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Depending how long you're staying in the area and your ability to venture to Jersey, I highly recommend Princeton Record Exchange (in, you guessed it, Princeton) and Vintage Vinyl (in Fords). Those are the state's best records stores in my opinion.

This release is so good.

He tweeted this afternoon that an EU/UK preorder is coming soon.

EDIT: preorder link: https://brianfallon.merchcentral.com/. This is getting distributed by 30 Tigers. New single is streaming now.

To the extent your question is genuine, I follow musicians on social media to get updates on their musical projects. That is what being a fan of his music has to do with checking his social media.

I am a big fan of his music. But that doesn't prevent me from being very troubled by his actions. Is that seriously hard to make sense of?

Has anyone else been paying attention to DRA's social media activity of late? Bunch of phony meditations about gratitude with plenty of "God bless y'alls" thrown in for good measure. So much for his promise to "soon" provide his side of the misconduct allegations. Are there really people who can't see how fake this all is? I guess the answer is yes given the amount of fanboys and gals who instantly shower these posts with "likes." Pathetic.

Am I crazy or did the Stomping Ground pressing never happen?

Back up to $21.98. That was quick.

Down to $15.33 on Prime: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QXTFPGX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The bassist Mike Boyle, want back to school for nursing. Emmit Miller, is in school for electrical engineering Brent Toler, from his instagram, doesn't appear to have a new project yet: https://www.instagram.com/brenttoler101/ Ian Bush (aka "tuff gus"), is doing art and design: https://www.instagram.com/tuff_gus/ No idea what Jordan Smith or Evan Bird are up to.

http://www.infinitycat.com/products/654675-diarrhea-planet-live-at-exit-in-blu-ray In fall 2018, the world got a little bit quieter as notorious Nashville power-punks Diarrhea Planet announced Shred Thee Well, their final run of shows at one of our fav hometown haunts, Exit/In. Now one year later, we are proud to turn the volume knob all the way back up with Live At Exit/In, a high def two-disc Blu-Ray of their farewell shows, out December 3rd. Much like the four-guitared band took their live show to the limit and then blew the hell past it, Live at Exit/In totally smashes the expectation of what a concert DVD can be. Recorded by local DIY documentarian Stephen “TompDogg” Thompson and presented in full HD 1080p resolution, it features all 32 original songs across the three farewell shows with ten camera angels and mastered multi-track audio. A special bonus disc plays more like a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure video, letting you decide how to experience “Enter the Great Gate/Emmett’s Vision," “Kids,” and “Ghost with a Boner." That's right, watch from the middle of the pit, from side stage like a VIP, or even from Tuff Gus' drum kit like you're in the dang band! Wrapped up in an eco-friendly packaging with art by Tuff Gus, Live at Exit/In is also region-free, meaning no matter where you are, you'll be living on Diarrhea Planet! Out December 3rd, preorders will come with a patch designed by Tuff Gus while supplies last. Please note that any other items ordered with a preorder will ship with the preorder! Track Listing: Disc One 1. Intro 2. Ice Age 3. Warm Ridin’ 4. Lite Dream 5. Field of Dreams 6. Ceiling Fan 7. Separations 8. Babyhead 9. Hot Topic 10. Raft Nasty 11. Ain’t A Sin To Win 12. Bob Dylan’s Grandma 13. Get Stimulated 14. Hot Spit 15. Mutt Feast 16. Yamanba 17. Juggernaut 18. Heat Wave 19. Platinum Girls 20. Powermoves 21. Hammer of the Gods 22. Life Pass 23. Let It Out 24. Teepee Toes 25. Dune 26. Headband 27. Fauser 28. Orange Girls 29. Enter the Great Gate 30. Emmett’s Vision 31. Kids 32. Ghost with a Boner Disc Two 1. Enter the Great Gate / Emmett’s Vision 2. Kids 3. Ghost with a Boner

The shows at the Exit/In where they headlined; not the "victory lap" show opening for Isbell at the Ryman.

Infinity Cat is teasing an announcement of something soon. Based on the comments, it looks like it's going to be a live release of the final Diarrhea Planet shows in Nashville: The dude in the comments named "tompdogg" is the videographer who recorded the shows. Here's a teaser clip he posted on YouTube a while back. Cannot wait for this. This was one of the best shows I've ever witnessed.

Two listens in and I'm really enjoying. These songs will be great live.

Triggers you? Curious to know what you mean by this.

5.8 from Pitchfork. I like the album but this is not an unfair review IMO https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-menzingers-hello-exile/ The Menzingers write about basically one thing, though contrary to this tweet, it’s not the waitress outside the all-night diner. The seven-year span from their second LP Chamberlain Waits to 2017’s After the Party is a longitudinal study of men in their 20s struggling to process the passage of time, drinking away the tragicomic pain of reliving the good ol’ days that never happened. Imagine “Glory Days” if it was just the third verse, the high-school jocks and heartbreakers replaced by guys in dumpy vans and stalled relationships wishing they committed themselves to something more substantial—or as “House on Fire” put it, “waiting for your life to start, then you die.” After the Party occasionally gave the impression that the Menzingers recognized this form of nostalgia as an artistic dead end, posing “Where we gonna go now that our 20s are over?” as an existential crisis. Instead, Hello Exile reframes it as a question with a single, obvious answer: They’re gonna go right back to making Menzingers songs about getting older. “How do I steer my early 30s/Before I shipwreck, before I’m 40,” Greg Barnett announces at the outset, and despite the parallels to the aforementioned line from After the Party opener “Tellin’ Lies,” the intention is different—there’s an unexpected optimism amidst the pervasive societal turmoil of “America (You’re Freaking Me Out),” a willingness to see a wasted 20s as a dry run for responsible adulthood instead of a sunk cost or an endlessly renewable resource for self-loathing. Like most bands in their position, Menzingers commit to living in the moment by proclaiming “we do politics now.” While the title of “Strawberry Mansion” would usually promise yet another hardscrabble account of drinking Keystone Light in the Keystone State, this time, the Menzingers describe the impending environmental apocalypse in the same language as “Born to Run” (“Set a course for the sun/To bittersweet oblivion”). And while none of Barnett’s insights on “America (You’re Freaking Me Out)” are remotely original—“What kind of monsters did our parents vote for?”; “Cranks for Christians in powerful positions/I’ve always felt like all their pomp and circumstance is just cover for the devil to dance”; “Can’t you recognize truth from clever lies?”— they paint a sympathetic and empathetic portrait. Menzingers’ narrators aren’t radicals, and neither are the Menzingers; their musical progressions are incremental and headed towards predictable outcomes. The slower songs are a little bit more country, the more uptempo ones a bit more rootsy, and all of it is bolstered by typically brawny Will Yip production that cuts through the chatter of any barroom or basement. Since they perfected their craft with On the Impossible Past, the boundary between Menzingers songs and parodic “Menzingers songs” has all but disappeared, undermining their heartfelt honesty with bingo cards of burly, sensitive-rock-guy tropes seen through Pabst-colored lenses. “I was getting fucked up with a high school friend/Wondering where all the good times went”; “I know what you’re thinking but I can’t stop drinking”; those used to be the subtexts of Menzingers songs, but now they’re choruses on songs literally called “High School Friend” and “I Can’t Stop Drinking.” The plot to “Anna” is quintessential “Menzingers”—a guy starts to realize his girlfriend’s outgrowing him (“It’s like our studio apartment is just a place to keep your stuff”) and can’t summon the confidence to make up the ground between them. Instead, he begs her “please come back to Philadelphia” so they can relive their first days living together, dancing in the kitchen and “drinking cheap red wine.” As it is in many Menzingers songs (scare quotes or otherwise), “cheap” is an important qualifier, one that cuts against Anna’s job promotion and newfound upward mobility. While people might not ever face abject poverty in a Menzingers song, they’re always one squandered paycheck or shitty tour away from couch-surfing for the next year. But throughout Hello Exile, “cheap” ends up exposing a poverty of new ideas: Barnett wants to rekindle a relationship on “Portland” with “cheap Champagne and roses”; he swears this “cheap motel” is temporary on “Strain Your Memory,” even though you’ll find him plastered off “cheap beer” in “I Can’t Stop Drinking,” and when everyone comes together in a “Farewell Youth,” they’re “drinking the cheap stuff.” “Farewell youth, I hardly got to know you,” Barnett sings, but even though they get older, “Menzingers songs” remain the same.

The blue was the indie store variant; yellow was from Isbell's store.

New record came out last week; really enjoying it. Produced by Lucinda Williams and also features Billie Joe Armstrong. 4-star reviews from American Songwriter and Rolling Stone here: https://americansongwriter.com/2019/08/jesse-malin-sunset-kids/ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/jesse-malin-sunset-kids-review-lucinda-williams-878565/ Amazon link here: https://www.amazon.com/Sunset-Kids-Jesse-Malin/dp/B07RTGBL67

Updated post.

Thought this would've been posted by now but here you go. 180 gram black and color variants available through official store: https://stores.portmerch.com/jasonisbell/new-stuff.html Indie color exclusives also available: S/T green /2,000: https://seasick-records.myshopify.com/collections/pre-orders/products/jason-isbell-the-400-unit-jason-isbell-the-400-unit-lp-green-vinyl Here we Rest blue /1500: https://seasick-records.myshopify.com/collections/pre-orders/products/jason-isbell-the-400-unit-here-we-rest-lp-blue-vinyl

Not trolling but I dislike this record as much as (if not more) than I did when it first came out. Glad the folks who enjoy it are getting this in their collections.

I remember that club tour. I saw it at Maxwell's in Hoboken with China Drum opening. People were really scratching their heads at the new material. To be honest, this record still doesn't do anything for me.

I assume this is the Jason Isbell reissues. https://stores.portmerch.com/jasonisbell/

To the extent this guys "I'm so hot" shtick was ever clever or funny, it ain't anymore,