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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: goodbye Audities hello blogs |
| Date | Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:56:15 -0500 |
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From: <beeman@istar.ca>
> However, I'm going to move on to reading more blogs on a regular
> basis. Just like how I check out stuffonmycat daily (what? you
> don't?!) I'm going to find a few blogs that will ease my pop-culture
> jones. And yes, Stewart's will be one of them (thanks Deerlick Dan!)
>
> So, that said, can anyone recommend some blogs? Music and otherwise.
> Share the wealth.
Although it's been described as "my" blog a couple times, Little Hits
really belongs to Audities lurker Jon Harrison: it's just that he's
taken a new and much more demanding job since starting the blog and
I've sort of picked up the slack, alongside my fellow contributors
Andrew Chalfen (songwriter/guitarist of the Trolleyvox) and Steve
Mitchell (owner of the online record store Low Down Kids and former
mastermind behind the Pooh Sticks as Steve Gregory).
Most of the blogs I read are political in nature, so they're not
really appropriate to share here, but I'm also a fan of WFMU's Beware
of the Blog (blog.wmfu.org), which is filled with strange downloads
and odd stories; the Radio Kitchen (theradiokitchen.net), which is a
spinoff of the FMU blog and really only of interest to serious
shortwave and AM radio geeks; The Bryant Park Project, a blog
connected to the morning news show I listen to (www.npr.org/bryant
park); the self-explanatory Comics Curmudgeon (www.joshreads.com);
and, naturally, icanhascheezburger.com.
Although what's most useful to me in discovering new music is
podcasts: I have bought more new CDs in the last three years because
of CBC Radio 3 and its affiliated podcasts than anything else. My
latest discovery is the Whitsundays, a band from Alberta composed
mostly of members of more electronic outfits (the singer/songwriter is
the guy from the Faunts, the rhythm section are from the LCD
Soundsystem-like Shout Out Out Out Out) doing something closer in
sound and spirit to the Shins or Belle and Sebastian, with a
pronounced '60s influence: particularly, several songs have electric
piano solos that are straight out of the Zombies' early singles.
Details here: http://www.myspace.com/thewhitsundays
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