featuring a quote or two from Talkdemonic:
Bands On The Run — From High Gas Prices
(written by Luciana Lopez; appeared in The Oregonian in June)

When not appearing in indie music videos, Jenny Conlee can be seen rocking the pipe organ at McMenamin’s Chapel Of The Chimes pub in North Portland (AKA my hood) on Thursdays in February from 7:30-9:30pm.
She’s also accompanying Casey Neill tomorrow night up in Olympia, WA at a venue called Plenty.
Oh, and she’s also in The [...]

2007 is done, and I want to thank all of you who visited, read, downloaded and commented at mmm this year. Much appreciated.
Before I close the book on ‘07, I wanted to share with you two BBC radio sessions that kept me company off and on during the year. They are from two of [...]

Nice to hear from The Decemberists! This fall they cancelled both a European tour and a stateside tour, citing illness. And then they kind of went dark. Chris and Nate have popped up on the message board from time to time to make small announcements, but for the most part the D’s camp went silent. [...]

(as listened to and voted upon by me):
13. Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
12. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
11. Casey Neill - Brooklyn Bridge
10. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
09. Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers
08. Radiohead - In Rainbows
07. Rob Crow - Living Well
06. The New Pornographers - Challengers
05. Iron & Wine - The [...]

Have you heard the tale of Mike Doughty and The Question Jar?? Simply told, Mike blows into your town with his sidekick sideman Scrap Livingston. He sets a jar up at your favorite intimate venue (here it was Mississippi Studios - picture your living room), you show up and write all the questions you’ve been [...]

I saw this video over the summer, both on TV and in the blogs. But I waited until now to post it myself, because I feel that Laura Gibson’s music is best experienced in winter weather (and not just because of the snow-covered album artwork). If you haven’t heard her album “If You Come To [...]

This is it: MMM’s first podcast! Here’s proof that I can geekvangelize about artists other than Dan Bern and Robyn Hitchcock.
Contents:
Nina Nastasia & Jim White - I’ve Been Out Walking
Rachel Taylor Brown - Upright Man
Justin Power - Needles Spin
Elvis Perkins - It’s Only Me
Malcolm Middleton - A Brighter Beat (acoustic version)
Occasion:
Justin Power is playing a [...]

School starts in a few days, and that marks an end of summery things. Fall is coming and with it typically comes an avalanche of new releases. So before we get hit with the deluge, I’m gonna take a few minutes here and talk about six favorite albums that came out in the first two-thirds [...]

I’ll be the first to admit that this mp3 blog doesn’t serve up nearly enough mp3s.
I have a few theories as to why this is so, but I’d say reason numbero uno is that blog posts spend more time in my head than in my text editor. And by the time I actually make [...]