20 Bands, 20 Nights | My End of Summer Music Tour A month or two ago, I wrote a column forecasting some of the changes in the current state of live music and the path the industry may take over the next year or two in natural response to the current state of the overarching music industry. In it, I claimed that touring out West could become too expensive and difficult for some bands, relegating groups to regional tours only (at best). Against my own advice - or soothsaying - I am about to embark on a roadtrip through America's Southwest.Rock n Roll Dream Concert. David Archuleta ? Archey Report ? Minneapolis, MI ? 08/31/08 (Here?s the Archey Report from MomWithODD in Minneapolis! Yay!) Hi Angels! MomWithODD here (yes, I'm still alive and kicking, lol)! Hope everyone is doing well.family and I got back home Monday afternoon from our trip to Minneapolis, which is 5.5 hours from where we live in WI. We decided to make it a family end-of-summer trip to visit my husband's sister and her family who all live about 1.5 hours from the Twin cities, so we left home early Thursday morning. concert. The Best of August Rock n Roll Dream Concert tickets, Once again, it's the close of one month, and in with another one. This past month saw the return of a number of favorites of mine with new material, and all around, some fantastic material from a numbe of really good bands.Shelly - The Alternate RoutesThis is a song that I've been hearing live when I've seen the Alternate Routes over the past year. This is an appropriately bitter song, when one of the band members found that an ex was getting married. The song has a good drive to it, and is ligh. A bridge too far: Connecting Portland's performance halls live?While you're catching up on weekend papers? our blogging compatriot Mighty Toy Cannon of Culture Shock writes?I?d be interested in your comments on the Oregonian editorial regarding the renovation of the Schnitz and the possible enclosure of the Main Street Plaza (Saturday, August 30). As Mighty Toy points out, the editorial got lost not only by running on a Saturday but also because it was buried beneath the flurry of news about vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin (pre-grandma version). On Writing and Illusions The other day at a kid's birthday party, a good friend of mine introduced me to some of his friends as ?a writer. Something about that made me uncomfortable. I downplayed his comment and immediately began backpeddling.Oh, I'm not really a writer? I said, looking down and shuffling my feet.What? my friend said.You just published your second book!Oh, yeah ? that ? I said, hiding an embarassed smirk. What was it about the word ?writer? that made me so uncomfortable? I've been. Rock n Roll Dream Concert concert tickets. It?s Quiet.A Little Too Quiet music, It's Saturday night, and nobody's here, so I'm gonna play DJ. Sorry Forged. This is the perfect song for a hot summer night. Tito and The Tarantulas ?After Dark. You probably remember it from the film ?From Dusk Till Dawn? when Selma Hayek dances to it right before she turns into a vampire and bites Quentin Tarantino. Really cool song. The singer Tito Larriva, and the guitar player also do a lot of the music for the Robert Rodriguez ?Desperado? films. They also used to be in a realy cool band . Happy Video Birthday 2008 to Irish Keltic Shaman Van Morrison Tickets, by Robert Wilkinson Today we send a huge happy shout-out to one of the ultimate musical talents in history, the incomparable Van Morrison. If Van The Man had written only .".Gloria.".or .".Brown Eyed Girl.".his place in music history would have been secured forever. When you add .".Astral Weeks.".".Madame George.".".Moondance.".".Into the Mystic.".".Caravan.".".Wild Night.". 13 Bits of Tom Petty Trivia I went to see Tom Petty last night with my Church Chix drummer and good buddy, Drummergirl Jan. I love her. Y'gotta love a friend who springs for Petty tickets, plays drums AND loves Jesus. Some people are just amazing that way. Not many, though. So, Petty was amazing in other ways. Besides being rock solid tight with The Heartbreakers, besides a fun show (the sound and light.s were great!), besides great music, besides all that, it was really fascinating to watch Petty play the crowd. Rock n Roll Dream Concert tour tickets. Using Springsteen's The Rising At Political Rallies Rock n Roll Dream Concert ticket broker, I've long since given up on my rock and roll hero when it comes to politics. I'm not in the .".shut up and play Bruce.".mindset, but I definitely don't appreciate being preached to at a rock concert where I'm going to be entertained or released. However, one constant and core to Bruce and his music is his protection of the music. I was in Atlantic City on The Rising tour when he decided to explain to the audience and people that heard the bootleg what Empty Sky meant especially the line that . Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/27/2008 The news feed is outgrowing its format. Readers have been inspired by it to send in more tips, so that tonight there are more than fifty articles here. I can't create headline links for all of them; otherwise the top part of the post would be too long, So, if you want to read all the news that's fit to post, click ?read further? and keep scrolling.I?m working on a revised version of the software that will change the format, but that will take time. Bear with me for a while longer?USAMuslim Obama. 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