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The Replacements Talent Show Live

A very cool live performance of “Talent Show” by the Replacements at the “International Rock Awards.”

Even the logo is inspiring…

From the Marin Independent Journal, How Grateful Dead came together again for Obama fundraiser.

I’ve known hundreds of musicians over the years… finally one of them put out something decent.

I Like Food, Food Tastes Good: In the Kitchen With Your Favorite Bands is a new food book featuring some tasty recipes from your favorite indie bands including Nada Surf, matt pond PA, They Might Be Giants, The Hold Steady and more. This actually looks pretty cool, it’s on my Amazon favorites, buy it for me.

Via New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/daily/food/2007/04/rock_star_recipes.html

Two mighty albums released this year make a reference to Himmler…

The Shins – Australia

Dare to be one of us girl
Faced with the android’s conundrum
I felt like I should just cry
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin
Yeah Himmler in your coat you don’t know how long I’ve been
Watching the lantern dim starved of oxygen
So give me your hand and let’s jump out the window

The Tragically Hip – World Container

There’s a world container with your name on it
and a billion ways to go berserk
when the country quits on you
it must be dinner
and the Himmler on this one is, there’s no dessert
(he’s the one who couldn’t imagine
all the people living life in peace, yoo hoo oo oo oo)

So why Himmler? Heinrich Himmler was a prominent member of the Nazi party and primarily responsible for the entire Holocaust (as organizer). The “Himmler” on his story is that the British captured him but committed suicide before he could be put on trial at Nuremberg.

Not sure if anyone saw this but someone posted the mp3s from those Velvet Underground acetates that were found and put on eBay recently. Apparently they sound pretty good.

Grab them here.

Here is how it all happened (with pic goodness). This one has a picture of the actual acetate and it’s really wild to see 4-25-66 written on it. That’s over 40 years ago, btw. Wow.

If you use playlists in iTunes to listen to your music, then you may have noticed that it is impossible to delete a song while viewing the playlist. You might need to delete a lost song or just to remove a song you are too embarrassed to even have on your computer (where did that Wham! song come from anyway?).

I discovered a keyboard shortcut that allows you to do this, simply press control-shift-delete after the selecting the song(s) you want to delete. That’s it, hope it’s helpful for you.

For some reason, I had Zevon’s “Lawyers, Guns and Money” in my head so I poked around YouTube to see what they had. I was not let down. We always hear Warren this time of year (“Werewolves of London” for Halloween) but he really was an incredible songwriter who left us well before his time. Thankfully, Letterman had him on many, many times.

Enjoy…

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