'Umm Drop' feature in Philadelphia Weekly

Don't worry - this onslaught of press attention won't last, but here's a nice piece the kind folks at Philadelphia Weekly just put out. This is also available in actual paper form in those yellow newspaper boxes in and around Philly.

The photo shows the OTHER wall of my music room than the one featured in the new album/press photo (the one with the piano), so you can almost imagine you're there.

Here it is.

More praise for 'Misadventures in Stereo'

Short, but sweet - the folks at Prefix Magazine heaped a helping of hosannas onto what they heard.

I have to say, I've never considered myself to be truly "Power Pop", but taking their extension of the term into consideration, I guess I'm in.

Read it here.

I SWEAR I'm not cherry-picking reviews. I'll post the inevitable bad ones as well. Well, at least the first one!

First Review (that I know of) - 'Misadventures in Stereo'

Well this is certainly a nice thing to wake up to on a Sunday morning. The first review I've seen of Misadventures in Stereo from Wildy's World:

Check it out.

I'll take the young Rod Stewart reference, thank you. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to being like a bird building a nest.

'Misadventures in Stereo' on the Radio

The pursuit of America's airwaves has begun as 'Misadventures in Stereo' was released to radio stations this week. And no sooner than it was received, my good friends at WXPN in Philadelphia have given the album its first official radio add (that's the actual word add, not some sort of attention deficit condition your radio develops).

You should be hearing 'To and Fro' over the WXPN airwaves or online soon and, I hope, often.

Not soon or often enough for you? Well, you could request it online or call them at 215-573-WXPN or even email them at request@xpn.org.

Hot Fun in the Summertime

I kicked off WXPN's XPoNential Music Festival yesterday and had such a great time I thought Ikd dust off the old blog and ramble on a bit.

The big news is that this was the first time out for the 11 piece band I've put together for the upcoming record release shows. When I say first time out I'm not just whistling Dixie (it wasn't on the set list).

I had been doing individual rehearsals with the core 4 piece band, other rehearsals with the Voices of Reason (as I've dubbed the 3 backing vocalists) and still other rehearsals with the Hong Kong Cavellier Memorial Horns. But we never all played together until the day of the show

This was a little bit scary but it also made it really exciting as everyone was hearing each other and how everything fit together for the first time. The funny thing is that once we started the performance I was actually more relaxed than I usually am for band shows. I think being surrounded by that many good players gave me a sense of not having to carry everything myself and there were moments where I could almost be the audience for what was going on.

Couple all of that with the fact that XPN totally has it together with that festival in terms of the sound system and crew and backstage sitch PLUS some seriously gorgeous weather and it was just kinda everything you could ask for

Thanks to XPN for having me and to everybody who came out.
Sadly, this band WON'T be around forever. Get your tickets to the Record Release show NOW.