It's come to this
I'm so un-indie that I get music recommendations from NPR these days. Yeah I know it's sad. Here are some recent songs that I actually really love
Paper planes by the Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A.. Love it.
LCD Soundsystem -- North American Scum I'm North American too!
Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse, Of Montreal C'MON CHEMICALS! Recommended by Carrie Brownstein of Sleater Kinney.
Green Gloves, The National This is a live version, and not as good as the one I heard on the radio.
I'm gonna have to listen to Blitzen Trapper by Wild Mountain Nation a few more times to figure out if they are too close to the much hated Grateful Dead for me to like them.
undecided on Vampire Weekend too.
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I'm so uber-un-indie that I get my new music from the blog of a friend who listens to NPR for music recommendations.
Have you noticed that All Things Considered is having a lot more "hip" music review segments. Catering to a new demographic... "Formerly Indie 20 And 30 Somethings Who Now Commute To Work And Listen To NPR Because They Don't Recognize Any Music On Alice Radio Any Longer And KFOG Is Still Too Stodgy and they've burned out on all their CDs"
i dunno, i think im still less indie than you. Music on NPR is at its best when they have guests like Carrie Brownstein on. The very worst -- and I do mean WORST -- like worse than "living on earth" and "Latino USA" put together, is when they talk about jazz. It doesn't get any worse than that.
Yes, good point. You're referring, of course, to Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Every third program is an interview with a jazz luminary. It's because she's married to the jazz critic of the Village Voice.
I like the Fresh Air jazz interviews, actually. It's Morning Edition and All Things Considered that need to stay away from anything hip or cool. They just can't pull it off. When Robert Siegel referred mistakenly to 'The Magnet Fields', it set the cause of public radio back 20 years.
you really want to win this "less indie" contest dont you?
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