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It is happening. The resurrection of the one night only show of the band Pumped for Dumplin. Five years ago at Valentine’s in Albany NY you may or may not have seen the four um, folks in the following picture do things that delighted, horrified, mystified and confused you.

If not, you have a second chance. The P for D revival will take place this Friday, August 7th at Valentine’s once again. The Restys will join the bill and The Mission Control of… will be opening the show. Show starts at 9PM, $5 cover.

Here are two new Salon Style songs:

“Monarch Juice”

“Fairy Princess”

Salon Style will perform THIS Friday, July 31st at Valentine’s in Albany, NY as a part of the release performance for Scientific Maps‘ new Galvanic Wizardry EP. Also performing is long-lost friend Greg Adams in the band Swimclub, now residing in Brooklyn, NY.

In other Salon Style news, WEXT will host an interview with Gaven to air Thursday, July 30th and Sunday, August 2nd at 9pm and 11am respectively. Tune into WEXT for more information.

Congratulations to the folks named in Metroland Magazine’s BEST OF 2009 edition! We have plenty of friends all over this thing, but first, our own artists!

SEAN ROWE :: “Best Solo Artist”
Sure, this guy once ate a chipmunk so as not to starve, but he also opened for Boz Scaggs and the Doobie Brothers, so cut him some slack. Better yet, give his recent album Magic a spin and then try to tell us Rowe ain’t the bee’s knees. This survivalist has pretty much the best baritone around and certainly knows his way around a six-string, backing band be damned.

MATTHEW LOIACONO :: “Best Songwriter (Project-Oriented)”
Loiacono has proven to be an ace songwriter (in addition to label honcho and musician-about-town), particularly when he puts himself to task. Last year’s excellent Kentucky, recorded for the RPM Challenge in just 22 days, found the artist limiting himself to just mandolin and voice. For this summer’s Penny Riddle he used different constraints: Each of its eight songs is just a minute long. We can’t wait to see what he puts his mind—and talent—to next.

Check the rest of the listings here! Thanks Metroland!

Matthew has also signed up for this new service called NoiseTrade, which allows users to either pay what they want, or tell five friends about the music in trade for downloading high quality MP3s of the songs.

Check it out!

Congrats to our favorite local radio station, WEXT for making it past the 2 year mark! Tomorrow (7/7) marks the 2 year anniversary of the launch of this excellent addition to our local community. We look forward to their giant birthday party at Valentine’s in Albany on Wednesday, featuring CCR’s own Sean Rowe, Railbird, Sgt. Dunbar & the Hobo Banned and Davy Knowles / Back Door Slam! Doors at 7PM, show at 8PM!