Is it me or is this Mates of State cover of I Will Dare really not good?

And I even like the Mates of State.


Mates Of State cover The Replacements

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Video Tuesday: Take me out to the ballpark

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Westerberg plays Target Field

Well, he already did I guess. Boo. According to the Strib:
“The Replacements frontman reserfaced yesterday, and the surface he chose was the turf at Target Field. He was filmed there for an in-the-works documentary “40 Nights of Rock ‘n’ Roll.”

Am I the absolute last to know everything?

Check out the itinerary of the movie. It looks to be fucking awesome.

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Spins 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years

While most of this Spin list made me make that skeptical, smug, judgmental smelled something bad face. U2? Really? God, I hate U2. And I’m a little shocked that The Strokes placed so high (above Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville, seriously do the people at Spin have hearing problems). But, I was pretty stoked to see numbers 15 and 11.

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Color Me Obsessed is looking for Minnesotans to interview

I caught this over at the Color Me Obsessed site today. You know that Color Me Obsessed is the documentary about Replacements fans, right?

We’re heading to Minneapolis for interviews during the first week of June. If you live in the Twin Cities area and would like to talk about the Replacements in front of a camera, send an email.

Go to Color Me Obsessed for more information.

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Glen Campbell & Paul Westerberg collaborating on Glen’s new album

Did y’all see this about Glen Campbell’s new album?

“Meanwhile, Raymond said, “an unbelievable amount of people” wanted to be part of the current project, which will feature all original material. Westerberg wrote the title track, and other collaborators include members of the Dandy Warhols, guitarist Steve Hunter, former Prince cohort Wendy Melvoin and drummer Josh Freese. The album’s release date is pending a label deal.”

Interesting, yes?

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Billie Joe Armstrong Meets Paul Westerberg in April Spin Magazine…

In a series of interviews where today’s artists talk with their own idols, Billie Joe of Green Day talks with PW. Too short article, but Paul seems pretty good-natured about the exchange.

The online version isn’t the full story, but in the print version, the greatest revelation I didn’t know: the misheard lyrics of Bastards: “We are the sons of no one” is actually “Wait on the sons of no one” – Paul says he lifted that phrase from the Bible. Wow! And I thought “Bacon & Cigarettes” was king!

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Westerberg writes about Alex Chilton in the NY Times

Beyond the Box Tops:

“Yeah, December boys got it bad, as “September Gurls” notes. The great Alex Chilton is gone — folk troubadour, blues shouter, master singer, songwriter and guitarist. Someone should write a tune about him. Then again, nah, that would be impossible. Or just plain stupid.”

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Children by the million mourn for Alex Chilton

Alex Chilton has died. Wow. that one punched me right in the gut. There’s a great story of meeting Alex in the comments, you should go read that.

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Video Tuesday: (on Sunday) A Song For Paul Westerberg

Sometimes I feel guilty that this poor site has been dormant for about 38 web-years (or two months in human years). So I was sitting here thinking, I should put some stuff here something, anything. I went to YouTube and I found this. The title (A Song for Paul Westerberg) was not the main reason I post it here. No, it’s the shelf there with Spider-man’s arm around Ernie. That’s why! Enjoy.

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