Thurston, Carl Newman Write About Favorite Shows

Oh man, remember concerts, those things we used to go to before the days of downloading convinced us that we should just stay inside and half-digest records recommended to us by blogs we discovered by Googling celebrity crotch shots?

Well, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and the New Pornographers' Carl Newman do, and not just because they continue to play these "shows" on a regular basis. Along with 48 other writers-- such as Chuck Klosterman, Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), and Harvey Pekar (he of American Splendor immortalization)-- they remember certain concerts because they meant something to them. And they have written about those concerts for Da Capo Press' The Show I'll Never: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience.

Thurston writes about Glen Branca, Rudolph Grey, and Wharton Tiers, while Carl Newman writes about Redd Kross. Sufjan Stevens was supposed to contribute to the book as well (as he told us in an interview, he was going to write about the Ex), but we guess he got too busy with that whole being a successful musician thing.

Sean Manning edited The Show, which Da Capo will publish as a paperback original on January 15. The book's full list of musical subjects-- in order of appearance in the book (which is in chronological order by date of occurrence)-- is long enough that it might convince you to give up reading as well, but it is printed below:

R.E.M., Miles Davis, Jimmy Reed, Steve Abbot, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Titans of the Tenor!, the late James Brown, Jimmy Hendrix and Buddy Guy, Woodstock, Nina Simone, Bill Evans, Led Zeppelin, Three Dog Night, Television, the Sunshine Festival, Queen, Mink DeVille, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, X/Levi & the Rockats, the Funk Festival, Black Flag, the Horslips, Public Image Ltd., the Kinks, Rush, the Pogues, the Beastie Boys, Redd Kross, Bon Jovi, Van Morrison (written about twice by married couple Robert Burke Warren and Holly George-Warren), Clarence Carter, Nirvana, the Lounge Lizards, Katell Keineg, Einstürzende Neubauten, Beck, Joe Maneri, the Mekons, Prince, Glen Branca/Rudolph Grey/Wharton Tiers, Antony and the Johnsons featuring Lou Reed, David Bowie, Kevin Spacey, the White Stripes, and Metric (written as a team piece by Daniel Handler and Andrew Sean Greer).