Was at a bar Saturday night shooting darts when a song came on the jukebox type machine, a catchy danceable number with some neat/odd filtered synth tones happening, and I felt compelled to Shazam the shiz out of it. To my horror, it was a track ["Helena Beat"] by a band [Foster the People] [...]
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Though ’80s mainstream radio seemed to become increasingly dominated by synth pop and such as the decade wore on, I do remember digging certain songs that in retrospect seem rather incongruous, simply by virtue of being non-trendy standard old school rock ‘n’ roll. The Smithereens’ “A Girl Like You” (released in 1990, but I’ll [...] Just saw this chart via a FB thread regarding artist royalties on Spotify. [Read the full post on Information is Beautiful, which was based on this post.] Welcome to the future, musicians… [...] Have heard this a couple times on the local college radio frequency modulation broadcasting station. Intrigued the first time, but didn’t catch the artist name. Second (or maybe third?) time’s the charm. And now, Ty Segall with another track from my next mix, “You Make the Sun Fry”: Funnily enough, I’d previously heard [...] Had never really listened to her before, but this was playing at various festive events I attended over the weekend, and now I can’t seem to get it out of my head. I also got to hear Lady Gaga, apparently for the first time (apparently I’m sheltered). One song was barely bearable, the [...] Coming back from LA on Thursday, driving up the 101, had forgotten the iPod back in the Bay, and neglected even to bring the cassette adapter into the passenger compartment, hence no backup iPhone action. My well-worn mixes would’ve sufficed, had my potentially gas money contributing rideshare prospects not all flaked in an unwelcome [...] Another future mix entry, Sharon Van Etten‘s “Peace Signs”. Heard it on the radio, but sounded really familiar, so must’ve heard it earlier, probably on a live show I downloaded. She has a really striking voice imbued with character, and despite her youth it seems real, rather than a put-on like I hear [...] Heard this the other day on KALX (UC Berkeley’s college radio station. Thank your lucky stars that at least a few still exist on the dial…). Immediately became obsessed. Will be on my next mix (especially since I miraculously found this album used at Amoeba on my first attempt). Such an odd beautiful [...] Just finished reading Kristin Hersh‘s book Rat Girl (or, for our European readership, Paradoxical Undressing. Apparently Penguin couldn’t deal with the word “undressing” or something?). (crop of a photo by Steve Asenjo) It’s a memoir, though spanning a time of only of about a year, before and during the recording of Throwing Muses’s [...] In 2005, Oakland indie-rock band The Heavenly States travelled to Libya in an attempt to be the first Western band to play in the country. In the first week of February, Oakland’s Heavenly States arrived in Libya, determined to be the first American rock band to play public concerts there since Moammar Khadafy took [...] |
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