Matt Laporta’s is the sequel to Jordan Brown’s movie, only this time…it’s in space

I was also, actually.

Britney Spears.

A sampling in no particular order: Black Mountain. Thee More Shallows. Holler Wild Rose. Pete Townshend. Ours. Tricky. Doves. Matthew Sweet. James. Placebo. Antony and the Johnsons. Supertramp. Neil Young. Cocteau Twins. The Mermen. Prong. The Beatles. U2. Radiohead. Sinead O’Connor. Death In Vegas. Kings of Leon. Baby Bird. Carl Stalling.The Waterboys.Afghan Whigs. Ryan Adams. Cheap Trick. Alice In Chains.

And the radio work of Joe Frank. Which incorporates a wide variety of music so I am including him.

My sampling: Damien Jurado, David Bazan, Magnolia Electric Co., Songs: Ohia, Elvis Perkins, Neutral Milk Hotel, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Tom Waits, AA Bondy, Deer Tick, Joe Pug, The Black Keys, Junior Kimbrough, Blind Willie Johnson, Son House, The Felice Brothers, Alasdair Roberts, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Eels, J. Tillman, Low, Sun Kil Moon (Mark Kozelek), Phosphorescent, PJ Harvey, Uncle Tupelo… I’ll stop there.

This is who iTunes says I’ve listened to in the last few days:
Baroness, Bela Fleck, Between The Buried And Me, Brand New, Deep Purple, De La Soul, Devin Townsend, Eluveitie, Ensifirum, Falconer, Finntroll, Five Iron Frenzy, He Is Legend, Islands, Mastodon, MC Lars, Mike Patton, Murder By Death, Muse, Oingo Boingo, Opeth, Protest The Hero, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Streets, Thrice, Tommy Emmanuel, Unexpect, Voxtrot, Yes

I just listened to three hours of Squeeze yesterday.

Stuff you’ve never heard of. Seen ’em all live.

/indie cred

I’m working on a series of shows for my local, teeny-weeny non-profit radio station here in the Catskills, so right now I’m listening to music from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Henri Bowane, Franco, Tabu Ley, Zaiko Langa Langa, Papa Wemba, Mbilia Bel—most of whom I’d never heard of two months ago. It’s fun to listen to a wedding song by a village singer, accompanied by a likembe, a thumb piano, and hear the rhythms of what would become American blues. When the Congolese heard Cuban rumbas after WWII, they were immediately drawn to it, and the resulting interaction between western and African music is great. For villagers, music would go on for hours, part of a feast, a dance, a wedding, a ritual. But early recording devices, of course, were three minutes and out. Creating that three-minute song in response to the technological limitations sure changed the average African’s relationship to music—and sure made for a lot of great songs.

It’s all Joe Pug for me right now.

Right now in my rotation: a ton of Beatles- namely Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road, Ryan Adams- Easy Tiger and Gold, The Avett Brothers- I and Love and You, and Prince- One Night Alone…Live.

Too too many artists to list (over 1000 CDs, 600 LPs, 200 12", 200 45s, boxfull of cassettes) ..

My MP3 can only hold about one third of my ripped 1000 discs. But currently the MP3 tunes range from Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters, Jim Croce, Marty Robbins, Michael Penn, Muddy Waters, Styx, Seal, Tori Amos, Rush, Sarah McLachlan, Widespread Panic, DJ Skribble, Mansun, Pink Floyd, Naked Eyes, Alice In Chains, Prince, Stan Ridgway, Social Distortion, Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Too Short, Eminem, Oingo Boingo, Holly Cole, ELO, The Ocean Blue, the Sundays, Queen, The The, and many others ….

Street Dogs, Streetlight Manifesto, Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, Bouncing Souls, Swingin Utters, Brain Failure, The Aquabats, Avoid One Thing, Betty Blowtorch, Bad Religion, Catch-22, Common Rider, Everybody Out!, Flogging Molly, The Living End, The Phenomenauts, Social Distortion, Tim Armstrong.

I probably come off as a 15-year-old.

Thao Nguyen in the car this morning

I actually run a streaming Internet radio station playing a wide variety of the music that I am into (folk, bluegrass, Celtic, folk/rock, singer/songwriter). I was selected as an official Community Blogger for the GRAMMY awards.

Some artist I dig – Al Stewart, Amos Lee, Ashley Maher, Baka Beyond, Bob Dylan, Brave Combo, The Three Bruces (Cockburn, Hornsby, Springsteen), Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson, Red Molly, The Kennedys, The Strangelings, The Wailin’ Jennies, Flogging Molly, The Levellers, and much, much more.

Station: Festival Radio
Blog: FolkBlog

Real old: Elvis Costello, Cure, New Order, Robert Palmer

Sorry, but the 80s are not real old … if you are talking Sinatra and the 50s/60s …. that qualifies as real old.

William Shatner’s “Common People” is fabulous. It helps that the original Pulp version is one of my all-time favorite songs.

I’m a big Elvis fan too. Just picked up the reissued “Live At the El Mocambo” — awesome.

The Sowing Season

rec

What is your take on how the Silversun Pickups have developed between Carnavas and Swoon?

Fleet Foxes is OK, but I prefer the solo work of their drummer, J. Tillman.