Our whiskers are all a’twitter because This Place Isn’t Here Anymore from Eric Din’s STREET PARTY album is getting some streaming love. What does this mean? It means hoomans (we assume they are hoomans) are PLAYING the song on their various streaming music gizmotrons. YOU can join this party by playing the song on your preferred gleaming streaming device. Bunches of them are linked to from here.
Bricks and Mortar, Bricks and Mortar
What do we mean when we say “Bricks and Mortar?” Are we referring to the closing track on The Jam’s amazing 1st album? Why yes, Murgatroid! But we also mean stores. Retail shoppes, from before the great electronic brain swallowed the earth. AS AN EXPERIMENT, Berkeley Cat Records has placed a limited (small! tiny!) quantity of physical CDs of STREET PARTY by Eric Din at our beloved Amoeba Records in Berkeley. Here’s a map. If you pick one up, the experiment is a success.
You can also purchase the CD directly from me, through this link here, as some of you have done (THANK YOU!), but I thought maybe some of ye would enjoy a trip to the record store, and I am sure Amoeba would be delighted to see you as well. HOW many brick and mortar stores is STREET PARTY available in? ONE! But one, Petunia! Amoeba Berkeley and that is it! Within view of the Campanile as depicted in the album art. You might even get a glimpse of our benevolent tentacled overlord.
Radio, Radio
Astonishingly, STREET PARTY was in the NACC’s top 30 Most Added Records, last week(!!). NACC (which stands for something) charts airplay on College and Community radio stations in North America (we live there), and we are tickled pink. A mighty HUGE thank you to the DJs and music directors. Tune in to YOUR college and community airwaves, where the music is great and the advertisements… don’t exist! What?! Yes, Bougainvillea, not EVERYTHING has been destroyed by capitalism, yet!
Enjoy, be happy, register and vote, pet the critters. Here’s a photo I snapped over the weekend, of the very CD album of which we speak.
Yours truly, (you guessed it),
Eric Din