This is where we went, and who we saw. Yes, we are lucky, lucky bastards.
5/1 - The Whigs @Valentine’s - Albany, NY
5/2 - Third Eye Blind @Marist College - Poughkeepsie, NY; Mutemath - East Rutherford, NJ (tour bus); comedian Eugene Mirman - Brooklyn, NY @Union Hall
5/3 - Shout Out Louds @WXPN World Cafe & First Unitarian Church - Philadelphia, PA
5/4 - Murder By Death @Bowery Ballroom; Spree Wilson (cruising in our jeep) - New York, NY
5/5 - Sigur Rós’ Jónsi @House of Blues - Boston, MA
5/6 - RATT @Ram’s Head Live - Baltimore, MD
5/7 - Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun @The Triple - Richmond, VA
5/8 - The Moaners @The Nightlight - Chapel Hill, NC
5/9 - Future Islands @Secret Squirrel - Athens, GA
5/10 - Tendaberry @Some house in Little Five Points - Atlanta, GA
5/11 - Cowboy Jack Clement & Charlie Louvin @The Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa; Shotgun Lover @Eric McConnell’s studio - Nashville, TN
5/12 - Big Star’s Jody Stephens @Ardent Studios; tour of the legendary Sun Studio - Memphis, TN.
5/13 - A Line Between, The Pink Lipsticks @Summerfest Battle of the Bands Finals, Club Garibaldi’s - Milwaukee, WI
5/14 - Torche @Congress Theatre - Chicago, IL
5/15 - Those Darlins @Nelsonville Music Festival - Nelsonville, OH
5/16 - Rev. Horton Heat @Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH
5/17 - Conspiracy of Owls @the band’s basement studio - Detroit, MI
5/18 - Baroness @The Orpheum Theatre - Madison, WI
5/19 - Paul Westerberg, private performance @Target Field Minneapolis, MN
5/20 - Capgun Coup @Brothers Lounge - Omaha, NE
5/21 - Stardeath and White Dwarfs @Cain’s Ballroom - Tulsa, OK
5/22 - Smoke Up Johnny @Thick Syrup Records Birthday Show, White Water Tavern - Little Rock, AR
5/23 - Four Wheel Drive @The Cedar Shake - Texarkana, AR
5/24 - Of Montreal @Granada Theatre - Dallas, TX
5/25 - Centro-Matic’s Will Johnson (Will’s house) - Bastrop, TX
5/26 - Record Hop, Doug Burr, Shiny Around the Edges, Manned Missiles @The Schoolhouse - Denton, TX
5/27 - EkoTren @The Blue Goat - Salina, KS
5/28 - Ümlaüt @Road 34 Bike Bar- Fort Collins, CO
5/29 - The Forecast @The Railyard - Billings, MT
5/30 - Belt of Vapor, Ze Krau @The Black Whole - Spokane, WA
5/31 - Drive-By Truckers @Sasquatch! festival - The Gorge Amphitheater, George, WA
6/1 - Pilgrimage day: Sub Pop Records tour, Jimi Hendrix’s grave, The Edgewater Inn(location of the infamous “mudshark incident”) - Seattle, WA
6/2 - Rock, guns & whiskey with Triple Nixon @Mats Vilander’s house, and the band’s practice space - Ketchum, ID
6/3 - Damien Jurado @Urban Lounge - Salt Lake City, UT
6/4 - Young Dubliners @The Sands Casino/Eurofest - Reno, NV
6/5 - Captured! By Robots @Bottom of the Hill - San Fransisco, CA
6/6 - Subhumans @Echo - Los Angeles, CA
6/7 - An audience with The King: Elvis Presley - Las Vegas, NV
6/8 - Wayne “The Train” Hancock @Low Spirits - Albuquerque, NM
6/9 - Josiah Wolf @Hi-Dive - Denver, CO