Though now I think we need a festival featuring these musicians...

And Pixies might be the easiest one to get to appear. Two years ago, whoouldathunkit? But yeah, it would have been a killer line up.

Oh, no. I was just trying to prove my indie rawk cred before launching into a Paris Hilton discussion.

Heh. Goths do something similar ("Siouxsie! Bauhaus! The Cure! Christian Death!") before we start discussing whatever vaguely mainstream-ish musical act has caught our attention.

spreads rumor that Jilli likes N*SYNC

spreads rumor that Jilli likes N*SYNC

No no, that's Plei. I like angry emo-pop bands.

Tom, thanks for the link! Now I want to find most of those mash ups!

it's simple: a remix takes one existing song by one artist/band, and reworks that song to sound slightly different; a mash-up takes two different songs by two different artists/bands, and combines them into a completely new song. That's how I explain the difference.

I went with something like that, although you put it more succiently, but it didn't convience her. Monday I'm taking in some mash ups I have so she can hear the difference.

so, I am listening to my first full Guster album. what do people think of them? I'm liking it.

Let me start by saying: Pixies!

As a side note for LA peeps, when the Foo Fighters play here in August (Afoostically, no less), Frank Black will be opening for them one of the two nights they will be playing.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow.

Last 25 from my iTunes

You are the Light - Lone Justice
Interlude (Milo) - Modest Mouse
Little Sister - Dwight Yoakam
I Got to Let You Know - Los Lobos
Pa Pa Pa Palavas - Ben Charest
I Guess I Planted - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft - Babes In Toyland
Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Jerusalem - Sinéad O'Connor
Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix) - Kanye West Feat. Jay-Z
Kick Out the Jams - The Presidents Of The United States Of America
Calvary Cross (Live) - Richard & Linda Thompson
I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Black Gold - Soul Asylum
Ophelia - Vince Gill
Untitled - Mary J. Blige
It's a Long to the Top - AC/DC
Mama Said - Lenny Kravitz
Money Honey - Bay City Rollers
Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon
Dry Your Eyes (Live) - Neil Diamond
Go Home - Barenaked Ladies
The Kaleidoscope Affair - Swing Out Sister
The Rest Of My Life - Sloan
Black Cadillacs - Modest Mouse

so, I am listening to my first full Guster album. what do people think of them?

I heard them for the first time just yesterday. I have to say I wasn't paying any great amount of attention but I can remember thinking "This song is very Elliot Smith-y. This song is very Simon and Garfunkel-y. This song is very ..."

This is for Corwood: Tom Verlaine attempting to teach "Venus" to a clueless Richard Hell:

Part 1: [link]
Part 2: [link]