I used to DJ for my university’s radio station. While I had consistently bad time slots (think 3-5AM) and consistently crazy callers (threatening to kill me, or asking me to describe my body to them), I had a blast.
Why you ask?
WRUW has an amazing, amazing record library. Over 100,000 CD’s. At least twice that in [...]
So if it hasn’t been made perfectly clear: I’m generally an electronica slut. A man-slut, but a slut nonetheless. I just can’t get enough of the twitchy, tweaky, and yet soothing tones that manage to be produced and put into rhythm. However, even as I drool over something a synthesizer vomited up, I [...]
It seems lately that I’ve been filling in the gaps. Bands or musicians who tickled me pink in the past, well, I felt the need to go make sure I had everything they had to offer.
This may have not been the best of ideas.
The most recent gap filled is in the catalog of Jenny Lewis.
My [...]
I have a fairly scattered music collection that I’ve been trying over the years to condense with limited success. Several years ago, I purchased Fischerspooner’s #1 album for the lone song “Emerge,” and after playing that single repeatedly for days I somehow managed to lose the physical CD in the boxes of discs that languish [...]
Not long ago, i was sitting at work when suddenly there was music coming from the computer behind me. I was okay with that…
… But not for very long.
In case you haven’t picked up on this fact yet: I really like music. This basically means I’m okay with most everything. That’s not to [...]
It’s hard to find a band that can turn music into the audio equivalent of velvet. Decadent, rich, luxurious and pleasing to the ear, Dragonette – the part-Canadian/part-British electro-pop band – manages to not only produce some of the most captivating sounds I’ve ever heard but also throw in a half naked teenage trollop for [...]
I’ve been a fan of Our Lady Peace since I was in 9th grade. Spiritual Machines had just come out, and to my angsty teenage mind their new single “Life” seemed like the most poignant song in the history of mankind.
I then went out and bought every single album in their catalog. Bought. Legitimately bought. [...]
Well, I fail and spent the evening sampling vino with friends instead of browsing music by monitor-light… It was such a tough choice.
I know next to nothing of Italian wines (if there isn’t a pinot noir/burgundy on the menu I get disoriented very fast), but thankfully the waiter had some excellent suggestions that left [...]
There are some bands that will forever hold a place in my heart. Oft, these bands are some of my earliest secular musical rememberences, or my first delve into a new Genres.
Third Eye Blind, as mentioned a few posts ago, is one of these bands.
Third Eye Blind is amazing. Not only was their debut album [...]
Well, it’s come to it – rafting. Yes, that time of year where mine and Les’ brother takes it upon himself to more or less organize (it’s partially free-form) a rafting outing to Ohiopyle / Youghiogheny River (pronounced yock-a-gain-ee though you wouldn’t guess it). It’s inevitably a fun outing, but it’s time and money consuming… [...]
