Tomorrow is Record Store Day. I’d give you the rundown of PDX happenings and participating stores, but that recordstoredaywebsite is the worldwidewait right now. I do now that Menomena will be at the downtown Jackpot store playing foosball with you, the customers.
Record stores have been dear to my heart since I was in my teens. [...]

Thanks to Largehearted Boy today for hipping me to a new blog called Normal Bias. Looks like a music junkie and former college DJ is digitizing the best of his 1,000+ cassette collection and making them available for us other junkies. Today’s listening features 90 minutes of announcements and other produced audio from an Instant [...]

Hi ya!
First off, thanks to all the people who have started following mixmeamolotov on twitter. Dunno how y’all found me, but I keep getting a few more here and a few more there every couple of weeks. I haven’t been finding the time to post here lately, but posting album reviews and first impressions in [...]

My friend Miki and her husband Mark made it onto the Doctor Laura Schlessinger radio program today!
Both Miki and Mark are atheists; Mark was musing about God’s Will and the subsequent arrogance of prayer. Miki posted it to the radio show’s forum, and things took off from there! I haven’t heard the broadcast, but Mark [...]

Queen Of The Acoustic Guitar Kaki King will be back next year with a new album, produced by Malcolm Burn.
This news comes from a Billboard article, and features the phrase “a return to traditional finger-picking”.
WOOT.
EDIT: A gift for those who peruse: Kaki King on Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners

http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/43984-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga

I have a hard time describing what I like about these Spoon records,
especially the most recent one, but the author of this review nails it.
There is alot of studio experimenting going on, but it is not in your face
and it always serves the song.
“Sandinista!” gets namechecked in the review, as does Elvis Costello’s “Get
Happy!”
Ga Ga [...]

Happy May Day!
Casey Neill - Mayday
Update: Speaking of Casey Neill, he has just posted some tales from the road over on localcut. Read them here.
(photo ganked from dieselboi over at Metroblogging Portland)

Whilst on my internet travels this week, I chanced upon mp3’s of the new Joanna Newsom EP.
So I downloaded them onto my computer. From my computer, I put them onto my iPod. I’ve been listening to the tracks and enjoying them immensely, especially the new song “Colleen”.
So today when I’m at my local rekkid store [...]

from a “20 Questions With Tracey Thorn” entry on The Line Of Best Fit blog:

10. What was the last album you bought?
. . . . Same as everyone else, arcade bloody fire.

Continued from a few days ago:
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins - The Charging Sky, from “Rabbit Fur Coat”
Joanna Newsom - Emily, from “Ys”
John C. Reilly - My Son John, from “Rogue’s Gallery” compilation
Johnny Cash - God’s Gonna Cut You Down, from “American V: A Hundred Highways”
Jolie Holland - Crazy Dreams, from “Springtime Can Kill [...]