Meat Puppets In-store

Wow...the Meat Puppets played 50 (!) minutes of scorching country fried acid rock last night at the Electric Fetus. If 50 minutes isn't a record for an in-store I would like to know what is. In addition to the quantity, the quality from the grey bearded trio was amazing. Curt Kirkwood made his Gibson Hummingbird Acoustic sound more soulful and menacing than guys a 1/3 his age could. The guy is a monster on guitar, and a hell of a singer to boot. Cris Kirkwood (who gave an amusing interview on KFAN this morning) showed the high cost of his low living, but seemed joyed to be playing the Puppets great songs.

If last night was any indication, fans in St. Cloud are in for a treat with the bands in-store there tonight.

Meat Puppets TONIGHT @ Electric Fetus

If you missed the Meat Puppets show last night at the Entry, you will have another chance tonight. The reunited group, newly sober and back on the grind, will be playing an in-store at the Electric Fetus at 6 PM. For our out state friends, the band will be reprising their in-store performance Tuesday night at the Fetus in St. Cloud at 6PM. I can almost guarantee that the performance will look nothing like the video from above, so don't get your hopes up, but it should be cool none the less.

Scary Chart

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but this chart, mapping the current recession, is pretty damn scary. Let's hope it starts curling around and going up again sometime soon.

(Hat Tip: Andrew Sullivan)

Brenden Benson

Stereogum recently posted the first new track, "Feel Like Taking You Home," from Brenden Benson's upcoming 4th LP My Old, Familiar Friend. Benson, who has been toiling along for nearly a decade making amazing power pop music, finally got his big break when his side band with buddy Jack White, the Raconteurs, hit it big last year. Hopefully this new disc will be as good as his last three and will finally get his solo work the credit it really deserves. If you haven't heard his old work, especially Lapalco and Alternative to Love, do yourself a favor and check them out.

Brenden Benson- Feel Like Taking You Home MP3

You Break it, you buy it....

The age old adage is used by NYT scripe Frank Rich is a good piece that looks over how Sarah Palin is seen as both a savior and a train wreck for the Republican Party, depending on who you ask. Either way, she isn't going away anytime soon and time will tell whether she is more Ronald Reagen or Barry Goldwater.

Hold Steady

I'm excited to see the Holy Steady on the church stage at the Basilica Block Party tonight. I have a strong feeling that we are going to hear quite a bit from their broken Catholic opus Separation Sunday, including their amazing "How a Resurrection Really Feels."

Obama > T-Paw

Not good for a certain mulleted presidential candidate when a poll has you losing by 11 points...in your home state. I am also proud to say that MN would right now vote Obama over Palin at a 56 to 35 percent rate, although I am concerned about who this 35 percent are. Probably the people who have voted Michelle Bachmann into office two times.