Music Peddlers' Solidarity 2

Magic Purple Sunshine will shut down it comments again this year on April 17 in honor of Record Store Day. It's great to get free music on the internet, but without the crate-diggers infrastructure out there there would be no new or old LPs to discover. So on April 17 you won't be able to access any of the links here; check out the Record Store Day site or visit your favorite online record store to find out their realtime specials for that day. Keep these folks in business!

Today is April 17. Go outside and buy a record! Comments will be turned back on tomorrow.

Update: Back to normal!

Music Peddlers Solidarity

In honor of Record Store Day, Magic Purple Sunshine's comments will be shut off Saturday, April 18. Which means you won't be able to download anything. Go out, enjoy the spring weather, and patronize a record shop near you.

There aren't so many great record stores left anymore, my favorite is in another city but with a great online store. I recommend Dustygroove America.

UPDATE Back to normal. Remember to leave a comment of thanks or your thoughts of the music when you grab something.

Multiplying Probable Salivation

Magic Purple Sunshine has been a great success. I'm really amazed--and grateful--how many MPS albums have been collected in one place. I've heard a ton of music I've loved and some I have not. But it's been a great experience, which will continue, even now as the list of yet-uncollected albums grows shorter.

Meanwhile, the label-collecting bug has spread, and as you can see from the new blog list at left, there are now similar blogs collecting albums and discographies from several other labels.

I am pleased--or crazed--to announce another blog that is my own project, Nine Sisters, collecting the output of the legendary American jazz label MUSE. It's built on the exact model of Magic Purple Sunshine, so its format will be familiar to readers here. There is even a post for contributions and new additions, especially since it is not as completely laid out as our blog here. Hopefully I will see some of the regulars here over there as well. There's a lot of albums linked up, but there are many more not yet found, many causing me, as noted, to salivate wildly.

Now, back to the MPS!