Whats on your turntable tonight?

Taking a break from classical and Jazz. Just finished Harmonia Mundi's Sacred Music. Now revisiting my youth and listening to:

The XX - The XX

Micachu & The Shapes - Jewellery

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Mica Levy and her band mates transport me back to days in Amsterdam listening to Gong. If I listen while thumbing through my old Fabulous Fury Freak Brothers comics I'm almost there.

Make that Levi, not Levy. Duh. Even spelled like the famous SF denim and I botched it (and I've even been to Levi central (near Fog City Diner).

Hey Airegin: I admit I'm not much on current 'indie' rock (mostly quit that back before the Seattle thing exploded and 'indie' eventually came to stand for "industry") and have never heard the artists you mention -- and that I myself do mainly listen to stuff recorded before I was born or while I was still in knee-pants (or would have been, were I quite old enough to have been around when kids still wore knee-pants). But given that Wikipedia tells me Ms. Levi was born in '87, had it not been for your comment about Gong and Freak Brothers comix, I would've chuckled to think that your "youth" as you put it must've been about last Thursday! ;^)

I admit I'm not much on current 'indie' rock (mostly quit that back before the Seattle thing exploded and 'indie' eventually came to stand for "industry")

INDIE still stands for INDEPENDENT - and is *not* mainstream which you were probably - incorrectly - alluding to when referring to it as "industry." Get a clue... the "Seattle thing" was tagged as alternative. Now synonymous with mainstream....

Word.

Hi Notec, glad you were inspired to respond, and hope next time you will post what you've been listening to. Sorry if my wisecrack rubbed wrong...without arguing what I regard to be near-meaningless terminology at this point, I actually did say what I meant, but of course many will disagree. Maybe this will help clarify however: I didn't say THE industry -- I was refering to AN industry. (Word.)

Charles Mingus - "At Town Hall (featuring Eric Dolphy)" [Jazz Workshop/Fantasy LP '7?, rec. '64]
Duke Ellington - "The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse: A Suite In Eight Parts" [Fantasy LP '75]
Curtis Mayfield - "Got To Find A Way" [Curtom/Buddah LP '74]