The end of Rainer Maria; the beginning of the new Modest Mouse

Pitchforkmedia.com is reporting that Rainer Maria is calling it quits at the end of the year ...

Johnny Marr is now touring with Modest Mouse, so if you are in California, check out a gig on their mini-tour ...

The AJC had an decent article about the lack of minorities in country music. The story mainly focused on the lack of black country artists, but completely overlooked the lack of latin artists in the genre. With a couple of exceptions, there hasn't been a a relavent artist of either background since the early 1980's ...

If you read Idolator.com, they completely based fellow Decatur-publication, Paste Magazine. Maybe they (Idolator) should spend less time bashing publications that create original content, and more time actually creating some of their own ...

I'm glad to see Rich over at CableandTweed.com is posting on a regular basis again, he goes a good job over there ...

And in case you wonder what I've been listening to lately, here's what I've enjoyed of late: the Little Ones, the Hidden Cameras and 120 days.