Blogjacked
In Fact, Ah has previously asked me to do the odd guest contribution to this space. What better time to oblige than now while Colm is otherwise engaged poolside?
It is not often that the internet surprises me these days, it being in some kind of state of maturity by now. However, I was bowled over by a corner of the int0rweb I found yesterday. A mate pointed me in the direction of KCRW's website, a community service radio station in California. More specifically I was urged to check out their Morning Becomes Eclectic show. This show invites various great (according to me) bands to come in and play live in the studio for around 40 minutes each day and have a bit of general chat also. The truly awesome part is that they webcast these sessions live each day (audio and video) and they have a huge archive of the shows. To name just a few of the sessions you can watch here are installments featuring The Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, The White Stripes, The New Pornographers, Röyksopp, Sufjan Stevens, Stephen Malkamus, Interpol, our own Bell X1, Doves, Beck, Mercury Rev, Wilco, Sonic Youth, The Caridgans, Snow Patrol, Air... I could keep going. They obviously haven't heard of the Gerry Ryan format for 9am-midday on the radio over there yet.
With all respect to the list of artists above, I suggest you drop what you're doing right now and dig out the most recent Stars session on Morning Becomes Eclectic. It is particularily excellent and is exactly what I needed after their storming gig last weekend left me wanting more. They all even appear sober in the studio ;)
Published by Colm.
It is not often that the internet surprises me these days, it being in some kind of state of maturity by now. However, I was bowled over by a corner of the int0rweb I found yesterday. A mate pointed me in the direction of KCRW's website, a community service radio station in California. More specifically I was urged to check out their Morning Becomes Eclectic show. This show invites various great (according to me) bands to come in and play live in the studio for around 40 minutes each day and have a bit of general chat also. The truly awesome part is that they webcast these sessions live each day (audio and video) and they have a huge archive of the shows. To name just a few of the sessions you can watch here are installments featuring The Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, The White Stripes, The New Pornographers, Röyksopp, Sufjan Stevens, Stephen Malkamus, Interpol, our own Bell X1, Doves, Beck, Mercury Rev, Wilco, Sonic Youth, The Caridgans, Snow Patrol, Air... I could keep going. They obviously haven't heard of the Gerry Ryan format for 9am-midday on the radio over there yet.
With all respect to the list of artists above, I suggest you drop what you're doing right now and dig out the most recent Stars session on Morning Becomes Eclectic. It is particularily excellent and is exactly what I needed after their storming gig last weekend left me wanting more. They all even appear sober in the studio ;)
Published by Colm.
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