The Pluto Tapes - Live at SomerVaudeville (Video)

Eventually, I will get off my ass and separate this show by The Pluto Tapes into four pieces, one for each song, which is what I promised my friend Andy Hicks I would do about a month ago. But, for now, I think it is imperative that you all take a look at this awesome show that Andy put on as part of May’s inaugural SomerVaudeville event. If you have time for nothing else, skip directly to the end, to the tag for “Paula Abdul"/"Straight Up”. If that isn’t the most rocking Paula Abdul cover you’ve ever heard, then there’s something wrong with you.

Also, if you’re looking for something to listen to and you don’t already own it, buy a copy of Dead Planets Tell No Tales, the first album by The Pluto Tapes, on iTunes.

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• Nine Inch Nails and Pitchfork.tv have followed up on Monday’s posting of the rehearsal of “1,000,000” with two more clips of tour rehearsal footage, one for “Letting You” and a second for “Echoplex”. These clips further solidify the fact that I am an idiot for not having a ticket to see NIN on this tour yet. Good grief, this new line-up is good!
• In other NIN news, check out the picture above for a sneak peek at how the band is using Google Earth to enhance the tour experience this time around, and check out the notes on the photo on Flickr for a more details. It almost makes me want to download Google Earth. Almost. (Why can’t that program run in a browser yet?)
• And, lastly, in non-NIN news, and on a much more somber note, please do read Kevin Smith’s thoughts on George Carlin’s passing, which show just how much the filmmaker admired the late comic and his work.

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NIN 2008 Rehearsal Footage (Video)

Pitchfork.tv has “the first of three exclusive videos filmed during rehearsals for [Nine Inch Nails’] upcoming tour” and it’s a doozy. The band performs the song “1,000,000” (embedded above) and they really tear through the thing. A while back, I worried about Robin Finck rejoining the band but the dude has totally shut me up.

Of course, this just makes me that much sadder that I don’t have a ticket to either one of the band’s shows in the area (August 7 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT; and August 8 at DCU Center in Worcester, MA). But, hey, I’ve still got time to sell a kidney, right?

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Geek Force FiveCast 016 (Video)

I attended the R.E.M. show at Great Woods the Tweeter Center the Comcast Center on Friday evening and had a blast, even managing to shoot five seconds worth of video in between visits from the assholiest security guard in the world. The downside: going to the concert has gotten me obsessed with songs from the latest R.E.M. record, Accelerate, which I don’t own. This week’s Geek Force FiveCast has me pondering what to do when you can’t afford an album, but don’t want to steal it.

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• The latest Nine Inch Nails album, The Slip, which is available as a free download will also now be available as a physical CD. However, The NIN Hotline reports that only 200,000 copies will be released in the United States. The physical release will include, among other things, “a DVD of NIN performing live tracks from The Slip at rehearsals,” and I am ready to beat down anybody who stands in the way of me getting a copy.
• William Katt, the star of the most awesome television program of all-time, The Greatest American Hero, will be guest-starring on NBC’s Heroes next season. Newsarama reports that Katt will play a “really, really wonderful, seedy, smarmy-mouthed reporter.” Me, I haven’t seen any of the second season of Heroes, but I’m definitely going to have to catch up, now that I know about this upcoming guest appearance.

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