Were there not videos, photos, and eyewitness testimony, I doubt that anyone would believe this, but Dean Wells (aka The Capstan Shafts), after 3 or 4 years and 20 or 30 releases, finally appeared in public this weekend and played a show. This is an OMG moment for the underground bedroom pop set, not unlike the first Jandek show was for ILM member or WIRE magazine readers.

Anyway, False 45th has full coverage, go check it out.

This is all terribly exciting because this also means that the odds of Wells actually showing up for his CMJ show have gotten better. I’d put the odds at about 2:1 now.

Last Friday, Matt told me he was driving up to Vermont for the show, and I scoffed at him, certain that he would drive all that way only to have Wells decide not to show at the last minute. But I was wrong. So Matt was a lucky bastard.

And speaking of Matt, the other band he’s in with his Get Him Eat Him-mates, Lame Drivers, not only have some new songs in the can, but they’re also playing a show tonight at the Knitting Factory Tap Room, 9pm.

Lame Drivers have always sounded to me like 1980 and 1996 slapping each other around in drunken argument. Live though, I’d say 1980 wins out a little over ‘96, so be sure to wear your skinny new-wave pants to the show tonight. Oh wait, this is New York, I don’t need to tell you to do that.