One of the ways you know a podcast has truly made it is when the host has done enough episodes to be able to provide numerous cross references to past episodes for deeper context or more nuance
Two good examples of this phenomenon I'm listening to right now are the "History of Japan" podcast and "The Zen Studies Podcast."
Currently #listening to @radiofreefedi and damn, I forget how great this is! Eclectic vibes, great tunes, no fucking commercials! Good stuff.
I think tonight I'll do an hour worth of live reactions to #RadioFreeFedi, see what kind of cool shit we can discover. Follow that hashtag if you want to follow along. Or (temp) mute it if you'll be annoyed by heavy posting about music for an hour...
Which means it would have been either livestreamed or pre-recorded for at the height of the pandemic, possibly for a music festival that took place entirely online. Strange days they were.
Continuing my wanderings through Italian one-drop music, here's another live set I'm #listening to, this one is Wicked Dub Division, playing live at the Ostróda Reggae Festival in 2022:
#FirstThoughs are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. #SecondThoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. #ThirdThoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They’re rare, and often troublesome. #Listening to them is part of #witchcraft
Yesterday I was #listening to a live performance by Chroma, an indie pop band from Cmyru. Great energy and some catchy songs.
The music video to their single I Don't Wanna Go Out illustrates the pressure indie artists are under to increase their "engagement" on DataFarming platforms;
I stumbled on a cassette of this album many moons ago, and I remember it appealing to my love of the absurd. I reckon Lovich was an influence on later acts like Shakespeare's Sister and The Dresden Dolls.
This is more like it. I often forget that Hole wasn't an all-female band. Guitarist Eric Erlandson founded the band with Courtney Love and co-wrote many of the songs with her. But there's no question that Courtney is the star here, and the RiotGrrrl attitude is all over the first two albums (this and the excellent Live Through This).
#Listening to OKGo's 'This Too Shall Pass', and #watching one of the two official music videos:
"You can't stop these kids from dancin'
Why would you want to?
Especially when you're already gettin' yours
'Cause if your mind don't move and your knees don't bend
Well don't go blamin' the kids again"