All sorts of stuff about the Posies.

About a week ago, I ran across the following Posies CDs that I wasn't really aware of:

• Failure 15th Anniversary
  Houston Party Records brings more Posies love in the form of a reissue of Failure. All the tracks have been remastered and it includes 8 unreleased demos/alternate versions! Ok...I already have copies of 7 of them from my tape trading days, but it's still damn cool. The site has the full track listing...but the whole site is in flash, so you'll have to navigate your way to it.

• Jon Auer - The Birthday Party
  A little live set for someone's birthday. Jon, an acoustic guitar, 4 people, and a microphone. How cool would that be? Nice mix of Posies & solo material, but the downside is that his vocals aren't miked very well. But I frequently listen to Posies material of much worse quality. :P

Then today, I talked with my friend Ken and he gave me a few details I hadn't heard of...like The Posies Join the Ryko Family. A new Posies album tentatively scheduled for summer 2004!

This lead me to another article Posies Re-Teaming With Big Star. While quite cool in itself, it also mentions solo albums coming from both Jon & Ken. While I've known about Jon's "Songs From the Year of Our Demise" (if that's even still the title) for quite some time, this is the first I've heard of Ken's.

I popped over to Yep Rock Records and got the details. Soft Commands has a street date of 7/13! Whoo hoo! The aforementioned Ken said he picked up a Yep Rock sampler with a track from the new album at Silver Platters for 50 cents. It also had a Minus 5 track, so it definately sounds worth the price.