Happy inauguration day

As the festivities ramp up in DC (the inauguration is set to begin as I write this), I thought I'd share some highlights from President Clinton's 1993 inauguration (well, MTV's 1993 Inaugural Bash, but whatever):

First, Michael Stipe and Mike Mills team up with Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen to form the short-lived supergroup Automatic, Baby:

Great version of that song, though Mills' harmonies are a bit off at the end.

Then Stipe jumped up on stage with 10,000 Maniacs to do "Candy Everybody Wants:"


And to think, the man being sworn in today is younger than Michael Stipe, and only two years older than Natalie Merchant.

Happy 4th of July!

Why not celebrate with some baseball and some Goo Goo Dolls?


The Goos have a new single, "Real," on iTunes beginning June 7. An odds-and-sods CD/DVD compliation comes out in August.