Con­certs:

• May 20: Frog Eyes: never not good, but come on, play your slow stuff. Carey was way unchar­ac­ter­is­ti­cally mak­ing awful jokes and smil­ing, so I can only assume he was more drunk than usual.
• May 24: Mice Parade: bor­ing (sorry)
• May 28: Light­ning Bolt/DMBQ: SOLD FUCKING OUT (shoulda known)
• June 2: CSS: really very hot and good but uneventful
• June 5: Great Lake Swim­mers: the Sea and Cake show prob­a­bly sucked anyway
• June 7: Black Moth Super Rain­bow / Archi­tec­ture in Helsinki: FUCKING HELL. Out of AiH, BMSR, and “San­to­gold,” BMSR went FIRST. Who the fuck do San­to­gold think they are. Me to BMSR: “I thought you guys were going on sec­ond.” BMSR to me: “So did we.” AiH suck.
• June 9: The Clien­tele / Beach House: that Beach House girl is obnox­ious, but they sounded great at the MFA; The Clien­tele are won­der­ful as always and Alas­dair charmed all our pants off. They did play: “Reflec­tions After Jane.” They did not play: “As Night Is Falling.”
• June 10: WEEN: FUCKING WEEEEN (this show lasted for 2.5 hours on Hamp­ton Beach and was vir­tu­ally iden­ti­cal to their 2003 Avalon show and, I imag­ine, to every show they’ve done in between). Lim­ited edi­tion posters №s 140–142/150.

Here’s a track from the new Fridge album.