Take a book name, combine with band name. Here's what I came up with in a few minutes:

• Snow Patrol Crash
• The Hunt for Simply Red October
• Barry White Oleander
• About a Badly Drawn Boy
• Cat on a Hot Hot Heat Roof

I don't really keep-up with podcasts, or lately, my RSS feeds and friends list, but when I have taken the time to catch up on a couple of podcasts, I find two music-related podcasts compelling tonics to the general pap of modern music:
NPR's All Songs Considered.

Bob Boilen directs All Things Considered. As part of the show, he's responsible ( Read more... )

It appears all of the lots of really good shows are getting scheduled for June. Which makes up a bit for me not making it to Battles or the Arcade Fire or Flaming Lips or Modest Mouse.

• Tool in Winston Salem, June 13
• Feist in Greensboro, June 14
• Rush @ Walnut Creek, June 20
• Smashing Pumpkins @ the Orange Peel, Asheville (residency) June 23-July ( Read more... )

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iConcertCal, a concert calendar visualizer in iTunes, using the bands in your library. I've already found some new shows I didn't know about:

• Battles -- Mar. 24 @ Local 506
• Trans Am -- April 12 @ Local 506

[Via Kottke.]

Upcoming shows
I've not been to or photographed a show in a little while. Two came up for me to go see and in browsing I came across some others of interest.

• Josh Rouse @ Cat's Cradle -- Jan. 24 (going)
• Yo La Tengo w/ Portastatic || Rosebuds @ Cat's Cradle -- Feb. 5, 6
• Explosions in the Sky @ Cat's Cradle -- March 15 (going)
• TV on the Radio @ ( Read more... )

Kings Barcade's annual Great Cover-up is coming and I wonder, might someone favor us by performing as Oingo Boingo?

• No more dancing at the Weaver Street Market. [Disclosure]
• Depp and Burton. Sweeney Todd. [via Digg]
• The Ditty Bops are cycling cross-country from show-to-show. I want their flag.
• "It's like a microcosm of the Beltway out on the trail." Growing pains and road rage on a DC area cycling trail.

I left work a couple of hours early on Tuesday, March 14 and drove to the closest previously announced Nine Inch Nails tour stop [1] in Richmond, Virginia. Three hours of driving on a beautiful afternoon in the lightest traffic I can ever recall going up I-85 and I-95.

I didn't have a firm idea of where I was going, just a venue name and the ( Read more... )

• Tonight: Night Three of the Great Cover-Up.
• Monday: Rogue Wave @ Local 506
• Wednesday: The American Analog Set @ Wetlands [1]
• March 14: NIN in Richmond, Va. Two nights later in Greenville, SC. [2]

I hope that at any of these shows that I'm not asked allegorical questions by drunk people interested in my camera as happened at The Bravery show in ( Read more... )