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Trying to remember all the concerts I've been to that are worth noting, will update as my life goes on.

Barenaked Ladies x2
Sting
Paul Simon
O.A.R. (This was an accident - they are terrible)
Rock Kills Kid
Electric Six
Mew
Kasabian
The Mars Volta
The Darkness
Muse
Interpol x2
The Crystal Method
Cake
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra performs Led Zeppelin
Jet (surprisingly not all that good live)
Flogging Molly
Boys Noize
The Walkmen

1. How did you get into 29?
Laura Stevenson and The Cans
I saw them with Bomb the Music Industry!] and Andrew Jackson Jihad and liked what I heard.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Mischief Brew
I'll say Thanks, Bastards!.

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33?
The Gaslight Anthem
"I still know the song and the words and the name and the reasons."

4. What is your favorite album by 49?
Sigur Rós
Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
The Homecoming Queens
A Sound You Once Knew, and a burned mixtape thing with songs from His Name Is Not Roberto and Songs For Names That Don't Make Sense.

6. What is your favorite song by 50?
Tomahawk Chop
Antoni

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?
Cobra Skulls
Nah.

8. What is your favorite album by 15?
Fake Problems
How Far Our Bodies Go

9. What is your favorite song by 5?
Shinobu
At this moment, I'll say Regular Love Triangle.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Bedouin Soundclash
Just about all of them, but in particular, Gyasi Went Home.

11. What is your favorite album by 40?
Andrew Bird
Noble Beast

12. What is your favorite song by 10?
Neutral Milk Hotel
The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. Two & Three

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
Catch 22
I remember listening to them on the bus in like fifth grade. They're the band that got me into ska.

14. What is your favorite song by 38?
Aeroplane, 1929
Scarlet Fever

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Cheap Girls
Stay High (Magic)

16. How many times have you seen 25 live?
spring awakening
Lol once.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
We Are the Union
MTV Is Over, If You Want It probably.

18. What is your favorite album by 11?
The Arrogant Sons of Bitches
Three Cheers For Disappointment

19. Who is a favorite member of 1?
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Aw don't even I love them both.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
mc chris
Yes.

21. What is a good memory involving 27?
The New Pornographers
I can vividly remember blasting Letter From an Occupant on the last day of seventh grade. That felt cool.

22. What is your favorite song by 16?
Rx Bandits
Overcome (the Recapitulation)

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
DANGERDOOM
Space Ho's

24. What is your favorite album by 18?
Westbound Train
Transitions

25. What is your favorite song by 21?
The Fratellis
A Heady Tale

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
The Aggrolites
Faster Bullet

27. What is your favorite album by 3?
Bomb the Music Industry!
They're all too damn good.

28. What is your favorite song by 2?
The World/Inferno Friendship Society
Go With It Girl, Zen and the Art of Breaking Everything in This Room, One for the Witches, All of California and Everyone Who Lives There Stinks, Ich Erinnere Mich An Die Weimarer Republik, and so many more. I couldn't pick just one. I love this band too much.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32?
The Dresden Dolls
Girl Anachronism

30. What is your favorite song by 8?
Royal City Riot
Paumanok

31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
None. One day...

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
Fear Nuttin Band
Fears

33. What is your favorite album by 12?
The Mountain Goats
Tallahassee

34. What is the worst song by 45?
Against Me!
Muhrr I don't know.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34?
Streetlight Manifesto
Everything Goes Numb?

36. What is your favorite album by 48?
The Streets
Everything Is Borrowed

37. How many times have you seen 42 live?
The Fad
Fuck everything.

38. What is your favorite song by 36?
Less Than Jake
Automatic

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
Big D and the Kids Table
Little Bitch

40. What is your favorite album by 7?
Defiance, Ohio
The Fear, the Fear, the Fear

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy?
Demi Lovato
<3333333333

42. What is your favorite album by 41?
Franz Nicolay
Major General

43. What is your favorite song by 24?
Cake
Dime

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46?
Sean P. Rogan
Always makes me happy.

45. What is your favorite song by 35?
Vampire Weekend
Oxford Comma

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Regina Spektor
The Calculation. Too much.

47. What is your favorite album by 4?
The Decemberists
At first I was like The Crane Wife, but then I was like The Hazards of Love, but then I was like Picaresque, and now I can't decide.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37?
[artist]Lady Gaga[.artist]
Lady Gaga and everything about her.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43?
Tally Hall
Good Day

50. How many albums do you own by 20?
WHY?
Don't physically own any, but I have eight in my library.

(stolen from drewnew)

Mainly curious + somewhat bored = this.
Select 20 songs at random; take line 1 from the first line of song 1, line 2 from the second line of song 2, etc. (If a song had too few lines, I started counting again from the beginning.)

01. Cake - Sheep Go to Heaven
02. Counting Crows - Mrs. Potter's Lullaby
03. The Vandals - San Berdu
04. David Bowie - Star
05. Belle & Sebastian - If You Find Yourself Caught In Love
06. Barenaked Ladies - Blame It On Me
07. Pantera - Cemetary Gates
08. Beastie Boys - Putting Shame in Your Game
09. Jim Croce - Operator
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Medellia of The Gray Skies
11. Stroke 9 - Letters
12. ACDC - War Machine
13. Jose Gonzalez - Crosses
14. Mike Doughty - I Just Want the Girl in the Blue Dress
15. Foo Fighters - Everlong
16. Incubus - Echo
17. Minus the Bear - The Fix
18. Ozzy Osbourne - Goodbye to Romance
19. The Beatles - Mean Mr. Mustard
20. Dropkick Murphys - The Fortunes of War

I'm not feeling alright today.
I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host.
Most girls make noises in their sleep,
Bevan tried to change the nation.
If you find yourself caught in love
but if you blame it on the rain, tell me
I'm a man cut in half in this world.

But I've got the styles that are always in the pocket
so I can call just to tell them I'm fine;
I'd give you what you wanted.
You're pulling away,
I'm like a bird of prey.
Ignore them tonight and you'll be alright.
Behind the mic I'm burning too.
The only thing I'll ever ask of you:
Strange how it turns out that way

As he slides in the rest of them continue their talking and drinking
and I feel the time is right although I know,
Keeps a ten-bob note up his nose;
when the justice eludes you, it's the fortunes of war.

Put your music player, whatever it is, on random or shuffled play.
Answer these questions with the song you get when you hit the skip button!
Note: some songs will make sense, others won't. Don't Cheat!

Which song describes the mood you are in right now?: Muse - Shrinking Universe
Which song describes the mood you are usually in?: The Sweet Inspirations - Emergency
Which song describes one of your favorites things to do?: A Perfect Circle - Magdalena
Which song describes something else you like to do?: Tegan and Sara - Monday Monday Monday
Which song explains the way you think about love?: Goo Goo Dolls - Only One
What would you sing to your soulmate right now?: Damien Rice - Sweet Avenue
Which song best represents you?: Nine Inch Nails - Sin
Which song describes your sexual preference?: Bright Eyes - Road to Joy
Which song describes what would occur between you and a prostitute?: Stan Getz - Soul Eyes
Your lover on the side?: The Killers - Read My Mind
The teenage queen and the loaded gun, the drop-dead dream, the chosen one. A southern drawl and a world unseen, a city wall and a trampoline. I don't mind if you don't mind, 'cause I don't shine if you don't shine. Before you jump, tell me what you find when you read my mind. Slipping in my faith until I fall, you never return that call. Woman, open the door. Don't let it sting. I wanna breathe that fire again.
How about your wife or husband?: Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Parallel or Together?
Which song would be played at your wedding?: Incubus - Pardon Me
Which song would be played at your wedding reception?: Stars - What I'm Trying to Say
Which song describes yourself in the future?: Tegan and Sara - Want to Be Bad
Which song describes yourself in the past?: Jack Off Jill - Clear Hearts Grey Flowers
Which song would be appropriate for a one night stand?: Wilco - Outta Mind (Outta Sight)
Which song would best describe your first time kissing?: Spoon - They Never Got You
Which song would best describe your first time having sex?: Tegan and Sara - First
Which song would best describe your fashion sense?: Goo Goo Dolls - Big Machine
Which song would describe your taste in the opposite or same sex?: An Horse - Little Lungs
Which song best describes your parents?: My Chemical Romance - Cemetery Drive
Which song best describes your family in general?: Cake - Love You Madly
I don't want to hold back. I don't want to slip down. I don't want to think back to the one thing that I know I should have done. I don't want to doubt you, know everything about you. I don't want to sit across the table from you wishing I could run.
Which song best describes your friends?: Andrew Bird - Imitosis
Which song best describes your school?: Rilo Kiley - Close Call
She was born on a brightened pew to a gypsy mother in a bucket of tears. Her good looks could have sailed a ship, but her will alone could have sunk it. Funny thing about money for sex: you might get rich, but you'll die by it. It's gonna be a close call.
Which song best describes your public personality?: Jack Off Jill - Nazi Halo
Bring your IQ and try to understand. Just 'cause I'm listening don't mean we're still friends. Can't fix my problem: you've crossed a thin line. You can't just work it out. Not with me, this time. You go solo: your faggot rainbow, your junkie ego, your tragic disco, your Nazi halo won't save you this time. You're so predictable. No shadow of doubt. When you are suffering, know who sold you out. Fuck your opinions. Fuck your lack of spine. When you are miserable, know that I'm just fine.
Which song best describes your private personality?: A Perfect Circle - Passive
Leaning over you here, cold and catatonic, I catch a brief reflection: what you could and might have been. It's your right and your ability to become my perfect enemy. Wake up and face me. Don't play dead, 'cause maybe, some day, I will walk away and say, "You disappoint me. Maybe you're better off this way." Why can't you turn and face me?


How am i feeling today?: Bright Eyes - Laura Laurent
Will I get far in life?: Client - Monkey on My Back
How do my friends see me?: Tegan and Sara - Are You Ten Years Ago
Where will I get married?: End Of Green - no coming home
What is the story of my life?: Bright Eyes - The Difference in the Shades
What is/was high school like?: Sahara Hotnights - Quite a Feeling
How can I get ahead in life?: The Mountain Goats - San Bernardino
We got in your car, and we hit the highway. Eastern sun was rising over the mountains, yellow and blood red beams, like a kaleidoscope. And flaming swords may guard the garden of Eden, but we consulted maps from earlier days, dead languages on our tongues, holding on to our last hope. And the day was bright and fine, and the highway sign said, "San Bernardino welcomes you."
What is the best thing about me?: Gregory and the Hawk - Isabelle
And the ground's already hard where it's been dug in. I've gone this way too many times, but the pick keeps going deeper and I'm not turning back, so Isabelle, try to understand. I know just what to say, but it's incorrect to say it. How do I break it to him, the death of one who's staying? And all I think of now is a way to get under and a way to get out. Isabelle, what can I do for the naive pain it's causing you?
How is today going to be?: Jimmy Eat World - Work
What is in store for this weekend?: An Horse - company
What song describes my parents?: Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Biomusicology
My grandparents?: Imogen Heap - Missing You
How is my life going?: KT Tunstall - Universe and U
What song will they play at my funeral?: Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers (Parts 2 and 3)
How does the world see me?: Jack Off Jill - Strawberry Gashes
I lay quiet waiting for her voice to say, "Some things you lose, and some things you just give away." Scold me: failed her. If only I'd held on tighter to her pale white skin that twisted and withered away from me. Watch me lose her. It's almost like losing myself. Give her my soul and let them take somebody else. Get away from me. Watch me fault her: you're living like a disaster. She said, "Kill me faster, with strawberry gashes all over, all over me."
Will I have a happy life?: Wilco - Side With the Seeds
What do my friends really think of me?: Placebo - Slackerbitch
Your memory will fade. I didn't mean it. You've always had it made. I didn't mean it. I know you feel betrayed. I just wanted to get laid. I didn't mean it. Slackerbitch, fag-hag whore, looks real cute for lips so sore. Always knocking on my door. You come across impure. I didn't mean it. Goddamn immature: I didn't mean it. You act so insecure. You hate me now, I'm sure. I didn't mean it.
Do people secretly lust after me?: Jimmy Eat World - Futures
How can I make myself happy?: Maria Mena - Just a Little Bit
What should I do with my life?: Peaches - Felix Partz
Will I ever have children?: Tilly and the Wall - Bessa
What is some good advice for me?: Tilly and the Wall - Love Song
What is my signature dancing song?: Museum - eden
What do I think my current theme song is?: Ani DiFranco - Both Hands
What does everyone else think my current theme song is?: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dragon Queen
What type of men/women do you like?: Ani DiFranco - Fuck You (Untouchable face)
How does my sex life look?: Cream - SWLABR
Would I make a good catch?: From Autumn to Ashes - Mercury Rising
Will I have a good life in general?: Neko Case - Lion's Jaws
Can (insert YOUR CRUSH's name here) ever really love me?: Rilo Kiley - It's a Hit
Can me and (insert YOUR CRUSH's name here) ever be more than friends?: Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
What's going to happen to me this week?: Stone Temple Pilots - Still Remains
Where will I be a year from now?: Tegan and Sara - Our Trees
What is my biggest wish?: Wilco - At Least That's What You Said
What is the love of my life doing at this very moment?: Goo Goo Dolls - Long Way Down
How will I die?: Neko Case - Star Witness
What will happen after I die?: Roxy Music - Do The Strand


Movie Soundtrack
Opening Credits: Panic! At the Disco - But It's Better If You Do
Waking Up: Placebo - Because I Want You To
First Day of School: Neva Dinova - Brooklyn
Falling In Love: Neko Case - Duchess
Losing Virginity: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft Shock
Fight Song: Tegan and Sara - Call It Off
I won't be out long, but I still think it better end. You take your time coming over here. I think that's for the best. Call, break it off. Call, break my own heart. Maybe I would have been something you'd be good at. Maybe you would have been something I'd be good at. But now we'll never know. I won't be sad, but in case I'll go there every day to make myself feel bad. There's a chance I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do.
Breaking Up: Wilco - Monday
Prom: Bright Eyes - Neely O'Hara
Life: Metric - The People
Mental Breakdown: The Dresden Dolls - Backstabber
Driving: Panic! At the Disco - The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage
Flashback: Interpol - Public Pervert
Getting Back Together: Joan Armatrading - Love And Affection
Wedding: Otep - God Is A Gun
Birth of Child: Beck - Walls
Final Battle: Tilly and the Wall - Brave Day
Death Scene: Metric - The Police and the Private
Funeral Song: Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today
Ending Credits: Radiohead - 4 Minute Warning


Will it be okay?: The Emotions - When Tomorrow Comes
How are you feeling today?: An Horse - Scared As Fuck
How do your friends see you?: The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful
Will you get married?: Goo Goo Dolls - Here Is Gone
What is your best friend’s theme song?: Neko Case - A Widow's Toast
What is the story of your life?: Neko Case - Marais la Nuit
What was high school like?: The Weakerthans - I Hate Winnipeg
The driver checks the mirror seven minutes late. A crowded writer's restlessness annunciates.
How can you get ahead in life?: Gregory and the Hawk - Season Poem
What is the best thing about your friends?: Wilco - Candyfloss
What is tonight going to be like?: Andrew Bird - The Naming of Things
What is in store for the remainder of this weekend?: Maria Taylor - It's Time
What song describes you?: Azure Ray - Look to Me
To describe your grandparents?: Peaches - You Love It
How is your life going?: The Weakerthans - Watermark
What song will they play at your funeral?: Cake - The Distance
How does the world see you?: She & Him - Change Is Hard
Will you have a happy life?: Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat
What do your friends really think of you?: Imogen Heap - Can't Take It In
Do people secretly lust after you?: A Perfect Circle - Gravity
How can I make myself happy?: Nirvana - All Apologies
What should you do with your life?: The Mountain Goats - Magpie
Will you ever have children?: Wilco - Hell Is Chrome


What Song Explains Your...
Life... The Fiery Furnaces - Single Again
Friends... Sandra Cross - Make Up To Break Up
Family... Goo Goo Dolls - Sympathy
Boyfriend/Girlfriend/Crush... Rilo Kiley - Give a Little Love
Favorite Teacher... Adolescence of Utena - Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku
Pet... An Horse - Shoes Watch
Enemy... Metric - Soft Rock Star
Religion... Adolescence of Utena - Bara no Rashin - Shura - Nikutai Seiza Alpha Psi Zeta Seiun
Doctor... The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3
Favorite TV Character... Metric - Hardwire
Personality... Azure Ray - We Are Mice
Looks... Bright Eyes - Nothing Gets Crossed Out
The weather outside is... Radiohead - Climbing Up The Walls
I feel like... Fiona Apple - Pale September
I would really love to... Spoon - I Turn My Camera On
No one can stop me from... Peaches - Give'er
Today I will... Wilco - Blue Eyed Soul
You're gonna lose control without your blue-eyed soul.
Love is like... The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go
I would call myself... Rilo Kiley - Rest of My Life
I've never been to... Taking Back Sunday - You Know How I Do
If I were a... Metric - monster hospital (mstrkrft rmx)
Never forget to... Bright Eyes - When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass
No one believes me when... Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining
I would never... Peaches - Mommy Complex
I could see myself... Patrick Wolf - The Libertine
I'm as fun as... The Sessions - What Is This Feeling
I wish... Pedro the Lion - Bands With Managers
S/He will never understand why... The Cure - A Letter To Elise
I'm nearly... Randy Newman - Little Boxes
I want to see... The New Pornographers - Letter From an Occupant
At night time... Wilco - I'm Always in Love
My fashion sense is... Debby Holiday - Piece Of My Love
I cry when... Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken
The most annoying thing is... Wilco - Casino Queen
The moon is... Feist - So Sorry
I get tired when... Patrick Wolf - To the Lighthouse
I lack... Radiohead - 15 Step
I'm so absorbing in... Our Lady Peace - 4 AM
I should be... The Cure - The Baby Screams
I can't seem to forget... Maria Taylor - Green Butterfly
Where in the world is... Regina Spektor - Man of a Thousand Faces
I don't want to hear... Neko Case - Pretty Girls
Don't give up on... Sahara Hotnights - Teenage Kicks
I should give up on... Our Lady Peace - Is Anybody Home?
I want to be... Heart - Crazy On You
I like a lot of... Neko Case - The Needle Has Landed
I often think about... Goldfrapp - Strict Machine
I don't understand why... Azure Ray - Rise
Guys are... Metric - London Halflife
Girls go to... Sleater-Kinney - Youth Decay
I'm in trouble for... Muse - Assassin
Candy is for... Goo Goo Dolls - Eyes Wide Open
Take me to... Sleater-Kinney - Burn, Don't Freeze
All I've ever cared about was... Muse - Falling Away With You
Take me away from... Gregory and the Hawk - In Fact
If you've got time, anyway, why not watch me hurt? And nothing is sweeter than needed revenge. Oh, that's right. I did nothing, and you were the mean one.
The worst possible thing is... Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop


Soundtrack for your life - Shuffle MP3s, advance, list, give thoughts:
Opening Credits: Feist - 1234
Waking Up: Andrew Bird - Plasticities
Falling in Love: Regina Spektor - Fidelity
Fight Scene: Adrienne Pauly - Je Veux Un Mec
Breaking Up: Neko Case - High on Cruel
I shine like the sun. I'm on fire right now. Your tears have come too late. You break down the door. There's already nothing: I've only one heart to take. You're crawling on the floor like a fool, and I'm so high on cruel. You'll drown in the light, and I'll burn like a star. Your tears are gonna give me fuel.
Getting Back Together: Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
Secret Love: Wilco - What Light
Life's Okay: Panic! At the Disco - Camisado
Can't take the kid from the fight. Take the fight from the kid.
Mental Breakdown: Ani DiFranco - Gravel
Driving Flashback: Regina Spektor - One More Time With Feeling
Partying: Wilco - A Shot in the Arm
Happy Dance: Azure Ray - Sea of Doubts
Regretting: Rilo Kiley - Rock N Roll Suicide
Long Night Alone: She & Him - Untitled
Final Battle: Radiohead - In Limbo
Death Scene: Elliott Smith - Memory Lane
If it's your decision to be open about yourself, be careful or else. Be careful or else. Uncomfortable apart, it's all written on my chart. And I take what's given me most cooperatively. I do what people say and lie in bed all day, absolutely horrified. I hope you're satisfied. Isolation pushes past self-hatred, guilt, and shame, to a place where suffering is just a game, but everybody's scared of this place. They're staying away. Your little house on Memory Lane.
End Credits: My Chemical Romance - Helena
Deleted Scenes!: Sleater-Kinney - Wilderness

I started redoing this thing, which I did a while ago and found some minor insight into my music tastes and history. But then I started getting the same results again, because the questions repeat themselves for different numbers, and some bands get the same thing asked of them as last time. So for this one, I'm going to use my top 50 from the last 12 months.

1. How did you get into 31? Lucero
My brother started getting into this country-punk music, at the same time as I decided that I'd see what the deal was with Johnny Cash, so I was sort of co-opted into it. I listened to (and fucking loved) Ben Nichols' Last Pale Light In the West, so I decided to see what the deal was with his band.


2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? Muse
No clue. Probably Butterflies And Hurricanes.


3. What's your favourite lyric by 29? Gogol Bordello
Ultimate: There was never any good old days / They are today, they are tomorrow / It's a stupid thing we say / Cursing tomorrow with sorrow.


4. What is your favourite album by 49? Cake
Comfort Eagle, although they were never really an album band to me.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Evil Cowards
None. They only have one, and I downloaded it.


6. What is your favourite song by 50? Bloc Party
Flux (Extended Version). The German version's also pretty killer.


7. Is there a song by 4 that makes you sad? The Mountain Goats
Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace. Good God.

8. What is your favourite song by 15? Chuck Regan
I'll say The Light, even though it's by the Chuck Ragan & Austin Lucas duo.


9. What is your favourite song by 5? The Cat Empire
Miserere.


10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? Modest Mouse.
I got this last time. Dashboard. Even needs have needs, tiny giants made of tinier giants.

11. What is your favourite album by 40? The Offspring
Americana. 1997, baby.


12. What is your favourite song by 10? Franz Ferdinand
Another repeat. Although now it's the single version of Lucid Dreams.


13. What is a good memory you have involving 33? Beirut
Sitting in a park in Woollahra smoking and drinking goon and listening to Henry talk about how he cries when he listens to Elephant Gun.


14. What is your favourite song by 37? Ben Nichols
The Last Pale Light in the West. Either version is fine.


15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? Bedouin Soundclash
Until We Burn In The Sun (The Kids Just Want A Love Song), because it's a wonderful track with a wonderful sentiment and is excellent to hear live.


16. How many times have you seen 24 live? Belle & Sebastian
None.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? The Gaslight Anthem
Boomboxes and Dictionaries, in a 'sit down and appreciate them' sort of way, it's the first track on the first album. And it worked.


18. What is your favourite album by 11? Attack In Black
Marriage


19. Who is a favourite member of 1? NOFX
Still Fat Mike.


20. Have you ever seen 14 live? Eels
Nooooo. I missed them last time they were in Australia, the only time they'd been out since I've been into them.

21. What is a good memory involving 45? Plushgun
Listening to the album Pins & Panzers and thinking 'This is exactly what being an indie hipster is all about. Love and all that shit.'


22. What is your favourite song by 16? The National
Fake Empire. No question.


23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? Rancid
Brad Logan, off Chef Aid.


24. What is your favourite album by 21? The Dodos
Visiter


25. What is your favourite song by 18? Sigur Rós
Nowadays it's Untitled #3/Samskeyti, although once upon a time Viðrar vel til loftárása was very special to me.


26. What is the first song you ever heard by 38? Mute Math
Collapse, by virtue of being track 1 on Mute Math.


27. What is your favourite lyric by 3? The Decemberists
This Soldiering Life
But I, I never felt so much life
Than tonight, huddled in the trenches,
Gazing on the battle field,
Our rifles blaze away;
We blaze away.


28. What is you favourite song by 2? Okkervil River
Another repeat. Still The War Criminal Rises and Speaks.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? [Green Day
Green Day: Time of Your Life, probably.


31. How many times have you seen 17 live? Reel Big Fish
They've been to Australia a total of five times since I've known them. I have seen them zero times.


32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? Death Cab for Cutie
Someday You Will Be Loved.


33. What is you favourite album by 12? Jackson Jackson
Ooh. They have two albums. Both are amazing albums for being albums. I'll say the first, because not only does it narrate its theme (the Apocalypse) as well as Tools for Survival does (Love), it incorporates a motif of the Underground, and all that word entails. So The Fire Is On The Bird.


34. What is the worst song by 46? The Faint
Phone Call. Hmm.


35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? Clint Mansell
Summer Overture (Summer).


36. What is you favourite album by 42? AFI
Another repeat. Sing the Sorrow.


37. How many times have you seen 39 live? Philip Glass
None, and I can't imagine it'd be particularly enthralling to.


38. What is your favourite album by 36? Tom Gabel
Strictly solo work (Against Me! is 9), it's Heart Burns by default.


39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? Old Kent Road
M'unno. Probably Johnny Cerebellum.


40. What is you favourite album by 7? Electric Six
Still Señor Smoke, although if Covered In Gas were an E6 album it'd take the prize.

Redux.

A
Fav: ASHES dIVIDE
First: A Perfect Circle
Last: Avenue Q

B
Fav: Tied... Boy Hits Car
First: Backstreet Boys
Last: Bush

C
Fav: Collective Soul
First: Cake
Last: The Cure

D
Fav: Depeche Mode
First: D12
Last: Dry Kill Logic

E
Fav: Eminem
First: Eagle Eye Cherry
Last: Explosions in the Sky

F
Fav: The Fratellis
First: Faith No More
Last: The Futureheads

G
Fav: Guano Apes
First: Garbage
Last: Guns 'N Roses

H
Fav: H.I.M.
First: H.I.M.
Last: Hot Hot Heat

I
Fav: Incubus
First: Imogen Heap
Last: Iron Maiden

J
Fav: Jason Mraz
First: Jack Johnson
Last: Justin Timberlake

K
Fav: Kaiser Chiefs
First: K.T. Tunstall
Last: Korn

L
Fav: Lifehouse
First: Lacuna Coil
Last: Ludo

M
Fav: Modest Mouse
First: M.I.A.
Last: My Chemical Romance

N
Fav: Nick Drake
First: Natalie Merchant
Last: N'sync

O
Fav: of Montreal
First: Oasis
Last: Ozzy Osbourne

P
Fav: Primus
First: P.O.D.
Last: Puscifer

Q
First: Queen
Last: Queens of the Stone Age

R
Fav: The Raconteurs
First: R.E.M.
Last: Rush

S
Fav: System of a Down, Stabbing Westward
First: Saliva
Last: System of a Down

T
Fav: Tom Petty
First: T.I.
Last: Tracy Byrd

U
Fav: Ugly Casanova
First: UB40
Last: The Used

V
Fav: Vertical Horizon
First: V Shape Mind
Last: Von Blondies

W
Fav: The White Stripes
First: The Wallflowers
Last: The Wrens

X, Y
None

Z
First: Zeromancer
Last: The Zutons

#
Favorite: 30 Seconds to Mars
First: (hEd)p.e.
Last: 311

Top 50 Artists, Last Three Months
A survey that rudely refuses to recognize Shivaree, number 25


1. How did you get into 29?
Ruth Wallis I found on CDbaby while looking for raunchy innuendo in chaster times. She always makes me laugh.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 23?
Emmylou Harris - probably "Too Far Gone"

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33?
Muddy Waters: "She's nineteen years old/ And got ways just like a baby child/ Nothin' I can do to please her/ To make this young woman feel satisfied."

4. What is your favorite album by 49?
Flo Rida? Hahaha!

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
johnny lang belongs to no one. I don't know. I just belieeeve in him.

6. What is your favorite song by 50?
Zee Avi - "Bitter Heart"

7. Is there a song by 40 that makes you sad?
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. No, actually. Repulsed and insane, maybe, but "sad" isn't the right word.

8. What is your favorite album by 15?
Tech N9ne. I just listen to "That Box" on repeat. Gross.

9. What is your favorite song by 5?
Gregory and the Hawk - I really love "A Wish."

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Blitzen Trapper's "Furr" makes me feel primal and giddy and alive.

11. What is your favorite album by 10?
Okkervil River - don't really know their albums, but I love "Black Sheep Boy"

12. What is your favorite song by 39?
Newton Faulkner is hilarious. God, they're all good. Maybe "Full Fat."

13. What is a good memory you have involving 31?
Ricky Skaggs - singing "Honey Won't You Open That Door" at top volume, walking down the stairs of my apartment building passing half a dozen people, breaking tune only to interject "hi." They loved it. It was sunny and a good day fer singin'

14. What is your favorite song by 38?
Lyle Lovett's "She's No Lady" is dripping with dark humor.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Alison Krauss does sad songs best, but I DO smile at "Fortune Teller" and "You Say It Best When You Say Nothing At All."

16. How many times have you seen 16 live?
Alexz Johnson - None! I wish. I'd probably reach fanatical orgasm.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 22?
Neutral Milk Hotel - No idea. Jess played 'em all night. Screwed up my charts :(

18. What is your favorite album by 11?
Meiko - Again, no albums, really. I like "You and Onions."

19. Who is a favorite member of 1?
The Mountain Goats Uhm, John Darnielle.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
The Blow - ohhhh, some day!!

21. What is a good memory involving 27?
Kate Walsh - falling asleep to her voice after a long day

22. What is your favorite song by 16?
Alexz Johnson's "Ultraviolet" is fun to sing off-key on the beach :)

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 48?
Everybody Else "Meat Market" I think.

24. What is your favorite album by 18?
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

25. What is your favorite song by 21?
Dead Can Dance "How Fortunate the Man With None"

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
Hayseed Dixie is a riot! I dunno, maybe "I Believe In A Thing Called Love"

27. What is your favorite album by 3?
SlimPickins impossibly improved upon Laniappe. I actually prefer Cross the Mountain.

28. What is your favorite song by 2?
Jaymay "Is This Love Or Isn't It?" I hope it is, Jamie, I hope it is.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32?
Just Jack "Doctor Doctor" - I was in Italy, watching Italian MTV. HAHA!

30. What is your favorite song by 8?
Emily Haines "The Maid Needs A Maid" is pretty and wry.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
William Fitzsimmons Zerrrro.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
Maria Mena's "You're the Only One" is a sweet, quirky lovenote.

33. What is your favorite album by 36?
Iron & Wine - another Jess interference :( He's not even here that often, he just has really concrete tastes, I guess.

34. What is the worst song by 12?
Tiziano Ferro "Indietro" fo SHO!

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34?
Milow does the best version of "Ayo Technology"

36. What is your favorite album by 47?
Right Away, Great Captain Who? Must've been in the bathtub when they were cranking.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live?
The Format - Haven't yet.

38. What is your favorite song by 46?
Laura Marling's "Alas I Cannot Swim" is wistful and awful, but I love it.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
Devil Doll "The Liquor Store" I bet.

40. What is your favorite album by 7?
Priscilla Ahn - Not sure. Favorite song's "I Don't Think So."

41. Is there a song by 30 that makes you happy?
Cake - Dammnit, Jess.

42. What is your favorite album by 24?
Gogol Bordello's Voi-La Intruder is gypsylicious.

43. What is your favorite song by 41?
Matchbox Twenty have done so many good songs!! Maybe "Bright Lights"

44. What is a good memory you have involving 45?
Rosi Golan - Enjoying a self-indulgent, hungover breakfast while listening to "Hazy"

45. What is your favorite song by 35?
Mac Lethal Tough call. They're all so good! Ironically, maybe "Pound That Beer"

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
The Knitters - ALL of them! Especially "Someone Like You" and "Wrecking Ball"

47. What is your favorite album by 4?
Leonard Cohen I only really have his "essential" collection. But I'm slowly falling in love with Blue Alert, which he cowrote with Anjani Thomas.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37?
Old Crow Medicine Show Oh, I don't even know them that well. My friend turned me onto them.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43?
Britney Spears! Hah, best question yet! "Baby, One More Time"

50. How many albums do you own by 20?
Maroon 5 is my sex god. Own all their albums.

bands I've seen more than once:

10+ times:
Elsinore - Courtyard Cafe 8/24/06, Illini Union 9/29/06, Taste of Champaign 2007, Sweetcorn Fest 2007, Urban Outfitters 8/24/08, Pygmalion 2008, Record Store Day 2009, IMCFest 2009, Green Music Fest 2009, Cowboy Monkey 8/22/09, Pygmalion 2009
Headlights - Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06, Krannert Art Museum 9/6/07, Canopy Club 3/6/08, IMC 4/18/08, Canopy Club 6/6/08, Urban Outfitters 8/29/08, Pygmalion 2008, Canopy Club 3/14/08, IMCFest 2009, Pygmalion 2009

eight times:
Morgan Orion - IMC 11/5/06, Red Herring 3/8/07, Red Herring 3/29/07, Red Herring 7/6/07, UIUC Main Quad 8/8/07, IMC 8/20/07, Cloud Factory 9/22/09, Channing-Murray 10/14/09
Zmick - Red Herring 4/14/07, Red Herring 5/5/07, Red Herring 11/2/07, Canopy Club 1/25/08, Sweetcorn Fest 2008, Canopy Club 8/23/08, Canopy Club 9/1/08, Canopy Club 9/22/08

seven times:
New Ruins - Courtyard Cafe 5/2/07, Red Herring 5/5/07, Pygmalion 2008, Cowboy Monkey 12/27/08, Cowboy Monkey 8/22/09, Courtyard Cafe 9/4/09, Pygmalion 2009
Common Loon[artist] - IMCFest 2007, IMC 5/4/08, Pygmalion 2008, IMCFest 2009, Record Store Day 2009, Taste of Champaign 2009, Pygmalion 2009

six times:
Me, Him and Charlie Miller - Iron Post 5/16/07, Iron Post 10/6/07, IMC 10/19/07, IMC 11/16/07, IMC 1/11/08, Iron Post 8/15/08

five times:
Mit'n - Red Herring 4/14/07, Iron Post 5/16/07, Courtyard Cafe 10/12/07, Caffe Paradiso 10/25/07, IMC 5/4/08

four times:
Nine Inch Nails - Assembly Hall 2/10/06, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater 7/3/06, Scottrade Center 8/20/08, Bonnaroo 2009
Duke of Uke - IMC 11/5/06, Iron Post 4/20/07, IMC 10/19/07, Espresso Royale 5/27/08
Fireflies - IMC 9/13/06, IMC 10/27/06, Red Herring 3/8/07, IMC 11/10/07
Organic Flow - house show 1/25/08, Taste of Nevada 8/24/08, Courtyard Cafe 9/13/08, IMCFest 2009
World's First Flying Machine - Pygmalion 2008, Canopy Club 3/14/08, Courtyard Cafe 8/27/09, Caffe Paradiso 10/2/09
The Hood Internet - Pygmalion 2008, Canopy Club 12/13/08, Bonnaroo 2009, Pygmalion 2009

three times:
David Bazan - Pygmalion 2006, Caffe Paradiso 9/23/06, Courtyard Cafe 12/6/08
Shipwreck - Courtyard Cafe 8/24/06, Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06, Krannert Art Museum 1/24/08
Yo La Tengo - Pitchfork 2006, Lollapalooza 2007, Pygmalion 2008
The Dresden Dolls - Metro 10/15/05, Lollapalooza 2006, Vic Theatre 10/20/06
Kaki King - Wall to Wall 2005, Highdive 10/13/06, Wall to Wall 2007
The Roots - Area: One 7/15/01, Lollapalooza 2007, Kirkland PAC 3/29/08
Triple Whip - Iron Post 2/18/07, Boneyard Arts Fest 4/20/07, Red Herring 5/5/07
Ryan Groff - Iron Post 2/18/07, Boneyard Arts Fest 4/20/07, Pygmalion 2009
Spoon - Foellinger Hall 10/28/07, Pitchfork 2006, Lollapalooza 2007
KiKi and PeePee - Living Room 12/14/07, Living Room 1/4/08, Red Herring 1/25/08
Good Night & Good Morning - Error House 1/12/08, Error House 1/19/08, Pygmalion 2009
Krukid - Red Herring 11/2/07, Kirkland PAC 3/29/08, Canopy Club 12/13/08
Mordechai in the Mirror - IMC 5/4/08, Caffe Paradiso 10/3/08, IMC 5/30/09
Decibully - Pygmalion 2008, Courtyard Cafe 5/1/09, Pygmalion 2009

two times:
Incubus - Area: One 7/15/01, Assembly Hall 10/13/02
Jeffrey Lewis - IMC 11/5/06, Channing-Murray 10/14/09
My Morning Jacket - Foellinger Auditorium 12/5/06, Bonnaroo 2008
The Chemicals - IMC 10/27/06, Sweetcorn Fest 2007
Silversun Pickups - Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06, Lollapalooza 2007
Caleb Engstrom - Pygmalion 2006, Courtyard Cafe 5/2/07
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Lollapalooza 2006, Assembly Hall 3/3/07
Ohtis - Courtyard Cafe 8/24/06, Pygmalion 2009
Andrew Bird - Lollapalooza 2006, Pygmalion 2007
Death Cab for Cutie - Lollapalooza 2005, Foellinger Auditorium 10/13/05
Dustin and the Furniture - UIUC Main Quad 8/8/07, Living Room 1/4/08
Corn Desert Ramblers - Red Herring 4/14/07, Iron Post 1/16/09
painkillers - Iron Post 6/16/07, Iron Post 1/16/09
The Decemberists - Foellinger Auditorium 4/15/07, Millennium Park 7/18/07
Withershins x2 - Red Herring 5/5/07, Living Room 12/14/07
Charles Joseph Smith - Red Herring 5/5/07, Red Herring 11/2/07
Alleyway Sex - IMC 6/30/07, Courtyard Cafe 1/26/08
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Lollapalooza 2007, Bonnaroo 2009
Megan Johns - IMC 8/20/07, Living Room 12/14/07
Dark Meat - Sweetcorn Fest 2007, Pygmalion 2008
Sonny Landreth - Wall to Wall 2007, Blues Brews and BBQ 2009
Smashing Pumpkins - Braden Auditorium 10/4/07, Adler Theatre 8/8/08
Man Man - Courtyard Cafe 10/12/07, Canopy Club 10/16/08
Kenny Knowles - Red Herring 11/2/07, Red Herring 1/25/08
Yeni Raki - Red Herring 11/2/07, IMC 11/16/07
Hathaways - Red Herring 11/2/07, Pygmalion 2009
The Beauty Shop - IMCFest 2007, Krannert Art Museum 1/24/08
Maritime - Courtyard Cafe 2/9/08, Green Fest 2009
Company of Thieves - Courtyard Cafe 2/9/08, Courtyard Cafe 1/25/09
Broken Social Scene - Bonnaroo 2008, Foellinger Auditorium 10/19/08
Derek Trucks Band - Bonnaroo 2008, Ellnora 2009
Jonathon Childers - Canopy Club 8/23/08, Pygmalion 2008
You & Yourn - Courtyard Cafe 12/6/08, Pygmalion 2009
Oceans - Courtyard Cafe 3/13/09, Pygmalion 2009
Maserati - Courtyard Cafe 3/13/09, Pygmalion 2009
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Courtyard Cafe 9/4/09, Rocket House 9/4/09
Peninsula - Cloud Factory 9/22/09, Channing Murray 10/14/09
The Avett Brothers - Canopy Club 9/7/08, Canopy Club 10/22/09

one time:
The Who - Deer Creek 7/26/97
OutKast - Area: One 7/15/01
Moby - Area: One 7/15/01
Hometown Hero - Assembly Hall 10/13/02

Doris Henson - Pageant 7/7/05
The Crimea - Pageant 7/7/05
Billy Corgan - Pageant 7/7/05
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Lollapalooza 2005
M83 - Lollapalooza 2005
Liz Phair - Lollapalooza 2005
Cake - Lollapalooza 2005
Billy Idol - Lollapalooza 2005
Primus - Lollapalooza 2005
Pixies - Lollapalooza 2005
Weezer - Lollapalooza 2005
Saul Williams - Lollapalooza 2005
Dinosaur Jr. - Lollapalooza 2005
Ben Kweller - Lollapalooza 2005
Drive-By Truckers - Lollapalooza 2005
Arcade Fire - Lollapalooza 2005
Dandy Warhols - Lollapalooza 2005
Dave Mason - Brookhaven Amphitheater 8/19/05
Eric Burdon - Brookhaven Amphitheater 8/19/05
Andy Summers - Wall to Wall 2005
Vernon Reid - Wall to Wall 2005
Youth Group - Foellinger Auditorium 10/13/05
Mucca Pazza - Metro 10/15/05
Faun Fables - Metro 10/15/05

Mary Timony - Foellinger Auditorium 10/28/05
Moving Units - Assembly Hall 2/10/06
Phat Phunktion - Mills Recital Hall 6/26/06
Theory of Everything - Aroma Cafe 7/13/06
Nels Cline Singers - Pitchfork 2006
Bonde do Role - Pitchfork 2006
CSS - Pitchfork 2006
Aesop Rock - Pitchfork 2006
Mission of Burma - Pitchfork 2006
Os Mutantes - Pitchfork 2006
The M's - Lollapalooza 2006
Stars - Lollapalooza 2006
Mute Math - Lollapalooza 2006
Secret Machines - Lollapalooza 2006
Sleater-Kinney - Lollapalooza 2006
VHS or Beta (DJ Set) - Lollapalooza 2006
Ween - Lollapalooza 2006
Be Your Own Pet - Lollapalooza 2006
The Go! Team - Lollapalooza 2006
Peeping Tom - Lollapalooza 2006
Particle - Lollapalooza 2006
Calexico - Lollapalooza 2006
The Flaming Lips - Lollapalooza 2006
The New Pornographers - Lollapalooza 2006
Manu Chao - Lollapalooza 2006
Catfish Haven - Lollapalooza 2006
Manishevitz - Lollapalooza 2006
Benevento-Russo Duo - Lollapalooza 2006
Matisyahu - Lollapalooza 2006
Queens of the Stone Age - Lollapalooza 2006
Watery Domestic - Courtyard Cafe 8/24/06
Psalters - IMC 9/13/09
mewithoutYou - IMC 9/13/06
Danielson - Pygmalion 2006
Lorenzo Goetz - Illini Union 9/29/06
Ostinato - Illini Union 9/29/06
The Kingdom - Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06
Viva Voce - Courtyard Cafe 10/7/06
The Red Paintings - Vic Theatre 10/20/06
Sxip Shirey - Vic Theatre 10/20/06
1090 Club - IMC 10/27/06
Irving - IMC 10/27/06
The Slip - Foellinger Auditorium 12/5/06

scurvine - Iron Post 1/19/07
Nonagon - Iron Post 2/18/07
Gnarls Barkley - Assembly Hall 3/3/07
Hinter - Red Herring 3/8/07
Chick Corea and Gary Burton - Krannert Center 4/5/07
Greg Spero Trio - Red Herring 4/14/07
My Brightest Diamond - Foellinger Auditorium 4/15/07
The Living Blue - Boneyard Arts Fest 4/20/07
Lynn O'brien - Boneyard Arts Fest 4/21/07
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Virginia Theatre 4/29/07
Jose Gonzalez - Courtyard Cafe 5/2/07
Santa - Red Herring 5/5/07
Dorian Minor - Red Herring 5/5/07
Water Between Continents - Iron Post 6/14/07
Carbomb Lottery - IMC 6/30/07
OUTCAST TO SOCIETY - IMC 6/30/07
Vexed Youth - IMC 6/30/07
Hollowed Out - IMC 6/30/07
Slint - Pitchfork 2007
GZA/Genius - Pitchfork 2007
Sonic Youth - Pitchfork 2007
The Polyphonic Spree - Lollapalooza 2007
Electric Six - Lollapalooza 2007
Blonde Redhead - Lollapalooza 2007
LCD Soundsystem - Lollapalooza 2007
Daft Punk - Lollapalooza 2007
I'm From Barcelona - Lollapalooza 2007
Silverchair - Lollapalooza 2007
Sound Tribe Sector 9 - Lollapalooza 2007
Patti Smith - Lollapalooza 2007
Interpol - Lollapalooza 2007
The Postmarks - Lollapalooza 2007
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Lollapalooza 2007
The Black Angels - Lollapalooza 2007
TV on the Radio - Lollapalooza 2007
Pearl Jam - Lollapalooza 2007
A Drum and an Open Window - IMC 8/20/07
Michael Kammin - IMC 8/20/07
Poster Children - Krannert Art Museum 9/6/07
Oh Astro - Krannert Art Museum 9/6/07
Toubab Krewe - Wall to Wall 2007
Campbell Brothers - Wall to Wall 2007
Yohimbe Brothers - Wall to Wall 2007
Harry Manx - Wall to Wall 2007
Tony McManus - Wall to Wall 2007
Alex de Grassi - Wall to Wall 2007
John McLaughlin - Wall to Wall 2007
[artist]Jorma Kaukonen[artist] - Wall to Wall 2007
Banning Eyre - Wall to Wall 2007
Buddy Guy - Wall to Wall 2007
Dianogah - Pygmalion 2007
Weird Al Yankovic - Assembly Hall 9/28/07
The Bravery - Braden Auditorium 10/4/07
The Extraordinaires - Courtyard Cafe 10/12/07
Bob Dylan - US Cellular Coliseum 10/20/07
Elvis Costello - US Cellular Coliseum 10/20/07
Amos Lee - US Cellular Coliseum 10/20/07
Western Civilization - Caffe Paradiso 10/25/07
Mount Eerie - Caffe Paradiso 10/25/07
Too Much to Carry - Red Herring 11/2/07
Michael Malinsky - IMCFest 2007
Infinite Imagination - IMCFest 2007
JigGsaw - IMCFest 2007
Kilborn Alley Blues Band - IMCFest 2007
Candy Foster and Shades of Blue - IMCFest 2007
Murali Coryell - IMCFest 2007
Shirley King - IMCFest 2007
Matt Rocks - IMC 11/16/07
Jenny is a Boy - Living Room 1/4/08
Toby Foster - Living Room 1/4/08
white. wrench. conservatory - IMC 1/11/08
Zachary Morris - Error House 1/12/08
Wabash - Error House 1/12/08
Clever Coil - Error House 1/12/08
The Fix - Error House 1/12/08
1999 - Error House 1/19/08
The Signal - Error House 1/19/08
The Drastics - Courtyard Cafe 1/26/08
Mustard Plug - Courtyard Cafe 1/26/08
Inspector Owl - Courtyard Cafe 2/9/08
Egon's Unicat - Courtyard Cafe 3/1/08
Manic Sewing Circle - Courtyard Cafe 3/1/08
Evangelicals - Canopy Club 3/6/08
Tall Tale - Canopy Club 3/6/08
The Guess Who - EPCOT Center 3/20/08
Kronos Quartet - Krannert Center 4/3/08
Unwed Sailor - Courtyard Cafe 4/12/08
Ryan Lindsey - Courtyard Cafe 4/12/08
Corn tha Coon - IMC 4/18/08
Islands - IMC 4/18/08
Stars of the Lid - Staerkel Planetarium 4/22/08
Christopher Willits - Staerkel Planetarium 4/22/08
Jookabox - Canopy Club 6/6/08
MGMT - Bonnaroo 2008
Battles - Bonnaroo 2008
Fiery Furnaces - Bonnaroo 2008
Minus the Bear - Bonnaroo 2008
!!! - Bonnaroo 2008
M.I.A. - Bonnaroo 2008
Chris Rock - Bonnaroo 2008
Metallica - Bonnaroo 2008
Les Claypool - Bonnaroo 2008
Soul Rebels Brass Band - Bonnaroo 2008
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - Bonnaroo 2008
Gogol Bordello - Bonnaroo 2008
B.B. King - Bonnaroo 2008
Levon Helm - Bonnaroo 2008
Sigur Ros - Bonnaroo 2008
The Morningbell - Bonnaroo 2008
The Coup - Bonnaroo 2008
Bela Fleck - Bonnaroo 2008
Ladytron - Bonnaroo 2008
Robert Randolph - Bonnaroo 2008
Aimee Mann - Bonnaroo 2008
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Bonnaroo 2008
Jake Shimabukuro - Bonnaroo 2008
Grizzly Bear - Verizon Wireless 8/3/08
Radiohead - Verizon Wireless 8/3/08
Identity Crisis - Iron Post 8/12/08
Beat Kitchen - Iron Post 8/15/08
A Place to Bury Strangers - Scottrade Center 8/20/08
Foghat - Sweetcorn Fest 2008
The Brother Whys - Canopy Club 8/23/08
Snowsera - Canopy Club 8/23/08
Herbert Wiser Band - Canopy Club 9/1/08
Justin Gordon - Canopy Club 9/7/08
Jaik Willis - Courtyard Cafe 9/13/08
Coco Coca - Pygmalion 2008
Times New Viking - Pygmalion 2008
Eureka Sky - Pygmalion 2008
Everthus the Deadbeats - Pygmalion 2008
Pontiak - Pygmalion 2008
Wye Oak - Pygmalion 2008
Robots Counterfeiting Money - Pygmalion 2008
Monotonix - Pygmalion 2008
Dan Deacon - Pygmalion 2008
The Lonelyhearts - Pygmalion 2008
Kid, You'll Move Mountains - Pygmalion 2008
Gentleman Auction House - Pygmalion 2008
Pattern Is Movement - Pygmalion 2008
Titus Andronicus - Pygmalion 2008
Black Mountain - Pygmalion 2008
Centaur - Pygmalion 2008
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter - Pygmalion 2008
High Places - Pygmalion 2008
Animate Objects - Pygmalion 2008
Asobi Seksu - Pygmalion 2008
Peter Piek - Canopy Club 9/22/08
Passafire - Canopy Club 9/22/08
Hopewell - Aragon Ballroom 9/27/08
My Bloody Valentine - Aragon Ballroom 9/27/08
The Abacinators - IMC 10/5/08
Dizzy Chair Time - IMC 10/5/08
Roberta Sparrow - IMC 10/5/08
The Independents - IMC 10/5/08
The Queers - IMC 10/5/08
Tim Fite - Canopy Club 10/16/08
Land of Talk - Foellinger Auditorium 10/19/08
CX Kidtronik - Canopy Club 11/5/08
The Death Set - Canopy Club 11/5/08
Girl Talk - Canopy Club 11/5/08
Fotosputnik - Courtyard Cafe 11/15/08
The Hentchmen - Courtyard Cafe 11/15/08
The Fleshtones - Courtyard Cafe 11/15/08
Starflyer 59 - Courtyard Cafe 12/6/08
Ice Water - Canopy Club 12/13/08
Tractor Kings - Cowboy Monkey 12/27/08
Hum - Cowboy Monkey 12/27/08

Frightened Rabbit - Courtyard Cafe 1/22/09
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Courtyard Cafe 1/25/09
Matter of Face - Red Herring 1/30/09
Jackhammer Hoganson - Red Herring 1/30/09
The Night Brigade - Red Herring 1/30/09
Wastebasket - Red Herring 1/30/09
Checkerboard Stalemate - Red Herring 1/30/09
Eugene Mirman - Courtyard Cafe 2/14/09
Pomegranates - Canopy Club 3/14/09
John Vanderslice - Courtyard Cafe 4/2/09
The Mountain Goats - Courtyard Cafe 4/2/09
The War on Drugs - Courtyard Cafe 4/3/09
The Hold Steady - Courtyard Cafe 4/3/09
Five Peace Band - Krannert Center 4/7/09
The Butts - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
Soy City Stranglers - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
Obi Wan Kenblo Mi - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
River City Rebels - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
The Casualties - Black Sheep Cafe 4/10/09
Sunset Stallion - IMCFest 2009
We Landed on the Moon! - IMCFest 2009
The Ruckus - IMCFest 2009
Faux Coup - Illini Union 4/30/09
Crazy/Agile - Illini Union 4/30/09
Local H - Illini Union 4/30/09
Light Pollution - Courtyard Cafe 5/1/09
The Foundry Field Recordings - Courtyard Cafe 5/1/09
John Hoeffleur - Iron Post 6/2/09
Ave Marling - Iron Post 6/2/09
Your Yellow Dress - The Stanley 6/8/09
Passion Pit - Bonnaroo 2009
Motion Potion - Bonnaroo 2009
Tobacco - Bonnaroo 2009
Dirty Projectors - Bonnaroo 2009
Animal Collective - Bonnaroo 2009
St. Vincent - Bonnaroo 2009
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Bonnaroo 2009
David Byrne - Bonnaroo 2009
Pheonix - Bonnaroo 2009
Mynameisjohnmichael - Bonnaroo 2009
Chairlift - Bonnaroo 2009
Katzenjammer - Bonnaroo 2009
Robin Hitchcock - Bonnaroo 2009
Bon Iver - Bonnaroo 2009
of Montreal - Bonnaroo 2009
Wilco - Bonnaroo 2009
The Mars Volta - Bonnaroo 2009
Russian Circles - Bonnaroo 2009
Bruce Springsteen - Bonnaroo 2009
High on Fire - Bonnaroo 2009
Erykah Badu - Bonnaroo 2009
Okkervil River - Bonnaroo 2009
Neko Case - Bonnaroo 2009
Phish - Bonnaroo 2009
Eddie "The Chief" Clearwater - Blues Brews and BBQ Fest
Pinetop Perkins - Blues Brews and BBQ Fest
Bob Margolin - Blues Brews and BBQ Fest
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith - Blues Brews and BBQ Fest
Brilliant Pebbles - Green Music Fest 2009
Sybris - Green Music Fest 2009
Say Hi - Green Music Fest 2009
Tapes 'n Tapes - Green Music Fest 2009
Art Brut - Green Music Fest 2009
Heyokas - Cowboy Monkey 8/22/09
Hot Cops - Cowboy Monkey 8/22/09
Pet Lions - UIUC South Quad 8/23/09
Tosche Station - Terror House 8/23/09
Moons - Terror House 8/23/09
Straight No Chaser - Terror House 8/23/09
Cloud Mouth - Terror House 8/23/09
Cougar Den - Terror House 8/23/09
Nurses - Courtyard Cafe 8/27/09
Throw Me the Statue - Courtyard Cafe 8/27/09
The Brunettes - Courtyard Cafe 8/27/09
War - Sweetcorn Fest 2009
My Werewolf Diary - Cowboy Monkey 8/29/09
The Beets - Cowboy Monkey 8/29/09
Vivian Girls - Cowboy Monkey 8/29/09
Chicha Libre - Ellnora 2009
Frank Vignola - Ellnora 2009
Junior Brown - Ellnora 2009
The National - Ellnora 2009
Yea Big + Kid Static - Parkland 9/13/09
Matt and Kim - Parkland 9/13/09
Mt St Helens Vietnam Band - Pygmalion 2009
Owen - Pygmalion 2009
Japandroids - Pygmalion 2009
Liz Janes - Pygmalion 2009
Brooke Waggoner - Pygmalion 2009
Joe Pug - Pygmalion 2009
Skream - Pygmalion 2009
Girls Next Door - Pygmalion 2009
Low - Pygmalion 2009
The Antlers - Pygmalion 2009
Autolux - Pygmalion 2009
Zach May & the Maps - Pygmalion 2009
The Horse's Ha - Pygmalion 2009
The Books - Pygmalion 2009
Iron And Wine - Pygmalion 2009
Porno Galactica - Pygmalion 2009
YACHT - Pygmalion 2009
gazelle - Pygmalion 2009
RJD2 - Pygmalion 2009
Thankful Tree - Cloud Factory 9/22/09
City Center - Cloud Factory 9/22/09
The Vertebrats - Amara Yoga 10/1/09
Bunny Zewt Suit - Channing Murray 10/14/09
David Sedaris - Virginia Theater 10/16/09
Infirmary - Terror House 10/24/09
DOTK - Terror House 10/24/09
Cloud Burial - Terror House 10/24/09
Maltross - Terror House 10/24/09