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The Captain is in town tonight. Throw Rag is playing at El Corazon. I wish I could go but I can’t. Damnit!

The rest of you should go. You should all start getting shitfaced right now start stumbling towards The Seattle Tattoo Expo After Party featuring The Generators, God Spit, The Spittin’ Cobras, Zeke, and THROW RAG!

I recommend that at least one of you take an extra tighty whitey, because sometimes The Captain loses his.

My excuse for not going? None of your busiiness.

I’ll settle for this video tonight.

While flipping through the pages of the August 2010 issue of MOJO Magazine last night, I came across and advertisement for Grinderman’s upcoming European tour that I thought was pretty funny.  I went surfing around today for a digital copy of the ad, and I found it on a website called Nick Cave Fixes.  It’s “a blog for Nick Cave addicts & devotees.”  I definitely fall into that category.  So, please welcome this blog to the Blogroll.  You Nick Cave fans are now just a click away from all the latest news about Nick, the Bad Seed, Grinderman, The Birthday Party, and other related artists.

Here’s the ad:

The US release of Grinderman 2 is scheduled for September 14th.

Check out the Grinderman website for more details. You’ll lover the intro…

No US tour dates yet.

This post is all about catching up with Nick Cave and Grinderman, so I might as well direct you to this story in Paste Magazine about Nick’s recent novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, being made into a TV movie directed by John Hillcoat. He directed The Proposition, screenplay by Nick Cave, and The Road, soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

You should be listening to the new Alejandro Escovedo album, Street Songs of Love.  You can listen to it in its entirety on this NPR page before it is released next Tuesday.

You New Yorkers should go see him at City Winery on June 30th and/or July 2nd.

You Seattleites should get tickets to the No Depression show on August 21st.

Today’s email from NPR included a link to this blog post asking readers to submit their choice for best opening track of an album.  I can think of a few.  My number one choice is:

“Gloria” on Patti Smith’s debut album Horses. Not only is that song the best opening track, it also has the best opening line.  The very first words you hear on the very first album by Patti Smith are, “Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine.”  With that line and that song on that album with one of the greatest covers ever, she became an iconic rock ‘n roll figure that has inspired thousands of young punks and poets to express themselves through music.

Number two would be “Like a Rolling Stone” from Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited.

Number three is “London Calling” from the Clash album of the same name.

What are your favorites?  Leave a comment here and/or go to the NPR page and submit your choice before they close it down.

Happy Birthday to David Byrne.  He is 58 years old today.  Here’s an old video of him being interviewed by several characters played by himself.

Enough talk.  Here’s some music.

Capsula flew in from Spain last March to do a show in NYC and then several sets at SXSW. Here’s one of the four videos up on YouTube from their performance at the KEXP day stage.

If you liked that, then you’ll like all the other ones too. Watch them all: here, here, and here.

And to close tonight’s set, here’s Paul Westerberg.

Read all about it the Record Store Day website.

In Seattle?  Head on down to Sonic Boom Records in Ballard and on Capitol Hill, or Easy Street Records in Queen Anne and West Seattle.

There are lots of special releases made available today.  Check them out here.  There’s a whole lot of vinyl on the list, so dust off your turntable.

There are ususally lots of label freebies at these events, so when you buy something you end up with a few extra label compilations in your bag to0.

Go shopping now.

Here’s a 1979 performance of “Gloria” performed in Germany for Rockpalast TV.

Wow! What a great performance. The only thing that would make it better would be if it was presented in the proper 4:3 aspect ratio.

And here’s Patti 28 years later on the Jools Holland show.

She hasn’t lost anything.

Tonight you have to work a little harder. First you have to go to the NPR site and start the recording of a Capsula concert at SXSW, and then you need to click on below to start the photos.

This one’s easier. It’s Moon Duo, and you’ll like it.

And why not a little Ray Wylie Hubbard?

I just got the news that Mark Linkous shot himself through the heart on Saturday. 

Wow…  Terribly sad news.  NYT article here.

I don’t know what else to say other than that you might want to go read the Phawker tribute to Mark Linkous if you want to know more.

And a very good NPR piece here.

Read more…

I’ve been listening to Sparklehorse lateley. You should too.  Here’s “Pig” from Good Morning Spider to get you going.

Here’s “Anenome” from the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s fourth album, Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request.

And some Visqueen, because you know you love Rachel Flotard.