I discover so much great new music when I listen to KCRW’s music stream, like the Marcin Wasilowski piano trio whose jazzy, instrumental version of Prince’s Diamonds And Pearls
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The song ‘Not Going Home’ by The Elected is one of my favoritest discoveries of SXSW 2006. Today I happened upon their set Dec 5, 2005 set on Morning Becomes Eclectic and fell in love all over again.
The Elected is headed up by Blake Sennet, guitarist of Rilo Kiley, another band I have no exposure to but possibly should.
Yeah, I’m always a little late to catch on to good music. But usually I get there.
Have a listen. If you like what you hear, listen some more:
Tim introduced me to PandoraJam, a little piece of Mac OS X shareware that’s so sweet I bought the license (a bargain at $15).
PandoraJam is essentially Pandora.com as a standalone application, with keyboard shortcuts and the awesome ability to stream tunes through our Airport Express. Cooler still is its ability to record the stream as mp3, splicing and tagging the songs for iTunes goodness. Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen, but I’ll just enjoy it until it does.
Prince is not only playing 21 gigs in London this summer, but he’s also giving away a free copy of his new album (unavailable in stores) with the
The music.
Where else in the world can you find a line-up as amazing as that of this year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, Massive Attack, String Cheese Incident, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, the Flaming Lips, Jose Gonzales, John Mayer, the Raconteurs, the Shins, Ween, Los Lonely Boys, Gnarls Barkley, Cat Power and the Memphis Rhythm Band, Secret Machines, Gomez, Kathleen Edwards, Wolf Parade, Jack Ingram, Sparklehorse, Thievery Corporation, Ben Kweller, G. Love and Special Sauce, Matisyahu, Damien Rice, Kings of Leon, Iron & Wine, Kasey Chambers, Aimee Mann, Nickel Creek, Damian Marley, Calexico, the New Pornographers, Son Volt, Guster, Galactic, KT Tunstall, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Centro-matic, Marah, Nada Surf, I Love You But I
Sadly, he hasn’t made it into the U.S. main stream, and so most of his albums are priced at spendy import prices. (Someone in the UK wanna hook me up? wink! wink!) But KCRW’s podcast is almost just as good. The interview is quite charming, as well.
Some reviews that should make you want to listen to Lewis Taylor RIGHT NOW:
The Guardian: “Taylor… can transform one man’s world-weariness into his own anthem, His time cannot be far away”
The Times: “Here’s a bloke with an abundance of talent…dazzling us with his cerebral, convoluted chord structures…made all the more impressive when you realise that he played every instrument and wrote all its songs.” Album of the Week
Time Out: “This is the soundtrack of sun, ice cream and bronzed bodies. Smooth.”
A cold front blew into Austin last night and made for very chilly fingertips on the bike ride in to work this morning. I was around 24th and Rio Grande when Morning Becomes Eclectic started up, featuring the Clientele.
I challenge you: tell me what could be more perfect for the changing season than the Clientele?
Now I want to make myself a cup of tea, wrap an afghan blanket around me, and cozy up with someone special.
Yes, it’s that good.
The first song on the podcast is actually about autumn, but I can’t seem to locate the lyrics or the album that this song belongs to. Is it new? I love it, and I must have it!
Yesterday I discovered Nickodemus on KCRW’s music broadcast. Nickodemus is pure electronic, hip hop, funk, jazz, world beat, turntable music, straight up from NYC.
Can you dig it?
If the answer to the above is “yes”, then you might also dig this directory of mp3 goodness. I’m not sure if the webmaster at nickodemus.com knows that this is publicly available, but we do, and we’re most grateful for the offering!
Lately I’ve become a big fan of podcasts.
Don’t know what a podcast is? What rock have you been living under?? I’m dishing out old news here!
Podcast, freshly added to the Oxford Dictionary of English (along with chupacabra, boo and molecular gastronomy**), is “a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar programme, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player.”
But back to me. Me me me. Me likes podcasts because they make running a helluvalot more interesting, especially on the uber long runs I subject myself to on Sunday mornings. Don’t get me wrong, I love it. But once I’ve warmed up and settled into a pace, the watch-checking begins and I start thinking about things like money and work when I should really be relaxing.
Enter podcasts. Now I can have tech nerds and molecular gastronomists keep me company while I run. This way I get to keep up with the state of the world AND burn calories at the same time. It’s a beautiful thing.
Today I started checking out podcasted music shows and came across this gem: Not Your Usual Bollocks, “created to provide on-demand refuge from main-stream radio.”
The british know what’s up.
I’ve been listening to NYUB for the last hour or so, and it’s been rocking my work day with music I’ve never heard before (except for one song by Kasabian). New music. Dopamine. High energy. Dirty disco. More that indie rock stuff. Just what I need when work is too distracting for the news but silence is too sleepy and gray.
Via NYUB, I also watched my first VideoCast - a video of “Girls in Boys Clothes” by The Errorplains (talk about a song I can relate to).
**This is an entry in itself - molecular gastronomy is “the application of scientific principles to the understanding and development of food preparation”. I think I just found my dream job.
i just discovered that Cindy Lauper’s “She’s So Unusual” album includes a fantastic cover of one of my favorite Prince songs, “When You Were Mine”.
here’s a few other classics that make this album a must-have:
2. Girls Just Want to Have Fun
4. Time After Time
5. She Bop
6. All Through the Night
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