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Cat Power's return to Australia:
MAY
Tuesday 10th: Brisbane Convention Centre with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Thursday 12th: Bulli, Heritage Hotel (headline)
Saturday 14th: Sydney, @ Newtown (headline)
Sunday 15th: Sydney, Luna Park Big Top with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Monday 16th: Sydney, Luna Park Big Top with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Tuesday 17th: Melbourne, Northcote Social Club
Thursday 19th: Hepburn Springs Palais
Friday 20th: Melbourne Festival Hall with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Highlight upcoming In Studio guests on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic:
Eels - Monday, May 9
Aimee Mann - Wednesday, May 4

Recent performances available in stream (Real audio or Real video):
The Decemberists
Beck
M. Ward
Kathleen Edwards
Stars
Bloc Party
Ben Lee
Smoosh
Arcade Fire
(former The John Spencer) Blues Explosion
Jesse Sykes and Phil Wandscher
Wilco
Le Tigre
Willy Mason

Highlight upcoming In Studio guests on KEXP - 90.3 Seattle:
British Sea Power Thursday April 28
Damon & Naomi Saturday April 30
The Raveonettes Saturday May 7
Stephen Malkmus Tuesday May 24
Of Montreal Friday May 27

Some recent performances available in stream:
Jesse Sykes
Damien Jurado
Stars
Ben Lee
The Kills
The 22-20's
Graham Coxon
The Decemberists
M. Ward
Kings Of Convenience
Tegan and Sara

Here are releases in 2005 I'd like to call your attention to. In no particular order:

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Yo La Tengo - Prisoners Of Love
The Mars Volta - Francis the Mute
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, Its Morning
Kasabian
Interpol - Slow Hands /Evil / C'Mere
Brazilian Girls - Brazilian Girls
Death Cab for Cutie - The John Byrd EP (their last Barsuk release)
Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
Beck - Guero (back to the origins)
Iron and Wine - Woman King EP
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
Vic Chesnutt - Ghetto Bells
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - B-Sides & Rarities
Snow Patrol - The Trip
Kathleen Edwards - Back to Me
Flaming Lips - LateNightTales
Dead Meadow - Feathers
Doves - Some Cities
Mogwai - Government Commissions
Damon and Naomi - The Earth Is Blue (after 5 years, it's something to celebrate)
Willy Mason - Where the Humans Eat (kids doing it -not THAT- right)
Idlewild - Warnings / Promises

to be continued

Today I listened to Luscious Jackson playing "Let It Snow" on woxy.com, saw a bunch of good (and recently released, I might add) CD's and DVD's at affordable prices on the net and Launch.com has M. Ward in their archives, I actually had the chance to hear "One Life Away" just now. Is the world becoming a better place after all?

As soon as I have non-working brain cells: just-released CD's I recommend, even if i didn't listen to some.

Hard-Headed Woman: A Celebration of Wanda Jackson

1. Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad - Carolyn Mark & The Room-Mates
2. Sticks and Stones - Nora O'Connor
3. Funnel of Love - Asylum Street Spankers
4. Box It Came In - Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel
5. Right or Wrong - Kelly Hogan
6. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man - Neko Case
7. Tears at the Grand Ol' Opry - Robbie Fulks
8. Weary Blues from Waiting - Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
9. This Gun Don't Care Who It Shoots - Cornell Hurd Band
10. In the Middle of a Heartache - Rosie Flores
11. Rock Your Baby - Candye Kane
12. Fujiama Mama - Trailer Bride
13. One Day at a Time - Jane Baxter Miller
14. Let's Have a Party - Wayne "The Train" Hancock
15. This Should Go On Forever - Kristi Rose
16. Wasted - Laura Cantrell
17. Cool Love - Kim Lenz
18. Kickin' Our Hearts Around - The Bottle Rockets
19. If You Don't Somebody Else Will - The Ranch Girls & Their Ragtime Wranglers
20. Why I'm Walking - Gina Lee
21. Both Sides of the Line - Jesse Dayton

Poor Boy: Songs of Nick Drake

1. Cello Song - Bill Horist
2. Clothes of Sand - Kate Hammett-Vaughan
3. One of These Things First - Chris Gestrin
4. Three Hours - Chris Gestrin
5. Hanging on a Star - Veda Hille
6. For Nick/Horn/Know
7. Poor Boy - Kate Hammett-Vaughan
8. Fly - Mike Dumovich
9. Parasite - Friendly Science Orchestra
10. Road - Veda Hille
11. Things Behind the Sun - Bill Horist
12. River Man - Jesse Sykes
13. Black Eyed Dog - Eyvind Kang
14. From the Morning - Mike Dumovich

Matador at Fifteen

Disc: 1
1. Pretty Girls Make Graves - This Is Our Emergency
2. Interpol - Obstacle 1
3. The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed
4. Mission Of Burma - Dirt
5. Cat Power - Free
6. Stephen Malkmus - Church On White
7. Yo La Tengo - Don't Have To Be So Sad
8. Cornelius - Drop
9. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Money Rock'n'Roll
10. Dead Meadow - The Whirlings
11. Guided By Voices - My Kind Of Soldier
12. Preston School Of Industry - Caught In The Rain
13. Bardo Pond - Inside
14. Seachange - Forty Nights
15. Belle and Sebastian - Don't Leave The Light On Baby
16. Thalia Zedek - 1926
17. Matmos - For The Trees
18. Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak

Disc: 2
1. The New Pornographers - Graceland
2. Interpol - Specialist
3. Pretty Girls Make Graves - C-30 C-60 C-90 GO!
4. M. Ward - Duet For Guitars #1
5. Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - It Kills
6. Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak (Boom Bip Remix)
7. Dead Meadow - Everything's Going On (Alternate Version)
8. Yo La Tengo - Deeper Into Movies (Acoustic Version)
9. Mission Of Burma - Fame & Fortune (Live)
10. Guided By Voices - Free Of This World
11. Cat Power - The Party
12. Seachange - Seven Calls
13. Preston School Of Industry - Tone It Down (Pablo Wong Remix)
14. A.C. Newman - Homemade Bombs In The Afternoon
15. Matmos - Cymbals & Aspirin (A Breakthrough In Pain Relief)
16. Cornelius - Wataridori

Disc: 3
1. Mogwai - Stanley Kubrick
2. Pavement - Spit On A Stranger
3. Mary Timony - Dr. Cat
4. The Wisdom of Harry - Ladies & Gentlemen (In The Woods)
5. Stephen Malkmus - Discretion Grove
6. Cornelius - I Hate Hate
7. The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed
8. Interpol - PDA
9. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - She Said
10. Cat Power - He War
11. Pretty Girls Make Graves - This Is Our Emergency
12. Matmos - Stars and Stripes Forever

Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered

1. My Life Is Starting Over Again/Teenage Fanclub with Jad Fair
2. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievience/Clem Snide
3. Impossible Love/Gordon Gano
4. Living Life/Eels
5. Walking The Cow/T.V. On The Radio
6. Good Morning You/The Rabbit
7. Sorry Entertainer/Calvin Johnson
8. Devil Town/Bright Eyes
9. Dream Scream/Death Cab For Cutie
10. True Love Will Find You In The End/Beck
11. Go/Sparklehorse w/ Flaming Lips
12. Blue Clouds/Mercury Rev
13. Love Not Dead/Thistle
14. Like A Monkey In The Zoo/Vic Chesnutt
15. Dead Lovers Twisted Heart/Starlight Mints
16. Story Of An Artist/M. Ward
17. The Sun Shines Down On Me/Guster
18. King Kong/Tom Waits

Old Enough 2 Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Records

Disc: 1
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex
2. Superchunk - Cool
3. Butterglory - She's Got The Akshun!
4. 3D's - Beautiful Things
5. East River Pipe - Shiny Shiny Pimpmobile
6. The Clientele - (I Want You) More Than Ever
7. Guv'ner - Break A Promise
8. Lambchop - Your Fucking Sunny Day
9. Pram - Track Of The Cat
10. Polvo - Tragic Carpet Ride
11. The Magnetic Fields - Long Vermont Roads
12. Portastatic - Noisy Night
13. Buzzcocks - Jerk
14. Spent - Excuse Me While I Drink Myself To Death
15. Rock*A*Teens - Hwy R
16. Ganger - Cats Dogs & Babies Jaws
17. Beatnik Filmstars - Now I'm A Millionaire
18. The Ashley Stove - Dancing Music
19. Breadwinner - Exploder
20. Pipe - Chula
21. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Mistakes & Regrets

Disc: 2
1. Spoon - Anything You Want
2. The Ladybug Transistor - Oceans In The Hall
3. M. Ward - Outta My Head
4. Versus - Eskimo
5. Third Eye Foundation - In Bristol With A Pistol
6. Imperial Teen - Ivanka
7. Bricks - A History of Lies
8. Matt Suggs - Where's Your Patience Dear?
9. Annie Hayden - Slip Is Showing
10. David Kilgour - Today Is Gonna Be Mine
11. Seaweed - Thru The Window
12. Erectus Monotone - Old New
13. Destroyer - Modern Painters
14. Paul Burch - Isolda
15. Mad Scene - Spilled Oranges
16. The Essex Green - Late Great Cassiopia
17. The Karl Hendricks Trio - Naked And High On Drugs
18. The Rosebuds - What Can I Do?
19. The Clean - E Motel
20. The Music Tapes - An Orchestration's Overture
21. Spaceheads - Angel Station
22. Orchistration's Overture - Music Tapes
23. Angel Station - Spaceheads

Disc: 3
1. M. Ward - One More Goodbye
2. Angels Of Epistemology - Fiction Romance
3. The Radar Brothers - Painted Forest Fire
4. Portastatic - Some Small History
5. The Ladybug Transistor - Jersey Streets
6. Camera Obscura - San Francisco Song
7. Shark Quest - Monsters
8. East River Pipe - Chrystal Queen
9. The Essex Green - Mendicino
10. The Clientele - Where The Universes Are
11. Richard Buckner - Dogwood
12. The Rosebuds - Happily Ever After
13. Crooked Fingers - La Maleta Fea
14. Spent - Corvette Summer
15. Spoon - Decora
16. Destroyer - Streethawk II
17. Lambchop - The Gap In My Education (Berman)
18. Superchunk - Freaks In Charge
19. David Kilgour - On The Outside

My newest obsession, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, also made a lot lately, and no sign of stopping.
Touring all over the Northern hemisphere AND w/ the whole band, some gigs for free. Performance on KEXP, Nick Drake's "River Man" cover on a tribute, Hank Williams' "Weary Blues From Waiting" cover on a compilation.

M. Ward dearest, whose new album is as lovely as is full of guests, has even made a Beach Boys cover, hasn't stopped working on a few other projects, which includes appearances on both Matador and Merge 15th anniversaries compilations (both real good), a tribute to Daniel Johnston, singing "Story Of An Artist". I can't forget to mention he also played on KEXP - Seattle radio station - last March 14th. Guess that's it.

Latest cover songs (I've heard of):
*Wolf Among Wolves (Bonnie "Prince" Billy)
*Hello Mr. Soul (played on Neil Young's Tribute)
*I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (White Stripes)

New album might come out yet this year, though news about it have stopped quite a while ago. as a die hard fan, I'll stay tuned.

Hope u're ready for the update. In this section, news on the blog itself:
*no more comments. people have always preffered to use the e-mail anyway.
*the e-mail is still on.
*updates will most likely happen on weekends.