Hi, there's a new Owen Tromans release and deluxe vinyl here: https://sacredgeometryrecs.bandcamp.com/album/no-heart

The Feelies are playing at MASS MoCA on 11/11/11! http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=677

Are you using the Last.fm client and are your ipod plays scrobbling lately? I'm only getting scrobbles for stuff I listen to on my computer.

Pendulous Skin: bumped off the last played spot.

Maybe it's just me but the new National album is the shit.

health is coming to LA. I don't know if they're touring out your way.

put "meathook" into that jawbox mix; that's one of my favorite covers of a Cure song.

I think it was some Morgan and Red Garland. Red Garland is a great pianist...not as much of a tonal ride as Ellington or Monk (especially not like Monk).

that's some nice jazz you've been playing bode.

Tosca in the real world?! There's hope for us yet.

I have not obtained No Hassle as of yet. You are the better man.

You coming out this way for any festivals this summer?

yeah, give it another shot - and if you mostly lose yourself in the guitar interplay while paying scant attention to the admittedly clunky lyrics, you should feel better about it. that's where i found some great moments in Greendale. for the most part I agree with you about the sputtering out of the last decade's releases, though i do prefer Broken Arrow to Mirror Ball.

aw, i have to completely disagree with you on this one. i'm a fan of "Cough Up The Bucks"! it's simple, yes - but that chugging riff and the tossed-off guitar wankery is fantastic. have you seen the video? it's hilarious. and i don't know, but when you throw together in a matter of months a concept album about your electric car and the auto industry that feels timely as hell, you get some allowances on lyrical content from me. it's a damn sight better than "Silver and Gold" or "prairie Wind" or any of that other spineless prattle he's put out in the past decade, that's for sure. i suggest you give the album another try.

which song is the single?

Look how they totally go see The Old 97's in the movie The Breakup. Let's pretend I didn't just admit to watching that.

i owe you an email

Check out the Galipaygos if you like them leave them a shout!

Hum is playing the double door on new years.

You have to help me. I am hopelessly, pathetically obsessed with this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8WP7aOD_9Q Why, oh, why?

you will learn to hate the wigmaster.

It's Yacht Rock-- the true story behind the music... http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=09ADDF8C64A9E84D

You certainly do recognize that mix! (We named it "The Great Sour Cream Spill of '69." I don't know if you remember.) I was wondering if you'd notice. It's still excellent. Kudos! On a related note, remember that "Apple of My Eye" song that I found so annoying? Well, now that I have a baby, I find myself, almost involuntarily, singing it to him! What has happened to me?

http://www.wbma.info/ anchorage, ak. may 23, 2009. be there or be shorn.

i dig it. i'm very much looking forward to seeing them at pitchfork

coming out to chicago anytime this summer for any shows? let me know if so.

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some shady character told me that you, sir, put the bomp in the bomp-shubomp, and the deng in the dengda tang.

i will make you hate the wigmaster.

i have a feeling that show will be a combination of Jackass, the Osbournes, and whatever that tool Bam Margera's show is called...awful.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Chipmunk-Punk

Whoa! The Blank Staves! I hear that guy is such a tool.

surfin bird. i remember you being angrier than i've ever seen you when i made some comments about that song.

we're still neighbors...hey, how about Romney dropping out! His presidential bid dropped like part of the Big Dig's ceiling.

haha... imagine if you'd been scrobbling then! but yeah, i was pretty stunned at how great it was listening to it last night. it'd been a long long time.

Another new picture? Are you going through some sort of identity crisis?

i actually have no idea - lost track of what a lot of those Def Jukies are up to... except for that latest El-P record, which is incredible.

i'm not going to lie. i like it quite a bit. i saw them at the vic, a couple months ago. best show this year for me.

oh man, prepare yourself for that queers show by listening to: 'i only drink bud,' 'see you later fuckface,' and maybe the high class of 'i can't stop farting'

i hope you proceeded to pwn that cup of coffee after you stared it down. Look at how you listened to the cure a bunch this week. it's a tower street connection.

New picture! Yay! Also, Half Japanese. One of these days, I'll start listening to them again.

I have been sick and music listening is the only activity I can handle. Really, it's sad. Also, I like your new coffee considering picture.

The Dambuilders were a Boston band in the 90s, with a violinist before it was cool. (Well, before it was cool again.)

i forgot to make plans. do you think it's too late to order a clown?

I was wondering who the heck Joan as Police Woman was ever since I saw the name on the bill for an Andrew Bird show... Then I saw that you were listening to it, clicked on it, and, lo and behold, it's the violinist from the Dambuilders! Cool!

well, if you enjoy glacial-paced guitar tones that rattle your sternum, along with an array of guest vocalists and an incredible design sense, you should enjoy their records. but if you ever get a chance to see them live, do not pass it up. it is like nothing else i've ever been a part of. just a wall of impenetrable smoke and sound, a literal full-body experience.

wow, you listen to npr via the internet and get infected with some 'liberal bias hating music disease' i demand satisfaction!

WTFOMGRSVP. we're e-friends AND e-neighbors. there's got to be something there. perhaps we should be real friends and roommates to pwn internets?

Welcome back to the world, Bode. But I don't think I believe you about the new MM being listenable. The 2 or 3 songs I've heard have made me want to throw myself off a bridge. Why try to sound like everything else on the radio when you're freakin' *Modest Mouse*?

What do you think of the new Modest Mouse?