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 [...]

Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3, Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR, 01 Dec 2007 setlist: (solo acoustic) Ghost Ship / (enter Sean Nelson on harmonies) Alright Yeah / Swirling / No I Don’t Remember Guilford / (enter The Venus 3) Goodnight Oslo / What You Is Is What You Are / Flesh No. 1 (Beatle [...]

2007 was a good year to be a fan of the man named Robyn Hitchcock. We got a documentary, we got a box set, we got a tour, and we got a glimpse into what next year should look like in terms of releases.
I’ve spent two weeks with the box set, and there are some [...]

There’s an amazing interview with Robyn Hitchcock over at The Onion’s AV Club.
In it, Robyn spells out the beginnings of the LP, and foretells the demise of the album as we sink headfirst into the digital music era.
There’s other subjects covered as well, but Robyn’s musings on the music business are prescient. Christopher Bahn does [...]

I’m always looking for ways to connect my two favorite songwriters: Dan Bern and Robyn Hitchcock. Somewhere amongst my rock and roll papers I have a poster that my wife brought me home from a trip to France in 2003. The poster is for a Dan Bern and the IJBC gig, but features a Robyn [...]

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 [...]

- 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 [...]

A little birdie told me over the weekend that Yep Roc will be reissuing some of Robyn Hitchcock’s back catalogue this fall. (This is great news, as alot of Robyn’s work is currently out of print.)
According to the email, the reissues will be single-disc, featuring bonus tracks on each. The reissues will also be [...]