Yep Roc Records has posted pre-order info (including tracklisting) for the upcoming Robyn Hitchcock box set of reissues.
They also have made the entire set available for a streaming preview! Yeah! Go here, and then click on the button that says “I Wanna Go Backwards”.
Sorry I’ve been absent for awhile; the impending arrival of school has [...]

Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the compact disc. I still remember my first: Love And Rockets - Earth Sun Moon, January 1988. What was yours??
In other news, there are two trailers out for the upcoming “Walk Hard”. Here below is one of them. I’m dying to know which of these songs Dan Bern wrote:

Lastly, [...]

October 16th, 2007 will see a box set from Robyn Hitchcock (on Yep Roc Records) featuring the following three albums:
Black Snake Diamond Role
I Often Dream Of Trains
Eye
No word yet on bonus discs or tracks.
Update: Billboard Magazine has a press release today on the box set, which will contain a two-disc set of rarities. Also more [...]

Past Belief has news today about upcoming movie “Walk Hard” (due out in December and featuring songs written by Dan Bern and Mike Viola). Apparently the trailer appears in theaters starting on August 17th before the movie “Superbad“.

I happened across two very interesting covers over the weekend - one via the CBC in Canada and one via BBC Radio 2.
Sarah Slean - Lodestar - One Canadian Sarah covers another! In this case, Sarah Slean covering Sarah Harmer, with a string ensemble backing her up. This was part of a larger performance broadcast [...]

- Jill Sobule released her new single “San Francisco” for free on new and professional site mydamnchannel.com. It is “backed” with a sparse version of old campfire favorite “Mom”, and did I mention it is free?? Jill mentions on her blog that she has never made a penny off her major label CD’s, so why [...]