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My girlfriend and I spent this past Saturday at the KROQ Weenie Roast, which featured, as usual, a stellar lineup: this year, Coldplay, Incubus, Garbage, Silversun Pickups, Pennywise and a special appearance by Soundgarden.

Thanks to the very kind largess of Pete Parada -- all-around great guy and drummer for the Offspring, who also happened to be playing -- we got not only tickets to the show but all-access passes. As usual, hanging with Pete was a blast and there's no denying that watching the Offspring and Soundgarden from the side of the stage was one of those little rock and roll fantasies come to life for yours truly.

Here now area couple of highlights from the show -- at least the ones currently uploaded to YouTube from the actual KROQ video feed.

First up, all of the Offspring's set (wish I could do something about the hiccups in the video).



Here's Garbage doing Vow.



And finally, Coldplay -- Yellow.

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It's definitely a good week for new music from 90s bands. The new Soundgarden single debuted on KROQ just a few minutes ago and I'll likely be able to post it tomorrow morning -- and then there's this: the damn good new song from Garbage.

Here's Blood for Poppies.

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There's no such thing as too much Shirley Manson.

Here's Garbage's Vow.

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Hearing Garbage this morning for the first time in a while sent me looking for more of their videos. During my little reminiscence-fest, I came across a song I hadn't heard in years -- and a video for it that I didn't even know existed.

This is a crystal clear copy of one of my favorite Garbage songs -- a song that just slices through you like a scalpel.

Here's You Look So Fine.

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"I am lost, so I am cruel -- but I'd be love and sweetness if I had you."

-- Garbage, Milk