Songs from Love & Alcohol will be featured on four MTV programs, including their two most widely watched. "The Hills," "The City," "Fame (Taking the Stage)" and "Human Giant" have each licensed all or part of the L&A for the current season. Updates as the airings approach.

Love & Alcohol is spinning on more than 200 stations across the U.S. and Canada. It's been approved for special programs on New York's WFUV and has CMJ charted on a fair number of stations across the dial. Complete list of stations coming soon.

Two new reviews of "Love & Alcohol" hit recently. Hubbub UK says, "Superb songwriting, bags of musical talent...dark and gritty lyrics...a great listen."

http://hubbubuk.blogspot.com/2009/06/love-and-alcohol-josh-weinstein.html

Indie Update says, "This is street-level piano blues that might even stretch the genre a bit. Listen to 'She Do Not Listen' and find the piano skills of a teacher, a player and a sleeper (in the sense that they ain't hits yet)."

http://www.indieupdate.com/indie-music/reviews/josh-weinstein/

Finally, the Starving Artist Podcast featured Josh in an extended interview. Listen to it starting at about the 11:00 minute mark:

http://starvingartistsguide.blogspot.com/2009/05/starving-artist-podcast-ep-15.html

Read Josh's featured interview with Junior's Cave Magazine out of Georgia:

http://www.juniorscave.com/JoshWeinstein.html

...And with TwoGroove.com:

http://www.twogroove.com/blog/2009/05/16/past-present-future-josh-weinstein/

Two new reviews of Love & Alcohol posted this week. FAME, the review section of acousticmusic.com, said,

This is Billy Joel's nightmare, a seedy from-the-gutter tour of the real world, not some high-society yodel with a pseudo side of faux slumming, Charles Bukowski not Barbara Ehrenreich....so hell, I like it!

And Rootstime, a Dutch site that focuses on American blues, said,

Weinstein's complex brain houses many types of music, all equally inspired and exciting.

They mention Auster, Rimbaud, Fante, Shopenhauer, Kerouac and others as literary analogues, and place the music "in the twilight zone between highway blues and skyline jazz." The review is in Dutch.

See the reviews page of this site for the full reviews, or read them each at the source:

FAME: http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p05457.htm
Rootstime: http://rootstime.be/CD%20REVIEWS/2009/2009-APRIL13.htm#127

Today marks the official release of Love & Alcohol, Josh's powerful return to the scene. Watch the site for reviews and other news. Order or download from Amazon, CD Baby and Itunes.

You can now stream and pre-order Love & Alcohol from Amazon.com and CD Baby.com. (Itunes coming soon.)

Heard it? Dig it? Leave at a review on either or both.

Josh will return to Joey Reynolds' late-night WOR show (syndicated nationally) this Friday night/Saturday morning, 1:00 a.m. He'll havethe full band in the tiny studio. Tune in for a preview of the new record.

"One More Blues," Track 3 from Love & Alcohol, has been getting pre-release airplay on Midnight Special Blues Radio, where it was in the Top 50 for January, 2009.

The track features G.E. Smith on guitar and Clifford Carter on organ. You can stream the track on the player at joshweinstein.com .

"She Rolls Jaunty," Track 4 from Love & Alcohol, nabbed an Honoral Mention in the Great Lakes Song Contest in 2008. The track was submitted in its demo form. Finish version includes string quartet, soundscaping, and windshield wipers as the sole percussion element.

You can stream the track on the player at joshweinstein.com .

After a one-year performing hiatus, Josh is back in force with his strongest album yet, Love & Alcohol, to be released March 24, 2009 on RandomLogo Records.

Love & Alcohol is a street's-eye view of love and everything after, written and edited in the late-night hours. Basic tracks were recorded on Valentine's Day, 2008, with an electro-acoustic four-piece ensemble that included journeyman "Roches" bassist Paul Ossola and "Songs from a Random House" drummer John Bollinger. Overdubs were done throughout the year when/wherever Weinstein could get a microphone in front of friends and colleagues--everyone from guitarist G.E. Smith to cellist Erik Friedlander to organist Clifford Carter.

The spare production incorporates found-object and non-trap-kit percussion, engineered soundscapes, and nontraditional, non-beginning-middle-end song structure.

Yet at its core, L & A is fundamentally a blues album--an in-the-cracks, off-center, idiosyncratic look at life lived somewhere between Love & Alcohol. We think you're going to like it.

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