Interiors.

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Mike Nastri of Harris

Boston's indie rock scene never looked so bright. Check out my photos and video of this May 26th show featuring Harris, Scamper, Baker and Canadian interlopers Hospital Grade.

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