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+04.18.08 - The "right rock" single is now available for order here. Will be on iTunes and emusic worldwide in a couple weeks.

+03.26.08 - Hoist up the John B sail! New song performed and mixed by Magical, Beautiful and mastered by Blue Hawaii of the Icy Demons. Click here to download "Right Rock" from the 3-song Right Rock b/w Wings In The Sky single. This is I Hear A New World #5, available Saturday at the Empty Bottle and for order and in local stores shortly thereafter.
+02.29.08 - Chicago show with Black Moth Super Rainbow next month. Lineup = T. Thur/Charles Vinz/Christopher Keener. It looks like we'll have a new single there, but unfortunately not the new album. If you care to see Magical, Beautiful's organ & trombone player Nick Broste playing with Wilco on Saturday Night Live, watch it tomorrow (March First), because that's when you can see that. Don't forget to download "winterlude, winterlude."
+01.29.08 - Magical, Beautiful's "winterlude, winterlude" mix is now available for free high-quality mp3 download here. Pass it along.
+01.19.08 - We were contacted by someone whom had purchased a BLANK Magical, Beautiful CD at the show on Thursday. If this has happened to you, click here for info on what you should do.
+01.03.08 - 1. There is a new, rough mix of a song that will appear on some sort of release in 2008 posted on myspace.com/magicalbeautiful. It will only be up for a little while in celebration of this very cold new year. I recommend you download it to your computer so that you don't have to listen to it on myspace's media player. It is a synthesizer improvisation featuring overdubs from Nick Broste on trombone & Charlie Vinz on lap steel.
     Magical, Beautiful is playing an all ages show on Jan 17 at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago with Casiotone For The Painfully Alone & Pal. It starts in the evening. We will be playing new material, and as always, the old material will sound quite a bit different than before.
     I have finished a new live mixed CD entitled "winterlude, winterlude." It was made as a holiday gift for friends, but we will also be giving away free copies to fans at the previously mentioned show. It features some stuff from the forthcoming Magical, Beautiful record as well as songs performed by DAF, Bob Dylan, Cybotron, Lavender Diamond, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Growing, Fats Waller and many more. It is the best mix I've yet made.
+12.06.07 - Magical, Beautiful is going on a West Coast tour in mid-late March, 2008. Want to point us in the direction of a place to play? Real shows; house shows; weird shows; whatever; as long as it isn't totally lame and you think the "vibes" will be right, we'll play it! Starting in Southern California and working our way North, maybe a little East. Email ihearanewworld(at)gmail.com with help! Thanks. New record is going awesome!
+11.19.07 - A new Magical, Beautiful album is currently being made. The first song was completed today. It's called Right Rock, and is the first recorded Magical, Beautiful track to feature more than one performer.
    This new album does not look to include any of the songs that we have been performing for the past year and a half; that record will be mostly live and will come later. The songs on which I'm working have been written backwards, starting with long improvisations I've recorded over the last few years and ending with a vocal melody, words and chords. This first song ended up breaking 50 recorded tracks; the rest should be simpler. This album will be pressed on real CDs, packaged in Arigato Paks from Stumptown and available from I Hear A New World in Jan/Feb 2008.
+10.16.07 - Thank you AV-aerie audience for helping to make last Sunday the best Magical, Beautiful show yet. Finally a lineup for the times: T. Thurston/C. Vinz/N. Broste/S. Coffin.
      No shows scheduled for the time being - recording a ton of stuff. Have enough material for several releases. I feel that this will be a productive winter for all of us.
+09.28.07 - I hit my head very had on my refrigerator a couple hours ago. I was looking for peanut butter, and when I found it, I got a little overly excited and 'BOOM', there goes my head. I hit it often - I'm tall and have no real concept of the space my body is occupying, but this was an exceptionally hard hit. Now I'm trying to stay awake so that I don't slip into a concussion-related coma like that kid in Robert Altman's Short Cuts.
Other stupid things I often do (and did tonight) - lock my keys in my car and not recognize someone I should recognize. The keys thing is ridiculous - I've locked them in the ignition at least 15 times in the last six months. Inconvenient and embarassing, yes, but the name/face recognition thing is worse. What sort of an asshole doesn't remember the people with whom they've spent good, quality time? The sort of asshole that is always hitting his head on inanimate objects and often locks his keys in his car. To you - you people that say "hi" or hold out an outstretched arm to me and are met with befuddlement - I apologize in advance and retrograde style.
Killer lineup and new song arrangements for October 14 - a hazy shade of Fall with Charles Vinz! on drums/banjo/etc.; Sara Coffin on drums and Nick Broste on trombone/organ/etc. Like usually, if you've seen Magical, Beautiful before, there's not much reason to think it will be the same the next time.

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