My first show of 2005, Jan. 20

Playlist for my first radio show with Luke coming up:

Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station
Xiu Xiu - I Luv the Valley OH!
The Virgin Prunes - Baby Turns Blue
M.I.A. - Fire Fire
Experimental Dental School - Hideous Dance Attack!
Castanets - Industry & Snow
Dungen - Panda
Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear
Elvis Costello - Redlam
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues
Tom Waits - Alice
Faun Fables - Lightning Rods
Steve Earle - John Walker's Blues
the Fantastic Ooze - GoGo Space Girl
Death From Above 1979 - Sexy Results
Isis - So Did We
Throbbing Gristle - Slug Bait (Southampton)
Wire - Ex-Lion Tamer
Blackouts - Idiot
Rob Sonic - Shoplift
Libretto - Alma Mater
Hanger 18 - Boombox Apocalypse
Interpol - Slow Hands
Autistic Daughters - Spend It On The Enemy (While It Was Raining)
Bright Eyes - I Woke Up


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Coachella setlist has been announced. It's pretty unreal, Bauhaus, New Order, Wilco, Gang of Four, etc. If I can, I'm going to try to make it out. Anyone from NO going? Hit me up and maybe I can steal your way of getting there. Seriously, a cross-country drive is out for the end of April, still got school and work, and a plane ticket doesn't solve anything, 'cause you've got to get from either LA to Indio or Phoenix to Indio. Blast. On a side note, my Coachella predictions turned out pretty well. Kudos to me.

Also, Wilco has announced that they're playing Jazzfest on Friday, April 22. Hopefully, Jeff Tweedy won't get addicted to anything else in the meanwhile and this show will actually happen.

And, finally, Spoon's new record, Gimme Fiction (not The Beast & Dragon Are Adored, as was previously thought) has a release date of May 10, 2005 on Merge. Tracklist:

01 The Beast and Dragon, Adored
02 The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
03 I Turn My Camera On
04 My Mathematical Mind
05 The Delicate Place
06 Sister Jack
07 I Summon You
08 The Infinite Pet
09 Was It You?
10 They Never Got You
11 Merchants of Soul

For those of you who weren't there or didn't know, Britt & Co. previewed a fair number of these at their show at Tips a few months ago - there seemed to be a goodly number of classic Spoon moments, with a bit of the Rolling Stones substituted for the usual Pixies muse. Overall, I must say that I'm looking forward to it. I was most taken with "I Summon You", which has been online for a while. I do wonder how it's going to be presented on record, though; judging by the studio track sheets, viewable on their website (above for link), there's a lot of stuff in each song, handclaps and effects and whatnot. Interesting.