Linkwad.

1. Growing pot has a huge carbon footprint.
2. Saw Jeff Mangum on Monday night. Thoughts soon, but here’s the Awl’s report. Also, opener The Music Tapes were really intriguing.
3. All about Kindle’s new $200 Fire tablet.

Here’s “Minister of Longitude.”

The ones you try to forget.

Double Dagger, one of Baltimore’s better punk bands, is calling it quits after nine years. If you’re in Chicago¹, DC, NYC, or Baltimore², you should check out one of their last shows.

Update: I totally should have called this post “Our history has no future.” Oh well.

Linkwad.

1. The FBI and Seattle PD sure did a bang-up job, here! Relatedly: I had no idea that detectives could make that kind of money.
2. Surprise: Odd Future audiences are mostly white boys.
3. 27 murdered and decapitated in Guatemala by Los Zetas. Gruesome.
4. Please withhold from rampant speculation about the body that may or may not be in the “room-size rug” clogging up a sewer line.

Underwater.

Baltimore music venue Sonar is shutting down¹, due to “a business dispute between McIntosh, his partners and Sonar founder Lonnie Fisher” over the club’s liquor license. I have some good memories of the place, including pretty raucous Girl Talk and Gogol Bordello shows, and friends have come out for Maryland Deathfest for the last few years. However, the club’s had some long stretches of pretty weak shows, and, aside from Odd Future, there weren’t any big-name or hype-worthy shows scheduled for this summer; at several points over the last year, I wondered aloud to friends how long the place could keep going.

Anyway, the outlook isn’t too good, especially with quotes like this:

“I have no idea if we’ll go to court, but I guarantee it,” [McIntosh] said [of Fisher]. “There’s no way we won’t sue each other over this.”

All my friends.

I ended up watching the stream live, but here’s a recorded version of last night’s LCD Soundsystem farewell show:

If you don’t feel like watching the full 3.5-hour video¹, here’s the Arcade Fire showing up for backup vocals on “North American Scum”: