A.M. Music News: Why Petty Gets No Respect, and Why Spoon's Probably Headed This Way
By Chris Kornelis in News
Friday, Nov. 20 2009 @ 10:40AM
-- Wall Street Journal: Petty gets no respect? "I don't know that anyone's out there waving the banner for us being the best rock and roll band there is," Petty says. "But we might be."
-- Pitchfork: Spoon announces the first tour dates in preview of their new record, Transference, out in January. Portland's on the list for Dec. 11. A Seattle date MUST be coming soon.
-- Stereogum: It Might Get Loud, Anvil! snubbed, miss Oscar Documentary short list.
-- NY Times: Hide your axe: The feds raided the Gibson factory in Nashville.
-- NME: A bus in Miley Cyrus' entourage flipped, and the driver was killed in Virgina.
2 comment(s)
captain underpants says:
uh, chris, i think there's very little to suggest spoon will be coming here any time before march 2010. all their US dates for the remainder of the year seem fairly one off + random. they've done shows of this sort in portland as far back as 2005, when britt first moved there; and have basically done ~1x/year in portland since. i hope you're right, but i think this post might be getting a lot of people's hopes up unnecessarily. just look at their touring history, they do this kind of thing a lot.
Posted On: Friday, Nov. 20 2009 @ 11:58AM
Seely says:
Huh. I seem to have read a piece almost identical to the WSJ's Petty article a little more than three years ago in Seattle Weekly. Actually, I fucking wrote it: http://www.seattleweekly.com/2006-07-26//good-to-be-king/
Where's my royalty check, Jorgensen?
Posted On: Friday, Nov. 20 2009 @ 1:14PM