Mas música

Yeah, the last music post was música en Español. Spain just won Euro 2008. XRT in 1972 was Spanish during daytime hours! This is all liked somehow.

The name on the albums is Cineplexx. He's an Argentine living in Barcelona and his real name is Sebastian Litmanovich. Download an mp3 here! See his website here.

The magic of Loggins, Cross, Hall, Oates, McDonald, etc.

This is one of a series of videos that are a couple years old. Some of the vids are a little out there, but the fact that the series uses the term "Yacht Rock" deserves some serious credit. Ever wonder how the song "Rosanna" came to be? Well, of course you didn't, but, uh.... Just watch.



And if you liked it, here's the vid from the video.

New/old sounds

I'm kinda bummed I don't live close enough to Brooklyn to check out the bar "Barbes." Give a listen to this piece from NPR.

And if you like the style/mini-genre, they have some songs here.

A few listeners have me bummed

Terri Hemmert played this record for our "Hear First" segment a few weeks ago and we received several e-mails from people that didn't like the record and wanted us to stop playing it. Good move, guys! Way to encourage safe, ball-less radio! Hey, if we play something that's a little too much for you, or a bit off your radar, hit the button and turn on another station that's playing "White Wedding" for the 145,935,497th time and then come back when it's over. We appreciate your feedback, we honestly do, but when you act like you're scared of monsters, and tell us to STOP PLAYING records you don't like, especially newer, more adventurous stuff, all you're doing is encouraging us to take fewer risks. And I DO know that 98% of the audience did enjoy the record, or at least liked the fact that they were hearing a band as cool as Portishead, it's just a few squeaky wheels (squeaky for all the wrong reasons), that can bring something new and different down.

Sorry, Beth.

Viva Video Arcades!

I'll always appreciate a vintage video arcade. Now I know where to go in Chicagoland! Excellent work done here by Christopher Borrelli from the Tribune, 6/5/08.

I don't even know what to say about Terry McAuliffe at this point

I used to almost root for this guy on the talking heads shows until I realized that the party chairmen are blowhards.