A Rainy Caturday in Northern Catafornia

Eric Din’s debut album is now live in the streaming services! Mostly ALL of them, Belvedere, find links in this handy widget. CD is still available here for thems of yous who want actual thing-ness. Here’s a photo of it, by drummer extraordinaire Thomas White, on the very drums he played on This Place Isn’t Here Anymore.

AND! Pretty soon this CD will be available in ONE retail record store in the entire known universe! We’ll shout about that when it’s there but for now, more mews:

Margaret Cho is a ska fan, singing the praises of Fishbone, Skankin Pickle, Op Ivy and (what!) The Uptones! On Aaron Carnes’ whirrled famous In Defense Of Ska Podcast, behold

Comeback Pete prepares the release of Eric Din’s REMIX of MANKIND for Earth Day, pre-save it here! More on this unique track and Pete’s amazing story, here soon.

There’s more? Yes, Batagonia, there’s MOAR!!

We’re loading up the Cat-Cannon with Nonuffya Bizznis and the Private Dancers’ first single on Berkeley Cat Records, Safe Pair Of Hands! Exciting. Intriguing. Some of you may know them.

And that’s it, all the relevant mews of the day. Don’t take catnip from unreliable sources, get plenty of sleep, and remember to leap about spontaneously and pounce on random balls of string.

Yours terrifically, speaking as we do in the 3rd person plural about ourselves,

Eric Roy Dinwiddie

Eric Din’s Street Party – exclusive full album preview on Brooklyn Vegan today!

It’s loose! The cat’s outta the bag! For the first time you can hear this whole album, online, for free, OMFG!!! Yes we’re excited, what a nice preview, and we’d love it if you’d share this link with your friends and luvs today. Thanks! Hope you enjoy <3

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/stream-eric-dins-the-uptones-new-solo-album-street-party/

Eric

Spotify and iTunes users! Help us out!

Hi friends,

Just a quick note with a big ASK! (Now that “ask” is a noun!)

If you use Spotify – please pre-save my album today right now tonight! It goes live this Caturday, April 9, and we are given to understand that “pre-saves” may help surface it in the vast infinity of playlists and algorithms and such. So! Here’s a link:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ericdin/street-party

There’s an iTunes link in there too. Pandora and TIDAL and a bevy of other streaming services will also have the album live for on-demand streaming, on the 9th.

And that’s it, apart from a huge THANK YOU! More news coming soon, we think!

Love and bunnies,

Din

Radio, Radio!

Because..

  1. DJ Jesse Luscious is premiering a song from Eric Din’s STREET PARTY album today on his fabulous international radio show, and we don’t know which one! Tuning in excitedly, and you can too, at here: https://mmhradio.co.uk/ noon- 2PM PST, kitties.

  2. We like saying despatch. Because who spells it that way? No one, anymore. We’re bringing despatch back.

  3. There’s no 3. That’s it. Have fun. Byeeee!

Artwork unveiling! Street Party back cover!

News and mews. First, a big unveiling! Drum roll and trumpets, please.. Here’s the back cover of my CD album!

A few years ago, when I started releasing singles on my own, I reached out to Shannon Wheeler to draw some cover images. Eventually it seemed these would make a cool sort of picture-book style lyric booklet. Peter Montgomery went to work designing and coloring it, and voila. It’s unique, printed on matte paper with a bit of a tooth.

You can learn more about the album and pre-order it here!

What else? I enjoy podCATSing sometimes and I don’t know why they ever called them podCASTS in the first place, the rabble. Here’s our latest episode:

Apodalypse Meow

And now it’s Catursunday, and with this despatch, signing off.
THANK YOU for your pre-orders, they mean so much to me. I am very excited about releasing and promoting this album on CD and streaming on Berkeley Cat Records.
Stay well and remember to passionately play with a random ball of string sometimes.

Eric Din

Berkeley Cat insta-single – No More War

Some ideas are best captured and released quickly, and this one was in and out the door like a kitty on a mission. Idea came to me Thursday – a date which will live in infamy, to borrow a phrase – I finished the song and recording Friday and Caturday. Rather than pussyfoot around, I uploaded it to my beloved Bandcamp, AND to selected streaming services right away. Thus..

..and when it is live in Pandora, Apple Music, and a few others, those links will magically arrive on: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ericdin/no-more-war

THANK YOUs for your pre-orders for my CD! Means so much to me and I so look forward to sending these orders out, right here from Berkeley Cat Records international scratching post. Pre-orders available HERE!

Also! Streamin’-music-using cats – please pre-save my remix of Comeback Pete’s Mankind single. It’s a Duck! It’s a March! It’s an Earth Day anthem! Links HERE!

What else? Nothing! There’s nothing else from here today. Happy Catursunday, make love not war, save the critters,

Eric