PJ Harvey at The Orpheum

Jeff and I went to the Orpheum to see PJ Harvey on
Monday. Holy, good God that was one of the highlights
of my life. Without exaggeration we both concluded
that that must have been what it was like seeing
Hendrix or someone equally Wizard-like. There's lot's
of cool artists out there, but only a few that seemed
touched by the hand of God. PJ is certainly one of
those few.

She started the concert with the sickest rendition of
"To Bring You My Love" we could have hoped for. The
cover of her "TBYML" that's on our new record is
something we're really, really proud of, but it's
clear that that's HER song! Just her and a fat guitar
tone pumping out one of the simplest guitar riffs and
most unadorned and direct lyrics but to pulverizing
effect. All hail the 50 Ft. Queenie!!!

Sabrosa Purr at The Casbah in San Diego Oct. 7th

All you fine folks in San Diego need to shake it on
down to The Casbah this Sunday night as The Purr makes
it's way back for the first time in over a year!

Come.

RCRD LBL and Downtown Records

So, have any of you heard about Downtown Records and Internet entrepreneur Peter Rojas' plan to launch an online-only record label that will offer its music for free???!!! If you haven't, check this out, Downtown Records; home to Gnarls Barkley, Cold War Kids, Eagles of Death Metal, Quintus, Wax on Radio, Kevin Michael, Art Brut, Spankrock and Carla Bruni and Peter Rojas of Engadget fame have teamed up to offer a sort of "...curated YouTube or MySpace for music with an editorially driven filter."

RCRD LBL will feature all kinds of music, from rock to electronica to urban. Thom Yorke is rumored to be one of the participating artists as well!

With physical music sales in a constant state of decline, RCRD LBL is trying to capitalize on the increase in advertising dollars online as well as the enormous traffic on peer-to-peer Web sites. They're trying something new. People seem to like free music, but artists still need to be paid to make it ('cuz it COSTS a lot to make it). So, maybe this will work for everyone.

Exciting to us. VERY exciting to us. Why are WE very excited. Ummm...well, we think it's great that YOU can get music for free from people like us. People JUST like us. People a whole LOT like us. What are we trying to say? Just make sure to visit www.RCRDLBL.com when it launches and look for exclusive new songs from A BAND JUST-LIKE-US!!!