I’ve purchased a few albums in the past couple of months and have been defunct in sharing my findings. A few of these albums came out somewhere in 2009, but I am a little slow on the uptake. So, apologies if this is old news for the more hip of you in the crowd, but [...]
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Listen to This: 1st Half of 2010 Edition
Posted in Listen To This, tagged 500 Days of Summer, Broken Bells, Chunk of Change, Danger Mouse, Entertainment, Hater, How To Make It In America, James Mercer, Manners, Miike Snow, Music, Passion Pit, Run Toto Run, Sleepyhead, Sweet Disposition, The Shins, The Temper Trap on May 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Listen To This: Florence and the Machine
Posted in Listen To This, tagged Florence & The Machine, Lungs on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Good new music is kind of like a drug to me. Once I find something I like, I will listen to it over and over again and essentially gorge myself on it. I become a woman obsessed. My current musical obsession is the debut album from Florence and the Machine, Lungs. It’s amazing. I’m trying to [...]
Listen to this: Kathleen Edwards
Posted in Listen To This, MFH a.k.a. Mike, tagged Entertainment, Kathleen Edwards, Music on November 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Let’s say that you were to allocate me an hour with which I could entertain myself. Very little of this hour would be spent with music. If I were able to make a pie chart my preference of entertainment would be as follows: Movies: 30 minutes Reading: 20 minutes TV: 4 minutes Music: 1 minute [...]
Listen to This: Tori Amos
Posted in Listen To This, tagged Abnormally Attracted to Sin, Entertainment, Music, Tori Amos on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In an earlier entry, I mentioned that I was so far disappointed in Tori Amos’ latest album Abnormally Attracted to Sin, and that I was hoping it would grow on me. Well, I wanted to follow up to say, not only has it grown on me, but I truly cannot stop listening to it. The album [...]
Listen to This: The Whole Album
Posted in Listen To This, tagged 19, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, Adele, Entertainment, In the Music, iTunes, Konk, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, Music, Natalie Walker, Playlist.com, Rodrigo y Gabriela, The Dust of Retreat, The Kooks, Tori Amos, Trashcan Sinatras, Urban Angel on August 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the era of digital music downloads, very few of us actually buy full albums anymore. For a while now, I’ve used iTunes to purchase singles, or I’ve added them to my playlist on Playlist.com. Not long ago, I read an interview with Tori Amos where she decried this trend of the digital music age, saying that [...]
Listen to This: The Trashcan Sinatras
Posted in Listen To This, tagged A Happy Pocket, Cake, Fez, I've Seen Everything, In the Music, The Trashcan Sinatras, Weightlifting on July 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have loved the Trashcan Sinatras since about 1990 when their first album Cake was released. You have probably not ever heard of them, and you are surely not alone. They are an indie pop band from somewhere near Glasgow, Scotland and their music is wonderful. Sweet, melodic, poignant – at least I think it [...]
Listen To This
Posted in Listen To This, tagged Empire of the Sun, Great Northern, KCRW, KROQ, Meiko, Music, Phoenix, Theresa Andersson, WBRU, WFNX, Whitest Boy Alive on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One thing I should have included in my “Hate” list for LA is the lack of good radio stations. KROQ has caused me to have an irrational dislike of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Indie 103.1 was great until it was replaced by a Spanish-language format. The local NPR station, KCRW, does play fantastic music, [...]
