raisedonindie

thanks for the reply vtxyzzy, I just fixed it a few minutes ago and chose to use a completely different method. I was attempting to pull by tag, now have chosen to implement a custom field instead. Here is what I did….

<?php $artist = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'artist', true); ?>
<?php
$my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=5&cat=1&meta_key=artist&meta_value=' . $artist. '');