Ok. I bet you didn’t know I liked The Wrens. Hell, I’m beginning to wonder if you’ve even heard of them. It’s not as if they’re selling millions of albums or headlining blockbuster tours but they are a cool band that’s been around a while. I won’t pretend that I’ve been a fan of theirs forever, though. I picked up on them last year when they made an appearance on the KEXP Live Performance Podcast. I heard it once and was blown away. I listened again, and again, and again. I sought them out on the web. I learned from the podcast and their website that they’ve been around since the fall of the 1980s and, their last record (The Meadowlands) was released in 2003. I instantly ordered it on vinyl.

That brings us more or less up to today when I read on Pitchfork that they will be contributing an brand-new song to the Future Of Music Coalition‘s Net Neutrality compilation cd. Other Artists include Wilco (with a live version of Impossible Germany,) Aimee Mann, Bright Eyes, and They Might Be Giants.

This is great news. One can only hope that this will lead to a full release from The Wrens in the future.

For more about Net Neutrality, read here.

Trey Anastasio is no longer absolutely ruling out playing Phish songs again but, seriously kids, lets not get too worked up.

Yep. Here’s the tantalizing bit from an interview with Rolling Stone:

“When Phish broke up, I made some comment about how I’m not gonna go around playing ‘You Enjoy Myself’ for the rest of my life,” Anastasio said with a laugh. “And it’s so funny because Fish and Mike and Page have been talking to each other a lot lately and now — it’s not that I can’t believe that I said that, but its symbolic of how much I lost my mind or how much I lost my bearings or something. Because at this point in time I would give my left nut to play that song five times in a row every day until I die. I certainly thought about that while I was in jail.”

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