tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35008808756365083122026-05-26T15:05:44.074-04:00Guilt Free PleasuresThe anti-snob music blogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1261125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-60807526190624592702017-07-31T16:51:00.000-04:002017-07-31T16:51:04.083-04:00AFI Docs 2017 - Icarus
The opening night film of AFI Docs 2017 was Icarus. I must say, I was surprised to see them pick a sports film as the opener, but as I learned more about the film, the choice began to make more sense. The film starts out as a sort of Supersize Me on steroids (and I mean literally on steroids). Amateur endurance cyclist Bryan Fogel decides he's going to start doping to show how Lance ArmstrongUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-23258531776743659442017-06-21T15:23:00.000-04:002017-06-21T15:23:02.816-04:00AFI Docs - An Inconvenient Sequel
I have to first admit I never did see An Inconvenient Truth, but I'm not someone who needs to be convinced of the urgency of climate change. At AFI Docs this weekend, I did have the privilege of seeing An Inconvenient Sequel, the 10-years-later look at how much more urgent it's become. The film follows Al Gore as he educates people on how to be climate activists all over the world, and then Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-69219862280340870352017-06-17T11:30:00.000-04:002017-06-17T11:30:20.127-04:00AFI Docs 2017 - Nowhere To Hide
Nowhere To Hide is a film about life in the dangerous "triangle of death" in central Iraq after the US pulls out. It is told from the perspective of Nori Sharif, a nurse in Jalawla. At first the film starts with him sharing the stories of people he knows whose lives were destroyed by the US war. But as Al Qaeda and ISIS begin to cause increasingly more havoc in the area, the story becomes moreUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-46061026216985975542017-06-16T18:30:00.000-04:002017-06-16T18:30:09.705-04:00AFI Docs 2017 - No Man's Land
I must admit I was a little hesitant to see No Man's Land. The film is about the armed standoff at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, led by the Bundy brothers. Part of me didn't want to give these radicals any more attention than they had already gotten. But I went and saw it anyway, and I'm so very glad I did.
Documentarians tend to be a relatively liberal bunch, myself Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-73922305867325559832017-04-12T13:33:00.001-04:002017-04-12T13:33:47.963-04:00New music video from Sylvan Esso - RadioOne of my favorite bands of all time, Sylvan Esso's new music is on point. Here's the video for their single, Radio.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-81065346196313195052017-04-10T15:16:00.000-04:002017-04-12T15:17:06.971-04:00The best bands I stumbled upon at SXSW2017 - part 1The great thing about SXSW is that there are more bands converging on Austin that week than probably just about any other music festival in the world. And they're all on their A-game.
While of course I try to see bands I know and love, I leave a little room for spontaneity and wandering too (and free-drink-chasing!). Plus sometimes the lines are just too long to get into the shows you want to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-65805780934675211132017-01-23T12:00:00.000-05:002017-01-23T14:10:45.055-05:00Album Review: Rainbrother - Tales From the Drought
Rainbrother's upcoming album, "Tales From the Drought," isn't just music - it's a musical experience.
Rainbrother is fronted by the former frontman for The Migrant - Bjarke Bendtsen - and the sound is both new and familiar all at once.
The vast expanse of musical influences are impossible to categorize, but the first half of the album's strongest musical influence almost sounds like it's Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-68828999924924736122017-01-10T08:30:00.000-05:002017-01-10T08:30:02.156-05:00Album Review: Griff's Room Band - Heartbreak/Desire
Griff's Room Band sounds a lot like what it would be if Dave Matthews Band and OAR had a baby as a band. If you know me, you know that's actually one of the best compliments I could give a band!
They have the fun, plucky guitar sound that makes OAR and Vampire Weekend super fun listens, and they have the fiddles that sound weirdly perfect in any mode, whether the country-adjacency of Boyd Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-35638245499831885312017-01-09T16:30:00.000-05:002017-01-09T16:30:21.035-05:00Album Review: Menace Beach - Lemon Memory
This album is the height of noise, mixed with the perfect amount of garage. Not "noise" like "random sounds" but "noise" like "The Velvet Underground" meets "The Melvins" "noise." If you're looking for varied male and female vocals and note perfect production that makes it sound like these guys are playing in your next door neighbor's garage, this is the band for you.
Their opening Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-51568556329150722202016-12-30T16:30:00.000-05:002016-12-30T16:30:16.709-05:00Stimulating Station Seeds
Here's a couple bands to set up stations on, in case you need music to get you to and through the New Year. Just remember, these stations are here for you as-is, no thumbs-up/favoriting needed!
Bob Moses:
These guys are a fun alt-electronic dance act, and in addition to getting all their great music, this station will take you on a musical journey from alt-J to Yeasayer. Glass Animals also Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-91678976312336862992016-12-30T15:30:00.000-05:002016-12-30T15:30:12.987-05:00Friday's Song List
Here's your songs for the week - the last one of the year!
Today's song you really should check out: @DREAMERSjoinus: "Sweet Disaster" #todayssong
— Karthik Subramanian (@ksub2000) December 23, 2016
Today's song you really should check out: @therevivalists: "Wish I Knew You" #todayssong
— Karthik Subramanian (@ksub2000) December 24, 2016
Today's song you really should check out: @Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-77690390273438627182016-12-23T12:00:00.000-05:002016-12-23T12:00:20.485-05:00Friday's Song List
Another week, another few songs! Posting will be sporadic up to the New Year, but rest assured, we have a lot of things we're working on for you!
Today's song you really should check out: @GROUPLOVE: "Welcome To Your Life" #todayssong
— Karthik Subramanian (@ksub2000) December 16, 2016
Today's song you really should check out: @MilkyChance: "Cocoon" #todayssong
— Karthik Subramanian (@Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-28518524745995357272016-12-22T16:00:00.000-05:002016-12-22T16:00:09.545-05:00Stimulating Station Seeds
In case you need some new music, here are a couple of seeds for you to start stations on your preferred streaming service:
Jess Glynne: If you're looking for a sound that is best described as "Adele with less pain, but a little more attitude," then she's your seed artist.
Sometimes you just need to feel like an empowered woman ready to kick the world's ass. This station will Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-49495083460806820992016-12-19T12:00:00.000-05:002016-12-19T12:00:18.203-05:00My Top 10 Albums of the Year
Music writing is a very personal endeavor, and the best you can do is to find someone whose tastes you share so you can then trust their opinion. As a consequence, music reviews - especially "best of" or "top albums" posts tend to tell you more about the writer than the music. With that being said, here's my top 10 albums of the year. Feel free to psychoanalyze what that says about me as you Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-62660145697429905132016-12-16T16:30:00.000-05:002016-12-16T16:30:03.433-05:00Stimulating Station Seeds
As usual, here's a couple of seeds to start stations with if you need to change up what you're listening to:
Coleman Hell: This genre-bending musician can give you a station that will drop anywhere from banjo riffs to deep house cuts on you... and that's just from his own music! This station is great for anyone that wants a more varied and eclectic station, but doesn't want to spend the timeKarthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-63706406564735754542016-12-16T12:30:00.000-05:002016-12-16T12:30:00.815-05:00Friday's Song List
Here's a weeks worth of eclectic music for you!
Today's song you really should check out: @MammalHands: "Quiet Fire" #todayssong
— Karthik Subramanian (@ksub2000) December 9, 2016
Today's song you really should check out: @johnlegend: "Love Me Now" #todayssong
— Karthik Subramanian (@ksub2000) December 10, 2016
Today's song you really should check out: @blink182: "She's Out of Her Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-26080584601542157272016-12-13T12:30:00.000-05:002016-12-13T12:50:13.112-05:00EP Review: Wyndham - Double You
Wyndham's new EP can be described as "wow, that's good." Not quite fitting into a single genre of music, the four-song EP goes from mellow acoustic guitar (the wistful "Morning After"), to Black Key's type riffs on the guitar in "Shot Up," to the almost ukulele sounding chords of "Gypsy," and ends on the jazzy "Bad Luck."
However, to talk only about the instrumentals is to sell his lyrics Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-84394913659801936912016-12-09T15:30:00.000-05:002016-12-09T15:30:16.453-05:00Stimulating Station Seeds
Here's some station seeds if you're in need of music for the weekend!
Jimmy Eat World:
These guys have been around the emo and pop punk scene so long that they pretty much helped invent the genre. They've also had so many different sounds that the station goes everywhere from Weezer to Yellowcard to Hoobastank, and pretty much everything in between. If you're looking for a station that has Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-49909065567547266912016-12-09T12:30:00.000-05:002016-12-09T12:30:23.522-05:00Friday's Song List
Here's your Friday song list to get your weekend on a good start.
Today's song you really should check out: @twentyonepilots: "Heathens" #todayssong
— Karthik Subramanian (@ksub2000) December 2, 2016
Today's song you really should check out: @bastilledan: "Good Grief" #todayssong
— Karthik Subramanian (@ksub2000) December 3, 2016
Today's song you really should check out: @Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-24662603457212608112016-12-02T13:30:00.000-05:002016-12-02T13:30:06.859-05:00Stimulating Station Seeds
Here's your "station seeds" if you're looking for a couple of good sounds to build a station around.
The Chainsmokers: the best part about this station, beyond all the great songs themselves, is that they've collaborated with so many different people that the station brings in variety just from that. You'll get EDM, house, electropop, trap, and even some good old fashioned pop music on Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-30015973684140965752016-12-02T11:30:00.000-05:002016-12-03T15:18:17.173-05:00Friday's Song List
This one is twice as long as usual because it's been a couple weeks since the last Friday Fix!
So here's the new-for-me (with a couple of olds thrown in):
Today's song you really should check out: @TheChainsmokers feat. @wearexylo: "Setting Fires" #todayssong
— Karthik Subramanian (@ksub2000) November 18, 2016
Today's song you really should check out: @thenbhd: "Sweater Weather" #Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-40659821872887270792016-12-02T11:00:00.000-05:002016-12-03T15:18:52.170-05:00Upcoming December Concerts
While November was full of great concerts for me like Josh Radin, Damien Jurado, T/N/A/F, Ingrid Michaelson, Girls Guns and Glory, and Starfucker, December is going to be a relatively chill month for live music. (But don't sleep on the new Album releases, like the Hamilton Mixtape and Childish Gambino's Awaken, My Love!)
So, for now, I've only got one show planned for this month, but it'sKarthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-87693316460752659652016-12-02T10:00:00.000-05:002016-12-03T15:19:21.775-05:00STRFKR at 9:30 Club
It's been a while since I've been to the 9:30 Club, but you can't miss Starfucker, right?
Psychic Twin
The first opener was a duet called Psychic Twin who had great energy, great beats, and just a fun vibe. They were only on stage for 20 minutes, but they were 20 awesome minutes where I didn't sit down!
Gigamesh
Gigamesh had some interesting beats and great song samples, all the Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-79835593915734387672016-12-01T12:30:00.000-05:002016-12-01T12:30:19.435-05:00Girls Guns and Glory at Gypsy Sally's
Kelsey Waldon
I hadn't heard much about Kelsey Waldon before this show, but I did like what I had heard of her on NPR. She's got a voice right between Alison Krauss and Loretta Lynn, with the perfect amount of Kentucky twang to straddle the line. Her song "All By Myself" deserves to be put in the pantheon of the country-ish category of "men, who needs them?" songs like Carrie Underwood's "Karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500880875636508312.post-53434446543771095452016-11-29T16:30:00.000-05:002016-11-30T10:40:13.212-05:00Band Spotlight: The Pressure Kids
There are some bands that can only really be described as "indie," and Nashville's The Pressure Kids are just indie. If you love indie, you'll love them. If you don't, I'd still tell you to give their music a listen, because it's just so good.
With a sound that's raw and real, and only getting better, you owe it to yourself to check them out right now, and to see them if they end up anywhereKarthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709487278907105869noreply@blogger.com0