Without a Yard

Last night's Cons show was the good times expected - a very cool
contingent of old + new friends coalesced to enjoy the folktified
greatness (far greater than last time I saw'em) of headliners + Jon
Rae + the River….wild weird encounter with emo-tastic sonambulistic
broken Happy Meal toy/moron intermissioned the Constantines set +
spiced things up nice enough…long-ass + somewhat entertaining story
that ended up eclipsing the actual show itself. Circle of life + all
that crap.

Peace
Meegs

It’s a gosh dern shame that the Globe doesn’t post on the web the entirety of (what little) their published music content…The music ’section’ of today’s Review section heaps praise on the loverly Emily Weedon & Delta in the singles section.

Instead of reading, which is so web 1.0 - why not check out their MySpace page & LISTEN to streaming tunes here.

Good ol’ Frank from Chromewaves featured them back when here, too…the pics are real purty.

The homepage sez that April 11th is a big day fer Delta, so heads up on the new EP release party, at Delta’s haunt, The Cameron House….

To work…

meegs

McGill’s copyright & music conference revealed today that a DMCA prioneer….isn’t super thrilled with the outcome….

Extrey Extrey Read all about it - WIPO & DMCA isn’t working out very well….

Asthmatic Kitty night @ Sneaky Dee’s tonight…txt me if yer comin’

Castanets is wicked’n'weird…worth checking out.

peace
meegs

So luck to have run into these guys at the Nellie McKay gig - didn’t look like the typical NM fans - but they staked out the kickass perch before we did, so I figured they were there for some other hip hop act afterwards….They were super gracious & let my short ass move in front, we started chatting about the Brooklyn music scene…& they presented a CD w/ a bunch of these artists. Go here & check’em out, it’s a great sampler, dunno how current the web content is…

Wish they’d get a showcase @ NXNE….hint, hint…

Will be locked in a room for 4+hours today, so think of me as you walk free this afternoon….

So I haven’t had much time to recap events, put forward the TSN Turning Points (tho seeing Buck 65 in concert 2 times & meeting him at Flatstock stands out…)of the trip & so on & so forth….because I’m aborn-again worker bee, immersing masself in clients’n'files’n'meetings - oh my. I just saw that Pigeon John is in TO tomorrow night @ El Mo - GROAN. very tempting to relapse’n'fall off the wagon back into the gigging lifestyle….

All in all - it was an amazing experience. Last SXSW I was working full-time, doing the event planning, volunteer coordinating thing, packing & saying goodbyes after a whirlwind stay in the Live Music Capital…

Being at the conference/fest & not working was incredibly different. Tho I couldn’t resist firing off a coupla e-mails & searching for some client-stuff…I did as well as I could to use the BB for nefarious-nerdy purposes only.

Been getting a ton of awesome feedback on the pics. if I wasn’t a lazy bum, I’d flip the Flickr photos to Facebook - but I’m not that ambitious & leery of the insane growth of the FB family…

The photo link is on that flashy badge thingie along the side or riiiiight here.

Also, some super brief snippets from shows can be found hereish.

Anywhoo, hope everything went swimmingly without me. Comforting to see that the centre of the universe is fully functioning and as uptight as ever! Keep on shoegazin’, TO’ians & lemme know if Sebadoh is a go.

Didn’t mean for that to rhyme. Really.

Peace
meegs

p.s. in other music nerd news, check out this story & wonder out loud if it’s another consumer hoseing in the waiting….Who knew that what web 2.0 was missing was ’service charges’???