Artist: greg wind

I couldn't tell you the last time I actively thought about Ernie Barnes before he died last week. It was likely a decade or more since then, but I grew up seeing part of the world though his eyes. Looking at his paintings now, I am struck by how much his vision jibes with my own, and given the fact that I would have been exposed to him at an impressionable age, I'm nearly positive this guy I couldn't find in a crowd made a significant difference in my life. Triple Play 35 [...]

So where was I? Over the past year I've heard lots of really incredible things. Most of it not music, I have to admit, but some of it. A year is enough, though. My palate is clean. My head is clear. Time to get back in the game. In honor of the radio tuning of choice during my great music hiatus ( NPR ), this week's theme is "Wait, Wait" after the weekend news quiz show. Turns out a lot of news went down this year. Hope you didn't miss it while [...]

• Greg Wind - Triple Play 34

Featured artists this week are Mondo Daio, Cold War Kids and Silversun Pickups. OK, I'll admit it: the idea for this Triple Play came from a line in the movie "the Commitments." Soul as a music form (not as a sound) is defined by the goal of the pl...

• Greg WInd - Triple Play 28

Thanks to Broken Dial, I spent a lot of time listening to this week's featured artists (Magnolia Electric Co., Julie Doiron and the Record Low). In fact, after a mathematical analysis, these three artists were the ones I listened to most over the pa...

• Greg Wind - Triple Play 27

It's Triple Play #25! I decided to make this a podcast and focus on those songs that perfectly end a good album. The tunes in rotation today are "Sad Songs & Waltzes by Cake, "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" by the Smiths and "When t...

• Greg Wind - Tuesday Triple Play 25