>> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:48:25 -0500 From: "Michael Bennett" To: audities@smoe.org Subject: Re: IPO Midwest Message-ID: This year, it looks like I'm missing the entire fest. I've been teaching this spring, which has kept me busy. And my two big nights out were for other events -- I saw Mark Buehrle throw his no-hitter and a great double bill show (Kaiser Chiefs and The Walkmen). That's just bad timing -- if it weren't for the teaching, I'd have taken in some shows. << It's a shame that you're missing the entire festival, Mike, because as I've said there really were some very solid new acts this year ... and some veteran bands that really upped the ante as well, such as The Elms, The Cells, and The Webstirs. I'm looking forward to talking about all this on Audities in my IPO wrapup some time next week, in part because I feel guilty about preaching the virtues of new music while at the same time I'm feeding threads about ancient George Harrison and Grand Funk songs. ;-) Greg Sager