RECORD STORE DAY '09

Record Store Day is coming again! It's a cool day to celebrate record stores -- so many of us have gotten so much enjoyment from hanging out in record stores (particularly indie ones) and it's good to support them. This site has a list of artists who are doing indie store exclusive releases in honor of the holiday. It doesn't say what the releases will have, only what artists are doing exclusives. Bruce Springsteen is doing a 7" single (nice touch after the Walmart best-of debacle), Bob Dylan is doing a 7", Tom Waits and Lucinda Williams are doing a split 7" and Elvis Costello and Jenny Lewis are also doing a split 7".

THIS WEEK ON OUTQ: ELVIS, JENNY, RANDY AND TODD

After last week's metalfest, I'm gonna chill a bit on this week's show. If last week was a tight pants show, this week is a loose pants week. We're going to talk about Elvis Costello's recent Momofuku, Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley's new solo album Acid Tongue, Randy Newman's Harps and Angels and Todd Snider's Peace Queer EP which comes out next month. I don't know if there's really a theme here, other than all four of these folks are people you wouldn't want writing a song about you, particularly if you pissed them off.

I was also going to talk about the next wave of Replacements reissues, but I haven't gotten them yet.