Edds & Onds

*The Sports Guy is the shit. Pretenders & Contenders on ESPN.com, link follows. It doesn't get much worse than the Pirates against the Brewers. I am watching it right now, dying laughing everytime a member of the Pirates comes to bat and they show him on a cartoon pirate ship. I thought it was a joke for one guy, but it turns out they do all kinds of hokey shit for every Pirates batter. Not to mention the guys calling the game seem to have the whole charisma-bypass thing going on. I am so glad I was not born a Pirates fan. Not only is the team sucking (Freddy Sanchez aside), but they can't even make watching these games bearable. They add to the pain by doing stupid shit to announce their players. Insult to injury. But, of course, watching the Bucs is still better than work. [Link]

*Willy Nelson + Ryan Adams = Tunes to hit the cheeba to [Link]

*Beck's tracklisting on the Nigel Goodrich-produced The Information is at Filter-Mag. [Link]

*Brooklyn Vegan had some henchmen at The Roots/Talib Kweli (w/ a splash of Cee-Lo Green) show at Webster Hall. My only question is this: were there monster advertisements for KOOL cigarettes everywhere, as there were for the DC show? [Link]

*Indie hype magnet Beirut is playing Warehouse Next Door (1017 7th Street, NW DC) next Wednesday, August 23rd.
[Warehouse | Insound Top Sellers #8 | MySpace]

*Joe Lally is playing a solo set at Black Cat this Saturday night. He is the bassist from Fugazi and he also worked with John Frusciante on their Automatic Writing album two years back. The Black Cat website says that he has a new solo album on the way. [Link]