How could I have not known about Ume? An Austin trio fronted by a whirling dervish of a singer guitarist who in the standard PR band head shot looks like she wouldn’t hurt a fly; yet give her a guitar, a Marshall stack and a mic and stand back, way back. She shreds. They have [...]
Former Sleater-Kinney member Carrie Brownstein announced on her NPR Monitor Mix blog that she is streaming four songs and offering up two MP3 downloads that are the results of an 8 year old recording session she and Mary Timony [who was a member of Helium, one of my favorite bands] had in Olympia in 2000. [...]
My mind is blown a little bit. Lets take a moment to collect ourselves……Ready?
Rjdj is a new iphone app. Why is that special? It does something new….and by new I mean you have never experienced anything like this.
The short answer is that your thoughts get placed into a ambient landscape.
Lets step through this:
1. install rjdj [...]
Nick Cave
More new music on the first of this week’s Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM. This show is a few songs shorter than others as we had an in-studio visit from The Little Ones. I’m on 94.7FM with resident DJ Squid every Tuesday and Thursday at 8PM. This is the [...]
McLuhan and Vinyl? I know - I sometimes stretch an idea to its snapping point but isn’t that why I bother to type all day?
Here goes - As I sit on the panels I’m invited to, I often forget to remind myself, that at the heart of all my discussions about music and technology the [...]
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Liz Wight of Love Grenades
The music discovery machine keeps whirring. This one came via 3hive and although the track from Love Grenades is a solid piece of funk pop from the compilation Accidental Rhythm Mix1, the story behind the label is an interesting one. Accidental Rhythm is host to Invisible DJ, which is a little [...]