Winter Songs, Winter Tour
Just a few tracks, new and old, for the cold and dark. The Boy Who Trapped The Sun – Telescope Owen Pallett – Export 3 (The great elsewhere) Andrew Bird – Section 8 City Trentemøller – Always Something...
View ArticleSXSW 2011!
It’s getting close to SXSW time. I spent some time today starting to fill out my SCHED in earnest (and to make my @SXSWPartyList reservations. Probably my best discovery so far is SPIN’s 35 Must-Hear...
View ArticleSXSW Music 2011 Playlist
I haven’t been very diligent listening to the SXSW torrents this year, but my schedule is already plenty packed: my current SCHED. (My SXSWi is much less structured; primarily planning on catching up...
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SCHED Mobile Maps for SXSWm
(cross-posted from the SCHED blog) Hey SCHEDxSWers. SXSWm is in full swing, so it’s a bit of a crazy time to push out new features, but what the hell, right? In that spirit, here’s a new feature I’ve...
View ArticleSXSW 2011 Post-Mortem
(This is gonna be a long one, so if you’re sticking around, enjoy some tracks from some acts I caught; the Civil War/Revival Folk was big this year) Alexander – In The Twilight The Horde and The Harem...
View ArticleApril Tracks
Some of the stuff I’ve been listening to post-SXSW. Brett Dennen – Surprise, Surprise Ryuichi Sakamoto – Rain College – Answers The National – Think You Can Wait (from the Film Win Win) Atmosphere –...
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turntable.fm wishlist
If you haven’t checked out turntable.fm, open it in a new tab now, then come back. Dropped in yesterday – definitely the best (and most fun) community DJ/social music app I’ve seen yet. The avatars and...
View ArticleNot So Summer Songs
Hard to be believe it’s the end of August already. It’s been a long while since I’ve made a proper playlist, but in the name of procrastination here’s some stuff that’s caught my ear this summer....
View ArticleNew To Me: Genki Sudo
Why have I never heard of Genki Sudo before? What an interesting character. A retired MMA fighter who is an essayist, musician, and a dancer. His musical group’s music videos are completely epic (the...
View ArticleFall 2012 Mix
It’s been a while hasn’t it? One of the nice things is that there’s a huge backlog of stuff to choose from, although that also makes things a bit harder to remember what you were diggina while ago. A...
View ArticleNew Pads for the Cans
While I’m not a full-blown audiophile (I’ve been to way too many concerts, shows, raves, and parties to have any illusions on the state of my hearing), I do enjoy good set of headphones/IEMs. These...
View ArticleBands You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, This Is My Jam Memorial Edition
This is My Jam went into archive mode this weekend. Those unfamiliar with it can read about it here, but the gist of it was that it was a little experiment in music discovery/curation that while...
View ArticleA Few Songs
It’s been a while hasn’t it? Clearing out an old TOLISTEN to backlog. A couple picks that stuck out: (here’s a nice live cello version also from MBE on KCRW last year) I’m a big Archie Pelago, the...
View ArticleMusical Telephone
This recent St. Vincent performance popped up in my feed today: Which was good, but led to a much more interesting video, a series called “Guitar Moves” (interestingly, this one was apparently pulled...
View ArticleMusical Telephone 2
Maybe this needs to become a regular series. Still too much friction to cover my almost daily spelunking… I started stumbling onto the new Julien Baker track (sort of amazing how great she is writing...
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