New Liz Phair album this October

On October 4, Liz Phair releases her next album, “Somebody’s Miracle.”

Given that each of her albums have chronicled her life (although lots of listeners seem to wish she was still the college student who recorded “Exile in Guyville,” and just making “Exile II,” “Exile III” and so on), it’ll be interesting catching up with her. “Little Digger,” “Rock Me” and other seemingly autobiographical tunes on her unfairly maligned last album were fascinating to me. It doesn’t hurt that we’re (roughly) the same age, and if our lives don’t match up exactly — she’s a divorced single mother at this point, for one thing — it sure feels like I’m listening to a peer catching me up since the last time we spoke.

I’ve decided to skip seeing her summer tour — it’s hitting San Francisco, LA, NYC and the DC area, all of which I could theoretically make, with varying degrees of difficulty — in favor of the one she’ll do in support of “Somebody’s Miracle.” If anyone catches her on tour, let me know how she was. (And yes, she still has a fair amount of stage fright for someone at this stage in her career. She’s still lots of fun in concert despite that.)

La Liz has always been fairly Web-savvy when it comes to promoting albums — the entirety of whitechocolatespaceegg was streamed for a weekend before being available in stores — and starting this Friday, she’ll be beginning her own podcast with interviews and music. The URL hasn’t been listed yet on her site, but it sounds like a goody to me. I wish more musicians would take this sort of hands-on approach when it comes to promoting their work.

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