Blog: Roger's Music Blog

I just got my pre-ordered Girlyman CD, Joyful Sign in the mail!! Signed with love from Nate, Ty & Doris as promised. In fact I know so, because I hit their website and saw this picture on their blog ... I have to give them props for adding an RSS feed to their blog, something I see so rarely with "blogs" on musicians websites. I was actually on their site because I didn't see any reference to Daemon Records on the CD, it looks like a [...]

Joan Armatrading has posted some new tracks from her Into the Blue album on her MySpace page . The full album will be available for purchase/download on May 1st! Here's what she says about the record: "Into The Blues is the CD I've been promising myself to write for a long time. Recording it has given me so much pleasure and playing blues guitar…, I adore it! I hope you will love listening to these songs with the kind of enjoyment I had making them." [...]

" Guster has announced an April 10 release date for an eight-song EP dubbed "Satellite," which takes its name from band's latest single. The cut, which appears on the group's latest full-length set, last year's "Ganging Up on the Sunj," is one of eight songs housed on the forthcoming EP, which will also include an "electronica-inspired remix" of the cut created by up-and-coming producers The Astronauts, according to a press release. Rounding out the EP will be four previously unreleased originals, as well as a pair of live covers (The Beatles' "Two of Us" and Bonnie Tyler's "Total [...]

Went to Borders to peruse the CD collections this past weekend... something I haven't done in a while. I don't know if it's just me or what, but CD collections are looking meek and meager now-a-days. There were the obvious new releases shoved up front, but the rest of the collection just seemed kind of drab and lifeless. Many of the sampler players are broken or removed, shelves were poorly merchandized and organized... It didn't used to be this way at this particular Borders, so I'm not sure if it's a representation of record [...]