so i'm back from the three-day musical overload of Austin City Limits and my body is revolting. you'd think with all the walking and sweating and fresh air and organic fest food that my body would be happy? well, maybe parts of it are - i know my eyes and ears are joyous. the rest of me seems pretty pissed off, but that might have something to do with the 30+ hours driving in the car both ways

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  Cat Power

so, i'm gearing up for my weeklong Austin City Limits festival vacation-a-palooza. loading way too much music onto my iPod and buying albums of bands i'll see there. admittedly, i'm a late bloomer when it comes to Chan Marshall. living in Atlanta, she used to play at Edie's Attic in East Atlanta all the time. i'd heard random snippets here and there, spanning years, but i'd never put one and o

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so i bought tickets to the Austin City Limits festival today. i'm a bit late to the party, so it cost me an arm and a leg. but a friend and i are going to go and i'm looking forward to seeing some great bands: damien 'jr. gong' marley, massive attack, the raconteurs, mishka, willie nelson, cat power, van morrison, kings of leon, g. love, flaming lips, tom petty & the heartbreakers, and many more

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  Spoon

holy christ. alright, so Merge records just remastered and re-released Spoon's first LP and EP (Telephono and Soft Effects, respectively). i had to order it through their website and have it shipped to me. so i've had it in rotation for just about a day and it's so damned good i want to know if Daniels and Eno are robots designed by an interplanetary species to rock my fucking socks off. well,

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