I’ve obviously been MIA for a while now, but I promise to come back soon. Work has been crazy, I closed on a house, I went out of town for my brother’s wedding and went out to Coachella. All in the past three weeks. After 41 weeks of Mystery Mixes, I’ve missed 3 in a row. Those’ll be back next Monday. And I will get my Coachella review together ASAP, but I know better than to make any promises about anything.

See you soon…

Well, we couldn’t get R.E.M or the National, but, according to the kids at Pitchfork, we are getting Modest Mouse, who put on a great show last November, at The Pageant on July 1st.

Free.

I haven’t even downloaded it yet.

http://theslip.nin.com/

Here’s the tracklisting:

1. 999,999
2. 1,000,000
3. letting you
4. discipline
5. echoplex
6. head down
7. lights in the sky
8. corona radiata
9. the four of us are dying
10. demon seed

So in case you didn’t see the title of this post, Tom Waits is playing at The Fox Theater on Thursday, June 26th. A to Z was all on top of that business.

Destroyer is playing at The Duck Room tonight.

You should go.

Destroyer - “Foam Hands” (live):

As I finish up my review of last weekend’s New Pornographers/Okkervil River show and as I prepare for heading out to Indio, CA for Coachella this weekend, I thought I’d leave you with two fairly random Devo covers. The first, a song that I’ve posted before and back by request, is by one of my favorite bands, Baboon. The second is by Soundgarden and is from a limited-edition EP called SOMMS (Satanoscillatemymetallicsonatas) that was sold with Badmotorfinger for a while in 1992/1993. The EP also featured a Rolling Stones and Black Sabbath cover.

MP3: Devo - Gates of Steel
MP3: Soundgarden - Girl U Want

I made it only to The Monads set at Vintage Vinyl last Saturday for National Record Store Day, and they were great.

Here is some photographic evidence:

…and here is some low-quality video evidence:

MYSTERY MIX, VOL. 41

Here’s last week’s playlist:

Vol. 40

1. Wolf Parade - Call It A Ritual
2. The Republic Tigers - Buildings and Mountains
3. Cloud Cult - Everybody Here Is A Cloud
4. Man Plus - My Kind of People
5. Delta 5 - You
6. Cold Bear Scout - Some Other Dirty Things
7. Faith No More - Easy
8. Daturah - Shoal

As I’m sure you’ve already hear, tomorrow is National Record Store Day. Both Vintage Vinyl and Euclid Records have all sorts of fun activities going on.

Here is the schedule at Euclid:

12 noon: The Bottle Rockets
1 p.m.: Farshid Etniko
2 p.m.: Finn’s Motel
3 p.m.: Rough Shop
4 p.m.: Dave Stone
5 p.m.: Tight Pants Syndrome

Here’s the Vintage Vinyl schedule, in a nifty visual format. Or just a poster:

Boo. Neko Case broke her ankle and won’t be at the show at The Pageant tomorrow night.