Dec 11 Blog Favorite CD of 2007 There were a lot of great releases this year, but the one I keep coming back to is “Emotionalism” by the North Carolina band The Avett Brothers. I guess it’s a combination of their youthful enthusiasm, charismatic presense, earnest songwiting, sibling harmonies and the way they bring something new to the time honored tradition of acoustic music. […] By Stacy Owen Dec 11 Blog Favorite CD of 2007 By Stacy Owen
Dec 11 Blog Led Zeppelin Reunion Led Zeppelin plays first UK show in 19 years. Led Zeppelin played its first concert in 19 years, leaving a London audience of 20,000 people calling for more — and the world guessing on whether the band will tour. Last night’s show, described as “rock’s biggest reunion” by other stars at the O2 Arena, was […] By Duke Meyer Dec 11 Blog Led Zeppelin Reunion By Duke Meyer
Dec 10 Blog Brian Eno’s iPod Yeah, it’s a parody, but it’s pretty darn funny – an imagining of what an iPod might look like if designed by Brian Eno, complete with binary steampunk computer and a “speaker horn.” It plays a single song for 1,000 years. This is inspired in part by Eno’s involvement with the “Long Now” project, a […] By admin Dec 10 Blog Brian Eno’s iPod By admin
Dec 10 Blog “Frontier Psychiatrist” music video Alan Brandt, the program director at our sister station Classical 90.5, just sent me this link with the annotation “best music video evar.” Not sure which is more entertaining: the music video, or the fact that it came to our attention from Alan. By admin Dec 10 Blog “Frontier Psychiatrist” music video By admin
Dec 10 Blog Is Morrissey a racist? The British press is buzzing with news of a fight between prolific singer Morrissey and a popular weekly music publication. In a recent interview with the magazine NME, Morrissey was asked whether or not he’d consider moving back to his native England. With the issue of immigration, it’s very difficult because, although I don’t have […] By admin Dec 10 Blog Is Morrissey a racist? By admin