I’ve never been much for 8-track tapes. I grew up listening to my parents’ records, then graduated to recordings of those records on cassettes. Eventually I was buying my own Christian music tapes and then CDs (both Christian and *gasp* non-). I amassed quite a collection of CDs in the last twelve years. Right now, [...]
Earlier this week (August 24, 2009), I was listening to music in my car on the way to work and I came across an album I had acquired but had not yet given an appropriate amount of time to. I proceeded to listen to it all day and tweet my thoughts [now annotated!]:
8:42 am – [...]
A roundup of great free mp3 albums, mixes and compilations. Click here.
A collection of my tweets from the Philip Glass/LA Phil Hollywood Bowl concert with slideshow and download. Link
Top Ten
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
[[tied]]
1. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
3. Akron/Family – Set ‘em Wild, Set ‘em Free
4. DM Stith – Heavy Ghost
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
6. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
7. Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
8. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
9. Viva Voce – Rose City
10. I Was a King – I Was a King
In which I discuss things that you, dear reader, should do this summer.
The theme for this mixtape is difficult to articulate but pretty simple to recognize, I think. It has something to do with the combination of rocksteady and dub (no reggae) with pop. But there’s more to it than that, I think. Uh, so think of this as a solid, nearly hour-long jam. Read more
This is an old mixtape. My best guess is that it’s from spring 2005, though it may be older than that. Enjoy. link
Here comes a big wrapup and here’s why I haven’t blogged post. Plus links to all the other places you can find me online. Stalker. (link)
Last night Rossy and I dropped off the baby at her grandparents’ house and drove to Pomona to see rock band TV on the Radio. We had quite a bit of fun, and it was apparent that the band had a lot of fun as well.