by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com

I didn’t make it out to see The Good Life last night and it hurts my heart. It was a game-time decision, the wind-chill was in the negatives and I had to get up early this morning. In the old days (just a few years ago) I would have gone anyway, but it’s getting tougher to get out during the week, especially when I don’t know if there will be any air in my Tracker’s tires when I leave the club (They have this way of leaking out in sub-zero weather).

If you were at O’Leaver’s last night, let me know how it went. The band is reportedly in the studio today working on their new record.

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What else…

Desparecidos is playing Coachella April 12. Impressive. Coachella is getting some blow-back this year because of the number of legacy bands playing the festival, including AC/DC, Steely Dan, not to mention the ’90s and ’00s bands (Built to Spill, Sloan, heck Desa’s been around for a decade). I’m not sure what all the whining is about. The majority of the lineup consists of modern-day acts (read the lineup at TIME).  You’re always going to have a few notable big names from back in the day that appeal to multiple generations. Congrats to Desa. Something tells me this Epitaph release could be a monster…

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One Percent’s latest update went out this morning. The most notable nugget on their list of shows — Of Montreal March 16 at The Waiting Room. I think that might be smack-dab in the middle of SXSW, so it’s very likely I’ll miss them. Or maybe not. The press release says they’re playing SXSW March 19…

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I got all your entries for the Comp CD giveaway. Thanks! I’ll be announcing the winners tomorrow.

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Tonight at Reverb Lounge legacy performer Sarah Benck takes the stage with Kevin Sandbloom and CJ Mills. $5, 9 p.m.

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by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com

The good ol’ OWH has done a pretty good job of reporting on the permanent closure of The Anchor Inn, though we’re still waiting to get comments from the business owners who probably don’t have a whole helluva lot to say about the matter, anyway. If you missed the story, the Anchor Inn got swept away in last year’s Missouri River floods. And now the city isn’t going to let them rebuild because the area is in a floodway. The first thing that came to mind after reading about this was what’s going to happen to The Surfside Club and The Cottonwood Marina in Blair and all the other businesses that saw their livelihoods washed away last year. Do they have to deal with similar ordinances?

The irony of the Anchor Inn disaster is that I’d only discovered the place over the past couple years, when Bright Eyes and Jenny Lewis played there (even though they’d been hosting biker/metal/rock concerts for years). I remember talking to the owner during Bright Eyes and how excited we was about the possibility of doing more indie-type shows. So was One Percent. It was a terrific venue, and I’m going to hate to see it go.

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Yesterday At the Drive In announced that it’s getting back together after more than a decade of being broken up. ATDI was a sonically dangerous, groundbreaking act back in its day. Sparta and The Mars Volta, not so much. Rereading a review of their 2000 show at Sokol Underground, I remembered the overwhelming tension in the room throughout that entire night. We hadn’t seen anything quite like the Cedric Bixler before. Now, a decade later, do we really want to see him again? Count me in if they book a show at The Waiting Room.

Among ATDI’s gigs is a performance at this year’s Coachella Festival, whose schedule was announced yesterday and which everyone is going ga-ga over. Lots of talk about a fIREHOSE reunion there, as well as Radiohead, Pulp, God Speed! and Mazzy Star being on the bill. It’s a real Who’s Who of indie rock, and probably the most important U.S. festival going. But it’s hard for me to get too excited about a festival that I know I won’t be attending. And something tells me if I want to see any of the acts perform this year beyond Coachella I’m going to have to do some traveling.