Is it me or is this Mates of State cover of I Will Dare really not good?
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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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Tags: 40 Nights of Rock n Roll
Westerberg plays Target Field
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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.
Tags: 40 Nights of Rock n Roll, paul westerberg
Spins 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years
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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.
Tags: lists, the replacements
Color Me Obsessed is looking for Minnesotans to interview
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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
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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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Westerberg writes about Alex Chilton in the NY Times
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“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.”
Tags: Alex Chilton, paul westerberg
Children by the million mourn for Alex Chilton
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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.
- Props for Alex Chilton from the floor of the House by Memphis Democratic Rep Steve Cohen check it on CSPAN.
- The Chicago Reader.
- Dave Lifton of Wings for Wheels.
- CNN’s The Marquee Blog.
- USA Today’s Pop Candy.
- Huffington Post.
- The Guardian UK.
- MTV.
- Rob Sheffield in Rolling Stone.
- NPR.
- Greg Kot in the Chicago Tribune.
- The Washington Post.
- The Onion’s A.V. Club.
- The Wall Street Journal.
- Entertainment Weekly.
- Rolling Stone.
- Tommy Stinson tweets about Alex’s death.
- Jim DeRogatis on Chilton’s death.
- NY Times Art’s Beat Blog on his death.
- Pitchfork.
Tags: Alex Chilton, RIP
Video Tuesday: (on Sunday) A Song For Paul Westerberg
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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.
Tags: Matthew Wayne Selznick, paul westerberg
Mississippi river born in ’59
By Jodi | Filed under 'Mats Memories, In the News | Comments (11)
Today’s Mr. Paul Westerberg’s 50th birthday. Yesterday the Strib ran a nice piece about the old man.
“Starting in the 1980s, the Replacements injected a much-needed dose of mischief into a musical environment close to being overtaken by poseurs and synth-rock. Westerberg and his bandmates Tommy Stinson, Chris Mars and Bob Stinson took their direction from romantic songwriters and glam bands from the coasts — sentimental troubadours like Eric Carmen and Neil Diamond and party hounds like Thin Lizzy and Kiss. Ambitious, skilled, and swaggering but not stupid, they were the Clash without the notion that they had something important to say.
“Originally content to play simply fast and loud, Westerberg’s often comic and daring music grew increasingly more ambitious. By the band’s third and fourth albums, he was throwing off evocative tales of heartbreak, pain and confusion at a level that most bands would be lucky to stumble upon once in a career. Commercially, the Replacements mostly went nowhere, but you have to remember, this was the decade of Phil Collins.”
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