[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjSPfKTWEEM[/youtube]

Many many many kudos to our very own BigBear for putting this together from the 2009 Bonnaroo.

Can’t wait for the Roo 2010!

Hey ya’ll, this year’s sked is out. Some tough decisions as always. Quick look says Friday will be toughest. From 6-9pm Tenacious D, OK GO, The National, Les Claypool and Steve Martin all play. Plenty of overlap there, of course. Gaslight and Carolina Chocolate both start at 1:45pm earlier in the day. Dead Weather-Weezer is another overlap, not much though. And Conan is overlapping with much of the US-England World Cup Match.

Anyways, have at the sked:

http://mindreader.bonnaroo.com/bonnaroo-2010-schedule.html

Check out this video of Tom Petty’s “I Should Have Known It” which he played last night on SNL (even better rendition).  Of all the genres of music made in the world, this, this is the greatest.  Don’t try to give it a name.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_iBKacXIA4[/youtube]

So glad the sound cut to an incredible buzzing sound twice.

Rural men go to Dennys for their FREE birthday Grand Slam breakfast.

Well…actually…we were just going here anyway.

Happy Birthday Johnny!

Thanks for the clarification….

Not to beleaguer the point or to get all sentimental but see below for a well done video covering the recent weather events here in Nashville.  I assume the backing track is by Explosions in the Sky or Sigur Ros or some shit.  It doesn’t really matter, they’re all the same.

Yeah, pretty melodramatic.  But you’re not stuck in a flood.  Assholes.

Also, I’ve kept my ears open but haven’t heard anything about the Farm washing away or anything.  I think ‘Roo is safe.

OK, OK, let’s call a spade a spade.  We’ve got three more video teasers from How To Destroy Angels (see below), a sweet viral marketing campaign, and a cryptic website.  I was wrong.  The Rural Minority regrets the error.  I’m an asshole and a sexist to boot.  Count me amongst the masses excited to hear the music that this project produces.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/11349409[/vimeo]

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/11421911[/vimeo]

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/11404399[/vimeo]

I’m also looking forward to the day when Reznor tweets or blogs about the evils of YouTube.  That’s the only explanation for his apparent Vimeo fetish, right?  He’s sticking it to the capitalists or some shit?

In other news, Nashville has flooded.  You may not have heard because national news outlets decided to pick up the story only a few hours ago well after 15 people had died in Tennessee alone.  Luckily, this story, having to do with significantly less news-worthy water problems in a major metro area sat atop the NY Times website almost the entire weekend.  See below for some of the more sobering pictures of the damage so far (and also a really great tribute song already penned about the incident).  Be warned, however, that the Cumberland is still a’risin’.  The worst may be ahead of us.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgf8YnOfkBI[/youtube]