Get an early taste of Wilco’s new album Sky Blue Sky on their site where they offer the track “What Light”, an obvious reference to the Velvets. I heard a part of another song as well as snippets of the whole album on this past Thursday’s edition of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen chats the with the infamous Robert Christgau, Will Hermes and former WFMU DJ Meredith Ochs about the new Wilco album, and latest offerings by Modest Mouse, Fountains of Wayne and Bright Eyes. I haven’t heard the new Modest Mouse album yet, which has been out for a couple weeksbut I am looking foward to as well as all of these new releases. The NPR crew also play a very funny country song by Elizabeth Cook which by the title“Sometimes It Takes Balls To Be A Woman” you can get a sense of what it’s all about.
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Wilco New Song: “What Light”
Published by March 25th, 2007 in Random, Free Tracks and 2007. 1 Comment
Terry Gross interviewed Colin Meloy of The Decemberists on Fresh Air today. I’ve read some good interviews with him before and think he’s an interesting guy but he wasn’t very engaging on the show. Gross’ best interviews are when her guests’ answers lead to other avenues of discussion. With Meloy it seemed like she’d toss him a question and he’d dutifully answer it, but in such a way that it closed the topic. Next question, please. Not that he came across as aloof or anything. He just wasn’t a very good conversationalist. The interview also felt really padded with song samples and an extended clip from The Colbert Report (in reference to the recent “Rock and Awe: Countdown to Guitarmageddon” episode.)
You can listen to the interview here.
Here at Candied Pop finding new music is a ceaseless quest and both Scott and I toil with every Web 2.0 (and some 1.8) apps that come our way looking for something that is fresh or at the very least approximates something slightly invigorating. For the most part it is hit or miss with the misses centering on the relative lack of music available on some of these services as well as some atrocious search and navigation found at some sites (yes, I’m talking to you music.download.com). Anyway, every once in a while an artist we haven’t heard is uncovered and we rejoice making all of it worthwhile.
So you might be asking, “Cut with the self-gratifying pontificating, WTF is folksonomy and how is that related to your listening habits?” Well, I’m a fan of the sort of instant gratification that plays well with a short attention span and sites like Digg and Reddit feed into that very nicely but do little to satisfy the music monkey perched on my shoulder nattering into my ear. Anyway, folksonomy is essentially a system that lets users tag content on the Internet using a common and flexible vocabulary thus allowing other users to connect the dots between disparate pieces of information. CC Hits is a Digg-like site that allows users to post links to tracks and tag those links so that users can relate and discover new music.
How’s the experience? So far I’m finding it addictive. Links do not come in as fast and furious as Digg or Reddit but the auto-generated playlist and integrated player more than make up for it by keeping a steady stream of new music pumping out of my speakers. Tracks that you like can be modded up and those with the most number of thumbs up will float to the top and become hits. There are RSS feeds as well that you can grab and drop into a reader to peruse the content at your leisure.
The catch, and selling point, of CC Hits is that all music submitted to the site must be covered under the Creative Commons licensing system so, no, you will not find the latest Madonna or Fall Out Boy. Here’s what they say about the service:
- CC Hits is the new website to find and share music content under Creative Commons licenses.
- CC Hits is a collaborative podcast where users contribute links to music tracks.
- CC Hits lets users tell the world what will be the next hits by approving the most promising entries.
- CC Hits is a social music blog built on top of open projects and a source of shareable music.
- CC Hits is all about people, music, fun and freedom.
Even in its early stages CC Hits is plenty of fun and offers a great opportunity to unearth some new independent artists so it gets two enthusiastic thumbs up from me. Go check it out.
