'Every Kind of Light' In Stores Now!

Every Kind Of Light is now available worldwide, after being released today on Rykodisc in the US and Canada (the German release is going to be a week from now, on 4 July). Pick up a copy and share your thoughts in the EKOL forum.

EKOL released in the UK!

Every Kind Of Light is released in the UK today on Rykodisc, and it is BBC6 Music's Album Of The Day pick. Click here to visit their site.

Recent online reviews:
- Unfinished
- HotPress (must register to view)
- MXDWN
- Liberation (in French)

Every Kind Of Light on AOL Music

The Posies are in the artist spotlight on AOL music, and they are having a 'listening party' where you can listen to the new album (released tomorrow in the UK and Tuesday in the US!) in full and write a review. Click here to visit the feature.

In addition, EKOL is on sale at Amazon for $13.99.

Big Star Album News

The new Big Star album (currently untitled) is set to be released August 28th on Rykodisc. You can pre-order it at Not Lame here (soundbites will be up soon): http://www.notlame.com/Big_Star/Page_1/CDBIGSTAR1.html

Also, in this month's issue of Mojo magazine (Oasis on the cover), there is an article about the album and some quotes from Jon.

Posies Shine 'Light' On New Album

Featured on billboard.com

Seattle-based power pop veterans the Posies will break a seven-year new album drought with "Every Kind of Light," due Tuesday (June 28) via Rykodisc. The 12-track record would appear to have been a long time in the making. But according to co-frontman Jon Auer, its actual recording was a lightning-quick process capping a half-decade of the band's adventures in limbo.

"We'd actually officially broken up after 'Success' in 1998 and called it a day," Auer tells Billboard.com. "We actually decided it was over before making that record. Then we toured it and said good night."

Read the rest here.

The Posies are PopBang's Artist of the Month

and "Conversations" is the single of the week.

Very rarely do we have the Artist of the Month and the Single of the Week from the same artist, but a new full length Posies album doesn't come around that often. "Conversations" has everything that Posies fans have loved over the years. Beautiful melody, stunning hooks, signature harmonies, and overflowing emotion, sounding as if it were starting side 2 of the now classic "Dear 23".

If there was a Power Pop Hall of Fame, The Posies would be a shoe in for an inaugural induction. A very welcome return.

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Mailing List Now Automated

The update list is now automated; visit the new page here to sign up.

Please report any errors with the new form to updates@theposies.net.

NOTE: If you subscribed to the list before today (the last e-mail I got was about an hour ago) you are still on the list. I did send out an e-mail asking everyone for confirmation, however, and if you don't get this e-mail within a day, do subscribe again.

French Show

The Posies will play the Nouveau Casino (http://www.nouveaucasino.net/nc.html) in Paris on July 18th.

Two German Shows Announced

15.08.2005 | Munchen | Atomic Cafe
17.08.2005 | Stuttgart | Schocken

Tickets are €12,00 if bought in advance and €15,00 at the door.

(Ticket online: 0049 0 18 05 - 56 20 30)

New Look

The new version of the site is up (except for the gallery, at the moment). Unlike the past version, there are no broken links (with the exception of some lyrics from the box set) and everything in the discography sections works. There's some new articles, sounds, photos, and the beginnings of a tab section.

If you come across any broken links, please e-mail them to me (taylord@theposies.net) so I can correct them. Thank you!

Forum

To go along with the relaunch of the site before the new album's release, I have created a forum. It's not actually up and running currently, as I'm not sure how to format it. Right now I'm just looking for suggestions from those who would be interested in a forum... if you are, register here: http://theposies.net/forum and give your opinion.

In addition to just basic sections for the band etc, I'm thinking of forums for discussing the new album, and reviews of the upcoming tour, for example.

Thank you in advance!

Posies on boxset

The 7-CD set called Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box will be released by Rhino Records on July 26th. "Dream All Day" is on the 4th cd. For the full tracklisting and more information, see this Rolling Stone article.

Also, the link to the Every Kind of Light ecard in the previous post has been corrected, so if you haven't seen it yet, go check it out at rykodisc-media.com/theposies!

Rykodisc launch media player

Click here to visit the ecard (flash required to view) made by Jonathan Krop and listen to a few new tracks.

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