Spoon To Tour, But More Importantly: If They Cover The Knife, Will It Be On the Forkcast?

By Papaya on

Spoon, defined by Wikipedia as “Indie Rock,” will soon be touring in support of their new EP, Don’t You Evah. They have decided to tour almost exclusively in cities that already have an abundance of good shows on any given night, which is really cool. The lone exception is some place called “Troutdale,” a cozy little Oregon town which has its own blog.

The band released Don’t You Evah last month on Merge. It's 87.5% “Don’t You Evah” or a variant thereof, and features some oddly hot cover art. You can pick up a copy at any of the following dates, your local record store, or, if you really hate the band and want personal responsibility for their starvation, you can download it.

Dates dates dates dates dates:

* Beck and MGMT

Cat Power Extends Tour; Small Carnivorous Species of Crepuscular Mammals Rejoice!

By meikaidi on May 22 2008

$ Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Spiritualized

Cat Power Extends Tour; Small Carnivorous Species of Crepuscular Mammals Rejoice!

By Mr P on May 22 2008

$ Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Spiritualized

Attention Torrent Sites I’m On: Comcast Is Throttling All BitTorrent Traffic All the Time; Still Sorry About My Ratio, Though

By Joe B. on May 22 2008

A couple of weeks ago, TorrentFreak reported on a new plugin that compared the rate of a person’s torrent traffic to the rest of their online traffic. The developers of the plugin have released some cool, eye-catching charts and graphs using the data they collected.

The upswing of all that boring crap is that Comcast, the largest cable television company and second largest ISP, lied to the FCC a couple months back, claiming they only throttle “excessive” traffic “during periods of peak network congestion.” About a month later, Comcast claimed they would “slow traffic for those users who consume the most bandwidth” and not “slow traffic by certain types of applications.” As you might have guessed, the aforementioned boring charts prove otherwise, pretty much unequivocally

At least the jig is definitely up for Comcast, now that a handful of bloggers and other assorted nerds are through the looking glass. The keyboard is mightier than the almighty dollar! En garde, corporate America.

Ticketmaster Invents Paperless Ticket™ Technology in Time for Tom Waits Tour; A Lot Less Exciting Than It Sounds, Trust Me

By Scout Leader Kyle on May 21 2008

Over the next year and a half, Ticketmaster will be rolling out their new, ridiculously named Paperless Ticket™ technology at major venues across North America. The service will be available online and by phone and will have a two-per-customer limit. Paperless Ticket™ holders can skip the will-call line straight to the doorstaff, where their credit card will be scanned to determine their purchase.

Other benefits? Aside from convenience and being eco-friendlier, the new service will make it virtually impossible to scalp tickets (unless, of course, you're a division of Ticketmaster, who apparently sanction certain forms of scalping). And for those of you paper fetishists who save your stubs, you can still do it old skool for now, but intangible tickets will likely be the norm in the near future, so you might as well start saving your confirmation e-mails from now on.

The Paperless Ticket™ seems like a great idea, and since Ticketmaster is responsible for more than half of all ticket sales in the United States, it's bound to affect you eventually. Interestingly, the paperless technology will debut in conjunction with the upcoming Tom Waits tour, so it may affect you sooner than you'd think.

Tom Waits U.S. Tourdates:

The Jealous Girlfriends to Tour with Sea Wolf, You to Go to a Show, Your Annoying Girlfriend to Demand Knowing Who is Going to Be There, What Time You Will Be Back, If You Will Buy Her a Tee-Shirt, You to Hate Her But Still Probably Do It When You Get Home If Nothing Is On But Syndicated Episodes of One Tree Hill

By AJ Pacitti on May 21 2008

The Jealous Girlfriends are set to release their debut album, Good Fences, June 3 and will tour in support of headliners Sea Wolf at the below dates. Remember your girlfriend’s tee-shirt, tank top and/or souvenir cup if you want any love that night, baby-baby. Check TV Guide, though. There may be something better to do.

Who are you with? What’s her name? Is she prettier than me?

* Sam Champion

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