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Yeah...this is a list of bands I've seen live. This is just a way for me to keep track. I don't care if you don't care.

There are a few local shows missing here, because they were so long ago that I don't remember who was playing. Any bands missing links are local, unless they happen to be well-known enough to have a Last.fm page. I'll add more as I go to more shows.


Propagandhi
GFK
Hiretsukan
This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
The Babysitter's Club
The Guys
Frozen Teens
Times New Viking
Gumbi
Drunken Boat
These Arms Are Snakes
Battlefields (2)
Fighting With Knives
Ani DiFranco
Gregory Alan Isakov
The Mars Volta
Jucifer
Black Eyes, Doll's Eyes
Weapon (southern doom band not listed on the page; probably local)
Blood Dries Black
P.O.S.
Eyedea & Abilities
Kipp G
Zach from Kanser
Plain Ole Bill
Gabe Garcia (not the one on the page; he's a hip hop DJ)
The Krims
Life Won't Wait
Nothing To Nothing
Expire
Protagonist
The Crinn
Melt-Banana
TRICLOPS!
Heart Shaped Hate

Whoop! The best new track tonight was 'It Is Nothing' by A Place To Bury Strangers. It's a bendy, distorty wall of shoegazey loveliness. Check out the album too, they thow a swaggering, garage twist into the mix.



The best old track was 'Kickin' Back' by BeachBuggy. This is the perfect song to blast out when you're driving round on a summer's day. Sooo good, in a surfy, Pixies-ish way.

This is what you heard:

Gifts From Enola - Weightless Thought
Infinite Scale - Behind The Scenes
Woodpigeon - Knock Knock
Seven - The Darkness
The Answering Machine - Obviously Cold
Wienzeile - geisterbahn
Skeletons And The Empty Pockets - Oh Brother
Freeland - Under Control
Mother Mary - Magnetic Space Plug
St. Vincent - Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood
LMFAO - I Am Not A Whore
Far - Bury White
U-God - Stomp Da Roach (Featuring GZA And Scotty Wotty)
Minor Threat - Filler
Major Lazer - When You Hear The Bassline feat. Ms. Thing
Wave Machines - I Go I Go I Go
August Burns Red - Rationalist
Michael Hunter - Soviet Connection (Theme from Grand Theft Auto IV)
Tiga - Shoes
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Panasonic Youth
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
SonnyJim - Running Late (Ft. Irs)
Folsom - Looking Good (And Being Scene)
Palpitation - I¥m Happy No
Exlovers - you forget so easily
Dan the Automator - Rapper's Delight Tepr Remix
Taking Back Sunday - Sink Into Me
Cats on Fire - The Borders of This Land
mc chris - Fett's Vett
Gojira - Toxic Garbage Island
Surrogate - A Constitution
Beachbuggy - Kickin' back
6BLOCC - Warning
Venetian Snares - Einstein-Rosen Bridge
A Place to Bury Strangers - It Is Nothing
Atmosphere - THE ROPES
Animal Collective - water curses
Burning Hearts - Close To Her
Wisp - Katabatic
Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band
Endwell - Living Through Losses: 02/30/01
La Coka Nostra - I'm An American Ft. B-Real
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Quiet Little Voices
Ultravox - 05 The Thin Wall
Lovvers - creepy crawl
Hackman - Loophole
Four Tet - She Moves She
D.O - Watch Out
The Invisible - Monster's Waltz
Wilco - Wilco (The Song)
Zed Bias - Colditz
Even as We Speak - Falling Down The Stairs
Stellastarr - Robot
Eyedea & Abilities - Burn Fetish
Ochre - Circadies
Matt & Kim - Daylight
Sparks - Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth

Last.fm is – or has been probably… regarding the current situation of just being completely free in three remaining countries (UK, USA and Germany), we should going to think about any fitting and comfortable solution for this pretty unpleasant problem – a really great opportunity for all the music lovers worldwide to celebrate the already known favourites as well as to (re)discover plenty of old and new, promising, incredible and truly important artists! Despite the further development of this site, I’d like to express my gratitude for experiencing more than a couple of artists I wouldn’t even recognize otherwise, at least perhaps… So this is a random list (very incomplete indeed) in no particular order of absolutely remarkable stuff found here including short descriptions – if possible…


Geezers of Nazareth
Ultimate Spinach
Туризм
!Mounted Insanity Cannon!
Yael Naïm
Opera Dog
Sicknote
Jaked off shorts and loaded heads
Kim & Buran
Monsieur Cheu
Wibutee
Anaal Nathrakh
Aaron Spectre
Tyskarna Från Lund
Jerzy Milian
Ska-P
Stereo_DNA
Tarantella
Musica Per Bambini
Amorf Ördögök
Cold Coda
Eyedea & Abilities
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Malente
Chris Mancini & Lennart
Sad Forever
Lizzy Ling
The Fugs
Alienaqtor
Stolen Babies
Pete Philly & Perquisite
Laboratorium
Flowjob
Jonas Ruchenhever
White Noise



Keep on discovering! Try tag-stations, neighbour’s and friend’s libraries, check your recommendations, finally, least possible thing to happen is getting surprised – and, surely, maintain your personal treasures! Thus pathetic, I’ll go for a drink now – cheers and good luck, b.

Sun 24 May – Soundset

Timmy Althaus gives a set-by-set recap of his excursion to Soundset 09.

Available here: http://mindinversion.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/concert-recap-my-journey-to-mecca-soundset-2009/







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8 Hours of hip-hop from the following artists: Atmosphere, The Pharcyde, MF DOOM, Brother Ali, Freeway & Jake One, Sage Francis with B. Dolan, Immortal Technique, P.O.S, EL P with Mr. Dibbs & TMQ, Eyedea & Abilities, Abstract Rude + Aceyalone & Myka 9 = Haiku D'Etat with DJ Drez, Prince Paul, Buck 65, Blueprint with DJ Rare Groove, Dj Numark, Heiruspecs, CunninLynguists, Blue Scholars, Sims of Doomtree, One Be Lo, I Self Devine, Awol One, Mike Mictlan & Lazerbeak = hand over fist of Doomtree, Toki Wright, Grieves, Unknown Prophets, Lil Buddy McLain, Just.Live, Kristoff Krane, El Guante, Plain Ole Bill, Bk one, King Otto, and DJ Nikoless

Sun 24 May – Soundset Hip-Hop Festival in Canterbury Park

Part 2: Videos and accompanying commentary online now: http://mindinversion.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/from-the-rail-soundset-09-part-2-videos/



and many more videos online at the Mind Inversion website here now! Photos yesterday...

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8 Hours of hip-hop from the following artists: Atmosphere, The Pharcyde, MF DOOM, Brother Ali, Freeway & Jake One, Sage Francis with B. Dolan, Immortal Technique, P.O.S, EL P with Mr. Dibbs & TMQ, Eyedea & Abilities, Abstract Rude + Aceyalone & Myka 9 = Haiku D'Etat with DJ Drez, Prince Paul, Buck 65, Blueprint with DJ Rare Groove, Dj Numark, Heiruspecs, CunninLynguists, Blue Scholars, Sims of Doomtree, One Be Lo, I Self Devine, Awol One, Mike Mictlan & Lazerbeak = hand over fist of Doomtree, Toki Wright, Grieves, Unknown Prophets, Lil Buddy McLain, Just.Live, Kristoff Krane, El Guante, Plain Ole Bill, Bk one, King Otto, and DJ Nikoless

Sun 24 May – Soundset Hip-Hop Festival in Canterbury Park

Part 1: Review and Pictures online now: http://www.mindinversion.com/2009/05/25/from-the-rail-soundset-09-part-1-pics/



and many, many more! Videos tomorrow...

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8 Hours of hip-hop from the following artists: Atmosphere, The Pharcyde, MF DOOM, Brother Ali, Freeway & Jake One, Sage Francis with B. Dolan, Immortal Technique, P.O.S, EL P with Mr. Dibbs & TMQ, Eyedea & Abilities, Abstract Rude + Aceyalone & Myka 9 = Haiku D'Etat with DJ Drez, Prince Paul, Buck 65, Blueprint with DJ Rare Groove, Dj Numark, Heiruspecs, CunninLynguists, Blue Scholars, Sims of Doomtree, One Be Lo, I Self Devine, Awol One, Mike Mictlan & Lazerbeak = hand over fist of Doomtree, Toki Wright, Grieves, Unknown Prophets, Lil Buddy McLain, Just.Live, Kristoff Krane, El Guante, Plain Ole Bill, Bk one, King Otto, and DJ Nikoless

Below you'll find a comprehensive list of possible artist additions to the group.
If you are for/against any of these selections feel free to chime in.

Possible Additions:

2Pac
9th Wonder
Abstract Rude
Akir
Apathy
Army of the Pharaohs
Blue Scholars
Blueprint
Boot Camp Click
Cage
Camp Lo
Casual
Celph Titled
Digable Planets
Digital Underground
DJ Cam
Dr. Dre
Edan
Eyedea & Abilities
Ghostface
Grayskul
Guru
GZA/Genius
Heltah Skeltah
Ice Cube
Ill Bill
Illogic
Insight
Looptroop
Lupe Fiasco
Method Man
Mobb Deep
N.W.A
Ninja Tune
Notorious B.I.G.
Paris
People Under the Stairs
Percee P
Pharoahe Monch
Prince Paul
Public Enemy
Q-Unique
Sabac
Snoop Dogg
Supernatural
The Coup
The Game
Ugly Duckling
Vakill
Visionaries
Vordul Mega

One of the highlights from a hectic Thursday night in Austin was the Rhymesayers showcase at the Cabana. I missed most of the openers, Including I Self DivineandP.O.S., but managed to get in right when Eyedea & Abilities took the stage:



After managing to check out a few other showcases, I made it back in time for Brother Ali's performance. If you have never seen this man perform, you should slap yourself in the face. Be on the lookout for his next mixtape coming soon. This guy is the truth:



Super-producer Jake One snapped necks with a medley of hits he's produced, including tracks for De La Soul, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige and MF DOOM or Doom as he now prefers:



Headlining the showcase was (former?) Roc-a-fella artist Freeway, who pretty much shut things down with non-stop head-noddin' hits, including "the truth" off Jake's White Van Music album featuring Brother Ali:



In between his classics, Freeway pleased the crowd with not one, not two, but three exclusive tracks from his upcoming Stimulus Package album with Jake One that will be released later this year on Rhymesayers:



More pics and recaps to come, including the A-Side Worldwide and IM Media showcases.