“Sorry about last night, guys. Shit happens.”

Guitarist Phil Chevron opened Thursday night’s Pogues show with that simple explanation for the “little tumble” lead singer Shane MacGowan took a few nights before at the Boston show, resulting in him tearing ligaments in one of his knees and forcing the band to cancel Wednesday night’s show, last-minute. With that, all was forgiven, at least for me. After switching my tickets to the Thursday show, and waiting on the phone with Ticketmaster for too-long of a time, I was just happy to be there.

And so was the band. They played an instrumental song first, hyping the crowd for the arrival of Shane, who was wheeled out soon after in his wheelchair, and placed next to his table (and bottle of booze) and lowered microphone. He laughed through his teeth and greeted the crowd and the band kicked into “Streams of Whiskey.”

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Tags: The Pogues by Katie
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With some crafty sleuthing and web browsing, LNW is bringing you the exclusive news of who is headlining the first night of the premiere of the All Tomorrow’s Parties “Don’t Look Back” series at the Pitchfork Festival. Are you ready? Sonic Youth will be performing Daydream Nation in its entirety on the first night, July 13th. Psyched? You should be. It gets better though, since the band will performing the classic album in Spain, along with two extra dates out in California. Here’s the official update from the All Tomorrow’s Parties site:

It would be unfair to keep this fabulous show exclusive to those of us in the UK. Therefore we are very excited to inform you of the opportunity to see Sonic Youth peforming Daydream Nation, as part of the Don’t Look Back series, outside of London. The shows scheduled so far are:

June 2nd - Primavera Festival, Barcelona, Spain
July 13th - Pitchfork Music Festival (ATP/ Don’t Look Back Stage), Union Park, Chicago
July 19th - Berkley Community Theatre
July 20th - Los Angeles Greek Theatre

The Pitchfork Music Festival will be held on July 13-15th in Chicago’s Union Park and I highly recommend you attend. Tickets on sale now.

edit: Well Pitchfork put the update up no more than five minutes after we did, but hey, it was here first!

Tags: Pitchfork Music Festival, Sonic Youth by Jason
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Ratatat played a free show at Tufts University in Medford, MA last night and I was lucky enough to be up close to get a few photos. Just click on them for a slightly larger version. Enjoy!

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On Monday I skipped three classes so I could wait in line for 3 hours to see a free 25 minutes in store performance by British supergroup The Good, The Bad, and The Queen at the Apple store in SOHO. The band seemed too good to be true consisting of former members of The Clash, Blur, Fela Kuti, and The Verve.

For some reason it seemed like a good idea not to wear a heavy coat on a winter day so I shivered outside while old eccentrics with funny haircuts walked past asking random people standing in line what they were standing in line for. Some of the polite people responded but soon got tired of saying the band’s lengthy name and eventually muttered “concert” just to get people to continue walking down the street.

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Tags: The Clash, The Good the Bad and the Queen, show review by Elona
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Following up on our previous post, Morrissey has announced a huge portion of dates for his Spring tour of the States. Moz zine True To You announced the dates, which begin April 27th in California and include a show at Madison Square Garden on June 30th. Tickets for the NYC show, along with all the tour dates, will be on sale “within the next two weeks.” The remaining dates should be announced soon.

Pitchfork has posted the dates here.

Tags: Morrissey, tour dates by Matthew
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