Where to listen to music before you can (legally) get it

NPR's First Listen program has quickly become one of my most frequently visited sites. I didn't realize until this year that those folks at NPR really know their music!

First Listen is a program that provides full-length streams of albums before they are released. They feature a couple albums a week and cover all genres. Usually there's *at least* one that piques my interest. It's a great way to learn about new artists, too.

So please, join me in using this fantastically awesome website:

http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen

Side note: I'm currently listening to the new Bright Eyes' album 'The People's Key'. Great thus far; I suggest you take a listen.

Coachella Fail

So since Coachella tickets are sold out, and I snoozed for too long due to uncertainty, I won't be going. And therefore decided it'd be pretty upsetting to discover all of the awesome artists I didn't yet know.

That explains why there were only a few days of the 'Ode to Coachella' series. Sorry my friends!

Ode to Coachella: Day 6

Robyn - 'Hang With Me'

Ode to Coachella: Day 5

 

Caifanes - 'Nubes'

Ode to Coachella: Day 4

The Chemical Brothers - 'Another World'

Ode to Coachella: Day 3

 

Interpol - 'Barricade' 

Ode to Coachella: Day 2

 

The Black Keys - 'Tighten Up'

Ode to Coachella: Day 1

 

Kings of Leon - 'Ragoo'

So I decided I'll post one video every day, featuring a song by an artist performing at Coachella 2011. I'll go in sequential order as they're listed on the official poster (see previous post). But just one each day... we can't overindulge with too much candy, now can we?

Cheers!

Coachella 2011... It's a Beautiful Thing

Ridiculous Song of the Day

This song really needs to be shared with the world, simply because it's entirely ludicrous. And by that I mean R. Kelly clearly had gone Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Proof? Who in their right mind would preposition a lady friend with:

Me and you get together babe
and raise a little one.
Half on a baby
all I need is your body next to me.

Now HOLD UP... What?!?! Yeah, you read that right. R. Kelly is asking the girl to split the task of having a child. Did he really think this would be a turn-on? Did he think the girl he's speaking to would be racing him to the sack with such a comment? Given the language used, it doesn't really seem like a favorable thing to say, does it?

So then the question arises: is R. Kelly *really* asking this girl if he can get her pregnant and start a family? Or is he just trying to get some?

My main point with this blurb is just to share my sadness for the music world that such a song was ever even *permitted* to be recorded. Music is an art. This is trash, not art. Silly record labels.