Hot Fruit

Just saw this, and felt an immediate compulsion to share. Warning: NSFW, and you will never be able to return to world you inhabited before viewing…

Reconsiderations

I’ve recently been quite into the first several Apples in Stereo albums. I had a few of them on CD-R, copied from friends, but I guess I must not have listened to them much before, or maybe I did but it never stuck for some reason. I think maybe I thought based on their [...]

Silence of the Links

I was online when it happened. I think I had just downloaded a Nirvana bootleg, despite wondering whether its contents were already on the “With the Lights Out” box I owned. I had recently downloaded, listened to, and dug on some Arthur Russell stuff a blog had posted, and decided to further investigate his [...]

On a LavDi kick

Just listened to the studio version of this song about 35 times in a row.

This was taped in 2007. In other news, 2007 was half a decade ago and I have become old in body and spirit, though I was already. I have music tattooed on my brain. I pass by joggers [...]

Cool lame new music

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] [...]

A Song Like This

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 [...]

Stream your way to the poorhouse

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…

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Early Thursday morning jam

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 [...]

awrip27

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 [...]

Edible Cheese

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 [...]