I’m trying not to listen to the two leaked Porcupine Tree songs on my hard drive. It’s working so far.
Obviously, I’m not holding out once the whole thing leaks.
If you think this is strange, check out PT’s lead on my top artists list and go listen to them here.

It seems like we’ve been here before. The RIAA can continue to blame piracy for declining sales, but it just ain’t so. Perhaps if they released better music, their sales would be better. Actually, the article suggests a different explanation, but I’d rather mock the RIAA. They definitely deserve it.

Man, with all this Explosions in the Sky, Do Make Say Think, and Mogwai I’ve been listening to I had forgotten how good Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Yanqui U.X.O is. How can you not like a band so pretentious they moved the exclamation point at the end of their name to a random place in [...]

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The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
It’s kinda funny. The first time I heard The Decemberists, I thought they were awful (and I wasn’t exposed to a bad song, either: 16 Military Wives). Then, slowly, Picaresque became one of my favorite albums of last year. That didn’t happen with The Crane Wife - I loved it [...]

The “I’ve really not done this in a while” edition.
Kayo Dot - [Choirs of the Eye #02] A Pitcher of Summer
King Crimson - [Larks' Tongues In Aspic #03] Exiles
Audioslave - [Audioslave #14] The Last Remaining Light
Porcupine Tree - [Up The Downstair #02] Synesthesia
System of a Down - [System of a Down #01] Suite-pee
Radiohead - [Kid [...]

The concert on Thursday was excellent. Alasdair Roberts, a Scottish folk singer, opened. He was better than I thought he was going to be after listening to a few clips on Amazon.
Of course, everyone was there for The Decemberists. They opened with The Crane Wife 3, the opening track from their new album. After that [...]

I get to go see The Decemberists tomorrow in Missoula, which should be a lot of fun. I hope our conspiracy theorist friend doesn’t come back while I’m gone and go on a rampage about getting trapped in my spam filter again.
In case you were wondering, Craig and I are betting on the Cat-Griz game [...]

So I saw a large pig promoting CI-97 outside of Staples. You can’t stop government spending without a fresh supply of staples, you know.
Also, the people in the building next to me seem to have horrible taste in music. First it was rap, then R&B, and now it’s awful pop music. And they’re singing along. [...]

The Decemberists’s latest is amazing. Especially “The Island, Come And See, The Landlord’s Daughter, You’ll Not Feel The Drowning.” Progressive indie pirate rock!
I might have to catch them in Missoula in November.

Porcupine Tree has signed with Roadrunner.
This seems bizarre on several levels. I mean, I realize Deadwing was a little darker than some of their other albums, but Roadrunner? Does this mean we’re going to get a Devildriver/PT tour? I’m just quivering in anticipation.
I can’t see the typical Roadrunner fan embracing PT (unlike, say, Opeth). Then [...]