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From “Will he/they tour?“:
JP: We make any money if we tour for two weeks?
JL: You mean ten days, if rehearsals are included.
JP: Yes.
JL: No.
JP: Well then why would we do it?
RM: Because Menck wants to rock.
JL: Theoretically, the tour is just one piece of the things you do if you want to sell records.
JP: We [...]

[Song on YouTube] All the tabs I could find were crap, so I wrote up a guitar arrangement. The inverted voicings in the choruses made it tough to figure out, but capoing the 2nd fret gets it pretty close.
Capo 2nd fret. / = 1/4 note

V1)
A 3-5-5-4-3-x (2 bars) As [...]

“Miss Modular” has an amazing bass line. It’s probably looped on record, but they play it live…and usually faster than the recording. I’m fairly sure it’s capoed at the 7th fret—that’s how I’ve typed it up here.
Stereolab “Miss Modular”
Capo bass @ 7th fret.
spaces/numbers/hyphens = 1/16th notes.
/ = 1/4 notes.

Intro)

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Craigslist comes through with a huge step up from my crummy Precision bass knockoff. Sounds golden, great action (a joy to play), even volume & tone all across the fretboard. Love it.

“Thank You Friends” was the first Big Star song I heard, hanging out with Dan Francke listening to a Time-Life cassette comp he ripped from his dad.

A.V. Undercover: The Onion’s A.V. Club invites 25 bands to record 25 covers, released each Tuesday.
Ted Leo makes a nice start with “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” (hat tip). I kinda see it going down hill from here but the cover choices look good.

(This is edited from an answer I posted to KeyMinor, a music Q&A site. They need more users!)
A lot of recordings end up slightly higher/lower than standardized pitch (I always called this “in the cracks” but don’t google it!), and this is the quickest way I’ve found to tune a guitar to them.  This method [...]

A 7th add 13 chord is often voiced r-5-7-3-13, sometimes leaving out the fifth. To pin this to a key, a G7(13)—G⁷⁽¹³⁾ if your chart can handle Unicode—is usually voiced G-D-F-B-E and is a common (in jazz and standards anyway) way to make the resolution from G7 to C more subtle and harmonically interesting. [...]

Amazing performance and recording. Apparently David’s a great writer, too. I need this album.

6500 miles can’t stop the rock. Thursday, May 8th, a reunited Brittle Stars play Common Grounds as a part of Gainesville’s Pop Mayhem festival.
Hear songs such as, but not performed as well as, these:

Falling Backwards
Someplace (but not this place)
This Trip
So Unfair

Also that night: Ifwhen, the Buddy System, Giddy-Up Helicopter, and maybe one other band. Sorry [...]