Things to do in 2009

This will tie a few bands closer together, and create a path to Hanson!

[www.billboard.com] http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/iha-carlos-hanson-schlesinger-form-band-1003...

I was just reading about that. I can't see anyway that album will be listenable.

I don't know, I do love Fountains Of Wayne, and as much as I was never a big Pumpkins fan I always kind of liked James Iha as a musician.

I remain hopeful that it's really just their band and the Hanson kid is only there for the sake of publicity and will have no musical input whatsoever.

On the other hand, I love early Cheap Trick (but think nothing they've done for a very long time has been remarkable), find Fountains of Wayne patchy, think Hanson (and particularly Taylor Hanson) were much better than they were perceived mainly because of the way they were mmarketed and have never heard anything I liked by the Smashing Pumpkins or any of their side projects. And if I had to choose just one of the members to go and see, definitely Mr. Hanson...

If anyone is interested, there's a new Smashing Pumpkins box set of live material from the most recent tour. I don't know the details, but this might be the only way to get the three new band members into the database.

[www.smashingpumpkins.com] http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/pages/news/20th-anniversary-boxset-review

Well, now you can decide for yourselves:

[www.tintedwindowsmusic.com] http://www.tintedwindowsmusic.com/

IMHO: Perfectly average pop song. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing exciting about it, either.

[consequenceofsound.net] http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/03/11/jack-white-gets-himself-a-new-band-call...

Jack White and Alison Mosshart are currently 10 steps apart.

It's available on 7" and iTunes now, so I entered it.

(You can stream both tracks at [www.thedeadweather.com] http://www.thedeadweather.com/ as well.)

New band with Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine) and Boots Riley (The Coup):
[www.myspace.com] http://www.myspace.com/streetsweepermusic

Russell Simins + Dan The Automator:

[www.myspace.com] http://www.myspace.com/menwithoutpants

They're 5 steps apart now.

New album due out in September. Replacement singer William DuVall is 6 steps away from the band at the moment.

[www.vladislavdelay.com] http://www.vladislavdelay.com/site/?page_id=50
With Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic) on electronics, Derek Shirley on double bass, Lucio Capece on saxophones & bass clarinet and Vladislav Delay on drums.

On their debut album they use "Tom Morello / Boots Riley" as the band name and "Street Sweeper Social Club" as the album title:
[bandtoband.com] http://bandtoband.com/index.php?PageField=Wiki&ActionField=var&AlbumIdFi...

Nothing released yet, but it looks like there might be something one day, which would get Hot Chip into the db:

[www.thewire.co.uk] http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/2483/

Linking Conor Oberst to M. Ward (currently 10 steps apart) and providing an easy path to My Morning Jacket:

[pitchfork.com] http://pitchfork.com/news/35603-oberstjamesward-album-confirmed/

Well, this looks like it won't suck:

[pitchfork.com] http://pitchfork.com/news/36118-dave-grohl-josh-homme-and-john-paul-jones-team-u...