This has been an eventful week at Citizen Dick headquarters, but also one of intense vicarious enjoyment.  First, it was the last week of school for Brian and I, which means finals, grading, political nonsense, paperwork, and cleaning.  You won’t hear either of us complain about having a couple months off, but it’s still a pretty intense week regardless.  All week we sat and read the twitter feeds about Bonnaroo and other noteworthy music festivals and big shows.  It’s been rough, to say the least.  While we have to pay the bills and all that jazz, we’d certainly rather be sitting in a tent in the middle of nowhere hearing band after band kill it for the filthy and sweaty audiences.  As if this wasn’t enough to bother Brian and I, James got to see Vanderslice, Here We Go Magic, and Harlem Shakes (along with others) as he mentioned in his Wednesday and Friday posts this week.  To top all of it off, James texted me as I was finishing up the final rounds of paperwork telling me that The Dead Weather had just announced a spur-of-the-moment show in Detroit, Jack’s hometown.  If Brian and I didn’t fear our pink slips, we would have been in the car immediately.

To make a long story short, we’ve been jealous of all of the great music all of our blogger brethren and regular readers got to see this weekend.  Hell, it’s still going on as I write this post.  Twitter message after twitter message and RSS blog feed after feed continually gets under my skin on weekends like this.  The one comforting thought is that I have no job for the next couple of months, so ideally this is a feeling I won’t have up until August.  So all you clowns that got to go to Bonnaroo or the Northside Festival in Brooklyn, and quite possibly a few of you lucky enough to catch The Dead Weather in Detroit or Toronto, here’s what I’ve been jamming to all weekend with a big ass chip on my shoulder.  We’ve got old and new tracks from a few heavy hitting Bonnaroo bands, The Dead Weather’s released single from the 7 inch on RSD2009, and some of the featured bands we love that played at Northside Festival, as well.  Enjoy the tracks, and look for more direct coverage of shows as the summer ticks away.  I’m finally free dudes, and I’m not going to miss another weekend like this if the law, my finances, and grad school schedule give me a spare second to travel.

From the Bonnaroo Festival we’re missing:

TV On The Radio – Wolf Like Me

Dirty Projectors – Temecula Sunrise

Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes

Heartless Bastards – Runnin’

Yeasayer – Tightrope

From The Dead Weather secret shows in Detroit and Toronto we missed this weekend:

The Dead Weather – Hang You From The Heavens

Northside Festival in Brooklyn we sadly missed all weekend:

Michna – Triple Chrome Dipped

Discovery – I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (ft. Angel Deradoorian)

Dinowalrus – Electric Car, Gas Guitar

These Are Powers – Life of Birds

Miscellaneous tracks shipped to us this week via email that I find myself greedily replaying a lot this weekend:

Faunts – Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. (Lemonade Remix)

Thieves Like Us – Drugs In My Body (Teenagers Remix)

Stereo Deluxe – Anything