Cheap Thrills 11.30.05

Knocking the dust off a few MP3s...

• Animal Collective - Grass
• Wolf Parade - You Are A Runner and I am My Father's Son
• Crooked Fingers - Call To Love
• Sufjan Stevens - The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
• Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Let's Boogie to the Elf Dance
• Belle & Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue/Another Sunny Day
• The Subways - Rock and Roll Queen
• Giant Sand - Valley of Rain
• Mark Kozelek - Katy Song/Bubble (both live on BBC6)
• Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You/Breaking The Ice (both unmastered previews)
• Sufjan Stevens - The Fifty States Song (live)
• Arcade Fire - Age Of Consent
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Black Tongue
• Radiohead - Winter Wonderland
• Calexico - Wild Horses
• My Morning Jacket - What A Wonderful Man
• Belle & Sebastian - Another Sunny Day/Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto/Lazy Line Painter Jane/My Wandering Days Are Over/Step Into My Office, Baby/I'm Waking Up To Us
• Ryan Adams - Let It Ride
• The Raveonettes - Seductress of Bums
• The Dead 60's - Riot Radio
• Has Been - William Shatner
• I'd Rather Dance With You - Kings of Conveinience
• John Cale - Turn the Lights On/Hush
• Beck - Untitled Song 2/Shake Shake (Black Tambourine)
• Chocolate Genius - My Mom

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TiVo Alert

Congrats to the Kimmel show for finally breaking their string of weeks without a single decent musical act by having Beck on this Friday. Also, breaking some virgin territory is the Daily Show which will feature a rare musical act... the White Stripes. Will they actually play or is Jon planning to use his hard-hitting interviewing skills to get to the bottom of this whole "Meg and Jack are siblings" thing??

Tuesday - Alanis Morissette (Leno)
Wednesday - The Magic Numbers (Conan), Alanis (Kimmel)
Thursday - Bonnie Raitt (Letterman), Liz Phair (Carson Daly), The White Stripes (The Daily Show)
Friday - The White Stripes (Conan), Beck (Kimmel)

I'm Back!!

Hey gang...

Between the Thanksgiving holiday and a bad sinus infection that I'm still fighting, I haven't been able to spend much time at the computer. But I think I'm on the mend and there's a lot of blogging to do.

Did anyone miss me?

Cheap Thrills 11.22.05

A cool White Stripes "B" side & lots of Ted Leo...

• Rilo Kiley - Love and War
• Bright Eyes - A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace/A Poetic Retelling Of An Unfortunate Seduction/When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass/The Calendar Hung Itself
• The White Stripes - Shelter of Your Arms
• Mountain Goats - Cubs in Five/Cheshire County/Pure Money/Nine Black Poppies/Stars Fell on Alabama
• Arcade Fire - Age of Consent
• The Spinto Band - Direct To Helmet
• The Decemberists - From My Own True Love
• Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Dirty Old Town
• Interpol - Not Even Jail (remix)
• Kathleen Edwards - Back To Me/In State/Copied Keys/Summerlong/6 O'clock News/One More Song the Radio Won't Like/National Steel
• Pretty Girls Make Graves - All Medicated Geniuses
• Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Rider #2/Down To The Valley
• Broken Social Scene - New Country (live)
• The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So/Main Offender/No Pun Intended/Love Is Plaster
• Sonic Youth - Unmade Bed
• Death Cab for Cutie - Jealousy Rides With Me
• Bloc Party - Tulips (club version)
• Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down/If I Was A Carpenter
• Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Building Skycrapers In The Basement/Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone/The High Party/Hearts Of Oak/The Ballad Of The Sin Eater/The Anointed One/Bridges, Squares/The Crane Takes Flight

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The Money Shot 11.22.05

Catching up on the news...

Edge's 'Music Rising' to Help New Orleans Musicians
The Money Shot: "The devastation wrought by the hurricanes of 2005 to the Gulf Coast region has threatened not only the lives and livelihoods of the region's residents, but the area's rich and spirited culture as well," says the Edge. "Providing replacement instruments through Music Rising will not only help thousands of professional musicians affected by the hurricanes to regain a foothold on their future, but will also ensure that one of the Gulf Coast's greatest assets, its music, rises again." (Music Rising website here.)

Coldplay Scalping Their Own Tickets?
The Money Shot: On Saturday, the band launched a special online auction through Ticketmaster.com, which gives fans the chance to bid on pairs of tickets to the first leg of shows on the band's upcoming North American tour. By Monday, the minimum bid on tickets for several shows was already as high as $400, and no bid was lower than $80 for a pair of tickets.

Courtney In Rehab
The Money Shot: She clearly had a dysfunctional relationship with others in her group, who often came to her when they were feeling weak. "I'd sit at a meeting and I'd say I feel like doing blow today and all of a sudden there'd be a line of people that wanted to do drugs with me and it would be like 'Relapse?' 'Let's call Courtney.'"

Sufjan Stevens: The Ultimate Indie?
The Money Shot: 'Corporations are run on principles of greed, and making the most money possible with the least work possible, and I think that's counterproductive to the health of human beings and society,' says Stevens, a half-confident, half-nervous figure with limpid green eyes who manages to seem distracted and deeply attentive at the same time. 'They create wealth but they destroy cultures and families. The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.'

Jeff Tweedy's Not A Control Freak.... Yeah, Riiiiiiiiight.
The Money Shot: I don’t think I ever really had the energy or the interest in really exerting that much control. I mean, I know a lot of people have this idea of that being the case, and there’s certainly elements of truth to that, but one of them is not in being very dictatorial about what I want played.

Coming Attractions - Richard Thompson
The Money Shot: Details are finally coming to light about "RT - The Life and Music of Richard Thompson," which has been in the works for several months. Due Feb. 7 through the U.K.-based independent Free Reed Records and Music label, the five-disc collection set will trace the troubadour's career as a solo artist, with seminal U.K. folk act Fairport Convention, in partnership with ex-wife Linda and in other settings.