#31: All Girl Summer Fun Band closes out the summer.

Okay, the technically speaking the All Girl Summer Fun Band are not a "new" girl group to me. I've been following and enjoying them for many years now, bit they do have a new album out, so I'm counting this one in the #31 category.

I've thoroughly been enjoying their new one called Looking Into It. The three-piece Portland based girl group has been around for a decade now, and still manage to keep up the '60's girl-group infectious crunchy guitar pop.

Check out the video for "dear mr. and mrs. troublemaker" at the outhouse in los gatos (i was at this show!):

#18: Always have, and forever will be, a riot grrrl!

Another writing update, this one is for betterPropaganda and is a Kill Rock Stars label spotlight. Put in a little anecdote about my father and record shopping. Enjoy.

Also--have a longer update w/ photos planned, but in my recent trip to Seattle I visited the Experience Music Project which had a nice exhibit section on Kill Rock Star.

#41: Tip #1 to avoid library late fees: renew your books.

Yes, duh. It's that simple. So any way, Nathan and I went to the library a week or so again and picked out loads of books, some cds and one tv dvd collection (Andy Griffith for Nathan). We got lots of good stuff and I'm always pretty impressed with the cd's that the libraries have. I found a neat instrumental collection of Burt Bacharach songs that I've been using for my radio show. Now to get to those books...

#18: Shugo Tokumaru is a mad scientist who creates beautiful music!

Another review done for this month. This one is written about Japanese artist Shugo Tokumaru, for his album, Exit. The review can be found on the Evolution of Media website, or linkage here! I should have a couple more writing tidbits in the next day or two, I've just been so busy haven't had as much time as I would like to write. Still meeting my monthly quota though! Check out the video below for more Tokumaru goodness.

Shugo Tokumaru- "Parachute" [my favorite song from the album].

#18: Mr. Meeble, meet Obi Best.

Two new reviews published this week on Evolution of Media. One is for Mr. Meeble's album, Never Trust the Chinese, and the other one is for the darling record from Obi Best, Capades. Enjoy.

#18: Polyvinyl records lights up my life! Label spotlight feature.

So my record label spotlight on Illinois-based record label, Polyvinyl, is now up on betterPropaganda.com. YAY! Opening a Polyvinyl package while MD-ing at KSCU always brought a smile to my face. Anyway, enjoy the article here! You can also stream the 33-song playlist of bP's Polyvinyl catalog while you read! And if you like them, all the songs featured on bP are downloadable! Take that! Enjoy.

More writing posts to follow soon (hopefully!).

#1 and #2 and #5: A day to myself (mostly).

Admittedly some of this is double-posted on Girl in the Suburbs, "I didn't go into work today because the plumber needed to work on our shower and I had an optometrist appointment (did my contact lens fitting!). So I spent most of the day getting useful stuff done: grocery shopping--after developing the meal plan (#2-see photo), cleaning the bathrooms, giving the dog a bath, all that fun stuff. I also had spent part of the weekend working on putting up drapes in the kitchen because I H-A-T-E vertical blinds and the room was in desperate need of some color." Visit this here link for more photos.

I'm also cooking a baked penne pasta dinner for Nathan and I to have our weekly sit down dinner (#1 & #5)