Today I got the new Loretta Lynn - the reviews are not wrong. It is wonderful. Very Loretta - with just a wee bit of Jack White. I've listened to it four times - which is amazing considering that today I also got my hands on an unbelievably good soundboard-quality bootleg of the Pixies show in Eugene, OR on 4/28.
It is freakish how - the same - they sound. *Almost* too much the same. It was like listening to an album kind of. Or at least a perfomance from 15 years ago - I mean - they sound just like they did. If nothing else, they are incredibly well rehearsed. As much as there was a sense that there was some passion lacking in their performance - I wanted to cry at how much I can't wait to be in the audience to see them perform. Check out the set list:
Planet of Sound
Caribou
U-Mass
I Bleed
Is She Wired
Gouge Away
Ed is Dead
River Euphrates
Debaser
Crackity Jones
Hey
Monkey Gone to Heaven
Bone Machine
Levitate Me
Blown Away/Nimrod's Son
Here Comes Your Man
Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)
Mr. Grieves/Vamos
Where is My Mind
Gigantic
Tame
In Heaven
Wave of Mutilation
And lots of talking in between songs from both Kim Deal and Frank Black - they honestly seemed to be having fun and enjoying each other.
Two other things - I keep reading really good things about the new Cure album coming out at the end of June. I'm still scared (I haven't heard anything worthy of them since Disintegration). But it's still good to hear positive things.
I also heard another DJ'd mash up of Jay-Z's Black album - except this time it was mixed with Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted instead of the Beatles. Interesting. I forget the name of the DJ.