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Ester Drang debuted on the CMJ top 200 as #182. pretty good for an up and coming label such as ourselves. just sent out a new e-mail update. hope you got it. if you feel left out, send an e-mail to btv@burnttoastvinyl.comand ask to be added to the e-mail list. until we get an e-mail form. go to:www.vehicle-m.com and check out tokyo, my love, a flash mini saga starring our dear friend tim of farquar muckenfuss infamy. there are more things to check out on the site, all programmed by our good friend andy bruntel, who did the burnttoastvinyl re-design. :::scott:::

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Denison Witmer is making his way across country. Thanks to everyone who is coming to see him play. More dates are listed on his website and here at burnttoastvinyl.com. For all of those who have ordered Denison’s first cd, Safe Away, by mail or on-line, they have been repressed and mailed out to everyone. Denison also has these cds at his live shows. Ester Drang is making some waves at college radio, last week as the #15 most added in their first week of adds. Several CMJ reporting stations have been playing their record. Call up your favorite station to request their goldenwest album. The Trouble with Sweeney are embarking on a short mini-tour. For dates, check their website and those dates listed here. In Philadelphia news, we’re all hoping for a Philadelphia pennant in the NL East and it’s going down to the wire. There’s rejoicing at the win over the Braves tonight. We’ll see… :::Scott:::

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i have officially returned to philadelphia. we made it to the texas chili parlor in time to fill our bellies with a hot lunch before saying goodbye to brian and carolyn and making our way to dallas. since we had all gotten so little sleep, the van was a bit quieter on the drive, but the band was ready for their last night of rock with pedro and seldom. before the show, we all went with trey and seldom to have some sushi. trees is in the deep ellum district of dallas and it was ester drang’s third performance in the club. the sound in the club was probably the best of the three shows and the drang played a spectacularly sounding set. seldom’s songs have been finding their way into my head, so it was great to see them and pedro for one final night. pedro has been playing several new songs on this tour, so it wasn’t monotonous to see songs over and over since they were much less familiar. dave has popularized a bit of question and answering with the crowd and dallas was by far the harshest crowd in the questioning phase. i think the band…Continue reading