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Let’s see, this collaboration between Josh Homme and PJ Harvey is from the the Desert Sessions Volume 9 and 10circa 2003. At that time, I was pregnant with my first child and kind of ignoring music in order to obsess over pregnancy books. And, look at what I missed! Let this be a lesson to you pregnant ones out there: put down the scary pregnancy books and listen to music. It’s better for the baby.

I went to Them Crooked Vultures on February 11^th at The Tabernacle here in Atlanta. For those of you who don’t know, this band is made up of Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, and John Paul Jones.

How excited was I to see this band play? Imagine your kid on Christmas morning and then throw in the anticipation of a birthday, a trip to Disney World, ice cream for breakfast, and a free-for-all shopping spree at Toys R Us.  In full disclosure, I thought the band’s debut album was good, not the best thing I’ve ever heard. It’s nothing new or different, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. But these are guys from Led Zeppelin, Queens of the Stone Age, and Nirvana, so live they have to be pretty damn good, right? (more…)