Oh, and LinnTate, have you recieved your tribute cd yet? I assume you are talking about the US double cd also called Por Vida? Anyway, there is also one from songsofalejandro.com, called Escovedo 101 with Canadian musicians, and I would love to know what you think of it, as my friend Bob plays on a couple of the tracks. I know he would love to hear as much feedback as possible, on the off chance that you pick it up!

I haven't received my copy of Por Vida yet, S., but I did hear Son Volt's cover of "Sometimes" on KEXP last week. It's just great, so I'm looking forward to getting my hands on it.

I had not, however, heard about Escovedo 101. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the tip. I'm happy to do anything that helps with Escovedo's medical bills and love to hear others cover his music, so I'm off to order a copy of that as well right now.

Helpful tips like that will land unexpected surprises in your mailbox, y'know?

Now Playing: The Padres visiting the Cardinals in St. Louis...with Rick Ankiel activated today, I may just have to blow this joint and go watch the game on the off chance he comes out of the bullpen later tonight!

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I haven't received my copy of _Por Vida_ yet, S., but I did hear Son Volt's cover of "Sometimes" on KEXP last week.

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What kexp...somewhere is indiana?The University of Washington radio station is kexp 90.3...it rocks.Is this the same....do u listen online?

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PE-I used to love Dan Bern(actually met him a couple of times-great guy!), but had kind of forgotten about him, how is the new stuff?

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Well, I like "New American Language" the most, but his most recent album was pretty good. The new one, an ep, comes with a sticker inside: "Bush Must Be Defeated". Give you any hints?

It's a nice collection of Woody Guthrie-esque politico-folk songs, including a version of Woody's "The Torn Flag." I'm not a huge fan of political records (they tend not to age well) but it's got some excellent songs on it, so it's worth having. His voice, more and more, is starting to sound like latter-day Elvis Costello...

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What kexp...somewhere is indiana?The University of Washington radio station is kexp 90.3...it rocks.Is this the same....do u listen online?

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One and the same, Imprezu21. KEXP is one of about three terrestrial radio stations I listen to on a weekly basis along with WXPN and WOXY. Of the three, KEXP is probably the one I listen to the most. In addition to playing great music, they're a model in non-commercial broadcasting I really admire.

Now Playing: The Cards up 4-2 on the Padres at Busch Stadium in St. Louis...still no sign of Rick Ankiel, but I'm hopeful by Friday.

I should probably just leave this alone, but if you've checked the "user ratings" at MC ( I've rated them all, but I doubt any are there yet) or the forums, you could probably tell what I've bought the last two weeks. Maybe this is for you, hal, so I hope you see this. I went back last week and saved $10 and bought the new Drive-By Truckers, the new, and unfortunately-last, Guided By Voices, and the new Finn Bros. This week, I got the new Libertines and the new Bjork. Although all five albums are good (jeez, I would have hoped so), you may not believe that right now, the Drive-By Truckers is the best. Then again, if you don't believe that, I don't honestly believe that the problem rests with me. Later, you music-lovin' gators.

y.a.c.h.t-super warren mmiv
cex-oops...i did it again
mr.projectile-sinking
v/a-own zone check it out
hint-portakabin fever
keith fullerton whitman-playthroughs
matthew dear-backstroke
james t.cotton-the dancing box
ulrich schnauss-a strangely isolated place
maker-honestly
bjork-medulla
v/a-45 seconds of right here

I have to say states rights records...has to be one of the up and coming labels in indie music.It has great folk and has some wicked electronic musicians.

And it is in oregon...yeah!!

check out that own zone comp...it is only 3 bucks...or free when u buy something else.

It is a wicked label sampler...very nice!!

Score!

Used/promo copies of:

Sufjan Stevens: A Sun Came! (new version)
Mystic Chords of Memory: s/t (spin-off of the late, lamented Beachwood Sparks)
Peter Searcy: Couch Songs

And I paid full price for the Future Soundtrack for America comp, which benefits MoveOn.org and has rare and new trax by OK Go, REM, Death Cab, Clem Snide, Fountains of Wayne, and Elliot Smith, among many others. Cool comp...good causes.

Some recent purchases, mostly from my dutch travel:

The Walkabouts, Death Valley Days
New Order, Republic
Bloc Party, Bloc Party EP
PJ Harvey, Uh Huh Her
Rykodisc, The Anthology (a stunning 2 cd set with a great 40 page booklet)
The Residents, Hunters The World Of Predators And Prey
4Walls, Which Side Are You On
Lambchop, Awcmon/Noyoucmon
Can, Inner Space/Out Of Reach

Riow Arai-Mind Edit

It sounds like a mix between kid606 and dabrye or prefuse 73.
But a tamer version of kid606...very good electronic album.Kind of surprising coming out on leaf
review

I am actually surprised to see a review of it.I bought it off of a friends reccomendation.

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One and the same, Imprezu21. KEXP is one of about three terrestrial radio stations I listen to on a weekly basis along with WXPN and WOXY.

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"WOXY, Oxford. BAM... the future of rock and roll!!" If you don't get their signal, pull your car forward a few feet.

On-topic... I have to confess that, having played saxophone for 25 years, I've finally bought A Love Supreme. Not sure why I waited so long. There's a reason the man has a church dedicated to him.

Also bought Godspeed's first album, but haven't had a chance to listen yet.

Next: Soft Machine's Third, which I like for the two tracks everyone else usually ignores.

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"WOXY, Oxford. BAM... the future of rock and roll!!" If you don't get their signal, pull your car forward a few feet.

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That's a great liner, Albireo. It's a shame their Web-only status makes it obselete!

25 years on the business end of the saxophone and you've only just picked up A Love Supreme? Wow. That may strike me as strange, but I envy you hearing it for the first time and I'll bet 25 years from now it will still knock you out.

I'm pretty sure I've inflicted this this story on the forums elsewhere, but ALS sincerely changed my life. I was probably fourteen or fifteen when a saxophone teacher suggested it to me as a good example of modal improvisation. It floored me on first listen. I'd never had such an intensely personal or emotional reaction to music before. I sought out more of the same and while I was never much of a saxophone player, I know that desire to experience music and the arts in that manner made me person Iam and put in the profession I practice today.

Now Playing: Symphony No. 34 in d, Joseph Haydn (perf. Thomas Fey/Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra)

Got back from Nova Scotia on Saturday. Here's what I bought:

Pink Moon by Nick Drake
Tyrannosaurus Hives by The Hives
Medulla by Bjork
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan
Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.
Abbey Road by The Beatles
You Are the Quarry by Morrissey

Haven't listened to any, besides Medulla, which kicks ass.

That's a pretty great bunch of purchases, Monheim, though I'm still not sure about You Are the Quarry. The Hives album has really snuck up on me this year: I didn't think there would be much to it at all, and so neglected to give it the proper attention when it first came out. It's a lot of fun, though. And then you have some classics, plus Medulla. Awesome. (EDIT: Also, I answered that PM you sent me before you left for Nova Scotia. Just so you know.)

As for me, I picked up one of those limited edition two-disc versions of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in a store in Vermont (my old copy of the CD is long gone). I was going to buy a copy of Beck's Mutations and Frog Eyes' The Golden River as well, but for some reason my debit card balked at the purchase so I just bought the Wilco with cash. I also got a very odd album for $1 in the same store; I can't remember the title but it's lying around in this room somewhere. I think the band's name was Panic Strikes A Chord and the album was called Sometimes I Can See The Electricity or something. I'll let y'all know how it is.

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Spoon - A Series Of Sneaks (5 stars)
John Vanderslice - Cellar Door (4 stars)
The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers (4 stars)
Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antartica (? - hasn't arrived yet)

www.rateyourmusic.com

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That's a great liner, Albireo. It's a shame their Web-only status makes it obselete!

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25 years on the business end of the saxophone and you've only just picked up A Love Supreme? Wow. That may strike me as strange, but I envy you hearing it for the first time and I'll bet 25 years from now it will still knock you out.

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Yeah, I'm a little slow. I haven't actually bought much jazz over the years; my sax teacher-- a disciple of the late great Joe Henderson-- used to loan me his albums and cassettes and I would soak up the material that way. (Did a lot of Henderson, Dexter Gordon, Cannonball, Ayler, Miles, some Coltrane [but not ALS, curiously] Charlie Parker out the wazoo, Sonny Rollins, Mulligan, etc. Of those, Henderson, Gordon, and Rollins were the ones that stuck with me the best.) When I was in school, I never had money for records, so those borrowings from my sax teacher were pretty much it. Once I got out of school, I was buying mostly rock and classical stuff. (And now I'm back in grad school, so the money isn't there again-- at least not for CDs.)

I've actually jumped back into the sax after spending the better part of ten years playing only very sporadically. Bought myself a soprano-- my tenor's back in Anchorage-- and am basically having to relearn how to play. The soprano's a beast; every flaw in your technique is exposed immediately, whereas I could be a little sloppy embouchure-wise or a little flat in the upper registers on tenor.

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Is this the same WOXY, 97.7 FM in Oxford, OH? Since when have they gone web-only?

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In a nutshell, the owners of WOXY decided to sell the station's frequency within the past year. With over 50,000 listeners to their Web stream, they decided to make a go of it online only. The problem is, streaming music is much more expensive than broadcasting music, so they went dark for a short time before a couple of investors showed up and restored their online presence. I'm watching them very closely. They could be an interesting model for other commerical online broadcasters.

I started on alto over twenty-five years ago, but switched to tenor a little over ten years ago. I've never owned a soprano, but have fiddled with them over the years. I think they're the easiest of the saxophones to play, but the hardest to play well. Witness Kenny G.

Now Playing: "Holocaust" Big Star Third: Sister Lovers (Rykodisc USA)

Just picked up Secret Chiefs 3 Book of Horizons today on my way to work. I'm very excited about this disc, and expect it to see heavy play in the next few weeks. My last two purchases, Scissor Sisters and Bjork's Medulla have been worth every penny! I know it's not a cd but I also bought the new 4 disc Dawn of the Dead on DVD today! I know I'll get lots of use out of that!

Here's what I've gotten the past couple weeks:

Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads [Expanded]
Björk - Medúlla
Marshall Crenshaw - Field Day
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand!
The Blue Nile - High
Mouse on Mars - Autoditacker

New purchases:

Paul Westerberg: Folker
Chuck Prophet: Age of Miracles
Maplewood: S/T
Supergrass: Is 10