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Most played albums, as of November 12th, 2009.

1. mewithoutYou - Catch For Us The Foxes (1027) 2. Starflyer 59 - Leave Here A Stranger (646) 3. mewithoutYou - [A To B] Life (620) 4. Bear vs. Shark - Terrorhawk (618) 5. mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister (616) 6. Starflyer 59 - Old (607) 7. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (482) 8. Starflyer 59 - Silver (Extended Edition) (474) 9. Starflyer 59 - Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice (470) 10. Five Iron Frenzy - The End Is Here (447) 11. Starflyer 59 - Everybody Makes Mistakes (446) 12. Five Iron Frenzy - The End Is Near (406) 13. Five Iron Frenzy - Quantity Is Job #1 EP (404) 14. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News (399) 15. El Ten Eleven - El Ten Eleven (392) 16. lights for nero - ...And Little Lambs Eat Nations (367) 17. mewithoutYou - it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's alright (344) 18. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (337) 19. Starflyer 59 - I Am the Portuguese Blues (336) 20. Weezer - The Blue Album (336) 21. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (333) 22. El Ten Eleven - Every Direction Is North (327) 23. Discover America - Psychology (326) 24. Five Iron Frenzy - Our Newest Album Ever! (325) 25. Five Iron Frenzy - Cheeses Of Nazareth (321) 26. Bear vs. Shark - Right Now, You're in the Best of Hands. And If Something Isn't Quite Right, Your Doctor Will Know in a Hurry (321) 27. Radiohead - In Rainbows (315) 28. Radiohead - The Bends (312) 29. Radiohead - Kid A (306) 30. Five Iron Frenzy - Upbeats and Beatdowns (297) 31. The Man With No Name - Desert Sands to City Streets (A Pilgrimage) (291) 32. Starflyer 59 - The Fashion Focus (290) 33. Radiohead - Pablo Honey (284) 34. Mogwai - Mr. Beast (284) 35. Radiohead - OK Computer (278) 36. Jakob - Solace (272) 37. Tentative Schedule - The Definition of Narcissism EP (248) 38. Ratatat - Classics (240) 39. Bedouin Soundclash - Sounding a Mosaic (239) 40. the tumbled sea - Songs By The Tumbled Sea (232) 41. The Samuel Jackson Five - Easily Misunderstood (232) 42. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (232) 43. Five Iron Frenzy - Live: Proof That the Young Are Revolting (231) 44. Maserati - Inventions For The New Season (226) 45. Ratatat - Ratatat (223) 46. Fionn Regan - The End of History (217) 47. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (215) 48. Mogwai - Government Commissions: BBC Sessions 1996-2003 (213) 49. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (212) 50. Battles - Mirrored (210)

11-03 Minus the Bear @ Glass House
11-11 Glassjaw @ Mayan
11-12 Glassjaw @ Glass House
11-13 Red Sparowes @ Vacation Vinyl (FREE)
11-14 Russian Circles/Young Widows/Helms Alee @ The Echoplex
11-19 Mastodon/Dethklok/Converge/High on Fire @ Palladium
11-20 Deftones @ Avalon (Benefit for Chi)
12-03 Baroness @ The Troubadour
12-14 Mew @ Henry Fonda Theater
12-16 Melt-Banana/Tera Melos @ The Troubadour
01-04 Open Hand @ Spaceland
01-17 Between the Buried and Me/Cynic/DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND/Scale The Summit @ House of Blues Sunset Strip

Past shows for 2009:
01-03 Babyland @ Spaceland
01-16 North @ Knitting Factory
01-17 Autolux @ Henry Fonda Theatre
01-22 El Ten Eleven @ The Silver Lake Lounge
02-03 Meshuggah/Cynic *1*
02-05 El Ten Eleven/Charlotte Martin @ The Hotel Cafe
02-13 Don Caballero/sBACH @ Spaceland
02-19 Far @ The Velvet Jones
02-21 Grails @ Spaceland
03-14 Clevis/Solar Wimp/Totally Serious/The Littlest Viking @ the Cocaine
03-17 ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead @ Echoplex
03-20 Karin Tatoyan @ Spaceland
03-26 Forbidden @ Key Club
03-27 Pelican @ Troubadour
04-03 Acid Mothers Temple/Kinski @ The Echo
04-04 noodles/The Outline @ Silver Lake Lounge
04-05 Autolux @ Glass House
04-10 Karin Tatoyan @ Echo and El Ten Eleven @ Home [I made it to both shows!!!]
04-12 Silversun Pickups @ Glass House
04-14 Taproot @ Key Club
04-17 Kylesa/Intronaut/Made Out of Babies/Black Elk @ Echoplex
04-24 Emily Wells @ Bardot *1*
04-30 Silversun Pickups @ Echoplex
05-07 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum @ Key Club
05-09 Threadbare reunion show w/Unbroken @ Glass House
05-13 Traindodge/National Sunday Law @ Blue Monkey Bar
05-18 The Life and Times @ Spaceland
05-22 dredg/Torche @ Troubadour
05-23 dredg/Torche @ Troubadour
05-24 Gojira/Car Bomb @ Key Club *1*
06-04 Karin Tatoyan @ The Echo
06-05 King's X @ Key Club *1*
06-20 friday nights @ ???
06-21 Shellac/Arcwelder @ Echoplex
06-24 Isis @ Henry Fonda Theater *1*
07-11 Tortoise @ Troubadour *1*
07-22 Elbow @ Wiltern *1*
07-17 Three Mile Pilot @ Spaceland *1*
07-29 Themselves/[Post-Foetus]/Emily Wells @ Spaceland
08-03 Gomez @ Wiltern
08-05 Torche/Big Business @ Knitting Factory
08-11 Sunn O)))/The Accused/Eagle Twin @ Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock
08-14 El Ten Eleven @ Bootleg Theater
08-20 friday nights @ the Gap in Studio City
08-28 Intronaut/Cattle Decapitation @ Cobalt Cafe
09-01 Mew @ The Troubadour
09-07 Mew @ the Detroit Bar
09-09 Emily Wells @ Echo
09-15 Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Fox Theater
09-30 Kylesa/Bison/Saviours/Black Math Horsemen @ Knitting Factory *1*
10-08 Coalesce/Cave In @ Knitting Factory
10-10 These Arms Are Snakes @ Knitting Factory
But seeing Far open for Thursday and could care less for Thursday
10-11 Sunny Day Real Estate @ Henry Fonda Theater
10-13 Mono/Maserati @ El Rey
10-15 Jesus Lizard @ Henry Fonda Theater
10-18 Dysrhythmia @ Relax Bar
10-24 El Ten Eleven @ Bootleg Theater
10-28 Pelican @ The Troubadour
10-30 Professor Calculus @ The Smell

*1* Denotes that I didn't record the show...

Digital Leather - not now
Elder - friendly fire
Cold Cave - life magazine
Turing Machine - don't mind if i didn't
Maserati - monoliths
The Caution Children - long gaps and little gasps
Little Girls - growing
Kidcrash - turtlelephant
aussitot mort - aussitot dort, aussitot mort
Au - ashemoto ne
Ex Wives - otters
Hush Arbors - devil made you high
Former Ghosts - hold on
Dolcim - noah's ark was an orgy
Zorch - crying during circumcision is a shame to the whole village
Don Caballero - unresolved kharma
HEALTH - we are water
Knife the Symphony - rusted satellites
Fungi Girls - colour the floor
Jesu - opiate sun
Thistle - conifer
Settlefish - on symmetry, pebbles

Mon 12 Oct – Mono, Maserati
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This was one of those rare occurrences when I decided to go ahead and buy tickets for this show when A) I didn't know if my girlfriend would even be able to go with me, and B) I wasn't very familiar with the artists performing. I mean, as a big post-rock listener I've naturally heard of Mono, but I've only ever listened to You Are There which, though it's incredibly good, has never gotten much playtime on my iPod or computer. And don't get me started on Maserati - I think I had only listened to them once or twice before going to the show. So overall, my expectations were pretty non-existent.

As much as I love going to the Great American Music Hall for shows, it really was more of an aural experience this time around. My girlfriend and I sat on the sidelines downstairs for Maserati's performance, which meant we didn't really see the band. I liked what I heard from them, though I have to say that some of their songs sound alike; it seems like they play a slightly more up-tempo style than most post-rock bands, and I thought it seemed more "action-y" in a way. Seems like a fitting way to describe it since the friend that tried to introduce me to Maserati likes them because they "make music that's good for action sequences" (not an actual quote, but that's pretty much what he said).

Even though we were both kind of tired and my girlfriend was a bit sore I suggested we head out onto the floor to see Mono, but that didn't pan out well since most of the people around us were tall and crowded around close enough so that we really couldn't see much better than when we were on the sides. Plus it was getting uncomfortable, so we headed upstairs to the balcony and instead got a much, much better view (stage right, over Yoda). It's much easier to enjoy the music when you have a better vantage point and can actually see them performing.

Mono's live performance was actually pretty spectacular considering their somewhat stoic, "meh" attitude. I mean, it's kind of fitting considering the type of music they play, but still. Perhaps they prefer to sit back and let their music do the talking. That'd be understandable at least, given that the music is incredible. Slow build ups and progressions that explode into a cacophony of sound that isn't unpleasant to the ear. Even if I don't listen to Mono any more than I do now, it was well worth seeing them live.

And I picked up a copy of their 2004 album, Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined, though since I didn't know about any of their albums other than You Are There I picked it out based on which album cover caught my eye. Yeah, not a very informed purchase, but I've been enjoying it thus far.

So that makes five shows on the year so far, with one more coming up at the end of November (Del tha Funkee Homosapien). Thinking about seeing Vienna Teng/Alex Wong in December, but it's a big maybe at this point since I saw them back in April already and I'm trying to save some extra cash for the holidays. Guess we'll see what happens.

bands I've seen more than once:

10+ times:
Elsinore - Courtyard Cafe 8/24/06, Illini Union 9/29/06, Taste of Champaign 2007, Sweetcorn Fest 2007, Urban Outfitters 8/24/08, Pygmalion 2008, Record Store Day 2009, IMCFest 2009, Green Music Fest 2009, Cowboy Monkey 8/22/09, Pygmalion 2009
Headlights - Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06, Krannert Art Museum 9/6/07, Canopy Club 3/6/08, IMC 4/18/08, Canopy Club 6/6/08, Urban Outfitters 8/29/08, Pygmalion 2008, Canopy Club 3/14/08, IMCFest 2009, Pygmalion 2009

eight times:
Morgan Orion - IMC 11/5/06, Red Herring 3/8/07, Red Herring 3/29/07, Red Herring 7/6/07, UIUC Main Quad 8/8/07, IMC 8/20/07, Cloud Factory 9/22/09, Channing-Murray 10/14/09
Zmick - Red Herring 4/14/07, Red Herring 5/5/07, Red Herring 11/2/07, Canopy Club 1/25/08, Sweetcorn Fest 2008, Canopy Club 8/23/08, Canopy Club 9/1/08, Canopy Club 9/22/08

seven times:
New Ruins - Courtyard Cafe 5/2/07, Red Herring 5/5/07, Pygmalion 2008, Cowboy Monkey 12/27/08, Cowboy Monkey 8/22/09, Courtyard Cafe 9/4/09, Pygmalion 2009
Common Loon[artist] - IMCFest 2007, IMC 5/4/08, Pygmalion 2008, IMCFest 2009, Record Store Day 2009, Taste of Champaign 2009, Pygmalion 2009

six times:
Me, Him and Charlie Miller - Iron Post 5/16/07, Iron Post 10/6/07, IMC 10/19/07, IMC 11/16/07, IMC 1/11/08, Iron Post 8/15/08

five times:
Mit'n - Red Herring 4/14/07, Iron Post 5/16/07, Courtyard Cafe 10/12/07, Caffe Paradiso 10/25/07, IMC 5/4/08

four times:
Nine Inch Nails - Assembly Hall 2/10/06, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater 7/3/06, Scottrade Center 8/20/08, Bonnaroo 2009
Duke of Uke - IMC 11/5/06, Iron Post 4/20/07, IMC 10/19/07, Espresso Royale 5/27/08
Fireflies - IMC 9/13/06, IMC 10/27/06, Red Herring 3/8/07, IMC 11/10/07
Organic Flow - house show 1/25/08, Taste of Nevada 8/24/08, Courtyard Cafe 9/13/08, IMCFest 2009
World's First Flying Machine - Pygmalion 2008, Canopy Club 3/14/08, Courtyard Cafe 8/27/09, Caffe Paradiso 10/2/09
The Hood Internet - Pygmalion 2008, Canopy Club 12/13/08, Bonnaroo 2009, Pygmalion 2009

three times:
David Bazan - Pygmalion 2006, Caffe Paradiso 9/23/06, Courtyard Cafe 12/6/08
Shipwreck - Courtyard Cafe 8/24/06, Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06, Krannert Art Museum 1/24/08
Yo La Tengo - Pitchfork 2006, Lollapalooza 2007, Pygmalion 2008
The Dresden Dolls - Metro 10/15/05, Lollapalooza 2006, Vic Theatre 10/20/06
Kaki King - Wall to Wall 2005, Highdive 10/13/06, Wall to Wall 2007
The Roots - Area: One 7/15/01, Lollapalooza 2007, Kirkland PAC 3/29/08
Triple Whip - Iron Post 2/18/07, Boneyard Arts Fest 4/20/07, Red Herring 5/5/07
Ryan Groff - Iron Post 2/18/07, Boneyard Arts Fest 4/20/07, Pygmalion 2009
Spoon - Foellinger Hall 10/28/07, Pitchfork 2006, Lollapalooza 2007
KiKi and PeePee - Living Room 12/14/07, Living Room 1/4/08, Red Herring 1/25/08
Good Night & Good Morning - Error House 1/12/08, Error House 1/19/08, Pygmalion 2009
Krukid - Red Herring 11/2/07, Kirkland PAC 3/29/08, Canopy Club 12/13/08
Mordechai in the Mirror - IMC 5/4/08, Caffe Paradiso 10/3/08, IMC 5/30/09
Decibully - Pygmalion 2008, Courtyard Cafe 5/1/09, Pygmalion 2009

two times:
Incubus - Area: One 7/15/01, Assembly Hall 10/13/02
Jeffrey Lewis - IMC 11/5/06, Channing-Murray 10/14/09
My Morning Jacket - Foellinger Auditorium 12/5/06, Bonnaroo 2008
The Chemicals - IMC 10/27/06, Sweetcorn Fest 2007
Silversun Pickups - Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06, Lollapalooza 2007
Caleb Engstrom - Pygmalion 2006, Courtyard Cafe 5/2/07
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Lollapalooza 2006, Assembly Hall 3/3/07
Ohtis - Courtyard Cafe 8/24/06, Pygmalion 2009
Andrew Bird - Lollapalooza 2006, Pygmalion 2007
Death Cab for Cutie - Lollapalooza 2005, Foellinger Auditorium 10/13/05
Dustin and the Furniture - UIUC Main Quad 8/8/07, Living Room 1/4/08
Corn Desert Ramblers - Red Herring 4/14/07, Iron Post 1/16/09
painkillers - Iron Post 6/16/07, Iron Post 1/16/09
The Decemberists - Foellinger Auditorium 4/15/07, Millennium Park 7/18/07
Withershins x2 - Red Herring 5/5/07, Living Room 12/14/07
Charles Joseph Smith - Red Herring 5/5/07, Red Herring 11/2/07
Alleyway Sex - IMC 6/30/07, Courtyard Cafe 1/26/08
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Lollapalooza 2007, Bonnaroo 2009
Megan Johns - IMC 8/20/07, Living Room 12/14/07
Dark Meat - Sweetcorn Fest 2007, Pygmalion 2008
Sonny Landreth - Wall to Wall 2007, Blues Brews and BBQ 2009
Smashing Pumpkins - Braden Auditorium 10/4/07, Adler Theatre 8/8/08
Man Man - Courtyard Cafe 10/12/07, Canopy Club 10/16/08
Kenny Knowles - Red Herring 11/2/07, Red Herring 1/25/08
Yeni Raki - Red Herring 11/2/07, IMC 11/16/07
Hathaways - Red Herring 11/2/07, Pygmalion 2009
The Beauty Shop - IMCFest 2007, Krannert Art Museum 1/24/08
Maritime - Courtyard Cafe 2/9/08, Green Fest 2009
Company of Thieves - Courtyard Cafe 2/9/08, Courtyard Cafe 1/25/09
Broken Social Scene - Bonnaroo 2008, Foellinger Auditorium 10/19/08
Derek Trucks Band - Bonnaroo 2008, Ellnora 2009
Jonathon Childers - Canopy Club 8/23/08, Pygmalion 2008
You & Yourn - Courtyard Cafe 12/6/08, Pygmalion 2009
Oceans - Courtyard Cafe 3/13/09, Pygmalion 2009
Maserati - Courtyard Cafe 3/13/09, Pygmalion 2009
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Courtyard Cafe 9/4/09, Rocket House 9/4/09
Peninsula - Cloud Factory 9/22/09, Channing Murray 10/14/09
The Avett Brothers - Canopy Club 9/7/08, Canopy Club 10/22/09

one time:
The Who - Deer Creek 7/26/97
OutKast - Area: One 7/15/01
Moby - Area: One 7/15/01
Hometown Hero - Assembly Hall 10/13/02

Doris Henson - Pageant 7/7/05
The Crimea - Pageant 7/7/05
Billy Corgan - Pageant 7/7/05
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Lollapalooza 2005
M83 - Lollapalooza 2005
Liz Phair - Lollapalooza 2005
Cake - Lollapalooza 2005
Billy Idol - Lollapalooza 2005
Primus - Lollapalooza 2005
Pixies - Lollapalooza 2005
Weezer - Lollapalooza 2005
Saul Williams - Lollapalooza 2005
Dinosaur Jr. - Lollapalooza 2005
Ben Kweller - Lollapalooza 2005
Drive-By Truckers - Lollapalooza 2005
Arcade Fire - Lollapalooza 2005
Dandy Warhols - Lollapalooza 2005
Dave Mason - Brookhaven Amphitheater 8/19/05
Eric Burdon - Brookhaven Amphitheater 8/19/05
Andy Summers - Wall to Wall 2005
Vernon Reid - Wall to Wall 2005
Youth Group - Foellinger Auditorium 10/13/05
Mucca Pazza - Metro 10/15/05
Faun Fables - Metro 10/15/05

Mary Timony - Foellinger Auditorium 10/28/05
Moving Units - Assembly Hall 2/10/06
Phat Phunktion - Mills Recital Hall 6/26/06
Theory of Everything - Aroma Cafe 7/13/06
Nels Cline Singers - Pitchfork 2006
Bonde do Role - Pitchfork 2006
CSS - Pitchfork 2006
Aesop Rock - Pitchfork 2006
Mission of Burma - Pitchfork 2006
Os Mutantes - Pitchfork 2006
The M's - Lollapalooza 2006
Stars - Lollapalooza 2006
Mute Math - Lollapalooza 2006
Secret Machines - Lollapalooza 2006
Sleater-Kinney - Lollapalooza 2006
VHS or Beta (DJ Set) - Lollapalooza 2006
Ween - Lollapalooza 2006
Be Your Own Pet - Lollapalooza 2006
The Go! Team - Lollapalooza 2006
Peeping Tom - Lollapalooza 2006
Particle - Lollapalooza 2006
Calexico - Lollapalooza 2006
The Flaming Lips - Lollapalooza 2006
The New Pornographers - Lollapalooza 2006
Manu Chao - Lollapalooza 2006
Catfish Haven - Lollapalooza 2006
Manishevitz - Lollapalooza 2006
Benevento-Russo Duo - Lollapalooza 2006
Matisyahu - Lollapalooza 2006
Queens of the Stone Age - Lollapalooza 2006
Watery Domestic - Courtyard Cafe 8/24/06
Psalters - IMC 9/13/09
mewithoutYou - IMC 9/13/06
Danielson - Pygmalion 2006
Lorenzo Goetz - Illini Union 9/29/06
Ostinato - Illini Union 9/29/06
The Kingdom - Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06
Viva Voce - Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06
The Red Paintings - Vic Theatre 10/20/06
Sxip Shirey - Vic Theatre 10/20/06
1090 Club - IMC 10/27/06
Irving - IMC 10/27/06
The Slip - Foellinger Auditorium 12/5/06

scurvine - Iron Post 1/19/07
Nonagon - Iron Post 2/18/07
Gnarls Barkley - Assembly Hall 3/3/07
Hinter - Red Herring 3/8/07
Chick Corea and Gary Burton - Krannert Center 4/5/07
Greg Spero Trio - Red Herring 4/14/07
My Brightest Diamond - Foellinger Auditorium 4/15/07
The Living Blue - Boneyard Arts Fest 4/20/07
Lynn O'brien - Boneyard Arts Fest 4/21/07
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Virginia Theatre 4/29/07
Jose Gonzalez - Courtyard Cafe 5/2/07
Santa - Red Herring 5/5/07
Dorian Minor - Red Herring 5/5/07
Water Between Continents - Iron Post 6/14/07
Carbomb Lottery - IMC 6/30/07
OUTCAST TO SOCIETY - IMC 6/30/07
Vexed Youth - IMC 6/30/07
Hollowed Out - IMC 6/30/07
Slint - Pitchfork 2007
GZA/Genius - Pitchfork 2007
Sonic Youth - Pitchfork 2007
The Polyphonic Spree - Lollapalooza 2007
Electric Six - Lollapalooza 2007
Blonde Redhead - Lollapalooza 2007
LCD Soundsystem - Lollapalooza 2007
Daft Punk - Lollapalooza 2007
I'm From Barcelona - Lollapalooza 2007
Silverchair - Lollapalooza 2007
Sound Tribe Sector 9 - Lollapalooza 2007
Patti Smith - Lollapalooza 2007
Interpol - Lollapalooza 2007
The Postmarks - Lollapalooza 2007
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Lollapalooza 2007
The Black Angels - Lollapalooza 2007
TV on the Radio - Lollapalooza 2007
Pearl Jam - Lollapalooza 2007
A Drum and an Open Window - IMC 8/20/07
Michael Kammin - IMC 8/20/07
Poster Children - Krannert Art Museum 9/6/07
Oh Astro - Krannert Art Museum 9/6/07
Toubab Krewe - Wall to Wall 2007
Campbell Brothers - Wall to Wall 2007
Yohimbe Brothers - Wall to Wall 2007
Harry Manx - Wall to Wall 2007
Tony McManus - Wall to Wall 2007
Alex de Grassi - Wall to Wall 2007
John McLaughlin - Wall to Wall 2007
[artist]Jorma Kaukonen[artist] - Wall to Wall 2007
Banning Eyre - Wall to Wall 2007
Buddy Guy - Wall to Wall 2007
Dianogah - Pygmalion 2007
Weird Al Yankovic - Assembly Hall 9/28/07
The Bravery - Braden Auditorium 10/4/07
The Extraordinaires - Courtyard Cafe 10/12/07
Bob Dylan - US Cellular Coliseum 10/20/07
Elvis Costello - US Cellular Coliseum 10/20/07
Amos Lee - US Cellular Coliseum 10/20/07
Western Civilization - Caffe Paradiso 10/25/07
Mount Eerie - Caffe Paradiso 10/25/07
Too Much to Carry - Red Herring 11/2/07
Michael Malinsky - IMCFest 2007
Infinite Imagination - IMCFest 2007
JigGsaw - IMCFest 2007
Kilborn Alley Blues Band - IMCFest 2007
Candy Foster and Shades of Blue - IMCFest 2007
Murali Coryell - IMCFest 2007
Shirley King - IMCFest 2007
Matt Rocks - IMC 11/16/07
Jenny is a Boy - Living Room 1/4/08
Toby Foster - Living Room 1/4/08
white. wrench. conservatory - IMC 1/11/08
Zachary Morris - Error House 1/12/08
Wabash - Error House 1/12/08
Clever Coil - Error House 1/12/08
The Fix - Error House 1/12/08
1999 - Error House 1/19/08
The Signal - Error House 1/19/08
The Drastics - Courtyard Cafe 1/26/08
Mustard Plug - Courtyard Cafe 1/26/08
Inspector Owl - Courtyard Cafe 2/9/08
Egon's Unicat - Courtyard Cafe 3/1/08
Manic Sewing Circle - Courtyard Cafe 3/1/08
Evangelicals - Canopy Club 3/6/08
Tall Tale - Canopy Club 3/6/08
The Guess Who - EPCOT Center 3/20/08
Kronos Quartet - Krannert Center 4/3/08
Unwed Sailor - Courtyard Cafe 4/12/08
Ryan Lindsey - Courtyard Cafe 4/12/08
Corn tha Coon - IMC 4/18/08
Islands - IMC 4/18/08
Stars of the Lid - Staerkel Planetarium 4/22/08
Christopher Willits - Staerkel Planetarium 4/22/08
Jookabox - Canopy Club 6/6/08
MGMT - Bonnaroo 2008
Battles - Bonnaroo 2008
Fiery Furnaces - Bonnaroo 2008
Minus the Bear - Bonnaroo 2008
!!! - Bonnaroo 2008
M.I.A. - Bonnaroo 2008
Chris Rock - Bonnaroo 2008
Metallica - Bonnaroo 2008
Les Claypool - Bonnaroo 2008
Soul Rebels Brass Band - Bonnaroo 2008
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - Bonnaroo 2008
Gogol Bordello - Bonnaroo 2008
B.B. King - Bonnaroo 2008
Levon Helm - Bonnaroo 2008
Sigur Ros - Bonnaroo 2008
The Morningbell - Bonnaroo 2008
The Coup - Bonnaroo 2008
Bela Fleck - Bonnaroo 2008
Ladytron - Bonnaroo 2008
Robert Randolph - Bonnaroo 2008
Aimee Mann - Bonnaroo 2008
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Bonnaroo 2008
Jake Shimabukuro - Bonnaroo 2008
Grizzly Bear - Verizon Wireless 8/3/08
Radiohead - Verizon Wireless 8/3/08
Identity Crisis - Iron Post 8/12/08
Beat Kitchen - Iron Post 8/15/08
A Place to Bury Strangers - Scottrade Center 8/20/08
Foghat - Sweetcorn Fest 2008
The Brother Whys - Canopy Club 8/23/08
Snowsera - Canopy Club 8/23/08
Herbert Wiser Band - Canopy Club 9/1/08
Justin Gordon - Canopy Club 9/7/08
Jaik Willis - Courtyard Cafe 9/13/08
Coco Coca - Pygmalion 2008
Times New Viking - Pygmalion 2008
Eureka Sky - Pygmalion 2008
Everthus the Deadbeats - Pygmalion 2008
Pontiak - Pygmalion 2008
Wye Oak - Pygmalion 2008
Robots Counterfeiting Money - Pygmalion 2008
Monotonix - Pygmalion 2008
Dan Deacon - Pygmalion 2008
The Lonelyhearts - Pygmalion 2008
Kid, You'll Move Mountains - Pygmalion 2008
Gentleman Auction House - Pygmalion 2008
Pattern Is Movement - Pygmalion 2008
Titus Andronicus - Pygmalion 2008
Black Mountain - Pygmalion 2008
Centaur - Pygmalion 2008
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter - Pygmalion 2008
High Places - Pygmalion 2008
Animate Objects - Pygmalion 2008
Asobi Seksu - Pygmalion 2008
Peter Piek - Canopy Club 9/22/08
Passafire - Canopy Club 9/22/08
Hopewell - Aragon Ballroom 9/27/08
My Bloody Valentine - Aragon Ballroom 9/27/08
The Abacinators - IMC 10/5/08
Dizzy Chair Time - IMC 10/5/08
Roberta Sparrow - IMC 10/5/08
The Independents - IMC 10/5/08
The Queers - IMC 10/5/08
Tim Fite - Canopy Club 10/16/08
Land of Talk - Foellinger Auditorium 10/19/08
CX Kidtronik - Canopy Club 11/5/08
The Death Set - Canopy Club 11/5/08
Girl Talk - Canopy Club 11/5/08
Fotosputnik - Courtyard Cafe 11/15/08
The Hentchmen - Courtyard Cafe 11/15/08
The Fleshtones - Courtyard Cafe 11/15/08
Starflyer 59 - Courtyard Cafe 12/6/08
Ice Water - Canopy Club 12/13/08
Tractor Kings - Cowboy Monkey 12/27/08
Hum - Cowboy Monkey 12/27/08

Frightened Rabbit - Courtyard Cafe 1/22/09
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Courtyard Cafe 1/25/09
Matter of Face - Red Herring 1/30/09
Jackhammer Hoganson - Red Herring 1/30/09
The Night Brigade - Red Herring 1/30/09
Wastebasket - Red Herring 1/30/09
Checkerboard Stalemate - Red Herring 1/30/09
Eugene Mirman - Courtyard Cafe 2/14/09
Pomegranates - Canopy Club 3/14/09
John Vanderslice - Courtyard Cafe 4/2/09
The Mountain Goats - Courtyard Cafe 4/2/09
The War on Drugs - Courtyard Cafe 4/3/09
The Hold Steady - Courtyard Cafe 4/3/09
Five Peace Band - Krannert Center 4/7/09
The Butts - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
Soy City Stranglers - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
Obi Wan Kenblo Mi - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
River City Rebels - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
The Casualties - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
Sunset Stallion - IMCFest 2009
We Landed on the Moon! - IMCFest 2009
The Ruckus - IMCFest 2009
Faux Coup - Illini Union 4/30/09
Crazy/Agile - Illini Union 4/30/09
Local H - Illini Union 4/30/09
Light Pollution - Courtyard Cafe 5/1/09
The Foundry Field Recordings - Courtyard Cafe 5/1/09
John Hoeffleur - Iron Post 6/2/09
Ave Marling - Iron Post 6/2/09
Your Yellow Dress - The Stanley 6/8/09
Passion Pit - Bonnaroo 2009
Motion Potion - Bonnaroo 2009
Tobacco - Bonnaroo 2009
Dirty Projectors - Bonnaroo 2009
Animal Collective - Bonnaroo 2009
St. Vincent - Bonnaroo 2009
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Bonnaroo 2009
David Byrne - Bonnaroo 2009
Pheonix - Bonnaroo 2009
Mynameisjohnmichael - Bonnaroo 2009
Chairlift - Bonnaroo 2009
Katzenjammer - Bonnaroo 2009
Robin Hitchcock - Bonnaroo 2009
Bon Iver - Bonnaroo 2009
of Montreal - Bonnaroo 2009
Wilco - Bonnaroo 2009
The Mars Volta - Bonnaroo 2009
Russian Circles - Bonnaroo 2009
Bruce Springsteen - Bonnaroo 2009
High on Fire - Bonnaroo 2009
Erykah Badu - Bonnaroo 2009
Okkervil River - Bonnaroo 2009
Neko Case - Bonnaroo 2009
Phish - Bonnaroo 2009
Eddie "The Chief" Clearwater - Blues Brews and BBQ Fest
Pinetop Perkins - Blues Brews and BBQ Fest
Bob Margolin - Blues Brews and BBQ Fest
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith - Blues Brews and BBQ Fest
Brilliant Pebbles - Green Music Fest 2009
Sybris - Green Music Fest 2009
Say Hi - Green Music Fest 2009
Tapes 'n Tapes - Green Music Fest 2009
Art Brut - Green Music Fest 2009
Heyokas - Cowboy Monkey 8/22/09
Hot Cops - Cowboy Monkey 8/22/09
Pet Lions - UIUC South Quad 8/23/09
Tosche Station - Terror House 8/23/09
Moons - Terror House 8/23/09
Straight No Chaser - Terror House 8/23/09
Cloud Mouth - Terror House 8/23/09
Cougar Den - Terror House 8/23/09
Nurses - Courtyard Cafe 8/27/09
Throw Me the Statue - Courtyard Cafe 8/27/09
The Brunettes - Courtyard Cafe 8/27/09
War - Sweetcorn Fest 2009
My Werewolf Diary - Cowboy Monkey 8/29/09
The Beets - Cowboy Monkey 8/29/09
Vivian Girls - Cowboy Monkey 8/29/09
Chicha Libre - Ellnora 2009
Frank Vignola - Ellnora 2009
Junior Brown - Ellnora 2009
The National - Ellnora 2009
Yea Big + Kid Static - Parkland 9/13/09
Matt and Kim - Parkland 9/13/09
Mt St Helens Vietnam Band - Pygmalion 2009
Owen - Pygmalion 2009
Japandroids - Pygmalion 2009
Liz Janes - Pygmalion 2009
Brooke Waggoner - Pygmalion 2009
Joe Pug - Pygmalion 2009
Skream - Pygmalion 2009
Girls Next Door - Pygmalion 2009
Low - Pygmalion 2009
The Antlers - Pygmalion 2009
Autolux - Pygmalion 2009
Zach May & The Maps - Pygmalion 2009
The Horse's Ha - Pygmalion 2009
The Books - Pygmalion 2009
Iron And Wine - Pygmalion 2009
Porno Galactica - Pygmalion 2009
YACHT - Pygmalion 2009
gazelle - Pygmalion 2009
RJD2 - Pygmalion 2009
Thankful Tree - Cloud Factory 9/22/09
City Center - Cloud Factory 9/22/09
The Vertebrats - Amara Yoga 10/1/09
Bunny Zewt Suit - Channing Murray 10/14/09
David Sedaris - Virginia Theater 10/16/09
Infirmary - Terror House 10/24/09
DOTK - Terror House 10/24/09
Cloud Burial - Terror House 10/24/09
Maltross - Terror House 10/24/09

Mon 5 Oct at the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis, MN – Mono, Maserati

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Playlist:
DJ Scruff - Chipmunk

Sissy Wish - DWTS (from her newly North American released album Beauties Never Die, out on Afternoon Records)

Air - Missing The Light Of Day (from Love 2, released October 6th on Astralwerks)

Weep O' Mine Eyes - Indoctrine

Joakim - Little Girl (From Milky Ways, released on K7! September 22nd)

Twin Crystals - Spell On You

Grischa Lichtenberger - 0106_12_LV_3 Sand Ausheben (this neo-IDM artist released a really heady debut album called treibgut in May 2009, which is part of raster-noton's Unununium series)

Kids On TV - Jeremy Mon Ami (Robochrist Remix) (From Remixes Vol. 1)

Pictureplane - New Mind (from Dark Rift, released on Lovepump United)

Portishead - Roads

Maserati - The World Outside (Thee Loving Hand Remix)

New Releases September 23, 2009 - October 4, 2009:
September 28, 2009: Thom Yorke - Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses / The Hollow Earth 12" (XL Recordings)
September 28, 2009: Vitalic - Flashmob (Pias)
September 29, 2009: T.H. White - Company Book (Sky Council Recordings)
October 3, 2009: Jackie O Motherfucker - Fig. 5 (Fire Records)

10-08 Coalesce/Cave In @ Knitting Factory
10-10 These Arms Are Snakes @ Knitting Factory
But seeing Far open for Thursday and could care less for Thursday
10-11 Sunny Day Real Estate @ Henry Fonda Theater
10-13 Mono/Maserati @ El Rey
10-15 Jesus Lizard @ Henry Fonda Theater
10-18 Dysrhythmia @ Relax Bar
10-24 El Ten Eleven @ Bootleg Theater
10-28 Pelican @ The Troubadour
11-03 Minus the Bear @ Glass House
11-11 Fu Manchu @ The Troubadour
11-14 Russian Circles/Young Widows/Helms Alee @ The Echoplex
11-19 Mastodon/Dethklok/Converge/High on Fire @ Palladium
12-03 Baroness @ The Troubadour
12-16 or 12-17 Melt-Banana/Tera Melos @ The Troubadour

Past shows for 2009:
01-03 Babyland @ Spaceland
01-16 North @ Knitting Factory
01-17 Autolux @ Henry Fonda Theatre
01-22 El Ten Eleven @ The Silver Lake Lounge
02-03 Meshuggah w/ Cynic *1*
02-05 El Ten Eleven w/Charlotte Martin @ The Hotel Cafe
02-13 Don Caballero w/sBACH @ Spaceland
02-21 Grails @ Spaceland
03-14 Clevis, Solar Wimp, Totally Serious, The Littlest Viking @ the Cocaine
03-17 ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead @ Echoplex
03-20 Karin Tatoyan @ Spaceland
03-26 Forbidden @ Key Club
03-27 Pelican @ Troubadour
04-03 Acid Mothers Temple w/Kinski @ The Echo
04-04 noodles w/The Outline @ Silver Lake Lounge
04-05 Autolux @ Glass House
04-10 Karin Tatoyan @ Echo and El Ten Eleven @ Home [I made it to both shows!!!]
04-12 Silversun Pickups @ Glass House
04-14 Taproot @ Key Club
04-17 Kylesa/Intronaut/Made Out of Babies/Black Elk @ Echoplex
04-24 Emily Wells @ Bardot *1*
04-30 Silversun Pickups @ Echoplex
05-07 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum @ Key Club
05-09 Threadbare reunion show w/Unbroken @ Glass House
05-13 Traindodge w/National Sunday Law @ Blue Monkey Bar
05-18 The Life and Times @ Spaceland
05-22 dredg/Torche @ Troubadour
05-23 dredg/Torche @ Troubadour
05-24 Gojira/Car Bomb @ Key Club *1*
06-04 Karin Tatoyan @ The Echo
06-05 King's X @ Key Club *1*
06-20 friday nights @ ???
06-21 Shellac/Arcwelder @ Echoplex
06-24 Isis @ Henry Fonda Theater *1*
07-11 Tortoise @ Troubadour *1*
07-22 Elbow @ Wiltern
07-17 Three Mile Pilot @ Spaceland *1*
07-29 Themselves/[Post-Foetus]/Emily Wells @ Spaceland
08-03 Gomez @ Wiltern
08-05 Torche/Big Business @ Knitting Factory
08-11 Sunn O))) @ Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock
08-14 El Ten Eleven @ Bootleg Theater
08-20 friday nights @ the Gap in Studio City
08-28 Intronaut/Cattle Decapitation @ Cobalt Cafe
09-01 Mew @ The Troubadour
09-07 Mew @ the Detroit Bar
09-09 Emily Wells @ Echo
09-15 Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Fox Theater
09-30 Kylesa/Bison/Saviours/Black Math Horsemen @ Knitting Factory

*1* Denotes that I didn't record the show...