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Tool
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1000 (Jazz in 't Park 2011, Gent - 28/08/2011)
24 Pesos (BRBF 2012, Peer - 14/07/2012)
2 Many DJ's (Lokerse Feesten 2011, Lokeren - 04/08/2011)
A Brand (2x) (Crammerock 2009, Stekene - 04/09/2009; Gentse Feesten 2011 - Boomtown, Gent - 22/07/2011)
About Group (Gentse Feesten 2011 - Boomtown, Gent - 23/07/2011)
Absynthe Minded (4x) (De Centrale, Gent - 12/11/2009; Crammerock 2010, Stekene - 04/09/2010; Gent Jazz 2011, Gent - 15/07/2011; Student Kick-Off 2012, Gent - 26/09/2012)
Admiral Freebee (2x)(BRBF 2010, Peer - 17/07/2010; De Vooruit, Gent - 30/04/2012)
Agnes Obel (Gent Jazz 2011, Gent - 15/07/2011)
Agnus & Julia Stone (Gent Jazz 2011, Gent - 15/07/2011)
Airbourne (Lokerse Feesten 2011, Lokeren - 02/08/2011)
Alice Cooper (Lokerse Feesten 2010, Lokeren - 01/08/2010)
Amatorski (Student Kick-Off 2010, Gent - 29/09/2010)
An Pierlé (Try-out @ Café De Loge, Gent - 21/09/2011)
Anna Calvi (AB, Brussel - 18/10/2010)
Annelies Verbeke vs Venus in Flames (De Nachten 2010 @ deSingel, Antwerpen - 05/11/2010)
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Last.FM Milestones2000th track: (22 Oct 2007)
Audioslave - The Worm
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/27578.jpg3000th track: (30 Oct 2007)
Puddle of Mudd - Livin' On Borrowed Time
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/5423237.jpg4000th track: (11 Nov 2007)
The Allman Brothers Band - Sweet Melissa
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/38477155.jpg5000th track: (18 Nov 2007)
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/39755247.jpg6000th track: (27 Nov 2007)
Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/18005103.jpg7000th track: (05 Dec 2007)
Rage Against the Machine - Down on the Street
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/380903.jpg8000th track: (09 Dec 2007)
Foreigner - Feels Like the First Time
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/43426395.jpg9000th track: (17 Dec 2007)
Rage Against the Machine - Calm Like a Bomb
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/380903.jpg10000th track: (23 Dec 2007)
Led Zeppelin - Nobodys Fault But Mine
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Iron Maiden (x2)
Helloween
Arctic Monkeys
Dirty Sweet
Blaze
Yngwie Malmsteen
Barón Rojo (x3)
Los Suaves
New York Dolls
The Hives
Heredeiros Da Crus
Vetusta Morla
Judas Priest (x2)
The Right Ons
Franz Ferdinand
CatPeople
Jabón Blue
Mägo de Oz
Jónsi
Pet Shop Boys
Muse
Arizona Baby
Imperial State Electric
Angelus Apatrida
Megadeth
Slayer
The Money Makers
North Mississippi Allstars
Saxon
Motorhead
Los Suaves
Paul Di'anno
The Answer
The Brew

A work in progress, and a list that is starting to take a particular order (generally chronological starting with Branford Marsalis):

B.B. King (Arlington, VA, 2005; Utica, NY, 2006; Grand Rapids, MI, 2007)
Gregg Allman (Kalamazoo, MI, ~2002)
Strangefolk (Kalamazoo, MI, ~2002)
Phish (Albany, NY, 2003; Noblesville, IN, 2009)
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (Grand Rapids, MI, ~1997; Clinton, NY, 2005)
Natalie Merchant (Chautauqua, NY, ~1998)
Styx (Grand Rapids, MI, 2002)
REO Speedwagon (Grand Rapids, MI, 2002)
Dirty Dozen Brass Band (Washington, D.C., 2005)
Wayne Shorter (Washington, D.C., 2005)
Robert Randolph and the Family Band (San Francisco, CA, 2003; Utica, NY, 2006; Grand Rapids, MI, 2007)
North Mississippi Allstars (San Francisco, CA, 2003; Grand Rapids, MI, 2004)
String Cheese Incident (New York, NY, NYE2004)
Willie Nelson (Grand Rapids, MI, 2004)
Bob Dylan (Grand Rapids, MI, 2004)
ZZ Top (Muskegon, MI, 2004)
Arlo Guthrie (Chautauqua, NY, 2005)
The Mammals (Chautauqua, NY, 2005)
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Just copying some music-related crap I originally wrote on facebook to put off going to bed. Yes, not sleeping is an end in itself.

The oughts? The ooo's? The oh's? O-zone? (Wait, now I have to go delete a song a replace it with Dragostea Din Tei.) Whatever, the point is that I can vote in a song countdown by our local radio station and my vote is going to be the BEST DAMN VOTE EVER. If you are tagged, it's because I think you'll care about what I say about music for some reason.

Like all WYEP song countdowns, I have labored over this list with a pointless intensity. There are several layers of pointlessness: I barely ever listen to the station, my tastes don't overlap with the station's that much so it's unlikely that my nominations will get any votes other than my own, it's only one vote, I don't really care, etc. Unlike past countdowns, though, you can submit 20 songs, not three, so no more obsessing over which beloved song/album/artist to throw under the bus. …

As the producer of a new event in the North Mississippi hill country blues country as well as a blues performer (with Satan and Adam) and a scholar of the blues at the University of Mississippi, I thought that I should put together an introductory guide to hill country blues for people who were visiting my website. Below is what I've posted on my website. It doesn't pretend to be comprehensive, but it's as accurate and representative as I can make it. And it offers two new points: one, about the paucity of harmonica players associated with the hill country style, and two, about the reason why I believe that paucity exists. Please feel free to offer comments and suggestions, especially if you believe I've gotten something wrong.

Here's the website: http://www.hillcountryharmonica.com

And here's the article, which is headlined, "NORTH MISSISSIPPI HILL COUNTRY BLUES: IT'S _NOT_ THE DELTA BLUES!"

§Hill country blues is NOT the stuff that Muddy Waters took to Chicago. …

In chronological order. Openers are noted.

Cream
Medeski, Martin & Wood x2
U-Melt x2 (opened for Tea Leaf Green both times)
Tea Leaf Green x12
Bruce Springsteen x5
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Robert Cray (opened for Eric Clapton)
Eric Clapton
Dave Holland
The Raconteurs (opened for Bob Dylan)
Bob Dylan x2
Perpetual Groove x2
Keller Williams
The Allman Brothers Band x2
The Casual Fiasco (opened for Scarecrow Collection)
Scarecrow Collection
Television
The Dead Trees (opened for Albert Hammond Jr.)
Albert Hammond Jr.
Black Moth Super Rainbow (opened for The Flaming Lips)
The Flaming Lips
Andrew Bird (opened for Wilco)
Wilco x2
The Ponys (opened for Spoon)
Spoon
Pegi Young (opened for Neil Young)
Neil Young x2
Gov't Mule x8
moe. x2
Moonalice x2 (opened for Tea Leaf Green first time)
Umphrey's McGee
The Wars of 1812 x2
Jeremy Messersmith x2 (opened for Wars Of 1812 first time)
Chris Koza
Sans Souci Quartet
Charlie Parr x2
The Derek Trucks Band x3 (opened for Santana first time)
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