Eleni Mandell is playing at Davey's Uptown in KC on Saturday, March 28th and Greg is interested in going - in fact, it was his idea! Her new album, "Artificial Fire" is due out tomorrow and yes, of course I pre-ordered it. Last time I saw her was the weekend of March 7, 2003 when me and Jenni went down ( Read more... )

I hesitate to say that I'll never attend another concert again but they're getting fewer and further between. Because damn, I'm getting too old. Witness the Tegan & Sara concert this past Friday night at Sokol Auditorium, Greg and I were probably the oldest peeps there aside from some woman who was there simply to chaperone three pre-teen girls. We ( Read more... )

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Yesterday after work we hauled ass to get downtown by 5:30 to see the Old 97's as advertised only to find out the show didn't start until 6:00. Still it was worth the wait to see the band in that cozy little setting. They only played about four songs including "Dance With Me", "Nineteen", and "The One", first and last off the new ablum. There were ( Read more... )

• May 10th - Dawn Landes - Slowdown
  
• May 20th - Rilo Kiley - Slowdown
  
• June 3rd - Old 97's - Slowdown

It may not happen but I'd love to see all of these. Just found out that Kimya Dawson is at the Waiting Room tomorrow night but we already have plans.

A couple weeks ago I won a Sgt Pepper 1000-piece puzzle off eBay. It was an official Apple Ltd product from England with the full album cover, cheaper than I would have gotten it stateside and the money went to some charity organization or another. I was so excited to see it propped up in front of my door Friday after work. My neighbor, Seneca, ( Read more... )

Jenny Lewis was awesome, as expected, though the evening got off to an ominous start as I was about ready to leave wearing "the skirt" and black heeled boots. While coaxing Miranda to come in, she lost her balance on the stairs where she crashed into me forcing me to loose my footing and we both literally ended up in a tangled heap at the bottom of ( Read more... )

So the day I'd been looking forward to finally arrived. Mid-afternoon Saturday, Heidi picked me up for our pilgrimage to Lincoln to see Jeff Tweedy and other fun. About halfway down we made a pilgrimage of another sort, exiting the interstate literally at a moment's notice and traveling a couple miles off the beaten path to see the Holy Family ( Read more... )