More, more, more, how do you like it? How do you like it?

By Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs, PW News | Comments (7)

MinnPost has a bit about 49:00 and Darren Hill’s non-answers to some questions.

Some Guy has come up for some Tabs for (Tell Me) Who You Gonna Marry? You can take a look over in the forums.

There’s plenty of conventional songcraft, too, largely in the vein of his most recent solo work. Getting to it just takes a little more patience than it did with past releases.
What say ye oh my beloved Westernerds?

And here, over at On the Record, Allan Raible seems to agree about he difficultness of the record however, says, that its difficulty provides a liberating listening experience.

Here’s a random thought that I’ve just had going through all this coverage of 49:00, you could spend an entire day if you were so inclined correcting the misinformation regarding this release and Paul Westerberg in general. It just proves the point that yes, yes everyone is stupid.

So, 49:00 is still at the top of the Amazon MP3 charts.

I’m not sure why, but this Steve Cohen photo from the Guthrie shows back in 2002 randomly popped up in my searches today. It’s a beauty.

Pop Matters says 49:00 might just be the year’s best, and that it’s a lot of fun to listen to.

And one more thing before I go, okay, maybe two more things. First, it amazes me the coverage of the album all over the world. Ol’ paulwesterberg.net has been linked to sites in Italian, German, and Japanese regarding this album. It totally floats my boat seeing that.

Secondly, tomorrow I’m hoping to share some thoughts about the album tomorrow (feel free to post your own whenever you feel like it — we’ve got an open door policy here), and one of things I am pondering is the whole 49 cents thing. Does the price mean that we should not hold it up to the same standard as a record we had paid $9.99 or $14.99 for? Tomorrow I will have come up with an answer, at least an answer that works for me.

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Read more | Comments (7) | July 24th, 2008

49:00 — An (un)Official track list with song titles created by Paul Westerberg.net

By Jodi | Filed under PW News | Comments (39)

UPDATE: We have a link for the non-US folks, you can download Paul Westerberg’s 49:00 here. WOOHOO!

First of all if you (in the US) haven’t downloaded 49:00 yet, get to it (remember to click the orange Buy MP3 Album button in the green box in the upper right corner of the page). As you’ll soon learn the whole ‘album’ downloads as a GIANT 72+MB MP3. For those of you with a larger brain than I have, that’s fine and dandy. But I like my art in bite-sized chunks. Could be why I’m a short story writer and not a novelist.

Anyway, with the help of Some Guy, I’ve developed a song list (song times in parentheses) that we can all argue about. Whee. So much fun (and I am being totally sincere here):
1. (Tell Me) Who You Gonna Marry? (3:57) [I attempted to guess the lyrics, and left the comments on that page so you can correct by bad hearing]
2. With or Without Her (Kentucky Risin’)(3:01)
3. Something in My Life is Missing (3:42)
4. Visitor’s Day (3:32)
5. As Yet to be Determined Noise (0:06)
6. Devil Raised a Good Boy (3:13)
7. You’re My Girl (0:24)
8. Everyone’s Stupid (2:37)
9. The one that says Fuck (0:09)
10. What Do You Want (0:20)
11. Now You Gone (0:44)
12. Goodnight Sweet Prince (3:54)
13. Guess I’ll Be Going Then (0:08)
14. Out of My System (3:22)
15. Be My Darling (3:44)
16. Money Goes Straight to Her Heart (0:12)
17. Hey, Hey (1:12)
18. Squeaky Obscene (1:11)
19. Six Seconds of Stuff (0:06)
20. It’ll Never Die (4:04)
21. Back To Saturn X Radio Report II (0:56)
22. I Think I Love you b/w Something I Can’t Discern (1:05)
23. Johnny Said So (2:09)

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Read more | Comments (39) | July 21st, 2008

49:00

By Jodi | Filed under PW News | Comments (26)

Download Paul Westerberg’s 49:00 from Amazon (Make sure you click the orange Buy MP3 Album button in the green box in the upper right corner of the page, otherwise you’ll have to pay a whopping 89 cents).

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You can download 49:00 from Amazon, Paul Westerberg’s new, um, thing for 49 cents. If you haven’t used the Amazon MP3 downloads before, it’s pretty swanky. I am downloading it as I type.

WOOHOO.

It downloads as one big, long MP3 file. So far, I’ve made it through one, of what I will call songs and I am calling them this (we can argue about it later) (also it only downloads as 43:55, where’s my other 5:05??):

1. Who You Gonna Marry?
2. Keep Rising
3. Something in My Life is Missing
4. Erm, I don’t know what you’d call this one
5. You can come up with a name for this one, because I can barely understand the words (leather & Lipstick perhaps?)
6. Everyone’s Stupid (Isn’t this the one he played at The Craft thing last year at First Ave?)
7. Erm yeah, I don’t even know if this was a song
8. Oh, I think this one is about his dad, it talks about Mom being up since the Last Rites and praying at the foot of his bed and includes at least two different songs playing over the top of it. Weird.
9. Get it Out of My System
10. Be My Darling (Oh, I like this one)
11. Hey, Hey
12. Sorry, I forgot to listen to this one close enough to really have any idea
13. I think this is a very special mix-tape-esque song from our man Paul to us
14. Oh yeah, something something.

Crap. I gotta get to bed. It’s 1 in the a.m. and, well, I have to be awake and perky at 6:15. I can’t wait to discuss it with you all tomorrow later.

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Read more | Comments (26) | July 20th, 2008

49 minutes of new music in less than 48 hours

By Jodi | Filed under PW News | Comments (9)

The Strib has a list of the bonus material that will be available on the September reissues of The Replacements’ Sire records, and in the comments mentions that on Saturday, July 19th there will be 49 minutes of NEW (I think) Paul Westerberg music available for download for only 49 cents.

Check back on Saturday to find the link to where you can download the 49 minutes of gloriousness.

P.S. If you didn’t see it in the comments DFactor has the YouTube videos of the Captiol Paul Westerberg documentary posted on his site. Sweet!

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Read more | Comments (9) | July 17th, 2008

Paul Westerberg, the Pitchfork Interview

By Jodi | Filed under PW News, Uncategorized | Comments (7)

Veritable indie-tastemakers Pitchfork interviews our man Paul (which still cracks me up)

Pitchfork: Did you feel at all left behind by your friends who left town?

PW: No, because I didn’t have that many friends at the time, and the ones that I had were all quasi-musicians. Sort of cats, layabouts, whatever. There was the occasional guy we played drums with whose dad wanted him to be an accountant. The line was sort of drawn in the sand, the guys who were going to put their picks and sticks behind them and move on to something else. I knew in my gut that this was what I had to do and what I was going to do.

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Read more | Comments (7) | May 19th, 2008

Win tickets to MGD’s ‘The Craft’ featuring Paul Westerberg from Paulwesterberg.net!

By Wolfdog | Filed under In Love With That Song, PW News | Comments (4)

The Craft

Here’s your chance to get into the invite-only show at First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN on Sunday, September 23rd. All you need to do is write a post telling the world what’s so great about your favorite Westerberg-penned song. For example, Jodi has graciously penned an excellent one here. So… register here on PW.net (email us your full name if not in your registration…we will need it if you win), create a new post (as outlined in this easy-to-use guide), and you will be eligible to win!

Just get your post in by Wednesday, September 12th by midnight. Each person who posts about their favorite Westerberg song gets their name entered in a drawing. On Thursday we’ll draw names, and 4 lucky posters will get a ticket to the invite-only show! Winners will be contacted by Thursday night. Big thanks to Darren Hill at PW’s management for making this possible and to the sponsors, Miller Brewing and The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

Read more | Comments (4) | September 10th, 2007

Win a chance to see Paul Westerberg play First Ave. as part of MGD’s The Craft Series

By Jodi | Filed under In the News, PW News | Comments (3)

Awhile ago Wolfdogg posted a piece about Paul Westerberg taking part of MGD’s Craft Series. Well it looks like local Minneapolis radio station Cities 97 has some more info.

The gist of it is, you have to win tickets to see this solo show at First Ave. I KNOW!

You can answer a few questions online for a chance to win and join the Cities 97 Frequent Listener’s Club for another chance to win.

Good Luck all y’all.

Read more | Comments (3) | September 1st, 2007

Reveille Magazine has a Q&A with Jim Walsh about ‘The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting’

By Jodi | Filed under Books, PW News | Comments (10)

The awesome, new Twin Cities music magazine, Reveille has a preview of Jim Walsh’s forthcoming The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History (due out in November).

In the piece, Andrea Myers interviews Walsh about the first time he ever saw the ‘Mats, the book, and staying in touch with the boys from the band, including Paul Westerberg. Here’s my favorite bit:

Walsh: Paul and I stay in touch over the cosmic transom. We trade phone calls now and then. We’ve been through a lot together—weddings, parties, births, divorces, deaths, everything in between. I love him, always will. He saved my life so many times, through his music and his sense of humor, and just letting me know I wasn’t alone in feeling alone in a crowd, etc. I always look for Chris at Twins games; I was there last night. Slim is a touchstone for me, I can call him up and get a dose of grounding/wisdom/love. I’m in touch with Tommy’s ex-wife and girlfriend more than him, and they are aces. Beautiful, dark-haired Scottish/Irish lasses.

No one has seen the book but me, my wife (speaking of dark-haired beauties), my editor, Dennis Pernu, and the folks at Voyageur Press.

Read more | Comments (10) | July 23rd, 2007

PW To Play For MGD

By Wolfdog | Filed under PW News | Comments (11)

From adweek.com, news of a possible upcoming Twin Cities show to be featured in Miller Brewing online advertising.

The series began last week in San Diego with Jim James, the singer and principal songwriter for My Morning Jacket. Other artists will include Patty Griffin, Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and Paul Westerberg in cities such as San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Seattle, which are considered key markets for MGD. In all, 12 shows are planned over the next 11 months.

Read more | Comments (11) | July 16th, 2007