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First of all, I must apologize to everyone who has emailed me in the past few months, and whose messages I have not attended to. Secondly, I apologize for not keeping this blog regularly. There are reasons for these things, but they are vague and some are pathetic and others make sense only to me, and to make a long story short, I'll just say things have been a bit of a struggle of late. I'll never be the most prompt or reliable correspondent, but hopefully things will get better...

As to the playlists from last week's shows, due to both the amount of time elapsed since then and the lingering malaise, I'll refer you again to the KPSU archives for Wednesday and Friday. Both shows, I thought, were pretty good, although not without a few technical blunders caused by a new board which I am unfamiliar with and greatly dislike. I'm sure it was very expensive and, in the long run, I'm sure it will probably serve me well, but right now it reminds me of Barbie accessories.

On a radio-related note, denzions of PSU and the surrounding area may look for me in an upcoming issue of the Daily Vanguard, in which my photo may or may not appear; there was a photographer in during my show Friday. I'm very likely slouching, and it was time to do laundry, so I was dressed in -- for me -- rather an unusual way, and I probably look very, very much like a boy. Terrific. But perhaps they'll use a picture of someone else, or just run text.

Anyway, happier notes:

The new Hello Saferide is out; if you haven't heard it yet, do so. Mp3s are available from Klicktrack, CDs from Razzia (or, in the US, It's A Trap!), and vinyl will be out, in limited edition, 10 October from Hot Stuff.

Tomorrow the second half of Eardrums Music's four "CD" fall sampler will be released. The first half came out last Tuesday and is available for download. Check Eardrums tomorrow for part two. Should be good. Lots of Scandinavian music (although, to my estimation, not as much, or at least in as high a percentage, as on the summer sampler). Favorites from the first half included Slumber, by Norwegians Herostratos, and 7-11, a Shangri-Las-sounding Ramones cover performed by Floridians the Postmarks. Everything fits, I suppose, under the "pop" umbrella, but there's something for everybody, from shoegaze to bubblegum to almost hard rock to twee. Just don't let Volume 1's saccharine-sweet opening track scare you away.

Um... what else? I also haven't been reading much about or listening to new music lately. A few weeks ago, Oliver North Boy Choir released a cover of the Jesus and Mary Chain's Teenage Lust. I wish I'd written about this in a timely fashion... If you haven't heard this fine version already, it's available via the JAMC Covers Project. I think they did a very nice job with it -- Teenage Lust was always one of my favorite JAMC songs, and ONBC made it their own while still staying very true to the original. You can hear both bands clearly, which is cool. I often shy away from covers of songs I already like, and I've actually heard some bad covers of Teenage Lust before -- even the Mary Chain's own Desdemoana mix is absolutely awful -- but ONBC did real well. Now they're working on a new EP, Tonight, which will be released sometime in November.

And -- finally -- did I mention the new Hello Saferide album is out? I'm sure I did, but once more can't hurt. I am fully in love.

--DL--
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