Blog: Naive Harmonies

Dear Limo, Hope you're having a good 4th weekend there in Hometown, Heartland, USA. I'm gearing up for a capital 4th here with the standard routine: afternoon BBQ and then fireworks on the mall. Damn, it just brings your hand to your heart and a tear to your eye, don't it? I'm not sure if I ever gave you a copy of Sufjan Stevens' "The 50 States Song", and I don't think we've ever talked about

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Dear Limo,Hope you're having a good 4th weekend there in Hometown, Heartland, USA. I'm gearing up for a capital 4th here with the standard routine: afternoon BBQ and then fireworks on the mall. Damn, it just brings your hand to your heart and a tear to your eye, don't it?I'm not sure if I ever gave you a copy of Sufjan Stevens' "The 50 States Song", and I don't think we've ever talked about it,

Three reasons for this post: 1. This track is a live recording from what I consider one of the greatest recorded concerts ever. 2. Tomorrow I am going home...and that is at the moment 'where I want to be' (which is very naive). 3. This blog's name was inspired by the following song (also probably naive). This has always been my favorite Talking Heads song, but until tonight I honestly never

Three reasons for this post: 1. This track is a live recording from what I consider one of the greatest recorded concerts ever.2. Tomorrow I am going home...and that is at the moment 'where I want to be' (which is very naive).3. This blog's name was inspired by the following song (also probably naive).This has always been my favorite Talking Heads song, but until tonight I honestly never listened

I love my playlists, and I love to shuffle. This is a stance that doesn't sit well with my Naive Harmonizer, and maybe we'll debate it again sometime on these pages, but for now, just know that we have different views on the subject.Since my library's gone totally digital, this is the world I love: shuffling playlists. One of my favorites is my Never Played playlist (play count=0). It's

I love my playlists, and I love to shuffle. This is a stance that doesn't sit well with my Naive Harmonizer, and maybe we'll debate it again sometime on these pages, but for now, just know that we have different views on the subject. Since my library's gone totally digital, this is the world I love: shuffling playlists. One of my favorites is my Never Played playlist (play count=0). It's often

2003 was as close to a musical awakening as I can claim with a straight face. I was right out of high school living in Nashville attempting to major in music. That fall a friend and I saw Broken Social Scene at 12th and Porter, a pretty amazing Nashville dive, with a crowd of maybe 15 people and to this day I still consider it the best show I've ever scene. BSS has just released You Forgot It

2003 was as close to a musical awakening as I can claim with a straight face. I was right out of high school living in Nashville attempting to major in music. That fall a friend and I saw Broken Social Scene at 12th and Porter, a pretty amazing Nashville dive, with a crowd of maybe 15 people and to this day I still consider it the best show I've ever scene. BSS has just released You Forgot It

For a long time I simply assumed that "Blogging" was some kind modern witchcraft and partaking in it, consuming "Blog", would leave you soulless, empty, a pig in a cage on antibiotics. Then I meet are7, and besides getting a crash course in the dos and don'ts of office politics (lesson 1: clown murder jokes have zero team building potential...who knew?), I also warmed up to the crowded yet

This winter an intern from the University of Georgia who, besides playing Minesweeper 30 hours a week (unsuccessfully), revealed the Athens, GA music scene to me. This Antebellum college town has impressively launched past eccentrics the B-52s and R.E.M., as well as the current, and very active Of Montreal and the Black Lips. Included in this extremely diverse litany of Athenian music makers is

This winter an intern from the University of Georgia who, besides playing Minesweeper 30 hours a week (unsuccessfully), revealed the Athens, GA music scene to me. This Antebellum college town has impressively launched past eccentrics the B-52s and R.E.M., as well as the current, and very active Of Montreal and the Black Lips. Included in this extremely diverse litany of Athenian music makers is

My love affair with electronica isn't complicated or overly interesting. I'm not German, a hacker, nor do I have an affinity for colorful pills...but I am (kind of) a drummer and I appreciate stripping music down to its core and exploring from there. I first heard about Modeselekor last fall when Thom Yorke hosted All Songs Considered on NPR. DJ Thom spun MF Doom (by way of Danger Doom),

There's a fine line between catchy and annoying. There's plenty of song hooks that feel great when they dig in and the trip back for more is done for pleasure, but there are times when the return to a song is made because something is so irritating that repeat listens are almost done out of some sort of pop masochism. Sometimes it works out, like when LCD Soundsystem's "Daft Punk Is Playing At

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There's a fine line between catchy and annoying. There's plenty of song hooks that feel great when they dig in and the trip back for more is done for pleasure, but there are times when the return to a song is made because something is so irritating that repeat listens are almost done out of some sort of pop masochism. Sometimes it works out, like when LCD Soundsystem's "Daft Punk Is Playing At

If I had an outlet to write about this song in March I would have poured out novels, I admit, poorly written ones, but words none the less....Roman characters most likely. Areseven and I were still in close quarters at the time Visiter by Dodos was released in March, and it was a heavy topic of discussion. I feel bad picking one song out of this album (my obsession with the concept of the

If I had an outlet to write about this song in March I would have poured out novels, I admit, poorly written ones, but words none the less....Roman characters most likely. Areseven and I were still in close quarters at the time Visiter by Dodos was released in March, and it was a heavy topic of discussion. I feel bad picking one song out of this album (my obsession with the concept of the

To Limo Crazy: I know we talk a lot about whether something is "hip-hop that white people like" but let's quit questioning ourselves and just like it, deal? The Cool Kids, "88" (2008) download | buy mp3 at Amazon The Cool Kids are ridiculously retro, which can be hit or miss. I prefer new sounds, and getting a retro sound just right is pretty tough. I think that the Cool Kids get it right,

The mix tape (note: tape, as in cassette) was, like the dot-com boom: a phenomenon I'm glad I lived through. The art of the mix is still alive (and revived, thanks to Muxtape), but since the dawn of the mp3 player and mp3 CDs, the art has suffered somewhat. We get songs from each other, but in large bunches, and with shuffle, the chances that someone is going to listen to the mix in the order

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To Limo Crazy: I know we talk a lot about whether something is "hip-hop that white people like" but let's quit questioning ourselves and just like it, deal? The Cool Kids, "88" (2008) download | buy mp3 at Amazon The Cool Kids are ridiculously retro, which can be hit or miss. I prefer new sounds, and getting a retro sound just right is pretty tough. I think that the Cool Kids get it right,

My love affair with electronica isn't complicated or overly interesting. I'm not German, a hacker, nor do I have an affinity for colorful pills...but I am (kind of) a drummer and I appreciate stripping music down to its core and exploring from there. I first heard about Modeselekor last fall when Thom Yorke hosted All Songs Considered on NPR. DJ Thom spun MF Doom (by way of Danger Doom),