As many of you know, the legendary Spectrum venue in Philly is going bye-bye after this year. When Springsteen announced four October dates at the Spectrum, my mind immediately started to dream of finally catching a Bruce show at the Spectrum. Unfortunately, with all of my current travel commitments, I don’t think I’ll be making […]
Category: Skipping Cleveland
Mark Knopfler announces spring tour dates
Here’s something that will make many of you smile heading into the weekend – the announcement of spring tour dates from former Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler! Get Lucky (pre-order via Amazon), the new CD from Knopfler, drops in stores on Tuesday. I’m thinkin’ the Ann Arbor date might have my name on it, tagged […]
Pixies announce U.S. “Doolittle” tour dates
Thanks to Annie Zaleski for passing along this super-rad tour news! Unfortunately, no Pixies date for Cleveland means that if you want to see this, you’re going to be road-tripping! But hey, road trips are always awesome! PIXIES ANNOUNCE U.S. “DOOLITTLE” TOUR DATES LOS ANGELES, CA – July 28, 2009 — Europe may get them […]
Concerts, Concerts, CONCERTS!
Before we get going, I’d like to give a quick blog shoutout that is actually more of a public service announcement: John Gorman’s Buzzard Blog has a great piece online now detailing the infamous early history between WMMS and Rush that played a big part in launching the now-legendary Canadian trio. People always want to […]
Blue Rodeo: California or Bust!
You guys all know what a big Blue Rodeo fan I am, right? One of the things that I’ve been looking forward to in the new year is the nearly-certain possibility that I will see Blue Rodeo at least once this year, and hopefully more. One could definitely say that this legendary Canadian group march […]
Santa’s gonna bring me a new Armored Saint album!
Something else to look forward to in 2009…..STOKED!! Hey Rob, you’d better be going to the show in March at the Key Club, or we’re no longer friends!!! 🙂 From the band’s Myspace page: Due to the nature of vague speculation albeit created by your authors here, Armored Saint are officially announcing that they’ve begun […]
Tour Dates: Fountains of Wayne, Duncan Sheik, Tom Morello
A couple of my faves are hitting the road with no Cleveland shows in sight….yet. Fountains of Wayne are in the studio right now working on their next disc, and will break in early 2009 for some full band acoustic dates featuring tunes from the upcoming album, and old favorites. Let me get my request […]
Sarah McLachlan, Broken Headphones, and some other stuff
I’ve been grooving to “U Want Me 2,” one of two new tracks on Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan (pre-order regular or deluxe edition,) McLachlan’s first greatest hits collection, set for release on October 7th. It’s been a long time since McLachlan’s last proper studio album Afterglow in 2003, and long enough that hearing […]
Wilco and Death Cab open for Neil Young this fall + my own personal love letter to cereal.
I meant to blog about a few things at the end of yesterday, but last night ended up being a late night. I had a social engagement after work, and as I was making my exit, I looked at my phone, and I had two missed calls/voicemails to return, in addition to one followup call […]