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JazzFest is two months away, but the new shirt is pretty cool, NOLA Camo. I wonder what the special buttons will be.
Music keeps me going as this el nino winter drags on here with temps too warm and not enough snow.
Some good albums out recently.
On the March mix Solas sings Springsteen, Johnny Cash sings Sheryl Crow, Sade and Gil Scott-Heron appear after years away, and Ani Difranco sings with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Galactic's new CD is terrific, with appearances by Irma Thomas, Allen Toussaint, and John Boutte among others. It's like hearing your old favorites remixed. Liquor Pang has some whodat questions in it. "Who dat laugh who dat cry; vast opportunity to wonder why."
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The tech committee at WERU was discussing this chart and article.
Very interesting stats. I hate that the information is so iPhone specific.
I stream radio on my Android phone a lot, switching among WERU, WWOZ, WXPN, and Folk Alley.
Any smart phone will have an available app for it. Or I stream it on a small computer attached to the stereo.
One reason I stream radio stations instead of using Pandora or Slacker is that I hear newer stuff on the radio; those other services don't often play new releases, whereas radio stations get new CDs sent to them before they are even released. And of course, there is no real personality to the services. WERU and WWOZ are like the northern and southern parts of my brain. I tune for a hit of a special kind of place.
I think streaming will be the way the great stations will survive and even gather huge audiences.
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