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October 19, 2007
CMJ 2007 Pt. 1
Above: St. Vincent's Annie Clark
Hello all,
Greetings from the big apple! I'm here at the CMJ Music Marathon, meeting people and seeing bands. Yesterday I ended up spending many hours mixing with people and socializing during the day, which was good fun of course, but I can't tell you how necessary the music felt when I finally got down to the Knitting Factory to meet our podcast maestro Kevin Seal.
Just a thought for the day.
Without evaluation, here are some of the bands I've heard so far. I hope they will make interesting starting points for music discovery for y'all:
St. Vincent
His Name is Alive
The Mohawk Lodge
Adrian Orange and her Band
Saturday Looks Good to Me
Artanker Convoy
will post more soon...
best,
mz
Posted by Michael Zapruder at October 19, 2007 11:57 AM
Comments
I love Saturday Looks Good To Me! How were they live?
Posted by: Alyssa at October 19, 2007 01:20 PM
That St. Vincent set was the best chunk of live music I'd seen in ages. I was enthralled, entirely enthralled, for the full hour. So good.
Posted by: Kevin Seal at October 19, 2007 02:57 PM
muy bueno el sitio
Posted by: computacion gchu at October 21, 2007 12:41 AM
I love ronnie laws. I have been on line for quite a while, and have had little success finding his older hits. Such as fever, and friends & strangers. But i will not fail. I am a big fan of jazz, and old school.
thank you
richard
Posted by: richard farber at October 22, 2007 04:20 PM
hey richard - we have some ronnie laws but not much old stuff - check back in a few weeks...:)
mz
Posted by: Michael Zapruder at October 22, 2007 04:42 PM
Not really about this post, just don't know where to go to let you guys know about the stuff you don't have in the genome project that you should. One is the Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti (your program doesn't have any clue who he is. What's up with that?). The other is Blu & Exile. They're the future of positive hip-hop.
Posted by: d at October 23, 2007 08:10 AM
hey d -
yes of course we know who fela is! have you seen music is the weapon - the great documentary on him? brilliant.
pandora's public music collection currently only includes music in the english and spanish languages. there are technical reasons for this which I can't really explain here, but sometime in the future we definitely plan to include african music like fela, thomas mapfumo, ali farka toure, tinariwen, and on and on...
please send any music suggestions to suggest-music[AT]pandora.com
cheers,
mz
Posted by: Michael Zapruder at October 23, 2007 09:41 AM
pandora's public music collection includes english, spanish & portuguese, right? there's a lot of brazilian music available too.
and yeah, agreed, music is the weapon is an amazing movie.
Posted by: Kevin Seal at October 24, 2007 09:07 PM
ah yes indeed that's right, kevin. I forgot about the portuguese... thanks!
mz
Posted by: Michael Zapruder at October 24, 2007 11:23 PM
cool, i never even heard of those bands. please find more, because they might have good songs. thanks man!
Posted by: Brian H. at November 6, 2007 01:44 PM
