Ryan Adams: still angry at PW

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Saw this piece in the latestRolling Stone about Ryan Adams’ influences. After searching in vain for the Mats/PW, saw that Zen Arcade was on his list, with this little blurb:

“He got a big hug from Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Mould when they met this year, but another of his heroes from Minneapolis wasn’t that into him. “Paul Westerberg said in an interview that someone should knock my teeth out,” Adams says. “I left home because of things like that. I can’t listen to his music again, ever.”

Opinions? I know this was covered here like, 5 years ago.

Also RS has a review of the reissue of Tim.

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Read more | Comments (28) | | October 24th, 2008

Download Husker Du show from July 1981

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I Am Fuel You Are Friends has posted a Husker Du show from July 1981 at the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco. You can download it, you lucky dog [found via east-lake.net]. Sure this has nothing to do with Paul Westerberg or The Replacements, but it’s like one-degree of separation so it counts, right?

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Read more | Comments (16) | | May 22nd, 2008

In the Blogs: Look I remembered edition

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In the Blogs

City Pages unearths the now-famous ‘Lovelines’ issue.

Paul Westerberg as best friend, a short and sweet piece I think y’all can relate to.

The Washington Post has a nice interview with Laurie Lindeen about Petal Pusher

10 Quotes from SPIN’s Story on the Replacements

A Crash Course in The Replacements, in case you need a refresher.

Crawdaddy republishes a 1987 article about Husker Du and The ‘Mats

Okay, so this is a review of the new Tobias Wolff short story collection, and I link to it for two reasons:
1.) Tobias Wolff is brilliant and you should read him
2.) The review likens remembering the first time you read Tobias Wolff (Vodo’s Beginning Fiction class 2003) to the first time you heard the ‘Mats (The Camaraderie’s jukebox 1994 or 1995)

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Read more | Comments (11) | | May 14th, 2008