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Monday, May 5, 2008

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Watchmen, for about the 200th time. David Hajdu, The Ten-Cent Plague. The Count of Monte Cristo. Chinese Propaganda Posters, finally reissued. Planet of the Apes. Rush live! Tyga feat. Travis McCoy, “Coconut Juice.” My bike wheels. Vaselines live! McCarren Pool. Dennis Wilson. Black Kids. Beck, Odelay reissue. Billy Joel live! (It was work.) Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes. Lorenzo Ottaviani, Travel Italia: The Golden Age of Italian Travel Posters.

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  • May 6: Portishead
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  • April 22: Ike Reilly and the Jealous Girlfriends
  • April 15: Nick Cave
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  • March 25: Counting Crows
  • March 18: Stephen Malkmus
  • March 11: Nine Inch Nails and Devotchka
  • March 4: Richard Julian and Jaymay
  • Feb. 26: Jim White
  • Feb. 19: Nick Lowe reissue, and Sons & Daughters
  • Feb. 12: KD Lang
  • Feb. 5: Sheryl Crow
  • Jan. 29: Joe Jackson and Vampire Weekend
  • Jan. 22: Cat Power and Liam Finn
  • Jan. 15: Magnetic Fields
  • Jan. 8: Kate Nash
  • Jan. 1: Looking ahead to 2008
  • —2007—
  • Dec. 25: No show
  • Dec. 18: Jesca Hoop, Beirut and Bjork
  • Dec. 11: Spoon and Battles
  • Dec. 4: Jazz and bluegrass box sets
  • Nov. 27: Disaster folk and the Brit Box
  • Nov. 20: ‘I’m Not There’ soundtrack
  • Nov. 13: Aretha Franklin
  • Nov. 6: Levon Helm and Ween
  • Oct. 30: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss and Radiohead
  • Oct. 23: Neil Young
  • Oct. 16: No show
  • Oct. 9: Bettye LaVette and Sharon Jones
  • Oct. 2: Bruce Springsteen
  • Sept. 25: Iron & Wine and José González
  • Sept. 18: Nellie McKay and KT Tunstall
  • Sept. 11: Joe Henry and ‘Wattstax’
  • Sept. 4: Rilo Kiley
  • Aug. 28: Ben Harper and the New Pornographers
  • Aug. 21: Josh Ritter
  • Aug. 14: Linda Thompson
  • Aug. 7: Jesse Harris
  • July 31: Nicole Atkins and They Might Be Giants
  • July 24: Teddy Thompson and Prince
  • July 17: The Magic Numbers and St. Vincent
  • July 10: Spoon and Crowded House
  • July 3: Ryan Adams
  • June 26: Bryan Ferry and Nick Lowe
  • June 19: White Stripes, Polyphonic Spree and Nick Drake
  • June 12: John Doe, Darfur benefit and Bonde do Rôle
  • June 5: Betty Davis reissues
  • May 29: Richard Thompson
 

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