"The Cost of Living"
In stores June 24th.
Now available on limited edition 12" colored vinyl.

You've been able to get The Cost of Living for a little while now at my shows and on-line, but beginning on June 24th it will also be available in record stores all over, as well as from on-line shops like iTunes and Amazon.com. I'm very happy to announce that Eleven Records has teamed up with the Lumberjack Mordam Music Group to handle our distribution. All of my back catalog, as well as Jherek and Sprout's records will also now be available.

I am pretty proud of how the new album turned out, and everyone who I've talked to seems to think it is by far the strongest thing I have done. But I feel badly that I haven't done much to promote it so far, other than send notices to my mailing list.

So, to coincide with this new streat date, I am doing a few things:

1. I've repressed the album on 12" colored vinyl. I just got the records in the mail last week and they look great! This is a limited edition run of 1,111 copies. Once they are gone, they are gone. The LPs also include a CD of the album. We are taking orders now.

2. I am finishing up editing a music video for Ways to Love. The band and I shot it with some friends during last year's show at the Vera Project. I am also having discussions with a great director named Hoku Uchiyama about a video for Almost Time to Go.

3. I've just mailed the CD to a bunch of writers and journalists, just in case folks at Rolling Stone or Pitchfork decide that I am cool enough to mention. I've also hired a promotion company to do a radio campaign. These are the same folks who handled the last albums by The Dresden Dolls, Devothcka and Tom Waits, so I think I am in good company. We're sending the album to about 450 college stations and specialty programs. So please call your local stations and request a song.

I've never done anything like this with one of my albums.
We will see what happens.

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Also, if you have't already, please check out Alex's CD, Led to Sea.
I just listened to it again the other day, and damn it is beautiful.

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.FUTURE RELEASES:
We aren't sure yet how or when it will be released (it may actually come out on a label other than Eleven), but a full-length album by the conjoined twins Evelyn Evelyn has been mostly recorded, I just need to find the time to finish things up and mix it.

I also plan to put out more collaborative singles with some new musician friends soon. I'd really like to try and finish the whole series of eleven in the next two years. I'm not sure which one will be next, but I've written a batch of songs with New York composer and sound sculptor Sxip Shirey, and while I was in Mexico, Ximena Sarinana and I wrote a handful of bi-lingual tunes together. Other works in progress are a Monsters of Accordion collaboration and perhaps some kind of project with my Czech accordion friend Jana Vebrova. It is still a mystery to me who the last few records in the series are going to be with. I'm hoping for someone big. Maybe Leonard Cohen.
Or Michael Jackson.

If you happen see either of them, please have them call me.

-jason