Thankfully there's been a pretty steady flow of Good News lately, which I am definitely grateful for because my B-Day is coming up and let's face it...you don't want to get shit on a bunch around that time.

For starters the local but World Famous KEXP has made us a part of their "Music That Matters" Podcast. Afternoon show DJ Kevin Cole arranged this Podcast and it is his fault that we are included, major props to him. I've been listening to Kevin Cole for years and years and years and he definitely has great taste in his Rock n' Roll as well as my respect. So, for him to put us in his Podcast as a new fav is just thrilling.

Here's more info on the Podcast:
 
"KEXP afternoon show host Kevin Cole shares some of his current faves from around the world. Hear exotic pop from Iceland, bubblegum pop from Scotland, Afro-Latin rhythms from Peru, and new music from Seattle's The Redwood Plan and Hotels. No exquisite frame necessary!"
1. Bubblegum Lemonade - A Billion Heartbeats
2. Asobi Seksu - Layers
3. Hotels - Kite Fight
4. The Redwood Plan - Something To Prove
5. Pretty and Nice - Stop/Start
6. Novalima - Coba Guarango
7. Sin Fang Bous - Melt Down The Knives
8. The Hermit Crabs - I Don't Know How
9. Eleni Mandell - It Wasn't The Time (It Was the Color)
10. Robyn Hitchcock - Up To Our Nex
11. Tommy Keene - Tomorrow's Gone Tonight
12. Kinky - Fuego En La Fabrica
13. Late of the Pier - Space and the Woods
14. Branden Daniel and Everybody Gets Laid - Lua
Here's a little background on our podcasts: Our available
Music That Matters podcasts see over 60,000 downloads per month, with an individual podcast receiving up to 10,000 downloads in just a week's time. Our Song of the Day podcasts see over 700,000 downloads per month, with individual podcasts receiving up to 20,000 downloads, mostly within the first week. The majority of our podcasts are distributed through iTunes, though they are additionally available directly from KEXP.ORGand through other podcasting aggregators and RSS feeds like Zune, Firefox Live Bookmarks, and many others. Three of our podcasts subscriptions are are within iTunes' top 100 podcasts in regard to popularity: Song of the Day (#13), Music That Matters (#37), and Live Performances (#68). Our DJs promote the podcasts on the air, we include information about the podcast in an industry wide e-mail (of approximately 1,000 recipients), and the podcast is also featured on the KEXP Blog, the KEXP website, the KEXP MySpace page, and DJ e-mail playlists.....

Using iTunes:....
http://phobos.apple.com/..WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/..viewPodcast?id=76069540....

Using another service:....
http://www.kexp.org/podcast...xml....

Learn more about all of our podcasts at:....
http://www.kexp.org/..podcasting/podcasting.asp....

You can also link directly to the podcast in MP3 form here:....
http://feedproxy.google.com/~..r/kexp/musicthatmatters/~5/vX_..g9DCN4Dk/9e996a19-e28f-4500-..b809-278cc494729c.mp3

Do the world a favor and head over to KEXP.ORG and donate some money to show your support for the most incredible station the world has ever known...I did!

IN Other cool news, one of my personal favorite Seattle bands Loving Thunder   www.myspace.com/lovingthunder who I included a blog or two ago in my bands to check out list, will be playing an ALL AGES show with us in Seattle at BOP St Records at the end of the month!

"Nerd Rock"

This last weekend we went and played with my lil' bra Kyle's band Holy Children, who also happen to currently be my favorite band in Portland! We played at Banana Stand Productions, a free, all ages venue in SE Portland. They will be making a Podcast of the show to share on the Interweb soon, but here are some pictures to stare at and wish you were there...because it was a drunken' blast. http://www. bananastandmedia. com/branden-daniel-egl-22809/

Holy Children 02/28/09

This weekend at the KENTON CLUB in NE Portland we will be playing my "Unofficial B-Day show" with again the Holy Children! So, come down and have some crazy fun with us. Or we'll just have to do it without you!

SATURDAY March 7th

WORLD Famous Kenton CLub
2025 N Kilpatrick - Heaven in NoPo
http://www.myspace.com/famouskclub
FREE! 9pm 21+

There was some more good news but I'm sick of bloggin right now so I think I'll leave it at this...

love,
BD

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