all is well now that soul asylum has released a fine new album

soul asylum is dan murphy and dave pirner
with michael bland and tommy stinson

Minneapolis, July 25. Soul Asylum releases new album "The Silver Lining".

HootMusic just downloaded it's complementary copy of the new Soul Asylum album released last Tuesday 7/25 and we're very pleasantly surprised. This is very possibly their best record since the early 1990's "And The Horse They Rode In On" and 1988's "Hang Time" (the latter is hands down the best Soul Asylum LP ever and an all time top ten in my paltry catalogue after The Replacements' "Let It Be" and The Meatpuppets' "II").
Production value is top notch high - like amps that go to 11. The guitars scream - Murphy is clearly running the Zipper. Michael Bland and Tommy Stinson smack and plunk and Pirner crys and bawls with his voice on every song, just like old times. Heroes will never let you down.
Thanks, heroes.

Here's a "making of" video.


Here's the original boys in '88 performing "Sometime To Return" from the LP Hang Time.


This is from First Avenue in Minneapolis in 1986 from the Minnesota Music Awards. "Made To Be Broken". Twenty years ago; the best show in rock and roll!


About Karl:
RIP

Karl Mueller, the bassist and founding member of the rock band Soul Asylum died Friday morning, June 20, 2005 in his Minneapolis home of esophageal cancer, at age 41. Muller was diagnosed in May 2004 and spent his last years of his life in hospitals.

"Even then, in the face of all that had happened, and was to come, Karl was still Karl - upbeat, welcoming, humble," said Mould, who briefly reunited with his long-estranged musical partner Grant Hart during the benefit concert.

"Karl was one of the nicest people I have ever encountered. He always let you know where he stood, and rarely had anything but kind words for those around him."