So some nice things have happened in the last few weeks. I’ve been lucky enough to have remixers from all over the world create some truly great remixes of my music. Here are just a few of my recent faves:

Chris Fudurich – Fell Out Of The Sky v03
DoKashiteru – I Fell Out Of The Sky – ccMixter editor’s pick!
DJ Rkod – Chemma Chi (Disturbed) – contest winner!
Spinmeister – Time To Go West
Scott Altham – Fell Out Of The Sky (Hard Pushed Edit)
Sporkboy – Computer-Sporkboy’s vocal exploits mix
Decaying_Machine – Computer [decaying machine remix]
Ditto Ditto – Up, Up, Up
Fourstones – Fell Out Of The Sky (Treatment)
DoKashiteru – Chemma Chi (Down Mix)
Blitch Bango – I Hate California (Blitch Bango Remix)

There’s also nice writeup of my music up at Jamendo. I’ve been lucky enough to be able to offer my music for free and still have some of you come back here and pay me for it. Thank you for that. And I’m happy to say that This Is Old continues to receive a lot of college radio airplay… it’s on over 100 stations across the US and and several internationally as well.

2009, you’re giving me a lot to think about. And a lot to do. There will be more remix contests, here and on AcidPlanet.com. I’d also like to work with remixers out there to get a remix CD pressed. Planning a spring ’09 tour of the US, booking that now. Contact me if you want me to come to your town. And of course, I’ll be compiling all of your audio samples on my new album, created entirely with audio by you. Be a part of the album.

Happy new year.

2008 is almost over, finally.

2008 sucked.

2008 was the year of relationship and family bullshit.

2008 is the year of narcissistic fuckups.

2008 is yet another year of wanting to get the fuck out of LA.

2008 was a year of severing some ties, burning some bridges and building a few new ones.

2008 was the year of asbestos removal.

2008 was the year of rescuing and rehabilitating a dog that almost got killed by by a car.

(photo by phil hilfiker)

2008 rocked.

2008 was my year to actually touch a California gray whale, in the wild.

2008 was the year of road trips across the US to Massachusetts and NYC.

2008 was a year to be proud of my country yet extremely disappointed in my state.

2008 was a year of being fortunate enough to legally drive as fast as I want.

2008 was redemption for pissing away the last few years musically, and finally getting my new album released.

2008 was the year of shooting my first music video.

2008 was a year that I wouldn’t really want to repeat, but I will strangely miss it.

You still have 8 days left to enter the Remix Contest and be entered to win a Line 6 POD Studio UX2. Create your remix of a State Shirt song and send it my way.

And make sure to head over to RemixFight. My song “This Is Old” is part of RemixFight #0076! Put up yer dukes and enter the fight.

Pretty excited this week, radio airplay for the new album is going well. This week, 5 stations have charted it in their top 30 albums; #21 at URH in Hawaii, #18 at WXJM in Harrisonburg, VA, #15 at WCYT in Fort Wayne, Indiana, #13 at WPPJ in Pittsburgh, and #7 at KSLU in St. Louis. Here’s the updated list, if you see your local station here, please call them and request State Shirt. Thanks, yer a peach!

WEGL – Auburn, AL
KHNS – Haines AK
KFSR – Fresno, CA
KVMR – Nevada City, CA
KUCR – Riverside, CA
KZSC – Santa Cruz, CA
KCSS – Turlock, CA
KSCU – Fort Collins, CO
WESU – Middletown, CT
WFCS – New Britain, CT – Charted at #29
WWUH – West Hartford, CT (my old stompin’ grounds)
WNHU – West Haven, CT – Charted at #22
WVUD – Newark, DE
WMNF – Tampa, FL
WRAS – Atlanta, GA
URH – Hilo, HI – Charted at #23, now at #21!
WMXM – Lake Forest, IL
WCYT – Fort Wayne, IN – Charted at #15!
WVFI – Notre Dame, IN
WRFL – Lexington, KY
KXUL – Monroe, LA
KSCL – Shreveport, LA
WBOR – Brunswick, ME
WMPG – Portland, ME
CJUM – Winnipeg, MAN
WMUC – College Park, MD
WMUA – Amherst, MA (also my old stompin’ grounds)
WBMR – Cambridge, MA
WMLN – Milton, MA – Charted at #27!
WBRS – Waltham, MA
WIDR – Kalamazoo, MI
KUOM – Minneapolis, MN
KRLX – Northfield, MN
3WK – St Louis, MO
KDHX – St Louis, MO
KSLU – St Louis, MO – Charted at #26, now at #7!
KWUR – St Louis, MO
RLC – Piscataway, NJ
WICB – Ithaca, NY
WUSB – Stony Brook, NY – Charted at #27
WRPI – Troy, NY
WQFS – Greensboro, NC
KNDS – Fargo, ND
WBGU – Bowling Green, OH – Charted at #10!
KRSC – Claremore, OK
KXZY – Stillwater, OK
CHUO – Ottawa, ONT
CILU – Thunder Bay, ONT
KEOL – La Grande, OR
WMUH – Allentown, PA
WARC – Meadville, PA
WIXQ – Millersville, PA
WPPJ – Pittsburgh, PA – Charted at #13!
WSYC – Shippensburg, PA
WVYC – York, PA
WDOM – Providence, RI
WUTK – Knoxville, TN – Charted at #30
WRVU – Nashville, TN
Radio UTD – Richardson, TX
KSYM – San Antonio, TX
WRUV – Burlington, VT
WXJM – Harrisonburg, VA – Charted at #18!
KUGS – Bellingham, WA
WSRI – Eau Claire, WI
WSUM – Madison, WI

I took a road trip back in October, and when I was in Massachusetts I spent a couple days at Matthew Larsen’s old brick duplex in Holyoke and helped him record a few songs. Go to Matt’s site and listen to the new songs.

Here’s Matt laying down some melodica.

Creative Commons is all warm and cuddly with my Call for Remixes/Samples.

Thanks to Laptop Rockers for giving the remix contest some love and affection.

Yay, I’m on Song-A-Day again!

Nice review on Comfort Comes. “an album that’s fresh-sounding but also comfy as your favorite sweatshirt”. Very comfortable.

Speaking of being comfortable, Comfort Music posted a couple tracks up on their site.

It’s okay, Pensatos totally panned the new album, but someone there liked a track.