Archive for the ‘Jams we love’ Category
Streaming Indie
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On Wednesday I’m taking a short vacation to Minnesota to visit my family and spend a couple days taking pictures of the rural heartland. To prepare for my journey into the extraordinary land of corn and lutfisk, I’ve been listening to 89.3 The Current.
The Current is part of my 3 radio station rotation. Lotsa people ask me places to find new music and what I’ve been listening to lately. I always point them to three member supported music sources; Chicago’s indie start-up CHIRP Radio, Seattle’s KEXP and my hometown’s favorite The Current, which is part of Minnesota Public Radio. If you like good music and are looking for a place to discover new bands, these stations are exactly what you are looking for.
With all the garbage radio out there playing the same commercial after commercial and jamin the manufactured pop sensations into our brains, it’s nice to know that there is radio out there that is dedicated to playing solid commercial free music from bands that have actual talent.
These three are all available streaming online, you can get KEXP & The Current over the air-waves in Seattle and the Twin Cities, however CHIRP is still working on getting some air play in Chicago, but for now, you can at least enjoy their tunage online.
Tunage for the week – 6/20/2010
When I’m not slingin’ t-shirts, making sweet websites or rockin a soccer pitch, there’s a good chance I’m trying to find a new band or get my hands on some new tunes that I haven’t heard yet. Sometimes it turns out that “new” is a relative word and my “new” tunes are actually quite old. But, that doesn’t matter since it’s new to me, right? Each week, hopefully on Sunday, I’m going to post some of the “new” music that I’ve come across and thought was worth sharing with you all.
So, to kick this off, I thought it would be nice to have videos of tracks off the four albums that were added to my library this week.
The Black Keys – Brothers
Tighten up
The National – High Violet
Bloodbuzz Ohio
Stars – The Five Ghosts
Fixed
Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
A More Perfect Union
NPR’s First Listen: The Hold Steady, ‘Heaven Is Whenever’
Heaven Is Whenever
From now until the release of The Hold Steady’s ‘Heaven Is Whenever’ album on May 4th, NPR is streaming the entire album for free! Having listened to a few tracks before listening to it all the way through, I was already pumped about the release. Now that I’ve heard the whole thing I am even more excited to get my own copy.
Check out The Hold Steady artist page for interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music
Josh’s Commute to Work: A Tribute to Michael Jackson
If everyone at 3to1 Studios is this awesome, then I really want to work there.
Josh’s Commute to Work: A Tribute to Michael Jackson from 3to1 Studios on Vimeo.
CHIRP Radio Real Time Playlist Widget
I started listening to the Chicago Independent Radio Project(CHIRP) last week and was immediately hooked. Most of my music comes from listening to The Current in Minnesota and KEXP in Seattle, so I was psyched when I learned that there was a similar music station going on here in Chicago. There is a good playlist on the CHIRP Radio site, however I wanted to have something that would auto refresh on my desktop instead of having to keep a browser window open all the time. So my friends, I created a Yahoo! Widget that updates every sixty seconds and displays the current song playing on CHIRP Radio.
In order to use this widget you must have Yahoo! Widgets installed on your system. Which you can download here. Once you have Yahoo! Widgets installed just download the CHIRP Radio Realtime Playlist Yahoo! Widget – version .1 and open it using Yahoo! Widgets. Simple as that.
Now please keep in mind that this is the first version and I will be updating the look/feel/functionality as the days go on. I just wanted to get this up and out there as soon as possible. Drop me a line if you find any bugs or have any comments.
UPDATE: I removed the big CHRIP icon with a smaller icon so that there is no longer a “L” shape to the widget. Being that I wanted to have some type of identifier as to what the widget was, I put the little CHIRP bird icon on the right end of the now playing box.
Download: CHIRP Radio Realtime Playlist Yahoo! Widget – version .1.1
Here is some background about CHIRP Radio:
CHIRP Radio is a non-profit, volunteer-run, music-, arts-, and culture-focused radio station transmitting live from our studios in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood from 6AM-3AM seven days a week, 365 days a year.
CHIRP Radio hosts curate their own shows within certain guidelines, playing an eclectic mix of independent and under-heard music from an array of genres and eras. Listeners are encouraged to make requests and generally interact with CHIRP Radio hosts via comment, IM, or phone.
For now, CHIRP Radio is a web-only outlet, but the Chicago Independent Radio Project is working to change the law at the federal level to open up new licenses in urban areas, and hopes one day to be able to apply for a low-power FM broadcast license as well. To find out more about this work, visit chicagoindieradio.org.
CHIRP Radio does not air commercials, and receives no funding from corporations or the federal government. It is supported by special event revenues, small grants, and listeners like you. If you like what you hear, please consider making a donation to support this service.
Shredding up Beaver Creek
Two weekends ago we spent four days in Avon Colorado carving up Beaver Creek. Now watch us tear down the mountain to a soundtrack of Matt & Kim. Thanks for the video Jay!
Beaver Creek ’10 from Jay Noennig on Vimeo.
Holiday Mix ’09!
It’s that time of year where everyone on the Internet goes around and puts together lists of Holiday music by their favorite artists. So, here is mine. I just completed my first annual Holiday Mix of a few of my favorite bands and artists(yea, Blink 182 made it in there, like it was a secret anyway) jammin about the holidays. I’ve done my best to find a good representation of each track online via The Hype Machine. My favorite holiday(and not holiday) band right now is My First Earthquake, so check out this years holiday video and my ’09 track list after the jump.