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Summary of the Ike Reilly Assassination show last night at First Avenue: more or less what I expected. Witness: a reasonably tight band, tons of crowd-pleasing sing-a-longs, and rowdy good times in general. What I didn’t expect: a bunch of "nobody believes we can make it" underdog talk, "look how drunk I am" stage stumbling, and a 4 song second encore. The worst was definitely the crying about how they’re not popular enough. We get it, you *really* want to get a song on the O.C., boo hoo. Now shut the hell up and play.

First Avenue remodel update: They knocked a bunch of the plexiglass down upstairs, which is kinda cool. It also looks like they cleaned all those crazy dust stalactites off the ceiling. I pity the fool who had to do that.