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anyone one going to any good shows this summer? I got MMW, and Ween both in brooklyn, and im sure some others shows will pop up

well.. my band is headlining a festival on saturday in Youngstown, oh and then sunday JFJO is playing at the REX.. arts fest has been going on too so I've seen Moe. and Maceo Parker so far.. and YMSB played Hartwood..

not sure what the rest of the summer has in store for me.. I know I'm playing a couple more festivals.. and I'm going to see Counting Crows in August.. but that's about it...

with the baby it's a lot harder to see shows now.. but that's ok..

siren fest down in the hoel they call coney island.

MMJ sometime in september to the BOA pavillion in Boston.

All i can think of but im sure there is one or too more...

i have tickets to see Wilco w/ Bon Iver opening in Charleston, but I'm not sure I can make it because of a wedding.

Athfest (annually the best weekend of the summer) is this weekend, but i'm missing it for a wedding.

Tom Waits is sold out. Wish I could go to that, but I wasn't on the ball.

Basically, I'm off my game this summer, and probably won't see much at all.

JFJO tonight in Fall River! Although it won't officially be summertime until tomorrow, but it will officially be rocking.

Radiohead Aug. 13 in Mansfield, MA

Andrew Bird is opening for Wilco on August 12 in Lenox, MA but I'm not gonna be able to make it 'cuz of work. Bummer.

i caught Tom Petty with Stevie Winwood and MMJ already, think i'm seeing Dr. John on friday
missing Radiohead and every other concert during the summer cause I take out canoe trips all summer long

my (tentative) music schedule

6/19 JFJO @ Narrows
6/22 Stevie Wonder @ Great Woods
6/30 Pearl Jam @ Great Woods
7/12 Moe. @ Maine St Piers
7/19 Spoon @ Lupos
8/2 Newport Folk Fest (Trey, Black crowes, Cat Power, Jim James, She&Him etc)
8/13 Radiohead @ Great Woods
9/6 My Morning Jacket @ BofA Pavilion
9/27 Built To Spill & Dinosaur Jr @ the Orpheum Theatre

plus some local small shows and some of my own shows.

Gonna be a musical summer!

im doing Camp Bisco in July
and Radiohead in Mansfield, MA in August

saw MMJ in Montreal two nights ago already and it was incredible. upcoming:

6/24 - Jose Gonzalez @ Higher Ground
7/6 - Feist @ the Shelburne Musem
8/6 - Radiohead/Grizzly Bear @ Parc Jean-Drapeau
8/12 - Wilco/Andrew Bird @ Tanglewood
8/13 - Radiohead/Grizzly Bear @ Tweeter Center
9/6 - My Morning Jacket @ Bank of America Pavilion
9/20 - Sigur Ros @ somewhere in Montreal

though I'm thinking about getting rid of my tickets to the Mansfield Radiohead show because they're awful seats. row W, which is good, but at the very furthest edge of the venue. seats 1+2. I'll be seeing the band in profile. not good. plus that place is a terrible venue anyway. but then again I'm already going to be in Massachusetts for Wilco the day before anyway so I guess I might as well go anyway if I'm going to be in the same state.

also thinking about going to the Newport Folk Festival still, and/or maybe She & Him in Northampton on July 24. and I'd like to go see Bon Iver somewhere. he's playing in Montreal, and at the MFA in Boston, perhaps I can figure something out.

and yes I have spent a ridiculous amount of money on live music this year. too much money probably. but whatever, what else is worth spending money on?

I have lawn seats for the Mansfield show, so I think I win for worse seats.

so far,

radiohead @ nissan, the monsoon show- amazing in spite of the horrid conditions.

future rock- absolutely horrible, complete waste of a friday night.

black kids/cut copy- most fun i've had at a show in a while.

upcoming shows that interest me, prob won't see them all though...

6/27- hold steady
7/09- early- mighty mighty bosstones/ late- no age
7/18-19-20- whartscape fest feat. beach house, dan deacon, the black dice and many others
7/27- STS9
8/01- baltimore symphony orchestra performing the music of the grateful dead
8/04- return to forever
8/09-10 virgin fest feat. bob dylan, wilco, andrew bird, bloc party, cat power, sharon jones and others
8/12- radiohead
8/16- lettuce and soulive
9/03- my morning jacket (def going, already got tix)
9/05 my morning jacket (def going, already got tix)

Had the pleasure of backstage for Sergio Mendes on sunday

only plans for the rest of the summer are soulive @ the norwalk jazz fest (7/12 i think) & GOTV a stones throw from home

plus incredible local talent and what ever else comes up.

just saw stevie wonder at grant park this past weekend. packed to the gills for one of the greatest.

tim wrote: 7/18-19-20- whartscape fest feat. beach house, dan deacon, the black dice and many others

i really recommend going to this. most of the wham city collective, including dan deacon, are graduates of my college, purchase, that ive seen play many times and are all really fucking fun. also go see fucking MATMOS, beach house, and Jana Hunter play if you go. They're all awesome.

For this summer (all nyc dates)

7/4 - Sonic Youth
7/5 - Blues Control
7/18-19 Matmos
8/2 Vetiver
8/11 - Six Organ of Admittance and Loren Connors

in a fortunate turn of circumstance, i came home to visit my family and friends for a few days and got to see Spoon at Lupo's last night. fucking awesome show, that band is so brilliant I can't get over it. can't decide if that show or MMJ is the best I've seen this year (and can't decide which of those two is the best band of the moment, but it's definitely one of the two).

but yeah. highlights for me were a shiver-inducing, dual-keyboard rendition of The Ghost of You Lingers, a great setlist choice in back-to-back Don't Make Me A Target/My Mathematical Mind, an I Turn My Camera On that had the whole place getting down, and the closing cover of Rocks Off. oh man.