Hey everyone!

First a quick programming announcement... We know that a lot of
Musical Justice listeners tune in while they're at work, so we've
decided to try something new for those folks. We've expanded our
active playlists to 1000 songs and 60+ hours which means that
whenever your listening at work during the week, you aren't going to
hear the same song twice Monday thru Friday, no matter what shift you
work or where you are around the world. Put it this way, if you
happen to hear a duplicate during your workday, you're working way
too many hours and your boss needs to give you a raise! Please check
it out and let us know what you think about the change...

Now that the business is out of the way, on to the fun stuff, because
it's our favorite time of year here at Musical Justice. That's
right, it's off to Austin, Texas later this week to attend the South
By Southwest music festival. If previous years are any indication,
we'll come home with stacks of new music to play for you on MJ. For
those of you who have never been, picture over a 1000 bands spread
over 50+ venues performing from noon until 2 AM for four straight
days. Oh, and did I mention lots of beer and BBQ? :)

Some of the Musical Justice artists who are playing the festival are
Aimee Mann, Blue Merle, Bobby Bare Jr., Bottle Rockets, Buddy Miller,
Caitlin Cary, David Garza, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Earlimart, Elvis
Costello and the Imposters, Hot Hot Heat, Jeff Klein, John Doe,
Kathleen Edwards, Los Super Seven, Lucero, Ray LaMontagne, Robbie
Fulks, Robert Earl Keen, Robert Randolph, Sleater-Kinney, Son Volt,
Stephen Malkmus, Tegan & Sara, The Donnas, The Forty-Fives, The
Futureheads, The Golden Republic, The High Dials, The Paybacks, The
Raveonettes, The Waco Brothers, The Wallflowers, Tift Merritt, Tim
Easton and Vic Chesnutt. But the most anticipated performance might
just be a rare appearance from the recovering Alejandro Escovedo at
Town Lake on Friday night. Expect to see pictures posted out at the
Musical Justice Yahoo Groups site afterwards. If you're going to be
down in Austin and you want to catch up with the rest of the Musical
Justice group, send me an email at musicaljustice4u at aol.com...

Oh, and one more thing while I'm thinking about it. You know
those "thumbs up/thumbs down" buttons in the Live 365 player window.
That provides us with extremely valuable information about what you
like to listen to on our station and we use it extensively in our
programming decisions. So if you really like something you hear and
want us to keep playing it (as well as other songs like it), then
give it a thumbs up and that'll definitely help keep it on the
playlist. In case you're curious, here is the current top 20 based
upon listener feedback:

# Artist - Song
1 William Shatner - Common People
2 Johnny Cash - Hurt
3 Butterfly Boucher - I Cant Make Me
4 Anne McCue - Stupid
5 Gina Villalobos - Why
6 Jim White - Static On The Radio
7 Social Distortion - Winners And Losers
8 U2 - Vertigo
9 The Hives - Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones
10 Stephen Malkmus - Craw Song
11 Hamell on Trial - Halfway
12 Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell
13 Jay Farrar - Windfall
14 Tommy Stinson - Not A Moment Too Soon
15 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
16 The Out Crowd - Good Morning
17 Snow Patrol - Spitting Games
18 The Forty-Fives - C'mon Now Love Me
19 Matthew Ryan - Fathers & Compromise (Live)
20 The Futureheads - Decent Days and Nights

I feel a little like Casey Kasem here, but I'd be remiss if I didn't
point out that Shatner's been at the top of the MJ listener charts
for the past 3 weeks, making Common People on of the most popular
songs on MJ over the past year! Who'd have guessed??

Time to wrap up for now. As always, we appreciate your continued
feedback and listener support, especially those of you who help
support the station financially by becoming a preferred Live365
member. Musical Justice continues to just be an expensive hobby at
this point, but every new preferred listener gets us closer to our
goal to break even someday. So thanks again to those of you who
already are VIPs. For those that aren't, we still love you
too 'cause you listen to the ads that help Live365 keep overall costs
down. In the future if you'd like to support Musical Justice more
directly by becoming a VIP listener, that's a bonus for us...

Thanks again for everything!
Jeff


PS. For those of you who are interested to see what CDs we're
playing, here's the current playlist of newer CDs:

Allison Moorer - The Duel
Anne McCue - Roll
Aqualung - Strange & Beautiful
Ari Hest - Someone To Tell
Arthur Dodge & The Horsefeathers - Room #4
Autolux - Future Perfect
Beck - Guero
Ben Harper - Diamonds On The Inside
Ben Kweller - On My Way
Ben Lee - Awake is the New Sleep
Blue Merle - Burning In The Sun (EP)
Brian Houston - Thirteen Days In August
Butterfly Boucher - Flutterby
Cake - Pressure Chief
Christopher Williams - When I Was Everything
Chuck Prophet - Age Of Miracles
Dan Bern - My Country II
Deena Rubinson - A Couple of Miles
Denison Witmer & The River Bends - ...And Flows Into The Sea
Doyle Bramhall - Fitchburg Street
Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
Earlimart - Treble & Tremble
EELS - SHOOTENANNY
Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
Elvis Costello & the Imposters - The Delivery Man
Finger Eleven - Finger Eleven
Gina Villalobos - Rock 'N' Roll Pony
Gomez - Split The Difference
Goodnight Daylight - Goodnight Daylight (EP)
Green Day - American Idiot
Hamell on Trial - Tough Love
Holly Williams - The Ones We Never Knew
Interpol - So Jealous
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Ivy - In The Clear
Jack Johnson - So Jealous
Jack White / Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Jason Delker - Demos: A Musical Justice Exclusive
Jay Farrar - Live EP
Jay Farrar - Stone, Steel & Bright Lights
Jesse Malin - The Heat
Jet - Get Born
Jim White - Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Jonathan Rundman - Public Library
Joseph Arthur - Our Shadows Will Remain
Joss Stone - Mind, Body & Soul
Kathleen Edwards - Back To Me
Keane - Hopes and Fears
Kieran McGee - Anonymous
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
K's Choice - K's Choice 10: 1993-2003 Ten Years Of
Liz Phair - Liz Phair
Louis XIV - Illegal Tender (EP)
Lovedrug - Pretend You're Alive
Low - The Great Destroyer
Low Millions - Ex-Girlfriends
Lucero - That Much Further West
Luna - Romantica
Lyle Lovett - My Baby Don't Tolerate
Marah - 20,000 Streets Under The Sky
Mark Broussard - Carencro
Martina Topley-Bird - Anything
Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
Matthew Ryan - These Are Field Recordings (available @
www.matthewryanonline.com)
Matthew Ryan - Regret Over the Wires
Minnie Driver - Everything I've Got In My Pocket
Moby - Hotel
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Nikola Sarcevic - Lock-Sport-Krock
Old 97's - Drag It Up
Patty Griffin - Impossible Dream
Paul Kelly - Ways & Means
Pedro The Lion - Control
Pendergast - The Truth About Saturday Night
Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine & Ours
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabyes to Paralyze
R.E.M. - Around The Sun
Ray Charles - Genius Loves Company
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
Reckless Kelly - Wicked Twisted Road
Reid Jamison - The Unavoidable Truth
Richard Buckner - Dents and Shells
Richard Thompson - The Old Kit Bag (UK Import)
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Rooney - Rooney
Rubyhorse - Goodbye To All That
Rufus Wainwright - Want Two
Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell, Pt. 1 [EP]
Sam Roberts - We Were Born In A Flame
Saturday Looks Good To Me - Every Night
Scott Miller and the Commonwealth - Upside Downside
Slobberbone - Slippage
Slow Motion Reign - Slow Motion Reign
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Social Distortion - Sex, Love and Rock 'N' Roll
Sputnik - I, Cosmonaut
Stephen Malkmus - Pig Lib
Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts...NOW
Steve Forbert - Just Like There's Nothing To It
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
Tegan and Sara - So Jealous
Tess Wiley - Not Quite Me
The Bens - The Bens
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
The Black Keys - thickfreakness
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
The Comas - Conductor
The Donnas - Gold Medal
The Forty-Fives - High Life High Volume
The F-Ups - The F-Ups
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
The High Dials - A New Devotion
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Martinis - Smitten
The New Pornographers - Electric Version
The Out Crowd - Go On, Give a Damn
The Paybacks - Harder and Harder
The Strokes - Room On Fire
The Sultans - Shipwrecked
The Thorns - The Thorns
The Thrills - So Much For The City
The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart
The Waxwings - Let's Make Our Descent
The White Stripes - Elephant
Tift Merritt - Tambourine
Tom Langford - Places You Know
Tom Waits - Real Gone
Tommy Stinson - Village Gorilla Head
Trashcan Sinatras - Weightlifting
Travis - 12 Memories
Tremulousmonk - Sparkle Like Your Shoes
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Various Artists - Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon
Various Artists - Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro
Escovedo
Wilco - A Ghost is Born
William Shatner - Has Been
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell