{"id":483,"date":"2006-08-11T12:42:26","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T12:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/11\/audience-participation-friday-1\/"},"modified":"2006-08-11T12:42:26","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T12:42:26","slug":"audience-participation-friday-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/11\/audience-participation-friday-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Audience Participation Friday: Pimp Me New Tunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting a little sick of the current rotation on iTunes, which means it&#8217;s probably time for another shopping spree. I&#8217;ve got a couple of albums on my list to buy already (the new Tom Petty, the new Richard Thompson), and I&#8217;ve heard a couple of good tracks on KEXP that I&#8217;ll check out (new songs by Midlake and the Long Winters), but I&#8217;m always interested in new music.<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s new in the music world that I ought to buy? Ideally, these should be tracks available through iTunes, though I will buy physical CD&#8217;s if I have sufficiently good reason.<\/p>\n<p>My tastes are somewhat eclectic, as you can see by trolling through the posts in the Music category. Or, if you&#8217;d like a more convenient guide, I&#8217;ll provide a partial list of recently acquired stuff below the fold:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guster&#8217;s <cite>Ganging Up on the Sun<\/cite>, because we&#8217;re going to see them live next week.<\/li>\n<li>Golden Smog&#8217;s <cite>Another Fine Day<\/cite>.<\/li>\n<li>The Replacements&#8217; new best-of package.<\/li>\n<li>A bunch of old Springsteen albums, to fill gaps in my collection.<\/li>\n<li>Phoenix, <cite>It&#8217;s Never Been Like That<\/cite>, on the strength of &#8220;Long Distance Call,&#8221; which is a great pop song.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Ask DNA&#8221; by Raju Ramayya and &#8220;Gotta knock a little harder&#8221; by Mai Yamane, off the <cite>Cowboy Bebop<\/cite> movie soundtrack.<\/li>\n<li>A whole host of live tracks from KBCO, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jefitoblog.com\/blog\/\">jefitoblog<\/a>, plus two tracks by <a href=\"http:\/\/jefitoblog.com\/blog\/?p=834\">Chris Knight<\/a> that I like enough to check out the whole album.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Show Me&#8221; by Mint Royale, a catchy little dance\/ rap song (featuring one of the guys from De LA Soul) that one of the KEXP DJ&#8217;s plays every Friday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, feel free to recommend stuff that doesn&#8217;t really fit with that list, too. I&#8217;ll at least listen to the samples on the iTunes store, and maybe take a flier on a couple of tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting a little sick of the current rotation on iTunes, which means it&#8217;s probably time for another shopping spree. I&#8217;ve got a couple of albums on my list to buy already (the new Tom Petty, the new Richard Thompson), and I&#8217;ve heard a couple of good tracks on KEXP that I&#8217;ll check out (new&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/11\/audience-participation-friday-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Audience Participation Friday: Pimp Me New Tunes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}