Vampire Weekend

The prep-punk band Vampire Weekend managed to get themselves a cover on Spin Magazine. Plus, they get to play at Bonnaroo. Vampire Weekend has come a long way in an extremely little amount of time. Also, in that month of Spin (I think it was March) there was an article about Stephen Malckumus of Pavement touring with some other band... I'll have to check that out.

Bonnaroo '08

Well, the lineup has been announced and as dissapointed as most people are I'm actually pretty satisfied. Metallica shouldn't be there, no brainer, but Kanye West... we'll have to see ('cause he is among the most artful artists of the hip-hop crowd). Pearl Jam will be amazing along with B.B. King and My Morning Jacket (holy hell this is great). Then You have Led Zeppelin and while they may not be in the line-up on the website everybody knows by now that they are scheduled to play ('roo spokesperson had no comment... ha ha) because it has been leaking around the internet for a while and is pretty much confirmed. That would actually be very exciting condidering Plant/Krauss will play also. Bonnaroo has done a good job of keeping their "indieness" strong until now but I totally respect that they are trying to expand the range of bands playing. I started going just last year in '07 but didn't camp which I want to do this year. See you at 'Roo.

Raygun Magazine

When I was recently looking through some old, dusty stuff in the basement I happened to come across a huge stack of old Raygun magazines. Pretty cool. Raygun truly was an amazing magazine. I've been reading every single one and as confusing as the misspelled letters and upside down pictures (among other insane things) are they sure do seem to make a strong and clear statement of style and independence among other music magazines of the time. There are articles of the Flaming Lips, Pavement, David Bowie, The New Bomb Turks, and some other strange cool bands. It upsets me that just because they were different (and were making a statement) they were forced by the majority of haters in the population to stop printing great magazines. R.I.P