unpopular music
My Internet Radio Playlist, 1/31/12
THE UNHEARD MIX EPISODE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] R.E.M. — “Oh My Heart” Feelies — “Nobody Knows” Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog — “Never Better” Nana Grizol — “Cynicism” Luke Rathborne — “Motor City” The Lodger — “Back of My Mind” Real Estate — “It’s Real” Girls Names — “I Could Die” Verlaines — [...]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 1/24/12
THE COLORS EPISODE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Radar Bros. — “Rainbow” Rolling Stones — “She’s a Rainbow” Hooters — “She Comes in Colors” dB’s — “Black and White” Loudon Wainwright III — “Grey in L.A.” Spinto Band — “Brown Boxes” Split Enz — “I See Red” Razorcuts — “Big Pink Cake” Tullycraft — [...]
Emails Found on my Old Computer, Episode #4
Last night, seven and a half years later, I saw the same band at the same club. Could’ve sworn that had been a Valentine’s weekend show, but maybe that’s because the band, Higgins, handed out a CD in a Russell Stover heart box with chocolates inside. The chocolates and box are long gone, as are [...]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 1/3/12
THE MONTHS EPISODE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Thurston Moore — “January” Billy Bragg — “The Fourteenth of February” Charles Ives — “March No. 6, with ‘Here’s to Good Old Yale’” Math and Physics Club — “April Showers” Model Rockets — “May Is October” Kinks — “Rainy Day in June” Laura Veirs — “July [...]
Could You Make It Out to Jack?
“[Random public figure] replied to my Tweet!” gushed an otherwise austere friend. Socioeconomic levels be damned—there’s a bit of starf*cker in us all. These days, the methods of choice seem to be: • the aforementioned realm of social media, and • if we actually encounter a celebrity in person, a photo—due to the fact that [...]
Thank You, R.E.M.
They weren’t my first favorite band—that honor goes to Queen, and next, the Police—but R.E.M. certainly had the biggest impact on me, from high school into adulthood. How did I find out about them? Rolling Stone magazine, probably. I know I bought the second album, Reckoning, first. I was 15 years old and music was [...]
Daniel Johnston Day
Yesterday I wore my Daniel Johnston t-shirt. No special reason; it was near the top of my t-shirt drawer. (T-shirt drawer #1, anyway. I have a lot of t-shirts.) I first learned of Daniel Johnston when I was a college DJ at Pittsburgh’s WRCT. The station had a recording of Daniel doing an impromptu over-the-phone [...]
His Name Is Earl
This wasn’t my preferred train car, but it gave me extra time to work on my material. For there at the end of the platform was the fluorescent-vest-wearing, long-blond-hair-under-a-hat Fist Bump Guy. Most days when I get off the train at Christopher Street, he’s standing there. He is employed by the transit authority though I [...]
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